Sat.Apr 18, 2015
New York City Prohibits Use of Employment Credit Reports
EmployeeScreenIQ
APRIL 18, 2015
Earlier this week, the New York City Council passed a bill that makes it unlawful for employers to request or use an job applicant’s credit history for employment purposes as part of their background screening practices. Intro Intro Bill 261-A amends the City’s Human Rights Law to make it an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to use an individual’s consumer […].
How to Improve In-Office Communication
Spark Hire
APRIL 18, 2015
Though you see your staff daily, you may often feel as if you’re working on separate coasts. Everyone is busy and managing their own work, which makes it easy for miscommunications to happen if you’re not careful. In order to keep your team in sync, try using these strategies to ensure great in-office communication: Send out an office newsletter. To verify, send out a monthly or weekly newsletter.
weekend free-for-all – April 18-19, 2015
Ask a Manager
APRIL 18, 2015
This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. This one is truly non-work only; if you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.). Book Recommendation of the Week: : Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. Totally fascinating, and disturbing. open threads
CIOs Must Align Towards the Future
Jive Software
APRIL 18, 2015
I remember traveling through Poland in 1996 and witnessing the gray “after effects” of communism; antiquated cars, building, and roads. stared into the empty eyes on the wrinkled faces of the elderly who had struggled through wars and several eras where the country had been on the brink of economic and/or civic decline. But there was also exuberance and excitement in the air with the fall of the Berlin wall, the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, and the domino effect of unleashing democracy in many of its satellite countries. In some ways, it’s a metaphor for our world today.
Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance
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