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The wage you negotiate when you first start a job may haunt you for the rest of your career! Unfortunately, too many potential employees fail to adequately leverage their bargaining power at this critical point.
by Mark I. Schickman In all of the attention recently given to Harvey Weinstein and his ilk, the focus has been on personalities and far too little of it on the systemic problem of ubiquitous sexual harassment. The discussion has been centered on punishment, with far too little said about the cure. Weinstein himself presents […]
Each new year brings new resolutions. You might not be surprised to learn a 2015 Nielsen survey showed getting in shape was the most common new year’s resolution for last year. This year is likely to bring more of the same. I know in my own household, Santa brought my wife and me matching Fitbits for Christmas. (St. […]
Increasingly, staff includes individuals working from remote locations. Yet, while they are valued employees, the old adage “out of sight, out of mind” sometimes applies to these team members.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Outback Steakhouse has agreed to pay $19 million and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a major class-action lawsuit alleging sex discrimination against thousands of women at hundreds of its corporately owned restaurants nationwide. According to the EEOC, Outback discriminated against female employees with respect to […]
A recent report shows that telecommuting is more widespread than anyone thought.
As the job market tightens up, employers are looking for ways to attract more candidates to be sure they have a good group of applicants to choose from in any given vacancy. But more and more, employers are finding that jobs are attracting fewer applicants than before, simply because there are fewer jobseekers out there […]
In today’s Advisor, we receive expert guidance on internships from BLR Legal Editor, Susan Prince, in an article that first appeared on HR.BLR.com®.
The dawn of the Information Age has undoubtedly changed many aspects of our day-to-day lives. Seemingly impossible amounts of information are at our fingertips constantly, and it’s easier than ever to do our shopping, do our banking, and communicate with each other.
In a competitive market, companies must work twice as hard to entice new hires to accept a job offer and because of this, the relationship between recruiters and candidates has never been more important.