Hiring - How to Bring the Best to Your Company - Webinar by TrainHR December 12, 2012

Overview : The successful defense against a charge of discrimination begins with an objective description of the position you want to fill, along with the education, skills, certificates or licenses necessary for the job. This webinar will start by discussing the major federal employment statutes that may affect your hiring decisions. Laws such as Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1991, Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Immigration Reform and Control Act, American with Disabilities Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act will be reviewed as it relates to your hiring practice.

The importance of having a written job description for every position in the organization will be discussed. Job descriptions are the first documents that lawyers demand to see and courts order you to produce in an employment lawsuit. This workshop will show how job descriptions are vital to a litigation-proof human resources department and review how to create a job description to defend against discrimination charges.
The workshop will cover how to lower your hiring costs. Techniques such as staffing assessments, cost-effective advertising, succession planning, and using a temp agency are just a few initiatives that will be covered to control your hiring costs.
Applicants are advised not to rely solely on classified ads. Hiring companies should following that same advice. This workshop will cover some innovative approaches (or best practices) used by other organizations to recruit quality candidates.

Why should you attend:
Once the economy comes back, the single biggest constraint on the success of an organization will be the ability to get and to hang on to enough of the right people. The best way to build a successful company, is to hire the right person for the particular job someone who fits with the company culture and then retain him or her.While some attempt is made to retain talent through a variety of incentives, far less attention is paid during the hiring process. In fact, recruitment is often an entry-level assignment for someone on an HR track, reflecting the fact that recruiters aren't supposed to have specific competencies or experience.

Areas Covered in the Session:
Employment laws as it relates to hiring
Recruiting techniques - where to look for applicants
Application & screening process
Interview techniques
Pre-employment testing
Post-employment testing

Who Will Benefit:
Hiring Managers
Supervisors
Human Resources

Kathy Coughlin is co-founder and president of Team HR, a consulting firm specializing in providing solutions to organizations’ human resources challenges. Ms. Coughlin has over twenty-five years of human resources management experience and has held positions of VP Human Resources and Director of Human Resources for med size organizations of 400 employees to large organizations of over 3000 employees.

After starting her career in human resources as a Recruiter & Trainer, she progressed to Human Resources Manager, Assistant Human Resources Officer, Director of Human Resources and VP of Human Resources. Except for her initial assignment, all of her positions have been responsible for the broad spectrum of human resource generalist.

Ms. Coughlin provides employee and supervisor training to large and small businesses, the Small Business Development Center, and is a member of the Palm Beach Community College Business & Industry Training Speakers Bureau.

Coughlin earned her M.S in public administration with an emphasis in healthcare administration from State University of New York and has a B.S. in business administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. She currently is a member of the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, HR Executive Volunteer Corps for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, Society for Human Resource Managers (SHRM), and advisor to Palm Beach County for Self-Advocacy for people with disabilities.

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