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Legal Ground Rules for Screening Employees
Whether your organization decides to carry out a prescreen internally or to hire a third party, it is important to know the ground rules for prescreening employees without stepping across a legal line.
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Employee Screening: Advantages, Disadvantages and Limits
In an earlier blog post, we explored what we might learn from the devastating and, as we now know, intentional crash of a Lufthansa jet in March 2015. As the investigation unfolds, the facts coming to the surface suggest that a more rigorous employee screening and monitoring process likely would have saved the lives lost […]
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Can social media help you do your job better?
Although first and foremost associated with entertainment or socializing with friends and family, social media now pervades nearly all aspects of the modern workplace. From recruitment to training to promotions, social media is an integral part of how people carry out their everyday work, but does social media necessarily help us do our jobs better?
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Lessons from Clinton’s Email Errors
Since it is common to have one’s personal and work email streamed into a single email program, like Entourage, sending work emails from a personal account and vice versa is common. Moreover, at times the line between a personal and work email may also be difficult to discern. If you’re planning a birthday party for […]
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Leveraging Social Media as a Recruitment or Job Search Tool
Two decades ago, recruiting job candidates typically took place in person at a job fair or via a print-based advertisement, usually in a major newspaper. Today, few jobs are found in newspapers and while job fairs still exist, they serve many purposes that extend well beyond recruitment. From employment-focused sites, like Mediabistro and LinkedIn, to […]
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Lessons from the Germanwings Investigation
When a Germanwings plane crashed into a remote mountain range in the Alps, speculations focused first on the possibility that the crash was an act of terrorism and second, on mechanical failure. In the days following the crash, however, the investigation revealed that in this case, neither a political motive nor technical error was to […]
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Lessons from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Lawsuit
In March, people around the world watched as Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers unfolded in a California courtroom. The details of the case are now widely known, even by people outside the business and high-tech sectors. Pao, now interim chief executive officer of Reddit, alleged that she experienced gender discrimination at […]
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Is Worker Retention Really a Problem?
Since the late 1950s, Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriter Co. in New York City has been fixing typewriters. Of course, his company has changed over the years—today, he has few typewriters to fix. Indeed, many of the typewriters he does fix are found on movie sets staged to recreate what offices once looked like rather […]
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Instructional Design: Learning from Social Media
Learning is no longer assumed to be a discrete experience that can only take place in a classroom or at a training center. Most students and workers now accept the fact that learning is for life and further accept that learning is no longer location bound. At the same time, social media platforms continue to […]
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The Ins and Outs of Internship Programs
Interning is a major step in the career path of many young people. Indeed, some young people even choose a college or university in a large urban center, like Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, in order to increase their internship opportunities. While some internships can be used for college credit and others provide a […]
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Creating a Culture of Assessment for Creative Workers
While they may not recognize it, most educators and trainers are constantly assessing the impact of their course delivery. This may take place in a conversation with a colleague over coffee after teaching a class or facilitating a workshop. This may take place when they ask students or workshop participants for feedback using informal methods […]
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Recruiting and Training Transit Workers in the 21st Century
While some transit jobs, such as train operators, continue to go into decline, the demand for bus, rapid rail and subway operators, especially in urban areas, continues to rise. The growing need for urban transit workers is driven by two factors. First more people are moving back into city centers and as a result, they […]
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