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Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth -- even democracy Jaron Lanier is a computer science pi...

Green card lottery could soon be eliminated

Washington: In the contentious debate over immigration policy, three groups have dominated public and political attention: the roughly 11 million undocumente...

EEOC Panel: Employer Wellness Programs Need Guidance to Avoid Discrimination

Panel of Experts Tells EEOC of Need to Clarify Interplay Between Programs, Anti-Discrimination Laws WASHINGTON-Wellness programs are an increasingly ...

Immediate Reminder: Employers Must Use Revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification

USCIS will no longer accept previous versions of Form I-9 WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds employers that begin...

EEOC receives It's largest Recorded Settlement In History

Jury Awards $240 Million for Long-Term Abuse of Workers with Intellectual Disabilities Historic Verdict Against Henry's Turkey Service for Men Subjec...

Court Upholds OFCCP's Jurisdiction Over Healthcare Providers

A federal district court has confirmed the position of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) finding that three hospitals providing medi...

Employer Demands For Facebook And Email Passwords As Precondition For Job Interviews May Be A Violation Of Federal Law; Senators Ask Feds To Investigate

NEW YORK, NY – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) today called on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (...

Minnesota Lawmakers propose bill to treat ALL marriages as civil unions.

In the ongoing debate about equal rights for gay families, a Minnesota lawmaker takes a different approach While Minnesota state lawmakers consider a mea...

It’s Easy to Get Fired or Go to Jail: Just Lie on Your Resume

Of all the lies she told in her professional life, attorney Soma Sengupta probably didn’t guess that the simplest one would destroy her career. A c...

NFL Will Strengthen Non-Discrimination Policies For Teams, But Fans Need To Be Targets, Too

The National Football League will improve its outreach and education efforts about its anti-discrimination policy, which expanded to prevent discrimination b...

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act - ENDA - of 2013 will be introduced with problems

Employment protections bill introduced for the 20th time… but will expanded religious exemptions doom ENDA before it’s even reintroduced? Th...

Justice Department Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Illinois Staffing Agency

The Justice Department today reached an agreement with The Agency Staffing located in West Dundee, Ill., resolving claims that the staffing company violated ...

DOL Obtains Largest Recovery in Depts History 35 M in Back Wages

US Department of Labor obtains more than $35 million in back wages for nearly 5,000 workers in the commonwealth of Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- F...

Who Should You Hire? LinkedIn Says: Try Our Algorithm

LinkedIn has upended corporate recruiting in the past decade, allowing talent scouts to scour a vast database of 200 million people’s career profiles. ...

$8 Million Settlement Reached for Strippers for FLSA violations

Lawsuit alleged the club failed to pay minimum wage and misclassified dancers as independent contractors NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of 1,245 dancers at...

Reality check: Recruiters are not your personal job finders.

This viewpoint may burst some bubbles for most job seekers. It’s a hard reality and needs to be understood by job seekers who have the wrong idea about what recruiters and headhunters do for a living. When one starts a search for a new job, the first professional they may try to connect with is a recruiter. A recruiter would know where to find a job…right? They can take the resume and push it to everyone they know…right? Dead wrong.

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Employees, Candidates, Employment Background Checks and Credit Reports Know your rights

FTC

What to know when you look for a job You’ve applied for a job. You sent a letter, made a phone call, submitted your resume. Perhaps you’ve had an interview. Did you know that when you apply for a job, an employer may ask your permission to do a background check before hiring you? Depending on the employer and the job, that background information might include your employment history, your driving record, criminal records, and your credit report.

Strategic Human Resources is Not an Oxymoron

Bob McKenzie, SPHR

bobmckenzie We’ve all heard the jokes about military intelligence and jumbo shrimp being oxymoronic terms. We have also heard that the words “human” and “resources” when put together are mutually exclusive. Since the “Why We Hate HR” appeared in Fast Company magazine a couple of years ago

Recruiting Changed, Have You?

Doug Beabout

dougbbust Today’s recruiting landscape offers enormous opportunity that if effectively exploited, can land you on the beach in early retirement at the top of the financial food chain. There has never been such a fertile intersection of conditions for the recruiting practice and process. But, you must face certain realities. The recession/depression/economic turndown/recovery (choose your favorite label) presents a long period where recruiters should take stock in what they are doing and what the challenges the recovery will put before them.

BurnishYour Brand by Sculpting with Social

Gerard “ Gerry” F. Corbett

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. There has been no time in history where it has been easier or more efficient to sculpt your personal brand to highlight your passion, spotlight your skills and expose, to the world, your accomplishments. The proliferation of platforms has made it possible to deftly create or surface a specific identity that conveys who you are, your particular interests and your ultimate objective in life.

Is It Possible to Accurately Test Candidates for Accuracy?

Ira S Wolfe

irawolfe Do a quick search through job classified ads and it is very likely that accuracy (often veiled as “detail orientation”) will show up as a required skill or trait in at least half of the jobs. The subsequent question then becomes: how can hiring managers accurately assess if the candidate has the ability to dot the I’s and cross the T’s?

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