Life After Listing: Working With States to Meet Your Hiring Needs
One of the biggest benefits of DirectEmployers’ compliance solution is the listing of Member jobs to local employment offices. Through this service, federal contractors have peace of mind knowing that they are compliant with the VEVRAA Mandatory Listing Requirements...
DEAM’d A Wealth of Knowledge: Mike Bazinet’s Conference Experience
Let’s talk programming. There’s something to say about peer-to-peer education. You have a depth of understanding and a connection to shared struggles, solutions and best practices. This is the reason why we stack our agenda with practitioners from a variety of...
Top Tips for Writing an Effective Job Description
Ah, the job description; the advertisement for your open position. Whether or not you realize it, the job description has a number of functions other than describing role responsibilities. Therefore, writing an effective job description is more important than you...
Annual VEVRAA Hiring Benchmark is 6.7 Percent
Today the 2017 Annual Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark was updated on the VEVRAA Benchmark Database. The benchmark – 6.7 percent – is effective March 31, 2017. Contractors who adopted the previous year’s national benchmark...
Member Spotlight: Promoting Collaborative Learning
It’s a new year and a new year to expand your knowledge and network with your peers! Having concerns as to whether you are doing something right is human nature. Asking yourself questions like, “Did I approach that situation right?” “Are there ways I could...
DirectEmployers Announces 4th Annual Member Awards Competition
To aid in peer-to-peer learning amongst its 875+ member organizations, Indianapolis-based nonprofit DirectEmployers Association announces its 4th Annual Member Awards Competition. Members of Association are invited to submit their initiatives in two competition categories–OFCCP Compliance and Recruitment Marketing.
Going for Gold | Winning Outreach Strategies
As federal contractors know, the OFCCP’s VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations now require employers to conduct and track outreach efforts to ensure equal employment opportunities for all. To manage and evaluate their outreach activities, many employers are developing unique strategies and implementing new tools that can assist with this measure. For the 3rd Annual DirectEmployers Member Awards Competition, a number of our Member organizations submitted their outstanding initiatives surrounding outreach and one was even named the overall winner of our Compliance category! Let’s take a look at some of these initiatives.
General Motors: We’re a Member Because…
We can say that we offer the best OFCCP compliance solution, but what really speaks volumes is what our Members have to say about why they choose to continually renew their memberships each year. With over 866+ Member companies, you’ll see we go beyond the nuts and...
DirectEmployers Issues New Compliance Resource For Recruiters
To help federal contractors improve interdepartmental cooperation, Indianapolis-based nonprofit DirectEmployers Association released an OFCCP Compliance Punch List for Recruiters. This quick-reference guide was created by affirmative action and equal employment...
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