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• How to Choose and Hit Job Search Targets Creatively

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 16:43 in career and job search, resumes & cover letters

  This guest post about some creative thinking for jobseekers is by Kevin Donlin, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap. Be Creative In Your Job Search Ever want to slap your forehead and say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” You might, after ...

• Part II: ADA Amendments — What Difference Will They Make If They Become Law?

  Posted on Monday August 18th, 2008 at 06:00 in ada, adaa, add new tag, congress, disability, disability discrimination, discrimination, employment law, house, legislation

  In a previous post, we began this series with a brief introduction to the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (“ADAAA”), passed by the House at the end of June. In this post, we continue the series by examining how the ADAAA would alter the substantial-l...

• “Blind Hiring” to Avoid Bias: Wave of the HR Future, or “Blind Alley”?

  Posted on Monday August 4th, 2008 at 17:21 in blind hiring, discrimination, discrimination (generally), discrimination proof and evidence, employee selection, employment law, hiring, human resources, interviewing, research, tips and suggestions, unconscious discrimination

  Is a hiring manager named "David" more likely to give an edge to a job candidate also named "David"? Recent academic research suggests that the answer is “yes,” even for other names with similar sounds, like "Dan" or "Dustin." What does this ...

• Unemployment Benefits Extension: Effective Counterweight to Slowing Economy?

  Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 06:30 in economics, hiring

  On June 30, President Bush signed a $162 billion war spending bill that included a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits. Attaching this unemployment extension to entirely unrelated war spending sought by the White House was effective in gettin...

• Bulletproofing Employment Investigations

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 07:00 in employment investigation, employment law, general hr management, harassment, HR, human resources, interviewing, investigation, tips and suggestions

  This post on workplace investigations that hold up to scrutiny emphasizes the importance of vertical and horizontal consistency and reasonableness in the investigation of allegations of workplace misconduct, such as harassment. ...

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