Scrutiny after the terrorist attacks in 2001 played up lax hiring practices at Argenbright Security.
Serlin attributes the high employee-retention level to savvy hiring practices and attractive benefit packages.
My conclusion : Startups who have female first hires typically are those with less discriminatory hiring practices.
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After the terrorist attacks Argenbright Security was blasted for its careless employees and sloppy hiring practices by the media and government.
As socially conscious individuals, we must be careful about our hiring practices.
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The report noted that these hiring practices were changed in 2007 and that Attorney General Michael Mukasey said such practices would not be repeated.
Philip Martin, a professor at UC Davis, says the hiring practices of farms can paradoxically create localized labor shortages and surpluses at the same time.
Consider the saga of Jeffrey Abraham, a 45-year-old headhunter who got into a jousting match with a client, Hyundai Semiconductor of America, over its hiring practices.
That means, as a result of the litigation against the department's hiring practices, the FDNY will have gone five years without a probationary firefighter class entering the academy.
Employers have a responsibility to ensure diversity in their hiring practices to prevent a disproportionate number of minorities and women from being left out of the job market.
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Both Microsoft and the law firm agree that the company has curtailed such hiring practices, hiring 3, 000 former temp workers as full-time employees in the past year alone.
Fletcher, who four years ago became the first Kentucky Republican elected governor since 1967, has been under investigation for at least two years over his administration's hiring practices.
But Foxconn hiring practices are not a slam dunk indication.
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The old-school thinking of how organizations operated and how hiring practices used to be has kept older workers swimming in a sea of fish, unsure of how to stand out.
It took her five years and a major lawsuit that challenged the New York City Fire Department's discriminatory hiring practices to do it, but she made her dream come true.
Advocates for the unemployed say such hiring practices are unfair, particularly to those who have been laid off because of the economic crunch and not through any fault of their own.
Recruiting Manager by day, fast-n-furious networker by night, Marie Burns is currently parked at Compete.com and also advises multiple hot Boston technology startups on best hiring practices and planning.
But Japan's rigid hiring practices have made this difficult.
But this is something that we continue to be in dialogue with faith-based organizations about to try to make sure that their hiring practices are as open and as inclusive as possible.
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We also appreciate the extension of the direct hire authority, which gives agencies additional flexibility in hiring at all levels and allows the government to be more competitive in its hiring practices.
About the Author: Recruiting Manager by day, fast-n-furious networker by night, Marie Burns is currently parked at Compete.com and also advises multiple hot Boston technology startups on best hiring practices and planning.
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School districts need to streamline archaic hiring practices.
Some say that initiative could spur a whole new wave of litigation based on discriminatory hiring practices, though plaintiffs could have a tough fight if the policy is found to have been discussed but not implemented.
Vic Tanon, chief simplicity officer at Emplicity, an organization that consults in hiring practices across the U.S., says a bad credit rating is likely to be more of a factor in certain industries like financial services.
Bush administration officials said Thursday there was never any deal in which the Salvation Army would support of the president's faith-based plan in exchange for a proposed federal regulation allowing it to discriminate against homosexuals in its hiring practices.
The big accounting firms have gigantic PACs and, yes, they focus their fundraising efforts and revolving-door hiring practices (both internally and at the lobbying firms they hire) on key leadership positions in the Senate and House and on the banking and financial services committee (on both sides of the aisle).
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On the other hand, young female graduates seem to complain from the absence of or the inappropriateness of career guidance and counseling services, from lack of formal channels of recruitment and objective hiring practices which heavily rely on social and personal connections and favoritism, and from the lack of internship and training opportunities their universities offer them.
Any changes that Wal-Mart makes to its hiring and buying practices garner lots of attention because of the company's massive size.
South Africa is ranked 125th in the world in terms of inflexible hiring and firing practices, and 121st when it comes to labour-employer relations.
Meanwhile, it has suggested meddling with wages and hiring-and-firing practices that exporters say would further weaken them at a time when they are struggling to cope with a high yen.
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