What if you could educate supervisors and managers in 10 different HR skills for the cost of one program? Here’s how you can.
The controversy over video résumés we reported on yesterday points up again how delicate the issue of hiring is in this day and age.
Think about it. A supervisor or manager gets an unsolicited video résumé and then, mostly out of curiosity, looks at it. The incident is never reported to you, but that doesn’t mean it’s forgotten. In fact, the manager’s computer has sent a signal back to the sender that the embedded video image has been opened and played.
Months later, the manager faces a hiring decision, and probably because the video résumé was never taken seriously, the sender is never considered or even discussed. Until a letter arrives from a lawyer charging discrimination, that is.
Obviously, this is a scary scenario, but it again reiterates the need to educate your managers and supervisors on how to lawfully conduct those aspects of HR they run into every day.
BLR’s Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination program educates supervisors through 10 separate PowerPoint programs for the price of one. Try it at no cost. Read more.
We asked our editors to recommend a BLR program to meet this need, and they came up with a real prize. It teaches the essentials of hiring legally and a whole lot more.
First, let us give you a sampling of some of the key areas covered in our PowerPoint program, Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination about hiring. Then, we’ll get to the “more.”
–Job Descriptions. Every hire needs to be preceded by a legally drawn job description. These days, that means it separately lists the essential skills of the job, so that a person with disabilities may be hired even if he or she cannot fulfill other, lesser functions.
–Job Advertising. Job ads should likewise focus on the essential skills and avoid use of terms that refer to gender, such as “repairman” or “saleswoman.” Educational requirements should also be job-related and no more stringent than the job requires. Requiring a college degree when it’s not absolutely needed creates bias against minorities who historically have lower college attendance rates. Use the expression “Degree or equivalent experience” instead.
–Interviews. Questions should be job-related and must not intrude into such protected areas as age, race, marital status, national origin, and disability or health condition. Notes should be taken at every interview, should be job-related, and should not mention such characteristics as appearance unless they are part of the job. Any preemployment tests must be job-related, as well.
–Documentation. Keep all documents for at least a year, not only for the hire but also for all applicants.
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The uniqueness of this program, the “more” we mentioned above, comes in the fact that the Hiring Legally PowerPoint is just one of 10 PowerPoint programs on the CD that follow the entire employment “life cycle” from first day on the job to last. These include new employee orientation, effective performance appraisal, progressive discipline, and lawfully done termination. There are PowerPoint sessions on managing change and reducing turnover, too. It is, in fact, 10 programs for the price of one. And all of them can easily be customized with your company’s specifics or used as is, right out of the box.
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10 Supervisor Training Programs for the Price of 1 … Try it at No Cost!
Train supervisors in 10 key HR areas that cover employees’ first day with you (e,g, hiring legally/orientation) right through to their last (e,g, progressive discipline/termination). Each topic gets a separate, customizable PowerPoint presentation, making BLR’s Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination the best value in training supervisors in HR that we know of. Try it at no cost! Read more.