Negligent Hiring and Background Checks-Best Practices and Legal Compliance
Sunday, April 29, 2012
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Recertification Hours: 4 General Credits

Workplace Application: Employee problems are caused by problem employees, and this session will help HR professionals avoid bad hires in the first place.

Negligent hiring is one of the fastest growing areas of employment litigation. Learn legally complaint best practices to keep a business productive and out of court, including how to obtain and utilize criminal record and background information on job applicants. Get updated on recent legal developments, and review case studies to demonstrate what steps employers should take and mistakes to avoid. Hear about cutting edge issues, such as the use of social networking sites, new technology and the EEOC approach to the use of criminal records and credit reports. Learn steps a firm can take immediately to avoid a bad hire by the effective use of the application, interview and past employment checking processes.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:
• Learn why background checks and due diligence have become mission critical for employers
• Understand the basics of a negligent hiring lawsuit and defenses that work and do not work
• Get acquainted with cutting edge issues such as the new EEOC focus on criminal records and credit reports and the use of social network sites
• Learn how to spent fraudulent employment and education credentials
• Get updated on the latest best practices and new technologies
• Learn steps your organization can take today to implement a legally compliant program and to hire the best employees.

Presenter: Lester S. Rosen, attorney and CEO, Employment Screening Resources (ESR), Novato, Calif.

Succession Management: How to Recruit, Develop, and Retain Your High Performers
Sunday, April 29, 2012
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Recertification Hours: 4 Strategic Business Management Credits

Workplace Application: You will be better equipped to recruit, develop, and retain STAWKers — those high-performing employees who remain engaged in goal accomplishment.

This is solution-oriented session to help HR leaders fortify human capital management initiatives and develop high-performers who will ensure goal achievement. Embarking on this initiative demonstrates an organization's long-term commitment to its people, its services, and its finances, and it shows a determination to maintain institutional continuity. This is a forward-thinking process, and it will give you the tools you need to retain high performers, fill gaps in development, respond to significant retirements, and engage different generational groups.

Learning Objectives

Participants will:
• Gain a deeper understanding of the four (4) components of succession planning as well as the associated elements of each component
• Concrete steps to institute the process at his/her organization with associated timelines
• An understanding of the limits to succession planning and when it should not be applied as well as pitfalls to avoid
• An outline of the gap analysis process and how to apply it
• A higher appreciation of the importance of generational differences and shifting paradigms
• Information on how to design intangible and tangible rewards for talented, high-performers and learn how to retain them.

Presenter: Terina R. Allen, SPHR, president & CEO, ARVis Institute, LLC, Dublin, Ohio

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