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What Are Today's College Graduates Looking For?
You need the talent & creativity brought by recent college graduates, especially when you take into consideration the looming employment gap occurring as Baby Boomers retire.

What Should HR's Role Be in the 21st Century?
Human resources long-term planning no longer works because the pace of change is increasingly complex and unpredictable.

Perk Place: The Benefits Offered by Google and Others May Be Grand, but They're All Business
Companies want to create both an appealing environment to attract and retain employees and make people feel they belong, but they also want to increase productivity.

Gadgets at Work
Underlying this emerging trend are young and tech-savvy workers entering the workplace, lower technology costs and the need to innovate quickly using web applications.

Most Employers Voluntarily Offer Time Off to Vote
Whether workers are entitled to take time off from work to vote is governed by state law. Be sure to check your state laws for the law that applies in your state(s).

New Developments on Verifying Employment Eligibility
Learn the new rules for Form I-9, which employers must complete to verify that new hires are authorized to work in the United States.

Sleepless in America
A new Sleep in America poll released by the National Sleep Foundation finds longer work days leave Americans nodding off on the job, costing employers billions in lost productivity.

OSHA Benefits for Small Businesses
OSHA encourages all businesses to establish safety and health programs and find and fix hazards to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses.

How Individual States Regulate Safety and Health Programs
The OSH Act of 1970 encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health plans under the authority of state law.

After the Pomp and Circumstance - Empowering College Graduates
According to some surveys, today’s college graduates seek more than status and money. “A meaning to life” mantra is also ringing in their ears.

How Small Businesses Recruit at Colleges
Remember that during recruiting all potential applicants are either potential customers or know potential customers.

Tap Into this Talent Pool - College Students with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Labor has made available a free database of 1,769 new job candidates with disabilities seeking work in a wide variety of fields.

Can Social Media Enhance Employee Communication?
Social media has begun to improve companies' ability to enhance employee communication.

What Can You Do to Adapt and Grow Future Leaders?
Tomorrows leaders can be challenged today to broaden their experience base.

Are You Losing Employees You Want to Keep?
The cost to replace an employee who leaves is 50 percent of that person's salary. Here are five tools for creating an employee retention tool kit.

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