by convergehr | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Soft skills have become just as, if not more, important than technical skills to hiring managers in recent years. Soft skills are skills such as emotional intelligence, people or social skills, communication ability, along with character and personality traits....
by convergehr | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Starting September 1st, in the city of Philadelphia, employers will be prohibited from inquiring about a prospective employee’s pay history. This ban comes from a 2017 law that has been bouncing through the courts. The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, for...
by convergehr | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
As of May 10th, in New York, which decriminalized marijuana last year, most employers have been banned from requiring pre-employment marijuana testing, with some exceptions. Further, this does not stop employers from testing their current employees or firing them for...
by convergehr | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
In light of all the shutdowns due to COVID-19, employers who are taking physical proximity precautions, now do not need to review the employee’s identity and employment authorization documents in the employee’s physical presence for the I-9 Form. This announcement was...
by convergehr | Feb 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Not only is it no longer an employers’ market; it is now a candidate’s world. A recruiter now has approximately 15 minutes to engage a candidate at the start of the recruitment process. That candidate, if they are any good, has ten, twenty, thirty or more companies...
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