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Identifying Candidate Behaviors to Help Predict Success<br />

Identifying Candidate Behaviors to Help Predict Success

Many employers are recognizing that employees’ behavioral traits are as important to success as knowledge or experience. In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will explore effective strategies for evaluating essential behavior traits such as communication, adaptability, and teamwork during the hiring process. Learn how to leverage the content of job postings and the application process, assessments, interviews, reference checks, and other tools to assess relevant behavioral skills and make informed hiring decisions that contribute to long-term organizational success.

Ethical Issues in Talent Acquisition

Ethical Issues in Talent Acquisition

In this interactive presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will discuss the difference between legal compliance and ethical behavior; where individual and organizational ethics come from; building an ethical framework for decision making; and the kinds of ethical issues that might arise in recruiting and selecting new employees

Mitigating Bias in the Employee Selection Process

For several years, businesses have come to understand how implicit bias is negatively impacting their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, will discuss kinds of bias and practical ways to mitigate them during the employee selection process.

Drug-Free Workplaces in an Increasingly Tolerant (and Stoned) Society

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, SHRM-SCP will review the legal, scientific, and practical landscape in regard to marijuana, opioids, and other drugs.

What to Do When an Employee Gets Arrested

In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR, will review the kinds of insider threats about which employers may need to be aware. He will also review policy considerations to ensure that red-flag incidents are identified and evaluated fairly.

Legal and Practical Background Check Considerations

In this presentation, we will discuss the ways employers can verify their applicants claims while avoiding the most common causes of background check litigation.

How to Legally and Meaningfully Discuss Criminal History with Applicants

In this one-hour presentation, we will discuss what and when to ask applicants about their criminal history.

How to Fairly and Legally Evaluate Applicants’ Criminal History Information

In this webinar, we will walk through the process of developing a criminal history relevance matrix, an effective tool for documenting employers’ policies with regard to the impact of individuals’ criminal histories on their employment eligibility.

Seven Steps to Making Bulletproof Hiring Decisions

In this presentation, Mike Coffey, SPHR will outline a thorough background screening process that begins with a risk-based analysis of the position, identifies red-flag behaviors of concern for the position, includes a thorough employment application and interview process, and ends with verification of the information provided by the applicant.

The Business Case for Becoming a Second Chance Employer

In this presentation, we will dive into the statistics and studies surrounding criminal offenses, recidivism, and employment as we review the benefits to businesses from considering and hiring qualified former offenders for positions.

Strategy, Execution, and The Art of Saying No (HRCI Business Credit)

In this presentation, entrepreneur Mike Coffey, SPHR discuss the reasons many businesses’ strategies fail and demonstrates simple tools to keep your business focused and on track.

Using Organizational Values as a Planning and Accountability Tool (HRCI Business Credit)

In this presentation, Mike Coffey discusses the importance of clarifying an organization’s values and how to use them in strategic planning, product and service design, and performance management.

Beyond Values: Building an Ethical Business Environment (HRCI Ethics Credit)

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Coffey will explore the differences between compliance, values, and ethics; how organizations can encourage ethical behavior; and ways to accommodate ethical differences in the workplace.