5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas

Rise and grind, FOT Nation! Get your Monday started right with these 5 must-reads: 1.Guerrilla Marketing: How Cubans Work Around a National Ban on Advertising: In Havana, advertisers worry about attracting ​too much​ attention. 2. If Lyft Drivers Were Employees They Would Be Owed $126 Million, Say Court Documents: Court documents show Lyft drivers have missed out on hundreds of millions in expense …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another great week with your favorite blogging team. Get your morning started with these 5 must-reads: 1. Is McDonald’s Responsible for Its Franchise Workers?: A court case in New York City between McDonald’s and its workers could change the way employees negotiate their pay. 2. Can Millennials Undo What the Recession Did to Their Earnings?: To turn the tide of …

5 Things You Need To Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Happy Presidents Day, FOT Nation. Get your Monday started right with these must-read articles below: 1.Robots will steal your job: How AI could increase unemployment and inequality. 2. The Unfortunate Consequences of Reno’s Tech Boom: Partly in response to the presence of Tesla and Apple, the city is building lots of high-end apartments, but little in the way of affordable housing. 3. Your …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another great week with your favorite blogging team! Check out these 5 must-reads to get your Monday started right: 1.Starbucks the Benevolent?: What would compel a massive company to start helping its employees pay rent and attend college? 2. Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals: By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, This Week in HR

Rise and grind, FOT Nation. It’s Monday and that means it’s time for you to dig into the news as you gear up for the week ahead. Check it. 1.Obama’s New Equal-Pay Rules: Companies with 100 employees or more will be required to disclose pay data broken down by race and gender to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 2. Candidate Research …

Happy #TimSackettDay – Put Your Paws Together For Recruiting Animal

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, The HR Profession, Tim Sackett Day

It’s Tim Sackett Day. Aka #TimSackettDay2016. Aka that one day each year where we pour some out for that HR Pro doing his or her thing and doing it well. This year, our honoree is Recruiting Animal (Michael Kelemen)! And that’s why, in honor of #TimSackettDay, FOT is joining forces with other HR and Talent leaders to honor the living legend himself. Learn …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, The HR Profession, This Week in HR

Welcome back to another great week at FOT! Before you get your day started, check out these 5 must-reads: 1.Native Advertising — The Next Big Thing In Recruitment Advertising: You should test using native advertising in recruiting primarily because, in a world where most ads are never even viewed, they work. 2. Why Do Americans Work So Much?: The economist John Maynard Keynes …

5 Things You Should Know This Week

Cara Lucas Cara Lucas, The HR Profession, This Week in HR, Working With Recruiters

Happy 2016, FOT Nation! Ring in the year’s first new week with these 5 must-reads: 1.New Year, New Wages: On January 1st, laws raising the minimum wage in 12 states go into effect. 2. Outrageous Talent Practices – They Grab The Attention Of Top Talent: If you’re battling to recruit and retain top talent, you must have talent practices that go beyond the …