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Fair Chance Hiring and Criminal Background Checks

Sterling Check

Corporate America, and indeed companies around the globe, are increasingly evaluating their hiring practices and overall diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they are playing a positive role in addressing and eliminating systemic racism. What Exactly are Fair Chance Laws?

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Cybersecurity Talent Shortage: Why HR Needs to Map Unconventional Career Paths

Visier

According to a 2018 report released by ISACA (a non-profit professional association focused on information security), 50% of cybersecurity professionals say their enterprise is experiencing an increase in security attacks compared to a year ago. million by 2022 , a 20% increase over the forecast the firm made in 2015.

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New Jersey Amends Ban the Box Law to Include Expunged Criminal History

Sterling Check

The New Year brought many changes to laws that have an impact on the background screening industry from the legalization of recreational marijuana use in California to the enactment of ban the box laws in cities and states across the country. What are Ban the Box Laws? Update to New Jersey Ban the Box Law.

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Fair Chance Hiring Practices

Sterling Check

Today’s job market and social climate demands that HR professionals consider overall diversity and inclusion policies to ensure they are playing a positive role in addressing and eliminating systemic racism. To be clear, state and local laws that encourage second chance hiring don’t prohibit criminal checks. EEOC Guidance.

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Raising the Bar

Enspira

Innovation and creativity – people from differing backgrounds, with differing lived experiences bring differing viewpoints to the table. McKinsey, “Diversity Matters,” 2015) For Enspira, however, diversity is just one piece of the workplace culture puzzle. Informed, we can work with you to deliver change.

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What is blind recruitment – and does it work?

cipHR

Is it actually an effective tool? Candidates’ names, for example, may give signals about their socio-economic background, ethnicity and immigration status that might influence a hiring manager’s decision about whether or not to progress their application. And how can you introduce it to your organisation?

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Lu Zhang of Fusion Fund: “More female tech entrepreneurs should consider joining the VC community”

Thrive Global

As the general trend veers toward the digital transformation of healthcare, we need more women in the VC community to better leverage technology that serves women. As part of my series about “The Five Things We Need to Do to Close the VC Gender Gap” I had the pleasure of interviewing Lu Zhang. as most focus on the software side.