May 272008
 

Earlier this month, I presented a workshop at the 13th Annual Maine HR Convention. The topic was creating an employment brand to attract better candidates. Here are a couple excerpts of that presentation. If you’d like the 6 page summary of this information, please send me a request to jblais@jobsintheus.com, or if YOU are “Linked In”, you can shoot me a request through that site. Today, we’ll focus on just one area affecting employee retention: [...]

Feb 052008
 

Happy Fat Super Tuesday everyone! This morning I attended a presentation by Merritt Carey, founder of Graffam Solutions, at the Human Resource Association of Southern Maine. The title of the meeting was Disability as Diveristy & How to Use HR as a Marketing Tool. Casey spoke about the benefits to companies of promoting their social responsibility policies to increase consumer loyalty. Corporate Social Responsibility is a very hot topic right now, as can be seen [...]