This Training is a tool to assist employers, managers and those with recruiting and hiring authority. The session will explore navigating recruiting and hiring, which has become increasingly challenging in light of federal and state laws limiting an employer’s ability to access certain types of information. It will provide useful tips and strategies to address questions and handle issues that may arise during the recruiting and hiring process.
Topics covered:
- Understanding key federal, state, and local employment laws impacting recruiting and hiring
- Creating compliant and unbiased job descriptions
- Clearly defining job requirements
- Expanding recruiting channels
- Applications and background checks.
- Salary inquiry bans and unlawful inquiries regarding compensation
- Background checks
- Criminal history checks
- Credit history checks
- Drug testing
- When and whether it is permissible to inquire about a candidate’s physical abilities
- Permissible medical testing
- Expanding recruitment avenues and standardizing interviewing.
- Establishing fair testing and selection procedures
- Instituting clear criteria for hiring
- Assembling an appropriate panel of interviewers
- Minimizing unconscious bias during the recruiting and hiring process
- Responding to red flags during the interviewing and selection process
- Successful onboarding
Location: On-site or virtual
Length: 1-2 hours
KSB Law conducts Employment Audits and can assist Employers with updating policies and practices in the areas covered in this Training. Modifications to the training session can be made to meet the employer’s priorities.
