It’s the Running of the Bulls, in a Sense

Here comes the rush for all the Arizona businesses to get in compliance with the new immigration law.  Many owners around the valley have been in a stall waiting to see if this new employer-sanctions law will hold up to the legal challenge. 

Azcental.com gives this summary of the new law, “Under Arizona's new employer-sanctions law, all employers must begin using E-Verify by Jan. 1 to check the employment eligibility of new hires or risk having their business licenses suspended or revoked if caught knowingly hiring illegal workers.”   

Let’s let the numbers speak for themselves, “as of Nov. 21, only 4,733 of the more than 150,000 employers in Arizona had signed up for the program. Currently, only about 32,000 employers are using the program nationwide.” 

Many lawyers are advising their clients to wait until the last two weeks to sign up for the E-Verify program for two different reasons.  One reason for the wait is to see if the law holds up to the court challenges or if it gets delayed.  The second is to “test the system's capacity and cast doubt on its effectiveness at a time when some lawmakers in Congress are pushing to expand E-Verify to all states.”

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Posted November 27th, 2007 by admin - Posted in Human Resources, Immigration, Recruiting | | 2 Comments

Is a College Educated Employee a Good Thing?

Flexible schedules, advancement opportunities, changing departments within the company, increased compensation/responsibility; these are a few of the changes employers are going to have to make to attract and keep the next generation employees.    Tamara Erickson, consultant in Massachusetts and author of Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, said "If you want to hire college-educated, you're going to be completely screwed, because there are not going to be enough college-educated people by a long stretch of the imagination.  You've got to really be a best-in-class employer." With the Baby Boomers phasing out of the workforce and the Generation Y crew beginning to step in to the helm, businesses are learning quickly that the rules of employment have shifted.  The old ways of business are on the outs.  A text messaging, IPOD listening, fast moving group has made their way into workplaces all over.    Hiring long-term employees might be a thing of the past.  The new Generation Y employees are looking to get exactly what they want out of an employer, or they will leave and find one that will. Another excerpt from an article in the Arizona Republic says, "If you look at the world many boomers entered, it's very hierarchical," Erickson said. "That's not really interesting to Y's. They want to be judged on their own capabilities. They don't want to be told they can't take the challenge now." The Generation Y’s consist of anyone born between the year 1977 and 1991.The are a highly confident and technically skilled group of up and comers.    

Are you bracing yourself, if you’re an employeer?  Are these types of changes going to help or hurt your company’s culture?   

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Posted October 12th, 2007 by admin - Posted in Recruiting | | 0 Comments