December 3rd, 2009
I can’t over-emphasize the need for proper documentation for your hiring process. Companies without a clear explanation of the various components of the hiring process and their job relatedness are crusin for a brusin!! This is especially true in situations where the applicant population is usually made up mostly of minorities.
A recent settlement against Perdue Chicken is the latest illustration of what can happen when a company elects to forgo the documentation needed to prove their practices are in compliance.
Perdue’s head of HR regretfully states:
“Perdue is committed to treating all job applicants fairly. We regret we did not more carefully document our hiring process for production associates, which led to these concerns by the OFCCP and, ultimately, to this settlement.”
Ultimately this mistake cost Perdue $800,000 in back wages and interest to 750 women and minorities who were not hired during the relevant time period. As someone who is in the business of creating and documenting legally defensible hiring practices, I can say confidently that it would have cost them a heck of a lot less to have done things correctly.
The current economic and political climate has led to an increase in EEOC and OFCCP compliance investigations meaning that cases like this one are going to continue to be in the news.
The timeless words of Ben Franklin, ” An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” have never been more relevant when it comes to your hiring practices!! As an added bonus, properly validated hiring practices (of which documentation is a key part) have been shown time and again to provide significant ROI in addition to the piece of mind one gets from helping to ensure compliance.
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November 19th, 2009
Rocket-Hire is excited to announce the launch of our revamped website!
Besides providing the usual stuff about who we are and what we do, our new site maintains our mission of providing useful information and expert commentary about the use of pre-employment assessment tools within the modern recruitment and hiring process.
Our new site offers several easy ways for readers to share our views and opinions:
Blog-
First and foremost is our new blog feature. Our blog supports our core mission of providing expert, unbiased information about everything related to pre-employment assessment tools. It will also help support our mission to bridge the gap between the science behind assessments and their practical application. To these ends, we plan to use our blog as a forum to share our thoughts and opinions about news and trends that are shaping the future of technology-based hiring and pre-employment assessments. We are excited about sharing our opinions on news and hot topics from our field, and we invite others who are interested in these things to join in the discussion.
Make sure to try the RSS feature, which will allow you to sign up to automatically receive our blog posts.
Twitter-
Rocket-Hire is now on Twitter, so be sure to sign up to follow us. We will be tweeting news and information we want to share, including notification of new blog postings. We are excited about keeping in touch with you!
Articles and research-
The new site will continue to provide us with a way to share our latest articles, research and whitepapers. Over the past 8 years, we have been writing articles for the Electronic Recruiting Exchange and other media outlets, cranking out lots of useful whitepapers, and publishing our own research. Our new site provides an easy way for you to access all of our various writings.
We look forward to keeping in touch with you. Enjoy the new site!
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