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Austin ranks No. 1 city for U.S. job-seekers
Austin, TX: 85.2 Washington, DC: 80.8 San Francisco, CA: 78.3 Denver, CO: 74.4 Houston, TX: 70.8 Fort Worth, TX: 69.9 Dallas, TX: 69.2 Seattle, WA: 69.1 San Antonio, TX: 68.5 Charlotte, NC: 64.8 Read about all of the Best Cities for Job-Seekers on NerdWallet.com.]]>
Read More10 incredible facts about employment screening
10 background check facts all employers should know – we’ve found some additional, incredible facts surrounding hiring, employment screening and protecting your business. With contributions from the Paycor Resource Center webinar on safe hiring, here’s our latest list of shocking employment check facts: 40% of resumes contain material lies or omissions about past jobs, education…
Read MoreEEOC’s New Strategic Enforcement Plan emphasis on systematic discrimination
Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) setting forth its priorities and methods of enforcement for the next 4 years. A key focus of the SEP continues to be systemic discrimination cases, in which the EEOC, on its own initiative, investigates an employer’s employment practices across its workforce. The EEOC is de-emphasizing charges of discrimination brought by individual…
Read MoreGeorgia Dept. of Agriculture failed to use E-Verify
E-Verify is an Internet-based, free program run by the United States government that compares information from an employee’s Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 to data from U.S. government records. Benefits of E-Verify HRMorning and NumberUSA state the following advantages to the E-Verify system, displaying why and how it has become such a pivotal part of…
Read MoreUS employment: 215,000 jobs added in December
North Carolina E-Verify laws in effect Jan.1 2013
North Carolina background screening programs. E-Verify is a free Internet-based system that allows employers to determine employment authorization by checking an employee’s documentation against Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration databases. It applies to certain federal contractors, but also is being adopted by states, regardless of federal contracts being involved. County and municipal…
Read MoreData brokers to face investigation from US Federal Trade Commission
US unemployment levels drop again in November
Bureau of Labor Statistics. In November, 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because…
Read MoreAverage 2013 salary increase predicted to be around 3%
Robert Half International’s 2013 Salary Guide reports do an excellent job of breaking down pay by industry. Robert Half states that pay in the tech sector is expected to see the greatest 2013 average raise, with an increase of 5.3%. Mobile app developers in particular will see a salary increase of 9% on average. Workers in…
Read MoreWhat are the costs of a bad hire?
Resoomay explores the baffling costs of making a bad hire, and it’s certainly information we thought was worth highlighting. Check out a few of the startling statistics – no doubt you’ll be surprised: Between hiring costs; total compensation; cost of maintaining the employee; disruption costs; severance; and mistakes, failures, and missed business opportunities, an employer’s average…
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