Employee background screening has grown even more common over the last several years, and such screening applies to a broader range of workers than ever before. Today, 90% of employers screen all full-time employees, up from 86% in 2019 and 83% in 2017. What’s more, employers have also become more likely to screen part-time employees…
Like so many organizations, Pulse Solutions struggled with employee performance appraisals and communications, challenges that have become even more daunting during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now available for download, the case study, Creating a Performance Management System that Works, highlights how AssessTEAM helped Pulse Solutions overcome its challenges before and during the pandemic by leveraging the…
HR.com, the largest network of human resource (HR) executives, has partnered with National Wellness Institute (NWI) to design, build, and launch a first-of-its-kind training to bring a heightened level of multicultural competency to the HR community, wellness professionals, and beyond. The certificate course titled “High-Level Wellness Through Multicultural Competency: Cultivating a Culture of Wellness for…
Despite the economic setback and higher unemployment rates associated with the coronavirus crisis, talent acquisition (TA) remains a high priority for most organizations. Recent human resources (HR) research found that most HR professionals (81%) say their organization considers hiring the best talent to still be among their top ten priorities. Fewer, however, say hiring great…
In the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, employee coaching and mentoring are not being put on the back burner. Instead, they are quickly adapting by relying on videoconferencing and other virtual technologies. This adaptation has happened so quickly that HR professionals still see coaching as important (57%) and half still view mentoring as important. In…
HR.com, the largest network of human resource (HR) executives, has partnered with renowned eLearning leaders at Allen Interactions to launch a series of online courses to introduce the HR community to a fresh, agile approach to learning and development (L&D) and employee training. With the workforces required to work online and remotely, there is a…
Although HR professionals tend to be highly educated, with 41% holding a master’s degree or higher, their professed areas of expertise do not often align well with today’s crisis. Whereas a majority consider themselves experts in the area of “employment, recruitment and placement,” relatively few say they have expertise in risk management or health and…
Jacksons Point, Ontario, Canada – HR.com, the largest network of human resources (HR) executives and resource and education platform for HR, has announced their latest partnership with Thoughtexchange to bring about more engagement opportunities, community collaboration, and inclusive conversations at HR events, programs, and more. Thoughtexchange’s innovative technology allows every person in the crowd to…
Even before the current coronavirus pandemic, most human resources (HR) professionals were unprepared to thrive in the future. Now that the crisis has hit, more is demanded from HR than at any other time in history. The free research report, The Future of the HR Function 2020, is now available for download. HR.com’s Research Institute…
Only 23% of human resources (HR) professionals view their own company’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) practices in the “advanced” or “vanguard” stages of D&I maturity. Further, of those with direct responsibility for D&I, only 16% say more than half of their role is allocated to that function. The free research report, State of Diversity &…