NEHRA eSurvey on Economic Effects
Conducted from 4/25/08 to 5/9/08.
NEHRA's Recruit a Member Campaign
NEHRA Members have proven that the best source of new members is current members!
You Can Now Purchase NEHRA's Career Center "Job of the Week!"
For only $100, your company posting will be featured on NEHRA's home page.
NEHRA's eSurvey on Hiring Trends
Conducted 1/25/08 through 2/8/08.
NEHRA's e-Survey on Employee Retention
Conducted from 9/28/07 through 10/12/07.
Business Creativity & The Hiring Process
Success in the 21st century will increasingly demand a greater mix of skills and the ability to think and react independently to respond to market challenges.
NEHRA's e-Survey on the Aging Workforce
Conducted from 6/18/07 through 6/29/07.
Human Resources Identifies Personal Branding as a Core Recruitment Component
Gone are the days when human resources judged professional applicants based on a small set of criteria.
NEHRA's eSurvey on Hiring Trends
Conducted from 6/1/06 through 6/15/06.
Ten Important Things You Need to Know about Relocation 
Relocation can have a significant impact on recruiting and retention for your organization. Several strategies can help you contain costs and ensure you are providing the most value to candidates and employees requiring relocation.
Nip Tuck
Does your workforce planning need a facelift? Some preventive care today can reduce the need for drastic measures later.
Competitive Career Management Practices:
Gaining Leverage in the 21st Century
The global marketplace and ever-changing workforce have created the need for organizations to engage human resources practices that recognize their human capital as their major competitive advantage. In fact, the current trends emphasize the growing deman
HR's Role in the Global Sourcing of Talent
tarting in mid-2003, the authors observed a number of HR executives were traveling overseas to explore new sources of talent. The fact that HR executives were flying halfway around the world to interview vendors or visit potential sites for internally man
Repositioning Employee Relations: A Strategic Move
An important shift is underway in employee relations (ER). Long relegated to dealing only with issues of employment law, the employee relations function is fast becoming the focus for integrating and coordinating efforts at enhancing employee contribution
Tools for Trust: The ROI of Culture Change
In today's business climate of corporate scandals, unethical behavior and tough competition for talent, building trust is paramount. Not only is it critical to build trust with your customers, but also building trust with employees is equally, if not more
Can Gray Get to Be HR's Favorite Color? - By BLR
By 2010, the number of workers aged 55 and older will jump 47 percent, while those aged 25 to 54 will rise only 5 percent. Even so, one-third of companies have no plans to cope with that change, and 59 percent do not actively recruit older workers.
Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
This toolkit has been created to assist human resource and diversity professionals as well as managers and senior leaders in their quest to make diversity a priority and way of organizational life.
Tools for Building a Successful Internship Program
Savvy college seniors know that internship experience is one way to break into a competitive job market so why don't more companies take advantage of these bright, hardworking people?
NEHRA Staffing Survey Results
NEHRA recently reached out to both members and non-members with a Staffing e-survey. The survey questions were developed by NEHRA's Staffing's Special Interest Group. Click here to read the results.
Employment Litigation: Side-Effect of the Improving Economy
In 2004, many employers will return to the hiring market for the first time in three years. Unfortunately, the increase in hiring may be accompanied by a corresponding increase in employment litigation...
Internships Deliver Real Value
Looking for an Intern? Here are a few things to consider when planning an Internship program.
NEHRA Flexible Work Arrangements Survey Results
NEHRA recently reached out to both members and non-members with a Flexible Work Arrangements e-survey. The survey questions were developed by NEHRA's Creative Work Options Network (CWON) Special Interest Group. Click here to read the results.
Stop Using the Goodies and Gimmicks Approach to Retention, Part I
Creating a mutually satisfying, committed relationship with your employees also requires more than material solutions. Whether you frame your goal as Improving Retention, Increasing Morale, or Becoming the Employer of Choice, your strategy should focus on addressing those essential human needs that, when fulfilled, lead to satisfied, committed, productive workers.
Your First Task As A Recruiter: Recruit Senior Management Onto Your Team
If your job is to recruit the best employees possible, heres what should be at the top of your To Do list: recruit senior management onto your team. You can increase your efficacy and your value to your organization by helping them recognize that the responsibility for recruiting talent doesnt lie in the recruiting department.
Best Practices in Boosting Employee Morale
Published: January 2003
Recruit And Retain Top Talent With A Comprehensive Work/Life Strategy
Progressive employers understand the needs and implications of todays diverse workforce, and take proactive steps to address them. One popular strategy is providing workers with programs to help them balance professional and personal demands.
