Disability Employment Awareness Month
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), an ideal time for employers to become more familiar about the abilities people with disabilities bring to the workplace.
Tag: Paula Santonocito
Expect Stiff Competition for Holiday Helpers
As retailers and others ramp up for what by all accounts should be a busy holiday season, they may be in for a surprise. And it won’t come wrapped with a bow.
Is Your Company Guilty of Wage Theft?
Companies tend to focus on messaging that targets management, ignoring information employees and job seekers receive from various sources. After all, there are only so many hours in a day.
When Disaster Impacts Work Plans
Hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, floods, and other disasters have the potential to significantly impact business operations.
The Latest Business Practice: Relaxing Standards
Maybe you’ve started to notice it at local businesses you frequent. The cashier at the supermarket looks unkempt. The new receptionist at the salon has no customer service skills. You thank the waiter for bringing the check, but he doesn’t thank you.
Email Still Rules
As recruiters increasingly rely on social media and experiment with texting to communicate with candidates, a new survey suggests a more traditional method may be the best vehicle for communication.
Interviews or Reference Checks?
Where should you focus your recruiting efforts if you want to find out more about a job candidate?
Women in Business: Fighting to Get to the Top
There are 74.6 million women in the civilian labor force – almost 47 percent of U.S. workers are women. When it comes to education, women are more likely than men to have earned a bachelor’s degree by age 29 (34 percent of women vs. 29 percent of men). Women also own close to 10 million […]
Looking for Leaders
Are you hiring managers, when what you really want are leaders?
Are You Expecting Too Much from Employees?
It started during the recession. In the wake of mass layoffs, employees who remained were required to absorb the workload. Grateful to have a job, most were happy to do so.