Recruiting & Hiring; How to Hire the Best and Avoid Future Litigation
Overview
Organizations continually fail to recognize employees as their most valuable asset. Poor hiring decisions can lead to increased costs, potential litigation, and even safety issues. In this highly informative and fast-paced session, participants will discover the tools needed to hire the right people and ultimately minimize their organization’s risk of employee problems and litigation. This interactive half-day event will utilize real world scenarios to highlight the legal aspects and potential ramifications associated with recruiting, applicant screening, and interviewing. Attend this vital training and leave equipped and ready to hire the best!
Date & Time
June 26, 2009
8:00am - 12:30pm. Registration begins at 7:30am.
Continental breakfast will be provided.
Where
Doubletree Hotel Denver Tech
7801 East Orchard Road
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Free parking and conveniently located off I25 and Orchard Road.
Continuing Education Credits
4 HRCI & CLE credits pending
Price
$229 ($199 if registered by June 8, 2009!)
Registration includes continental breakfast, sample employment application and drug testing policy, new hire checklists, tips and other valuable tools.
Who Should Attend
• Human Resource Professionals
• Business Owners
• General Managers
• Hiring Managers
• Security & Loss Prevention Managers
• In-house Counsel & Attorneys
• Corporate Executives, Managers, Supervisors and Decision-makers
Immediate Benefits
• Discover the essential components of better applicant screening and background investigations
• Learn to decrease risk and improve your work environment through better hiring decisions
• Gain valuable insight of recent case law involving recruiting, screening, and interviewing
• Strengthen your interviewing techniques
• Network, build relationships, and share experiences with others who manage the hiring process
Return to Your Organization With…
• A sample workplace violence and drug testing policy
• Handouts will include a new hire checklist, questions to ask and not ask, and a list of protected classes.
• Advice from one of the top employment lawyers in the state and one of the top experts in the industry
Agenda
7:30am - Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00am - Recruiting
• Essential Components
• Employment Application
• Obligation of Vendors
• Legal Considerations
10:00 am - Break
10:05 am - Screening
• Unscreened Workforce
• Legal Considerations
11:30 am - Break
11:35 am - Interviewing
• Applicant Interviewing
• Avoid questions involving…
• Deceptive Responses
12:20pm - Q&A
Trainer Credentials
Business Controls, Inc. (BCI) is a leading provider of workplace investigations, training, technology, and consulting. Through the integration of professional services and state of the art technology BCI provides a suite of risk mitigation services to reduce employee misconduct and exposure to litigation. BCI offers training on the topics of employment hiring, fraud prevention, workplace violence, and the process of conducting ethical workplace investigations. An employee organization since 1994, BCI has served over a quarter of the Fortune 1000 companies and over a million client employees in 22,000 client locations in 92 countries.
Ireland Stapleton includes attorneys practicing law in the full range of substantive commercial law areas including business law, employment, estate planning, litigation, real estate, and environmental law. Ireland Stapleton’s lawyers set themselves apart by forging close working relationships with clients, understanding their businesses, and personally attending to their needs. Ireland Stapleton has represented clients since 1926 with an unsurpassed level of integrity, sophistication and insight.
Trainer Biography
Eugene F. Ferraro, CPP, CFE, PCI - CEO and Founder
Business Controls founder and CEO, Eugene F. Ferraro, is one of the premier experts on workplace misconduct in the country today. He is the author of eight books on investigatory techniques, and his most recent work, Investigations in the Workplace, is used as a textbook at universities across the nation. He frequently lectures on the topics of workplace investigations, applicant screening and employee misconduct prevention and intervention.
Laura J. Hazen, Esq., Director
Ms. Hazen is a Director with the law firm of Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC. She works with companies proactively to decrease liability and then helps them when things go sour and litigation is inevitable. In her employment practice, she provides day-to-day advice to public and private companies on allegations of employment discrimination, non-compete agreements and other labor and employment matters. Her business skills were recently recognized with her inclusion in the Denver Business Journal's list of "Top 40 under 40" in 2008.
