Hiring & Recruiting

Successful hiring comes down to a good job description, a focused interview, and the right set of questions. Done improperly, though, the hiring process can lead to legal trouble.

Hiring mistakes are every manager's nightmare. This video provides you with specific methods for screening out criminal or dishonest job candidates, including five powerful interview questions.

MANAGER MOMENTS: Interviewing and Termination Do's and Don'ts is designed to deliver short blasts of practical wisdom to busy professionals on everyday management challenges.

Managers work with new hires to help them quickly get up to speed by understanding what they must do and achieve to become fully integrated employees.

Bring new hires up to speed quickly with these essential topics. Use this specially priced set as a guide to help ensure that your workplace maintains a respectful atmosphere, while keeping yourself protected against any potential legal problems.

Terminating employees can be the hardest part of management. This essential training video will help your managers terminate problem employees properly, and in compliance with the law. It will also help managers avoid terminations by teaching performance management techniques that can sometimes help an at-risk employee salvage his or her job. (DVD or Video Streaming)

When it comes to hiring new employees, many organizations conduct background checks as a matter of course. But there are legal limits on what you can and cannot do.

Discipline, Documentation, & Termination - the "TAKEAWAY" for Managers™ is a conversational, easy-to-use program for managers that takes a best-practice approach to these complex issues.

Great interviewers are made not born ... said in a different way ... if you want recruiters and hiring managers in your organization to make great hiring decisions, they need the totalView™ online e-learning interviewer training!

Manual & Newsletter

This product saves time and money by showing how to develop a sound affirmative action program before you get into hot water. It's a comprehensive manual and monthly newsletter to help keep you up-to-date.

"Can I Ask That?" Legal Interviewing - the "TAKEAWAY" for Managers is a conversational, easy-to-use program for managers that explains the ins and outs of conducting a legal job interview - one that doesn't violate antidiscrimination legislation.

Learn how campus recruiting is different from standard practices and how to successfully use it to greatly benefit your organization.

Six times a year, the HR Daily Advisor Research Team conducts detailed research into pressing, contemporary HR challenges to highlight best practices and common policies and procedures. We access our exclusive database of more than 250,000 active HR practitioners to find out how HR managers are handling challenges in the real world.

This program reveals the ten most common reasons people are fired, and uses vignettes to help viewers understand which attitudes and behaviors to avoid in the workplace. In addition to learning what not to do on the job, viewers also gain strategies for making positive changes to improve their performance at work.

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Although discipline and termination decisions are common areas of legal exposure, it is too often that managers don't have the proper training to handle these fundamental managerial responsibilities appropriately. The result can be expensive, time-consuming litigation.

Even though most employment relationships are "at-will," meaning you can terminate an employee at any time, what you say and do during the employment relationship can significantly impact how you must treat employees before letting them go. Don't make a move without checking out our just-updated reference manual, written specifically for California employers.

This practical guide provides the concepts and tools to any manager needs to recruit and hire the best person for the job. Covers legal requirements in hiring, the importance of structure in recruiting, the costs of a bad hire, and the value of a good hire.

For over 20 years, human resource managers have relied on this practical state labor laws resource to understand and stay on top of ever-changing employment regulations in their states.

The step-by-step guide for both seasoned and new HR department sole practitioners, with clear guidance and useful instructions for energizing and engaging your workforce, and avoiding potentially expensive employment law violations.

George Anders reveals why traditional hiring approaches are not designed for revealing the talent that fosters exceptional productivity and lasting success. (DVD or Video Streaming)

Jury Friendly Termination is designed to help organizations avoid the pain – and the cost– of illegal termination. The video follows the dramatic story of one person’s termination, using a traditional... and then the preferred approach.

New generations entering today's job market have always caused disruption for co-workers and created challenges for managers from previous generations. (DVD or Video Streaming)

The Encyclopedia also includes a complete, easy-to-follow how-to manual on how to write effective and lawful job descriptions that don’t run afoul of the ADA. You’ll also receive quarterly updates so you can constantly add to and update your library of job descriptions. The Encyclopedia includes everything you need to have an effective description for every job in your organization.

Different generations have different opinions about work. These days, your Boomers are headed toward retirement while your younger employees are coming in with fewer skills.

This book is designed for managers who need to meet demanding staffing needs right now or on a continuous basis. The best practices outlined in this pocket guide are presented as keys and processes supplemented by worksheets and checklists intended to give your organization the advantage when it comes time to quickly and effectively bring in the talent you need.

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Why focus on attitude? Quite simply, skills can be taught. Attitude cannot. You've probably had the experience of hiring someone who you thought was perfect for the job—only to find out later that the person could not work within the organization.

Our ability to accurately judge talent is hampered by unconscious and subjective distractions. Hiring decisions are affected by common biases, such as favoring tall or attractive candidates, or by superficial first impressions of likability.

The "TAKEAWAY" for Managers Series gives managers and supervisors a basic foundation for legal compliance, in a straightforward and easy-to-remember way. Conversational and easy to use, the series covers Sexual Harassment, Diversity, Respect & Legal Compliance, Legal Interviewing, ADA, FMLA, and Discipline, Documentation & Termination

This valuable HR Policies Manual provides over 800 pages of Human Resources content based on best practices. It covers important employer-employee issues like COBRA, HIPPA, ADA, FMLA, and many other regulations that affect employee policies. It also includes a ready to use Employee Handbook (employee manual) and HR Managers Manual.

The job interview is an extremely important part of the hiring process. Knowing and understanding what employers look for in the people they hire can be the difference between working and staying unemployed.

We've compiled over 700 carefully selected examples of written job descriptions in this powerful CD-ROM tool to make your job easier.

The only at-a-glance reference volume that explains employer obligations under 50+ employment laws, for each of the 50 United States.

Don't get frustrated or overwhelmed by the HR challenges you face every day -- get clear, practical "how-to" ideas for managing your workload more effectively . . . and become a better-informed, more confident, more valuable HR professional.

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Protect your organization with Legal and Effective Interviewing II: The Right Questions video program. Knowing your legal boundaries is one of the most important facets of the interviewing process.

Employee Safety Orientation (New Hire Orientation) - DVD