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Today, PeopleCaddie announced it had been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the City of Chicago. This certification validates that PeopleCaddie is at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by racial or ethnic minorities as required to receive MBE certification. “PeopleCaddie was founded by a diverse team and supported from inception by a
Today, PeopleCaddie announced it had been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the City of Chicago. This certification validates that PeopleCaddie is at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by racial or ethnic minorities as required to receive MBE certification. “PeopleCaddie was founded by a diverse team and supported from inception by a
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Working in human resources and talent acquisition today means facing the same fears that spooked auto workers back in the 1970s and ‘80s: advanced machinery that automates manual tasks – and threatens the livelihood of the humans currently performing them. Artificial intelligence may be a modern marvel and a potential boon to companies’ bottom lines,
The recent raft of layoffs in the U.S. technology sector has brought renewed attention to the federal WARN Act. Passed in 1998, the legislation required employers with more than 100 workers to provide those employees with at least 60 days’ notice when a business will be closed or mass layoffs are planned. The Worker Adjustment
Whether explicitly or unofficially, employers have always classified their workers based on those employees’ perceived utility to the company. To be clear, this classification doesn’t fall along the lines of permanent workers and contractors, full-timers and part-timers, or staff employees and temps. It’s about value. Even if organizations no longer publicly refer to workers using
Contractors are treated like vendors and have to wait on payment. But there’s an alternative wherein they enjoy the same, steady payment cycle as W-2 employees, and PeopleCaddie has developed a framework for how contractors can get paid every two weeks.
Hiring is hard. Managers, human resources professionals and business leaders of all stripes understand the tedious nature of identifying, onboarding and retaining quality talent. For companies whose workforce needs ebb and flow along with the fluctuations of market demand, that challenge becomes doubly difficult. But there’s an emerging technology that is a boon to these
Corporate America long ago left behind the era of the gold watch. Once proud to work entire careers with a single company, employees are no longer incentivized or motivated to stay in one place in most of the ways they were in generations past. One remnant of that time, however, seemed to persist longer than
This article originally appeared in The Sun in April 2023. ARTIFICIAL intelligence has hit headlines with Tesla boss Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak calling for a six-month halt on research into it. But the tech is already used to screen job applications. Here HR expert Tim Rowley, from the platform PeopleCaddie.com, reveals how to win over the AI hiring
Are you tired of having to rewrite your resume multiple times or endlessly searching online for the perfect job? What if there was a way to make the process easier and gain an advantage over other applicants? The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing recruiting, and it’s not just employers that benefit – job
This article originally appeared in The Sun in April 2023. ARTIFICIAL intelligence has hit headlines with Tesla boss Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak calling for a six-month halt on research into it. But the tech is already used to screen job applications. Here HR expert Tim Rowley, from the platform PeopleCaddie.com, reveals how to win over the AI hiring
Are you tired of having to rewrite your resume multiple times or endlessly searching online for the perfect job? What if there was a way to make the process easier and gain an advantage over other applicants? The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing recruiting, and it’s not just employers that benefit – job
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