The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a lawsuit against Walmart for screening out employees (not applicants) using a training program and assessment the EEOC alleges unfairly discriminated against people with disabilities and was not related to either the employees’ job duties or job performance. Walmart will likely lose Continue Reading...
Your Ultimate Guide to a More Inclusive Workplace
Businesses of all kinds are coming to the realization that employing a diverse workforce can be more complex than initially realized. Nevertheless, prioritizing diversity in the workplace is an excellent goal for a variety of reasons. This makes it essential for all employers to strategically identify, deploy, and support their diversity Continue Reading...
Assessing the Un-assessable: How to Evaluate Applicant Aptitudes on Difficult to Measure Characteristics
A key challenge faced by every hiring manager is how to determine, based on limited information, whether any given applicant would be a good addition to their team. In making this determination, two key pieces of information are required. First is the answer to the question, “Does this applicant possess the knowledge, skills and Continue Reading...
Why Ethical, Challenge-Proof Hiring Is Hard — and How to Achieve It
Nearly every business, regardless of size, industry, or geography, must overcome the same universal challenges. First, they must be able to work efficiently, minimizing waste and needless overhead that eat into profits. They also need to maximize productivity, implementing processes, tools, and equipment that allow them to get the most out of Continue Reading...
3 Things to Know About the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures
You want to make offers to the strongest possible candidates every time you have a job opening. Yet how can you make sure your recruitment processes are legally defensible? One way is by adhering to the Federal Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, particularly when it comes to your pre-employment assessments. Unlike many Continue Reading...