- Interviewing & Hiring
- Hiring Compliance Issues Resources
- Interview Worksheet
- Onboarding Best Practices & Case Histories
Interviewing & Hiring
“This checklist for hiring employees will help you systematize your process for hiring, whether it’s your first employee or one of many employees that you are hiring. This checklist helps you keep track of your recruiting efforts.”
Whether you’re new to recruiting or bring years of experience to the table, you know that the candidate experience is important. Candidate impressions not only influence whether the candidate decides to take the job, it can also impact the company’s brand, which in turn can help or hurt the company’s bottom-line.
Ensuring that all employees involved in recruitment, hiring and promotion decisions understand their responsibilities may help prevent discrimination.
Does your business need short-term help during a busy period? Here are five tips for optimizing your experience as a staffing agency client.
“Want job interview tips to help you select the most qualified employees? These tips will help you assess the skills, experience, and cultural fit of your potential employees. The job interview is a powerful factor in the employee selection process in most organizations. While it may not deserve all of the attention that it receives, the interview is still a powerful force in hiring.”
“Throughout the past year, via in-depth research and conversations with HR Morning readers, we discovered a variety of fine-tuned interview questions top employers are relying on to vet their job candidates. Here, we’ve compiled the best of the best from the past year.”
Excellent resource with sample legal interview questions on various topics.
This e-book offers guidance on conducting interviews.
Background checking occurs when an employer confirms the information provided by a job candidate. It may include checking other aspects of a candidate’s background, including whether there’s a criminal history.
Some companies have been sued for not disclosing enough information about former workers, while others have paid enormous settlements because they provided a negative job reference — whether true or false. Make the process easier on yourself by reviewing the following reference check tips, sample questions and potential red flags.
By taking the time to check candidate references, HR professionals can avoid poor hiring decisions that cost their companies valuable time and resources. Here’s how to pursue this lost art.
Hiring Compliance Issues Resources
Department of Labor’s principal statutes most commonly applicable to businesses, job seekers, workers, retirees, contractors and grantees
The elaws Advisors help employees and employers learn their rights and responsibilities under Federal employment laws.
Being inclusive of people with disabilities — in recruitment, retention, promotion, and in providing an accessible environment — gives businesses a competitive edge. Here are common myths about how the ADA affects employers and research and facts that negate them.
Guidance on Recruiting, Hiring, Retention, Accommodation & more
The FirstStep Poster Advisor is designed to help employers comply with the poster requirements of several laws administered by the Department of Labor (DOL). These laws require employers to display official DOL posters where employees can readily observe them. DOL provides the posters at no cost to employers.
Helps employers and employees understand their rights and responsibilities under USERRA.
The law forbids discrimination in every aspect of employment. This is an overview.
How to Prevent Race and Color Discrimination
Online resource that helps employers and HR professionals make their eRecruiting technologies accessible to all job seekers—including those with disabilities. U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy Created by ODEP’s Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology, TalentWorks provides general background on accessibility and e-Recruiting, as well as practical tip sheets for making online job applications, digital interviews, pre-employment tests and resume upload programs accessible.
“Smart employers use an employment application that is filled out by every candidate for a particular job. Employers world wide use the employment application to gather consistent data about prospective employees.
“Many times, hiring managers — in an innocent attempt to make an interviewee more comfortable — ask questions that could put the company in legal peril down the line.
Here are some not-so-obvious questions that could get your company in trouble, and alternate language that will get you the information you need.”
11 Questions That You Don’t Want to Ask During an Interview
While some illegal questions like “How old are you?” are more obvious, others are less so. Some questions masquerade as “cultural fit” questions, and others simply pop up when you let the interview meander off into small talk. If you’d prefer never to deal with the EEOC, avoid letting your interview conversation head toward questions like these.
Here are the 16 questions you cannot ask a job candidate during a job interview, from a legal perspective. And nor should you want to.
Interview Worksheet (PDF)
Onboarding Best Practices & Case Histories
Virtual Training for Onboarding: Engaging, Effective, and Secure Employee Integration
Checklists are the most popular way to onboard new employees, and that’s for a good reason. They can help you to follow a process, make sure you don’t neglect anything important and stay compliant.
Proper onboarding is key to retaining, engaging talent
“Lack of onboarding or a process that doesn’t go smoothly can leave employees feeling overwhelmed, confused, and unsupported in their new roles. Even worse, it can mean losing employees because they never find their places in the company.
Learning doesn’t have to be stuffy or boring. In fact, finding ways to make learning more engaging and interesting is part of our responsibility as HR and learning professionals.
Studies show that a staggering 50-70% of newly hired managers and executives fail at their new jobs and leave within 18 months. Here’s hpw to engage new hires from day one.
For new hires, orientation is a one-time event welcoming them to your company. Onboarding is a series of events (including orientation) that helps them understand how to be successful in their day-to-day job and how their work contributes to the overall business.
A 40-step checklist
Practical steps managers can take to improve a new employee’s odds of success.
“The CEO knew that she had to find a method to onboard new employees more quickly or risk losing them. So, she decided to create and institute LAN Systems’ Sherpa Program. The program was designed to help new employees settle in; adjust to their new workplace and culture; and make them feel part of the team sooner. Ultimately, it was hoped, they could then become fully productive team members more quickly than they had in the past.”
“New employee orientation is the process you use for welcoming a new employee into your organization. The goal of new employee orientation is to help the new employee feel welcomed, integrated into the organization, and performing the new job successfully as quickly as possible.
In organizations, a core of information exists that you need to share with every new employee. But, depending on the level of the job, the responsibilities of the job, and the experience of the new employee, components will vary.”