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Need an account? Click here to register. Forgot password? Click here.Currency concerns, unemployment, earthquakes?! A combination of factors have come together in the past several months to create an economy that is….well, a little unstable to say the least. This instability can make it difficult for both job seekers and employers alike to know what’s next, what’s around the bend and how to manage. Based …
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Every organization has unique needs. To successfully meet those needs, a solution must be customized. Some situations will require the pre-created playbooks, horsepower and overhead of a large consulting firm. Other instances will call for one-off, hand-picked subject matter experts. The challenge, of course, is to know when you need which – or who – …
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We have a question for you. Don’t think, just answer: when you think about diversity and inclusion in sourcing/recruiting, do older job candidates come to mind? Probably not. But, it should. Due to the many awareness efforts that have recently swept the nation, many employers have taken on the major task of entirely rethinking their hiring and sourcing efforts, working on the unconscious biases …
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In April, U.S. accounting rule maker, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), decided to offer private companies until 2022 to comply with major new lease accounting rule, ASC 842, which was supposed to go into effect next year, in 2021. The decision to issue a delay until 2022 came in response to the outbreak of …
Since COVID-19, the role of the Project Management Office (PMO) and how people lead projects have evolved. How COVID-19 has affected the PMO Environment: IT projects have been canceled or put on hold Reduction in overall IT spend Additional strain on IT project resources due to layoffs, furloughs, and reductions in workforce Existing projects forced …
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Yes, indeed: our talks on diversity and inclusion in recruiting here at The Intersect Group continue. We’ve discussed – and written about – how “looking” for “cultural fit” can lead to perpetuating unconscious bias in hiring, as well as looking at what inclusion really is and how companies can become more inclusive. Now it’s time …
When it became apparent that the Covid-19 pandemic meant that a larger segment of the workforce was now going to work from their homes, one concern was the impact on worker productivity. Would workers who were used to working on-site with in-person supervision, access to familiar technology, daily interaction with their co-workers…
Millions of Americans lost their jobs at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, with the unemployment rate reaching 14.7 percent in April, the highest since the Great Depression almost 90 years ago. In fact, so many lost their jobs that even now, more than six months later, 7.9 percent of us are unemployed (September’s rate). …