Compensation & Benefit Solutions
Benefit Costs Template
Conducting Effective Interviews
15 Actions You Can Take To Get The Information You Need During An Interview, Candidate Evaluation Form, How To Minimize Exposure To Potential Litigation, Behavioral Interviewing Model, Fine Tuning your Interview Questions, Suggested Interview Questions, Interviewing Skills Exercise. Provided by Lori Rich, Infinite Connections.
The 360 Interview Process
Steps for implementing a 360 Interview Process. Sample 360 Interviewing Questions. Sample Leadership Competencies.
Best Practices in Interviewing Candidates
We all know how litigious our society has become in the area of employment-related issues. Every recruiter, hiring manager, executive, and department manager must realize that asking the wrong questions or making improper inquiries can lead to discrimination or wrongful-discharge lawsuits, and these suits can be won or lost based on statements made during the interview process. Thus, it is important to incorporate risk management into your interviewing process to help minimize your firm's exposure to employment practices liability.
How to Handle Being Pink Slipped
Fears of downsizing and layoffs have become common in this ailing economy. In fact, layoffs have become so regular that it has become accepted as normal for many. The big question when the axe falls is who will be next.
High-end labor at lower-level prices
Due to our slowed economy, as well as the hiring freezes and corporate downsizing these turbulent times have brought about, there is an increasing trend for companies to use individuals on a temporary or project basis instead of hiring additional personnel.
Frequently Asked Questions
Background Checks
To verify information provided by applicants and to protect against liability for negligent hiring, employers sometimes conduct preemployment background checks. These checks must carefully balance the employer??s need to know information that could affect security and other important concerns with the individual??s right to privacy. Here are some points to consider regarding background checks under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Re-energizing Your Workforce and Maintaining Commitment After a Layoff
Looking back, in the span of a couple of years, the concept of talent management shifted from hiring top-notch people to orchestrating their departures. Some organizations have had multiple layoffs; others did it in one shot. Whether youve personally been involved in a downsizing or have witnessed it from the sidelines, chances are you have had some level of exposure to the effects it has on an organization.
Harnessing The Power Of Networking: The Most Effective Weapon in any Professional's Arsenal
The phones are quiet. New business leads scarce. Thousands are adding their names to the unemployment rolls daily. In today's economy, everyone's on a bear hunt, aggressively seeking business opportunities for their company's and their own survival. The experts agree that networking is still the best weapon in any executive's arsenal.
Talent Upgrade: Smart Shopping in an Employers' Market
When faced with an uncertain economic environment, most organizations dont make recruitment a top priority. Yet tough times like these are often the best times to seek out new talent and bring qualified workers on board. The layoffs spawned by the current recession have put millions of experienced and talented workers back into the labor pool. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately 2.6 million people nationwide, including over 113,000 people in New England, became unemployed over the past year.
How to Keep Your Company Out of "The Danger Zone"
On a popular 1970's television program, Hill Street Blues, the turnout officer began each show by counseling the street cops, "Be careful out there." He may well have been cautioning today's employers who often feel like they are walking a tightrope trying to keep production and sales up
headcount down
anticipating and preparing for continuous, ongoing change
and generally doing more with less.
Top Mistakes Made by Job Candidates
Factors for Successful Expatriation
There are many factors that influence a successful placement of an employee to an international location. A human resources manager can assist senior management in making the decision to assign an employee to an international business site by guiding management through the following considerations.
Divesity in Recruiting
Diversity is Hard Work
Last fall I met with board members of a financial services company. They were keenly and genuinely interested in making their company a champion of diversity as quickly as possible. They wanted to be among the "best companies for diversity". I felt that they were looking for the "non-existent magic pill" and pointed out that diversity is hard work, very hard work. What are some of the criteria to make the 'diversity all-star team '?
Ten Tips on Internet Recruiting
Re-energizing Your Organization After Layoffs Presentation
This presentation from NEHRA's February 1st MY HR Network meeting examines the issues organizations face following employee layoffs and current thinking about the drivers and detractors of organizational commitment.
Catching The Age Wave: Strategies For Retaining the Older Worker
The demand for talented and qualified employees in the US is at an all time high. At the same time, the supply is shrinking. The aging of the baby boomer generation and the relatively fewer replacements in the next generation have caused one of the greatest supply and demand gaps our country has ever seen. There are presently 77,000,000 baby boomers in the US workplace and only 44,000,000 left waiting to take their places.
