Heavy-construction firm OHL North America has a strong campus recruiting program and hires graduates from some of the top engineering programs across the country. However, in recent years, the company has widened its net, considering graduates with non-civil-engineering degrees. OHL looks at applicants with any kind...
What gets your attention when you, re browsing the cereal aisle in the supermarket? The pictures and graphics emblazoned across the front of the boxes, right? What if the nutritional information was front and center, instead of Tony the Tiger encouraging you to buy Kellogg's Frosted...
In an era of globalization, employee verification holds a lot of importance. However, the process of verifying the details of a candidate is indeed not an easy task in modern times. Specifically, the MNCs having huge manpower from different parts of the world are obvious...
The Los Angeles Times is on the hook for a $15.4 million jury award for demoting an older worker. Former LA Times sports columnist T.J. Simers sued the paper in October 2013 after the paper first reduced and then eliminated his column. The paper argued that...
Any HR pro would raise an eyebrow reading the broad outline of this FMLA abuse investigation. An employee schedules a knee surgery, then postpones that procedure to have a different operation is done to remove a tumor on his foot. While he’s out on FMLA leave,...
Both the organizations and employers, starting from big corporates to small companies, all know the importance of hiring a perfect employee to keep the working environment healthy and safe. It can be in terms of both physically and mentally. If you recruit one bad employee,...
The Creative Group has published its 2018 Salary Guide, which offers info on trends, starting salaries and benefits, which will help you get a sense of where you stand. Here’s a look at the report’s take on current compensation practices. See how your comp plan stacks up: 1. it’s...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are sticking with forecasts for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates five more times by the end of 2019 even as financial markets shudder. In reports released in the past 24 hours as the Standard & Poor’s 500...
With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time let people know that you are human, too. If you’d like to know how that ordinarily looks, here are some examples. Use them at your own risk. “Hi there! Hate to break it to you, but I’m onsite...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues are likely to turn more wary about marching interest rates higher after delivering a widely anticipated quarter percentage-point increase in December. Prospects for slowing global economic growth, fading U.S. fiscal stimulus and volatile financial markets all argue for more caution once...
You probably realize how powerful your words can be when you’re praising someone for a job well done. By recognizing that person at just the right time with just the right words, you can impact that person – and your company – in a highly valuable way,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued two final rules Nov. 7 that exempt certain entities from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) contraceptive mandate if their opposition is based on religious or moral grounds. The rules are likely to be challenged in court, as have...
