Best Practices in Employee Layoffs

See About.com for an informative article on Best Practices in Employee Layoffs at http://humanresources.about.com/b/2008/11/15/best-practices-in-employee-layoffs.htm. Highlighting legal/ethical standards and completing layoffs with dignity, this article builds on a reader question about standards for business facing slowdowns.

Mentors for New Immigrants

Here's a brief interview in HRVoice (the BC e-newsletter for HR professionals) co-authored by a new immigrant and her mentor.

Whether or not you specialize in working with immigrants, as a career management professional it's important to understand the immigrant experience. Articles like this can help to surface some of the typical issues that they face. Resources like the SEED toolkit help employers to prepare for welcoming and integrating new immigrants.

The CMP program has a course dedicated to this topic: The Immigrant Experience. This is generally a Directed Studies course, but it's much more interesting to discuss with a group. We currently have the course scheduled for September 1 - 14...will you join us online?

NEO™ Personality Inventory-3 Now Available

PAR is now distributing the newly revised NEO™ Personality Inventory-3 (NEO™-PI-3), the standard five factor model of personality assessment. Learn more at http://www4.parinc.com/Products/Product.aspx?ProductID=NEO-PI-3