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Employer Resources

In today's competitive job market, employers have greater access to applicants with greater skills and increased experience. A new global perspective on hiring is not only exciting, but it also poses many challenges to employers. The EMAC Group provides Employer Resources articles on how to refine the hiring process, improve recruitment of new employees and learn how to build a highly effective Recruiting Plan.

Articles for Hiring Managers and Human Resources Professionals

A collection of the best resources, carefully chosen for their usefulness in helping employers find, hire, and retain the best employees.

• People work for much more than a paycheck People, regardless of position, seek a good "Relationship with their manager", "A positive work environment"
• How to Select The "Right" Candidate The Interview Process: How to Select The "Right" candidate for your business?
• Email Recruiting Strategy The EMAC Group, through targeted job-posting we can assist clients with their recruitment challenges.
• Recruiting Campaigns As the competition for employees increases, strategically based recruitment campaigns will become critical for companies in managing the size and quality of their talent pool.
• The Goals is to hire only Top Performers The reality is having the right talent is the key prerequisite for excellence in all positions.
• Find The Hidden “Diamond in the rough” The Ideal Candidate for the job may already work for the organization.
• Ideal Employer Branding and Corporate Personality Employer Branding defined an employer a company’s image as seen through the eyes of its current and potential employees.
• Imagine Hiring and Retaining Top Performers In the past few year organizations have realized the enormous investment in money, training, and time to fix a mistake when hiring a person not competent for, or compatible for the job.

Resources for Employers

Keeping on top of human resource issues is often challenging—particularly for smaller businesses. Many employers are forced to spend hours searching for answers to tough questions. Now, you can put your time to better use. The EMAC Resource for Employers is all you'll need to address your human resource matters quickly and effectively.

Disabilities

• EEOC: The ADA: Your Responsibilities as an Employer
  Discover which employment practices are covered, who is protected, what responsibilities you have as an employer and more.

Employee Benefits and Compensation

401 (k) plans

• Pension Consultant.com: 401 (k) Plan Tips, 401 (k) Plan Traps
  Discover how you can avoid plan installation and maintenance problems with this valuable information.
• Pension Consultant.com: 401 (k) Selection and Improvement
  Don't get caught unprepared! Find out what you need to do to establish and maintain a successful 401 (k) plan.
  Compensation Costs
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation
  Get a break down of employer costs for employee compensation by the type of industry, industry group, region and employment size.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Summary
  Find out what employee compensation is costing employers nationwide including a look at health benefit and retirement and savings benefit costs.

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

• The ESOP Association: What is an ESOP?
  Want to learn more about employee stock ownership plans? This is a great place to start.

Employee Evaluation

• Washingtonpost.com: Grading the Employee Review Process
  Are reviews being handled effectively in your company? Get 3 sure-fire strategies for making the review process a win-win situation for you and your employees.

Employment Laws

• SAF Career Center: Employment Laws
  Knowledge of employment laws is crucial for employers. This site provides a comprehensive resource on laws your can't afford to ignore.

Health Coverage

• The HMO Page: MSA Summary: Guidelines for Medical Savings Accounts
  Thinking about setting up a Medical Savings Account Program? Get the guidelines you'll need to make it work.

Hiring

• Society of American Foresters Classifieds
  Searching for the best person for the job? Place an ad in SAF's classifieds and watch the top-notch resumes come rolling in!

Sexual Harassment

• EEOC: Questions and Answers for Small Employers on Employer Liability for Harassment by Supervisors
  Get practical guidance on the duty of employers to prevent and correct harassment in the workplace.

Additional Resources for Employers:

