Hungarian hacker gets 30 months for extortion plot on Marriott

Hacker demanded a $150K job, free hotel room and the right to work whenever he wanted Computerworld - A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by...

Legal Alert: Title VII Record-Keeping Requirements Extended to GINA

Executive Summary: In a final rule published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on February 3, 2012, the agency has extended the record-keeping requirements imposed under Title VII...

Report: Failed drug tests leave jobs open

Connection between drug abuse, joblessness part of state report’s findings. There are more than 80,000 job openings in Ohio, but employers say finding enough workers who can pass drug tests to...

Morning Bell: Federal Workers Overpaid, and CBO Agrees

Here’s some news that federal bureaucrats in Washington — and indeed around the country — don’t want to hear: According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report (http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12696) released this...

Cities where women earn the best pay

San Jose tops the list, followed by San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Can where you hang your hat shape the size of your salary? Absolutely. U.S. job markets vary drastically by...

Facebook Timeline Looms: What You Need to Know

Soon Facebook users who have been avoiding the social network’s Timeline feature (http://www.pcworld.com/article/240400/facebook_adds_timeline_feature_and_supercharges_apps.html?tk=rel_news) won’t be able to stave it off any longer and will be seeing their profiles change considerably....

Kitzhaber, Oregan and other State Officials face a Disabilities Act class action lawsuit

Disability Rights Oregon, Oregon's protection and advocacy system, filed a class action federal lawsuit under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) alleging that undue segregation of people...

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The Socialization of Recruiting

If you have been a recruiter for any length of time you know that the industry is evolving at the speed of the internet. When I started recruiting we relied on newspaper ads to push our jobs out to the public and cold called prospects over the telephone to pull them in to interview. We also did a lot of networking… old school networking.

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HR, Recruiting & Employment Industry Knowledge Base

H.R, Employers, Recruiters - are you familiar with the O*Net Resource Center?

onet logo The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations.

Hell hath no fury like a government agency scorned

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Misclassifying workers as independent contractors now carries an even steeper price.

California now has the nation's most punitive laws against worker misclassification. While misclassification has always been illegal, businesses found to have incorrectly classified employees as independent contractors now face civil penalties ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 per employee, and $10,000 to $25,000 per employee in instances involving “a pattern and practice” of misclassification.

Increasing Discretionary Effort in the Workplace

You're Not the Boss of Me.

Discretionary effort is the extra mile an employee is willing to take in order to satisfy their customers, coworkers, and contract. Employees get hired because of their skills and talents. It is their discretionary effort that becomes the measure of their value to the organization.

Just One More Call!

bobburg Early in my speaking career and struggling to stay in business, I was often on the phone. Life was different back in the late 80′s. We had this thing called a…telephone. And, we actually called prospective client organizations.

Ending Social Media Marketing Confusion

jillwhalen Consider this scenario: You know you're supposed to get on Twitter to somehow promote your website. So you start randomly tweeting out links to a product or service page on your website. But who is going to care? Sure, you could do some Twitter searches and find people who are asking their own Twitter followers about a product or service that you may happen to offer.