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Faces of HR: Marci Haabestad on Creating Strong HR Functions, Staying Curious & the Skills Revolution

For our latest Faces of HR profile, we connected with Marci Haabestad, Interim CHRO of HireVue – a talent experience platform designed to automate workflows and make scaling hiring easy – to discuss how she got her start in the industry, her biggest influences, best mistake,  as well as the value of workplace flexibility. “While […]

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Eliminating Wasted Efforts During COVID-19 Remote Work

One of the most fundamental elements of a manager’s job is maximizing the return—in the form of work output—from the portion of the company’s investment he or she is assigned to manage. This means that striving for efficiency and doing more with less are essential to a manager’s skill set. One of the best ways […]

Why Post-Hire Screening Could Reduce Talent Headaches

Employers often cite their employees, team members, or people as their greatest asset. And while this may be true, it is sometimes an uncomfortable truth that they can also be an organization’s greatest weakness. Businesses, and by extension their brands, have become increasingly visible online through social media, online news channels, and even review websites, […]

How to Make the Most of Joint Employment

By Susan Prince, JD, MSL, Legal Editor at BLR Sometimes, HR has to deal with joint employment. Do you know what you need to create and maintain a legal joint employment relationship? Today we’ll hear what Susan Prince, JD, MSL, and legal editor at BLR®, has to say about it. A joint employment relationship and […]

Gen X Not Ready to Leave the Workplace

It’s hard to believe we’re at a point when we’re discussing Generation X’s departure from the workforce! Just a few short decades ago, this cohort represented the newest entrants into the labor force. But the reality is, the oldest members of Gen X—born in 1965—are closing in on 60 years old. Demand for Work/Life Balance […]

IT Hiring in 2025: What’s Changing and How to Prepare

In 2025, IT hiring will—finally—begin to increase after the pandemic boom and subsequent layoff bust that has lasted longer than most anticipated. At the height of the pandemic, organizations hired as much IT talent as they could to meet the astronomical jump in customers’ online activity. In their hiring frenzy, though, many leaders didn’t have […]

NLRB Says Contract Bar Is Here to Stay

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently affirmed it will continue to follow and enforce the long-established “contract-bar doctrine,” which provides unions with protection from ouster during most of a collective bargaining agreement’s (CBA) effective period.

Talent Management: Your Hammer Is Your Screwdriver

Talent management isn’t about software, says consultant Ron Katz. That’s just a tool. And it’s not about hiring or succession planning. It’s about positioning the organization to move powerfully in a positive way. To do that sometimes you have to use a hammer as a screwdriver, he says. Katz made his comments at BLR’s Strategic […]

Navigating Layoffs: What’s Next?

It’s been a stressful time for U.S. workers, with significant layoffs being announced at high profile tech companies including Twitter, Meta, and Amazon. According to experts, losing a job is not only one of the most emotionally traumatic experiences a person can go through, but also affects those who are not laid off in downsizing […]

DOJ Announces New Program to Garner Employee Cooperation in Anti-Corruption Investigations

Over the past few months, we have discussed recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement actions by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), emphasizing lessons for employers in the current environment. The DOJ continues to signal increasingly aggressive enforcement, now through a whistleblower program that will complement last year’s focus on corporate voluntary disclosure […]