• Ascentis: An HR Management Solutions Firm -- creator of HROffice, an innovative human resource and benefits management system (HRMS). Provides an integrated human resources software package for small to medium-sized businesses.
• Benefits Alert -- a free resource for employee benefits news and information on topics ranging from 401(k) and group health plans to COBRA and FMLA administration. You'll find useful employee benefit articles, tips, links, and reference resources.
• B2B CFO --serving mid-market companies (revenues up to $75 million) that want to increase cash, profitability, sales and company value. B2B CFO offers a network of CFOs nationwide to work on a part-time basis for clients that don't need a full time CFO.
• Building Teams -- provides team-building workshops and helpful articles for corporate training, team building and leadership development.
• DRoster Employee Scheduling Software from Kappix -- manages employees’ shifts, rosters, availability times, including rule-based scheduling. Kappix offers a free fully functional copy of DRoster, suitable for organizations of all size, needs and industries, unlimited in time and including scheduling support.
• eEmpACT Software -- staffing software (complete front and back office human capital management solution) for the staffing, recruiting, healthcare, and consulting markets.
• Employers Choice Online -- offers a complete range of pre employment background screening services to employers of every size and industry throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and abroad -- in just about any area, including vendor and nanny screening.
• Employment Background Investigations (EBI) -- provides employee background checks, drug testing, and occupational healthcare solutions. Average delivery of information results is under 48 hours.
  Hire the Best -- The Lost Art of Interviewing: How to Hire without Regret, about interview techniques that can separate prime candidates from 'wannabes.'
• HR-Guide -- provides an extensive listing of links to Websites of interest to human resources professionals and students... a portal for HR resources.
• HRLady.com -- a great site for all things related to human resources, including hundreds of human resource articles, on subjects from resume precautions, to hiring and retaining employees, to welcoming new employees. No cost.
• HR-Software Network -- a collection of links to Web-based software resources for human resource professionals and students. Categories include: applicant tracking, benefits administration, job posting, payroll, performance appraisal, training and development, and more.
• Human Resources Directory -- designed to be a one-stop destination for anything related to Human Resources, providing links to sites in these categories: employment agencies, career planning , changing careers, counseling and management, job fairs, recruitment and staffing, training and education, more. No cost to visitors.
• Human Resource Executive Online -- offering targeted news, columns and features, HR search functions and more. Topics include: human resources, labor relations, benefits, training, staffing, recruiting, leadership, motivation, and more.
• Human Systems Development -- provides exit interviews, employee surveys, customer surveys, background checking, executive coaching, and more.
• Innovative Employee Solutions (IES) -- a 100% woman-owned company that provides payroll and benefits administration services to companies throughout the U.S. IES assumes responsibility for paying taxes, insruance, and selected fringe benefits.
• LegalWorkplace.com -- from Alexander Hamilton Institute, provides publications and free information covering aspects of employment law and Human Resources Law, designed to help keep managers and executives from making mistakes that could lead to fines and lawsuits.
• Liberty Screening Services -- performs pre-employment background screening and drug testing for companies through out the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, specializing in pre-employment background services, drug testing, criminal records, credit reports, and education and employment verification.
• Media Partners -- provides high-quality corporate training videos on a variety of subjects, including: diversity, harassment, leadership, customer service, management, motivation, sales training, and sexual harassment.
• Mercer Human Resource Consulting -- an HR portal for Asia, where human resource professionals can find news links, key resources, and useful links to many sites related to HR management in Asia. Free.
• Organizational Culture Center -- works with emerging or establishing organizations' leaders by engaging and training them to understand workplace culture and to assume their responsibilities as the cultural leaders of their own individual subcultures.
• RecruiterSeek.com -- a place for employers and recruiting professionals to connect with each other online, where employers can post open contract and full-time recruiting positions, and recruiting professionals can post your resumes, profiles, and availability. Free.
• Recruiting Software by BlackDog, Inc. -- from BlackDog, Inc., a complete staffing software solution -- including resume software and resume database for resume search and applicant tracking.
• Retention Connection -- providing employers (executives, managers, and human resource professionals) with a wide range of tools to control employee turnover, this site offers dozens of products and services to help you to build employee retention, workplace stability -- and profits.
• Salestestonline.com -- provides a valuable tool for anyone charged with hiring, promoting or managing sales people: an online test that measures the personality traits, temperament and motivational fit of your sales applicants-quickly, accurately and reliably. Proven effective with clients worldwide.
• SearchFirm.com -- claims to be the largest free marketplace connecting corporate recruiters with leading executive search firms from around the world. Designed to help hiring managers and executives responsible for a company's recruiting programs to locate search firms specializing in more than 50 particular areas of interest.
• Selecting Winners -- a consulting and training company that helps oganizations with hiring, selection, reference checking, assessment, and interviewing.
• Selection.com -- where employers can do job applicant background checks quickly and easily (using a cost effective information verification program) online, helping you make the best hiring decision.
• Society for Human Resource Management -- the organization for the human resources profession, offering education, and information services.
• Work & Family: A Work-Life Clearinghouse -- where you can find information and resources related to all issues related to developing a workplace that is both supportive and effective. A fantastic resource for both employers and employees. Free and fee-based.

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