Don’t Ban Pre-Employment Credit Checks

posted by www.hrpcenter.com You’ve always paid your bills on time and even put a little bit of money in the bank. But, when you lost your job and unemployment stretched for weeks and then months and then over a year, the mortgage didn’t always get paid and neither did your reasonable cell phone bill, that you had signed a two year contract on. You’re not irresponsible, but your credit is shot. The only thing that you...

Merge, Outsource, Re-merge

posted by www.hrpcenter.com Imagine this. You’re fixing your house, and you take down a few walls to reconfigure how the place looks – it’s a bit more open, you can see more, put more people in it when you entertain. Read more...

Women Serving on Boards Improve Corporate Performa...

Posted by www.hrpcenter.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — Companies with women on their boards of directors enjoy greater economic and business success than companies that don’t have women serving on their boards. That was just one of the revelations for participants at the Global Women’s Leadership Network breakfast Tuesday at Credit Union National Association’s (CUNA) Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC). Members...

Job Trends: Women Lag as Men Bounce Back

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7-Steps To Conduct An Effective Hiring Interview

Posted by www.hrpcenter.com   Up until recently many employees were hired and promoted based on a simple theory: past performance is a good predictor of future performance. Hiring or promoting on past performance continues to work if the environment in which the employee is expected to perform will remain constant. In today’s world, you’d have to be doing business in a cave located in a remote location in the...

Do credit checks really prove your job-worthiness?

Posted by www.hrpcenter.com   Job applicants who make the cut at TD Canada Trust get something else with their formal offer of employment: a form asking them to agree to a personal credit check. “We do credit checks on all [potential] employees,” says Josephine Quercia, manager of talent systems and programs at TD Canada Trust. “It’s part of our best practices and part of our responsibility as a corporate citizen...