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Is Hiring Teens a Good Alternative to a Tight Labor Market?

Stratus

Advantages of Hiring Teens: Employer Perspective. Most adults prefer an 8-5 workday where they can check out early in the evening to attend to personal and family needs. While there may be a learning curve for your more seasoned workers to catch on to technology advancements, teens are digital natives. Hiring Teens: YouthRules.

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Filling the gaps: Pros and cons of hiring part-time employees

Insperity

Pros of hiring part-time employees. If you hire temporary part-time employees to help carry the workload, you avoid that hassle, while giving your full-time employees an extra level of support. Seasonal support. When you hire part-time employees, you can bring on staff with the expertise you need, when you need it.

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10 Best Resume Screening Software for Quick and Effective Hiring

Peoplebox

If your hiring team were to manually sift through all of these resumes, it could take hours and sometimes even weeks. This HR technology helps hiring managers shortlist the best resumes based on defined selection criteria. Manual errors, in this case, can make you lose out on great candidates or result in a costly mis-hire.

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Register Now for Avoiding Meal, Rest Break Traps Webinar

HRWatchdog

Misunderstandings can be costly — for instance, each workday that an employer fails to provide a meal break to an employee as required, the employee is owed one additional hour of pay at their regular rate of pay. This webinar is created for HR professionals, office managers, business owners or anyone responsible for hiring and staffing.

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A Holiday Shopping Season like No Other

Workday

Each year around this time, retail industry writers start posting articles full of tips and predictions for the upcoming holiday shopping season. What I will do though is talk about how this holiday shopping season is unfolding (as I write this in September), and what some of the implications could be for this year and beyond.

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19 Types of Work Schedules and How to Choose the Best One for Your Organization

Replicon

This way, employees can choose the start and end times of their workday to work around the core period mandated by the employer. So, a seasonal work schedule allows employers to hire more staff during busy periods and cut the workforce back during the off-season.

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Expert’s Top Tips for Training a Retail Workforce for the Holiday Season

SumTotal

Retailers are also facing a tough time filling all the extra positions the holiday season generates. The National Retail Federation (NRF) President and CEO Matthew Shay estimates that retailers will hire 650,000 seasonal workers for the 2018 holiday period, up 10% from 2017. I’ve worked in retail for almost 30 years.