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Heroes of Black History with Joy Young
By Samantha Howie Samantha Howie - Associate Director, Frazer Jones Joy Young - VP, People Operations, AiCure Joy, it’s so kind of you to take the time to catch up with us and share your Hero of Black History, your own father, Dr. Gene C. Young. His biography, which can be read in full here, is nothing short of incredible. From starting his Civil Rights activism in Mississippi at the age o...
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2020 Global HR Spotlight
By Brad LawOver the last decade, the world of work has seen significant change, none more so than the last six months. Technology’s gradual creep into the workspace has become a sprint, continuing faster than many of us would have believed possible. Without this invasion of technology and our ability to use it to manage increasingly complex work-based and social relationships, how woul...
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Avoiding Virtual (& Real) Headaches: Planning for the Return to the Workplace
By Brad LawWe're pleased to share our recent webinar "Avoiding Virtual (& Real) Headaches: Planning for the Return to the Workplace" and speaker slides with you. Please note, the opinions expressed herein are of the individuals, not any affiliated institution. Any content herein does not constitute legal advice and you should seek your own legal counsel. Webinar Speaker slides Dr. Ra...
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Returning to the Workplace Survey
By Brad LawWe’d like to thank the over 500 HR professionals who recently completed our Returning to the Workplace Survey. Respondents represented a balanced mix of individual contributors, managers and executives from Financial Services, Technology, Creative, Manufacturing and Healthcare and organizations of all sizes. This brief report is divided into four sections summarizing our sur...
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Interview with Kirsten Faurot, VP of HR, Bombora
By Samantha Howie Given the variety of clients who come to us to deliver against their HR recruitment needs, we have the privilege to engage with Talent Acquisition (TA) functions at many different stages of their operational and strategic development. While Frazer Jones partners with well established, large global brands whose recruitment function are well-oiled machines, I have always bee...
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Supporting Juneteenth
By Brad LawFrazer Jones observes Juneteenth as a holiday, as an important opportunity, to better commemorate and celebrate Black history and culture. We encourage all our employees to celebrate the end of slavery and educate themselves around black history and the move towards greater equality. On June 19th, we commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On January 1st 1863, ...
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Black Lives Matter.
By The SR GroupThe SR Group stands with the Black community, committed to the unalienable truth that Black Lives Matter. We've spent time listening, learning, and reflecting on how we can better equip our staff, leadership, clients and community to seek to understand and call out bias. It is up to us all to do more to dismantle the systemic structures which create barriers to equality for ...
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The Digital Interview
By Brad LawDo you have everything in place to secure your perfect candidate? With so many companies implementing a work from home policy the likelihood of your interview being a video one is higher than ever. Our clients continue to engage with candidates in this format and here is some obvious but often overlooked advice for getting the best from this new normal. Our tips include: Us...
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The STAR Method of Behavioral Based Interviews
By Timothy MatisThe STAR method is a structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing the specific situation, task, action, and result of the situation you are describing. Situation: Describe the situation that you were in or the task that you needed to accomplish. You must describe a specific event or situation, not a generalized description of what ...
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Guide to Competency Based Interviews
By Chris RichardsonCompetency-based interviews are becoming an increasingly common part of the recruitment process with many organizations attaching a high level of importance to their outcome. As a result, we have created this document to give you an idea of how to approach competency-based interviews. To help you do this we have set out 16 typical competencies along with some typical questio...
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