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Credit Reports and the Hiring Process
Imagine one of your employees absconds with some cash. That’s unfortunate—but not nearly as unfortunate as when your CEO discovers the employee had a troubling history of financial irresponsibility. Then the question is not why they took the money, but why you hired them for a position of financial responsibility.
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2010 Employment Law Toolkit now available
The 2010 edition of Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partner Jason Tremblay’s handbook, Employment Law Toolkit, is now available. The handbook is a comprehensive resource highlighting the significant employment and labor issues facing Illinois employers.
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I’m Sorry, But Today’s Job Boards are Broken
Don’t get me wrong, employers aren’t the only ones at fault. Candidates have their share in the failure of today’s job boards, too.
1021 days ago Heather R. Huhman (1) 
The Changing Employment Landscape
Employment, as you know it, may be over. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Read More
1023 days ago Harold Mills (0) 
Think Global, Act Local (with Your Personal Brand)
“Think globally, act locally.” That’s a term that has been used quite often in the past centering mostly on environmental factors and how thinking about the global effect of a community’s actions. I’d like to turn that phrase into a new direction. When you’re thinking about your career, your personal brand, and your outlook on business, I’d like you to think about the BIG picture.
1027 days ago Kirk Baumann (0) 
5 Ways to Accurately Check Candidate References
It’s a fact that about 99.999999999% of all references come back positive. So, if we know going in that there is already a high probability of success, then why do we bother to waste our time?
1029 days ago Kevin O'Brien (0) 
Leaps, bounds, and pitfalls
What does being a gazelle really mean for recruiting talent? Getting enough of the right people in the right jobs is a challenge. Not only do we need a volume of people as we grow quickly, but our growth often demands new, sometimes specialized skills that we haven’t traditionally had in-house. These people have to be highly skilled yet flexible within our agile organization. Most importantly they have to have an entrepreneurial mindset in order to succeed at any gazelle.
1029 days ago Harold Mills (0) 
Do Candidates Think You Represent a “Best Company to Work For”?
Your recruiters and interviewers must elicit this information to effectively sell your organization and highlight its most attractive offerings to the candidate. To provide a head start, we’ve cited – in order of importance – the most common criteria gathered from our last 100 candidates.
1031 days ago Andrew LaCivita (0) 
The Difference Between High Volume and High Complexity Recruiting
As your job hunt intensifies and you are getting ready for your next interview, it sometimes helps to understand the motivation of the person on the other side of the desk. If you are working with a recruiter, it helps to know if you are in a high complexity recruitment cycle or a high volume recruitment cycle.
1037 days ago Coley Perry (4) 
Since When is a Person a Commodity?
The other day, I happened to be talking to someone that brought up the title ‘Commodity Manager’. In any normal situation, I would have thought about gold, corn or financial markets. But in the context of this conversation, it happened to be about people
1039 days ago Kevin O'Brien (3) 
New Law Prohibits Credit Checks by Most Illinois Employers
The ICPA significantly limits Illinois employers’ ability to obtain any credit history information for employment applicants, as well as for current employees.
1043 days ago Jason Tremblay (0) 
Personal Triangles for Candidate Negotiations
We had to find a way to get candidates to accept offers with lower salaries. I now call the tool I used to battle the problem the Personal Triangle.
1045 days ago Robert Wolfrum (0) 
Hire Plateau with Greg Jarecki
Recently, Kevin and Greg were able to catch up and talk a little about what’s new in Greg’s world and his new position as the On Site Senior Client Services Manager for Agile 1 at MillerCoors in Milwaukee.
1047 days ago Hire Plateau (1) 
Does Your Company Have a Socially Designed Recruiting Platform?
A recent study by Jobvite (Q2 2010) showed that over 80% of the participants (600) that responded indicated their organizations are currently using or plan to use social media for recruiting this year
1049 days ago Andrew LaCivita (0) 
Employee Referral Programs: Outsource Your Networking by Going In-house
With a bit of assistance from your employees, you can reach a passive candidate pool in which you normally wouldn’t have access. Here are a few tips to make your ERP an efficient networking machine.
1062 days ago Christine Nicholl (0) 
How Chimps Compare to Some Recruiters
I’ve spent a number of years entrenched in the staffing and consulting space as a recruiter, a sales rep, a director, a consultant and an entrepreneur, and I’ve seen enough to know what to expect as a FILL ratio when you just throw it up on a wall to see what sticks.
1063 days ago Kevin O'Brien (0) 
3 Tools to Improve the Quality of Hires
These tools may seem simple. Few companies, however, succeed in gathering this data and fewer still compensate their recruiters on it. Taking steps to evaluate the quality of hires and improve hiring officialsatisfaction will go a long way to improving your company’s ability to hire top talent. Getting the hiring officials to want to be more actively engaged will really make the difference.
1064 days ago Andrew LaCivita (1) 
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