Does your company have a job opening in Europe? If so, there’s a good chance your existing referral program is about to get torpedoed. With GDPR … Read more
GDPR: Is Your Recruitment Team in Compliance?
If your recruitment team executes any search work with candidates, clients, or sources in the EU, you will need to keep up to date with the latest … Read more
How to Screen Out Sexual Harassers During the Hiring Process
Recruiting leaders must realize that they are exposing their firm to “negligent hiring” charges if they fail to do everything possible to prevent the … Read more
Corporate Shame — Why Doesn’t Your Firm Predict and Prevent Sexual Harassment?
Note: This “think piece” is designed to stimulate the thinking of board members and executives about the need for a corporate program for predicting where … Read more
Recruiting Candidates in Europe? Familiarize Yourself with the Updated GDPR Requirements
If you’re recruiting candidates in Europe, you have until May 25, 2018, to familiarize yourself with and prepare a strategy for tackling coming changes … Read more
Me Too: Sex Had an Effect on My Job Hunt
Me too … countless times, but this story is relevant to ERE. It speaks to what we do. It may have something to do with why I hate the EEOC, despite … Read more
Employment Contracts Behaving Badly: ‘We’re Not Harvey Weinstein!’
Unless media is talking about Russians, natural disasters, or Donald Trump, gender issues seem to be at the forefront of every news story these days. Uber … Read more
Unconscious Bias Could Be Stopping You From Harnessing The Potential Of New Grads
Anyone who has been a recent graduate searching for a job knows how difficult it can be. Intimidating advice like, “it’s not what you know; it’s who you … Read more
Engineer’s Anti-Diversity Memo Gets Sharp Rebuke From Google
A political firestorm has erupted at Google over a 10-page memo by a software engineer challenging the company’s diversity efforts, declaring that … Read more
The Definitive Action Guide for Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 1 of 2)
There has been a great deal of recent coverage on unconscious biases. However, almost all of the attention has been on becoming aware of these unconscious … Read more
Building New On-ramps for Returning Women
You know that guy who won’t let you in when you’re trying to merge onto the highway? Well, that’s corporate America for returning women. Three million … Read more
The OFCCP Paradox: Government Actions Create a New Diversity Hiring Fallacy
Over the past year, the Department of Labor has taken a newfound interest in the number of Asians working at tech companies in Silicon Valley. New … Read more
Even in Jobseeking, Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus
It’s been 25 years since John Gray published the now famous — or maybe infamous — treatise on gender relationships, “Men are from Mars, Women … Read more
Actually, Asking for Salary History is a Mistake
I see many “issues” with the reasons presented in this article. These are outdated thought processes that do not apply to the new talent-driven … Read more
Salary History and Gender Are Antiquated Data Points for Salary Negotiations
Last year, with the stroke of a pen, Governor Charlie Baker made Massachusetts the first state in the nation to ban HR departments from asking for salary … Read more
A Look at New York City’s New Law Prohibiting Employers From Inquiring About the Salary History of Applicants
In its latest effort to close the “gender gap” on wages, the New York City Council has enacted legislation (effective in 180 days) prohibiting … Read more
Dumpster Fire at Uber Highlights Pitfall of Forsaking HR in Favor of Recruiting
No one wants to be the Uber-of-whatever these days. Headlines alleging sexual harassment will do that, I guess. In case you’ve been living under a … Read more
Expedited H-1B Program Suspension Announced
Friday’s announcement that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will halt its expedited H-1B visa processing is raising concerns that … Read more
Bleak Employee Morale at Uber — and What You Can Learn From It
Today would not be a great day to be the head of talent acquisition at Uber (with apologies and much support to our colleague who holds that position). On … Read more
Coming to America: The Immigration Challenge
The President’s immigration order has created a lot of controversy, but the emotional outrage has prevented the focus from shifting to issues about a … Read more