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How Resume & Employment Verification Protects Employers

Cisive

Protecting Your Business with Resume and Reference Verification. The dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted in 2007 that she had claimed degrees she hadn’t earned and in fact had never graduated from college. This recent incident is unfortunately not uncommon, and it isn’t new.

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HR KPIs: Guide, 20 Examples & Free Template

Analytics in HR

Involuntary turnover refers to the percentage of employees who leave the organization due to employer-led decisions, such as layoffs, terminations, or redundancies. 90-day quit rate This refers to the number of new hires that leave the company within three months (or a year if you opt for the 360-day quit rate).

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How Do I Respond to Requests for References?

Evil HR Lady

t’s usually easy to respond to requests for references or to verify employment from companies that former employees are applying to. A company asked for verification of employment for someone who worked for us from 2007 to 2009, but our electronic records only go back to 2010. Can I prohibit managers from giving detailed references?

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How Big Should Your HR Staff and Budget Be?

Compensation Force

While this is a question best answered in the context of your unique talent strategy -- what it will take to execute that strategy to drive organization success and what role HR plays in making that happen -- benchmarks can sometimes provide a helpful reference point. HR employees for every 100 workers served in 2007 to 1.4

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How To Prepare Your Company for a Recession or Economic Downturn

Great Place to Work

Recession-proofing your workforce refers to maintaining employee morale, motivation and inspiration during economic downturn. s last recession: the Great Recession of 2007–2009. Thrive” describes publicly held companies in our data set that achieved returns of 14% or greater between 2007 and 2009.).

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The Five Keys of Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Specifically, searches of the term “employee engagement” increased by 122 percent during the period from 2011 to 2013 versus the period from 2005 to 2007. We quickly began referring to these elements as the “Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Employee Engagement.”

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Cafe Classic: The Compensation Cookbook

Compensation Cafe

Libraries have already announced plans to place the weighty tome next to the Phlogiston topic section of their Research Reference stacks. Plans are being considered for conversion of the initial cuneiform script version into PDFs, then to electronic text and eventually even an interactive Cloud format.