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“The quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization’s long-term success.” - “It’s the Manager” (Gallup)

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) exists to ensure fair workplace practices for all demographics of employees. To ensure compliance, employers must file an EEO-1 Component 1 Form for the previous year by May 31, 2019. The survey is to be completed annually by employers with at least 100 employees, and federal contractors with at ...

Imagine this scenario:

In most parts of North America, busy season for the skilled trades is well under way. Material is getting dropped off, potholes are getting filled and landscaping businesses are in full-on get-it-done mode. With all this action paving the way to peak recruitment, onboarding and employment, it's not surprising that every year one important piece of ...

Shopping for a strong, quality Human Resource Information System (HRIS) can be challenging because of the high stakes, long-term impact and competing technology companies, but there's one thing that shouldn't be a challenge: understanding what technology companies are talking about.

When your business is expanding, the first thing to come to mind is how to recruit the best candidates. But the obvious next step often gets neglected: interviewing. In a perfect world candidates are lining up to join your team, and you have your choice of several qualified people. 

Weed at work might sound like a funny or dangerous topic to cover in HR, but we know HR professionals are on the front line of dealing with all kinds of challenges in a modern workplace:

Onboarding: You're either doing a good job or a bad job of it. There's really not a "not doing it," because no matter what, your employees have to have a first day.

It's hard to hire the perfect person for a role - you know it, and we know it. Because of a combination of epic-low unemployment, an aging workforce and the lack of a trained pipeline (in construction, manufacturing and healthcare, in particular), the odds of landing the right candidate for a position can feel stacked against you.