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Featured Webcast
Are Your I-9s Up To Date?
This program, featuring Littler Littler Mendelson Legal Learning Group's David Goldman, will dissect common missteps by employers, along with the cost of getting it wrong. ICE’s strategic initiative will also be reviewed. Fast paced and practical, the program provides must-know information for anyone involved in completing or reviewing the I-9 form.
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Upcoming Webcasts
How to Turn Reference Checking into an Effective Assessment Tool May 13, 2008, 2 p.m. ET
Nearly all employers include reference checks as a standard part of the hiring process. However, many regard it as a waste of time, rarely providing insight into how well a candidate will perform on the job. Yves Lermusi, CEO & Founder of Checkster describes how, when done correctly, a reference check can be one the best ways to gain insight on a candidate's true performance
Does Your Workplace Have a Racially Hostile Work Environment? May 14, 2008, 2 p.m. ET
Dr. Dennis A. Davis and Joseph Beachboard of the law firm Ogletree Deakins explore common racial stereotypes that exist in many workplaces as well as novel claims brought by workers alleging same race, reverse, and associational discrimination.
Recruiting in a Down Economy
May 20, 2008, 2-3 p.m. ET
In the presentation Tom Darrow of Talent Connections will demonstrate that a slow hiring market presents an opportunity to revisit your organization's overall recruiting strategies, and make plans for when the hiring market heats up again.
This webcast is sponsored by Yahoo!HotJobs.
Ethics & Code of Conduct Training May 29, 2008, 2 p.m. ET
Shanti Atkins of ELT will help business leaders to understand the importance of training, and how to provide it to their organizations.
When and How To Use Simulated Behavioral Assessments April 2008
Simulation-based testing provides one of the truest assessments of how an individual will perform in a given situation. But many companies lack the time, money and expertise it takes to develop customized simulations that could help them address their staffing and organizational effectiveness issues.
Mark, Stewart, Ph.D., senior consultant for the Houston, Texas-based office of assessment firm Management and Personnel Systems, Inc., outlines when simulations can and should be used for what purposes--and he'll discuss the most cost-effective ways to implement these assessment solutions.
The Evolution of Recruiting the Retail Workforce April 2008
In the world of retail recruiting, success is not only about processes and tools that automate and simplify your recruiting processes. It also about ensuring you are using the emerging applications and recruiting strategies that are geared toward the new hourly employees now entering the workforce.
This program will help you uunderstand the needs of hourly applicants and how new technologies can better reach them. It will also demonstrate how emerging applications such as wikis, blogs, and social networking can help attract the best sales talent.
This webcast is sponsored by Yahoo!HotJobs.
Making the Business Case for Training
April 2008
How do you overcome the perception that employee training is a luxury? In tough economic times when HR budgets may be tight, it’s especially crucial to be able to make the business case for training. Join Joyce Oliner as she discusses how the net result of recent court decisions, statutes and regulations has been to mandate that all employers provide training to employees on issues such as equal employment opportunity and workplace ethics.
This webcast is sponsored by Plateau Systems.
The Best Practices in Online Recruiting March 2008
Internet recruiting guru Peter Weddle cuts will present a measured, research-based look at the best practices for sourcing and recruiting talent on the Internet. he will present a strategy that makes the best use of the medium’s power in recruitment advertising, data mining for candidate information, and relationship-building among passive as well as active employment prospects.
Workers' Compensation: Practical Overview and Recent Developments March 2008
Dr. Richard Victor, executive director of the Workers Compensation Research Institute, will provide a practical overview of workers' compensation programs, including definitions of key terminology with which all HR professionals should be familiar; an overview of recent workers' compensation reforms in California, Florida, and other states; and recent trends in workers’ compensation costs.
A Guide to Wage and Hour Compliance in 2008
March 2008
Wage and hour class actions have emerged as one of the most significant employment law trends of this decade. They now outnumber all other employment class actions combined. And with more than 80 percent of employers out of compliance with federal and state laws, this trend will continue. Attorneys Tammy McCutcheon and Lisa Schreter will explore the most significant wage and hour risks faced by employers today, including meal and rest periods, off-clock work, continuous workday issues, and employee misclassification.
