by Caroline | Jan 18, 2023 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Leadership, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
People tend to think of culture and compliance as completely different animals. To some, culture is the fun part of an organization, how you work and play together, who you are as people. Compliance is rules, regulations, and legal risks. Boring constraints. But if...
by Caroline | Jul 31, 2019 | Company Culture, Featured, Hiring, Management, Training
The client on the phone was completely freaked out. She’d gotten a call, she said, from a concerned father whose son had been looking up product reviews online and ran across a really racy one, filled with sexual innuendo…which was weird because the product he was...
by Caroline | Jun 5, 2019 | Company Building, Hiring, Recruiting
Odds are your hiring managers want to hire candidates who are experienced in ~90% of the job. Why? They want to go home and sleep at night thinking the tasks are covered and the team is productive. Odds are the best candidates really want a job that is 50-75 % of what...
by Caroline | May 15, 2019 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Recruiting
Like most cities with universities, Austin has a large supply of college students and so it seems like it would be a good idea to establish an internship program. After all, all these students need some “real world” experience and you need the free labor, right? Sigh,...
by Caroline | May 1, 2019 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management
Doing the right thing doesn’t always get rewarded. We all know the saying, “No good deed goes unpunished.” But that is not the topic of this blog. This time, doing good is being rewarded by the federal government. Shocked? Read on. There are tax...
by Caroline | Jul 25, 2018 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Recruiting, Telecommuting, company culture, management
Almost everybody underestimates the importance of a job description. Most people, from what I can gather, tend to think of it like filling out a template. “We need a __________ with _________years experience who can __________. The ideal candidate will have...