Whats Most Important to Employees Today?
Maintaining a motivated and committed workforce has become extremely challenging for HR professionals. Near full employment, the changing values of younger employees, baby-boomer burnout, and the increased willingness of employees to "jump ship" if the grass looks greener elsewhere have made this task much more difficult than in the past.
How Technology Can Help Win the Talent War
The reasons for the red-hot talent wars raging in many leading industries are by now a well-rehearsed litany: the tightest labor market in 30 years is coinciding with record economic expansion, the emergence of the "free agent" worker, high turnover rates, and the number of brick and mortar companies scrambling to put an Internet or e-commerce strategy in place.
Employment Interviewing Quiz
Sample questions intended to help HR professionals and hiring managers to sharpen their interviewing skills and avoid remarks that might be interpreted as being illegal.
Finding Success on Your Own Terms: The Balance Question
Do you feel like youre juggling too many balls in the air and are getting out of breath from the exertion? Are you concerned that there isnt enough balance in your life? When people tell me they feel stretched, stressed, and out of balance, its a red flag for me that they might not be clear about they want.
Got The Corporate Culture Blues?
Get The Corporate Culture Clues!
The great news is that the economy has been booming! The bad news? The economy has been booming!
Times Are Tough — A Rational Guide To Success
There is truth embedded in some business buzz words/phrases??change is constant? is one that rings particularly true at this time. When I began thinking of this article, companies were working as hard as they could to hire people ? not necessarily the right people, but any people with a reasonable set of skills to supply the necessary extra set of hands.
Get Noticed at Work
Have you ever wondered why a coworker - someone with the same level of experience, motivation and tenure as you - is now a manager, while you're still in the same job?
Re-inventing Employee Commitment
Dialing for Details: Conducting Phone Interviews
You've collected resumes, selected candidates and are ready to begin talking to top contenders. What's your first step?
Quality Strategy Keeps Quality Employees
It takes a quality retention strategy to hold onto your best employees.
Best Practices in Retention
Employees Looking Elsewhere? Retention Strategies
Making the Most of Interns
When labor markets are tight, one of the greatest challenges businesses face is the search for capable workers. If the reservoir of qualified job candidates appears low, you might consider looking to a refreshingly different talent pool - college interns - to fill some of the gaps.
Meeting Needs of Older Worker to Avoid Brain Drain
Companies may be subsidizing their own corporate brain drain if they offer generous early retirement plans instead of finding ways to retain their graying senior staffers with flexible work options and benefits.
Time for a Change: The Work Environment Initiative at KPMG
Best Practices in Target Recruiting
Find Employees Using 21st Century Internet Recruiting Techniques
The biggest impediment to growth of most promising New England high-tech companies isn't money, it's finding enough qualified employees to do the work.
Make 'Train To Retain' the Company Mantra
In such a tight job market, making your company's mantra 'train to retain' can make all the difference.
Maximizing Employee Retention
Losing an employee not only hurts morale; it is also expensive.
Solving the Employee Retention Problem
Does Behavioral Interviewing Reveal Better Employees?
In an effort to cut down on costly hiring mistakes, some major companies are experimenting with new screening tools.
Using Science to Catch Star Employees
With today's shrinking labor pool, high turnover and troubling employee behavior, human resource managers are under pressure to hire star employees.
Learning Organizations Produce Leaders
It takes a learning organization to succeed at succession planning.
Tips for Combating Resume Fraud
Wellness Programs Can Save Companies Money
How to Create a Department from Scratch
Values Create Strong "Employer Brand"
Values create a strong "employer brand" that can make your company more attractive in a tight labor market.
How to Keep Workers From Going Over 'Termination Falls'
Using Technology to Accommodate Workers
Technology has been a boom to many workers but it is especially valuable to people with disabilities, allowing them to be more productive part of the workforce. It also allows employers to make better use of talent in a tight job market.
Creative Ways To Recognize Employees
Some companies define employee rewards only in terms of a paycheck and compensation. I think more progressive companies include those things but go beyond them into employee recognition. Recognition is an acknowledgment of good employee behavior.
It Takes More Than Pay to Keep Good Workers
QUESTION: How can you best reward and motivate long-term employees who are strong performers and are already receiving good salaries and bonuses?
When Employees Work Shifts, HR Needs 24-Hour Strategy
Twenty-four-hour-a-day business needs 24-hour-a-day HR management. Good HR strategy provides employees who work evenings, nights or weekends with access to the services they need at times convenient for them.
