Posted on January 19th, 2011 by Lisa Rosser
The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) conducted a recent survey of holiday practices and found that three in ten employers (30 percent) will give all or most workers a paid holiday on Monday, January 17th in observance of Martin Luther King Day. It got me to wondering how many companies offer their employees a paid [...]
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Filed under: Recruit, Regard, Retain
Posted on January 11th, 2011 by Lisa Rosser
Many companies realize that the term “diverse” applies to more than just the demographics of the people who work for their organization. Diversity is also important in determining who to market your company to (and how) and the means by which your company purchases goods and services. When I talk to companies about adding a [...]
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Filed under: Recruit
Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Lisa Rosser
One of my most popular educational topics on recruiting military veterans is a seminar entitled “Military Applicant Sourcing Options”. In that session I cover over a dozen approaches to sourcing veteran talent and the pros and cons of each approach. The source that most recruiters find to have a lot of potential but also a [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2010 by admin
There is a good article in the Austin American-Statesman about hiring military from the candidates’ perspective. Both job seekers featured in the piece are Bradley-Morris, Inc. candidates – one who is in the process of job hunting (Dan Barnhart, pictured), and one who succeeded in his job search (Tedd Schonsheck). Tedd’s military experience contributed immensely [...]
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Filed under: Case Studies, Contingency Recruitment, News of Note, Recruit
Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Lisa Rosser
I ran across a recent article entitled “Officer vs. Enlisted: Does Rank Matter in Corporate America?” written by Michael Dakduk, Deputy Executive Director of Student Veterans of America and a former Sergeant in the Marine Corps. He reviewed the career web sites of a number of companies that are well known and regarded as being [...]
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Posted on October 11th, 2010 by Lisa Rosser
A recent Washington Post article on federal contractors and veterans employment caught my eye. The content centered on whether the requirement for a government contractor to file the VETS-100 form actually drives an increase of hiring veterans. For those unfamiliar with the topic, organizations that do business with the federal government and that have contracts [...]
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Filed under: OFCCP, Recruit
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by Lisa Rosser
Kudos to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for incorporating a new session at its annual conference which focused on issues surrounding military veterans entering or returning to the civilian workforce. The 2010 Annual Conference and Expo, which concluded on June 30th in San Diego, offered a modified 2-day program entitled “Military Veterans: Transitioning [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2010 by Lisa Rosser
There was huge buzz earlier this week around an article in the Huffington Post entitled “Disturbing Job Ads: ‘The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered’”. Apparently there are companies out there (and not just small employers, but some big names as well) that have decided it is easier to filter out potential applicants by using that [...]
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Filed under: Recruit
Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Lisa Rosser
When I talk to employers about the business benefit of hiring military veterans as part of their talent acquisition strategy, it’s a pretty easy sell, especially when I describe service members who have engineering, management, technician, human resources, healthcare, IT or security skills. The one group that most employers think has little relevance to what [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2010 by MaureenStern
I was speaking with a client recently who had worked with Bradley-Morris, Inc. (BMI) before and had just joined a new company. He contacted us in pursuit of hiring JMOs (Junior Military Officers that are transitioning out of the military into a civilian career). He’d obviously had a good experience which I asked him to [...]
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Filed under: Case Studies, Recruit