Customized Training
In addition to public trainings, BCI & Ireland Stapleton can provide customized training for any organization or group. We can customize the content, objectives as well as the length of any training we offer. What’s more, we can deliver it where and when you want it. Call 800-650-7005 for more information and availability.
www.BusinessControls.com/training.
Organizations continually fail to recognize employees as their most valuable asset. Poor hiring decisions can lead to increased costs, potential litigation, and even safety issues. In this highly informative and fast-paced session, participants will discover the tools needed to hire the right people and ultimately minimize their organization’s risk of employee problems and litigation. This interactive half-day event will utilize real world scenarios to highlight the legal aspects and potential ramifications associated with recruiting, applicant screening, and interviewing. Attend this vital training and leave equipped and ready to hire the best!
Date & Time
June 26, 2009
8:00am - 12:30pm. Registration begins at 7:30am.
Continental breakfast will be provided.
Where
Doubletree Hotel Denver Tech
7801 East Orchard Road
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Free parking and conveniently located off I25 and Orchard Road.
Continuing Education Credits
4 HRCI & CLE credits pending
Price
$229 ($199 if registered by June 8, 2009!)
Registration includes continental breakfast, sample employment application and drug testing policy, new hire checklists, tips and other valuable tools.
Who Should Attend
• Human Resource Professionals
• Business Owners
• General Managers
• Hiring Managers
• Security & Loss Prevention Managers
• In-house Counsel & Attorneys
• Corporate Executives, Managers, Supervisors and Decision-makers
Immediate Benefits
• Discover the essential components of better applicant screening and background investigations
• Learn to decrease risk and improve your work environment through better hiring decisions
• Gain valuable insight of recent case law involving recruiting, screening, and interviewing
• Strengthen your interviewing techniques
• Network, build relationships, and share experiences with others who manage the hiring process
Return to Your Organization With…
• A sample workplace violence and drug testing policy
• Handouts will include a new hire checklist, questions to ask and not ask, and a list of protected classes.
• Advice from one of the top employment lawyers in the state and one of the top experts in the industry
Agenda
7:30am - Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00am - Recruiting
• Essential Components
• Employment Application
Case Study: Filling in the Blanks
Paperwork: Applications vs. Resumes
Legal Update: INS Form I-9
• Obligation of Employers• Obligation of Vendors
Liability for Scope of Background
• Data Retention• Legal Considerations
Individual Liability
Reducing your Risk By Fostering a Content Workforce
Good Hires Lead To Trouble Free Terminations
10:00 am - Break
10:05 am - Screening
• Unscreened Workforce
Case Study: Liability for Stones Unturned
• Preliminary ScreeningTiming: Use of the Conditional Offer
• Systematic Selection• Legal Considerations
Informal screening: To Google or Not to Google
Adverse Impact
11:30 am - Break
11:35 am - Interviewing
• Applicant Interviewing
• Avoid questions involving…
Case Study: Illegal Questions
• Always Ask…• Deceptive Responses
12:20pm - Q&A
Trainer Credentials
Business Controls, Inc. (BCI) is a leading provider of workplace investigations, training, technology, and consulting. Through the integration of professional services and state of the art technology BCI provides a suite of risk mitigation services to reduce employee misconduct and exposure to litigation. BCI offers training on the topics of employment hiring, fraud prevention, workplace violence, and the process of conducting ethical workplace investigations. An employee organization since 1994, BCI has served over a quarter of the Fortune 1000 companies and over a million client employees in 22,000 client locations in 92 countries.
Ireland Stapleton includes attorneys practicing law in the full range of substantive commercial law areas including business law, employment, estate planning, litigation, real estate, and environmental law. Ireland Stapleton’s lawyers set themselves apart by forging close working relationships with clients, understanding their businesses, and personally attending to their needs. Ireland Stapleton has represented clients since 1926 with an unsurpassed level of integrity, sophistication and insight.
Trainer Biography
Eugene F. Ferraro, CPP, CFE, PCI - CEO and Founder
Business Controls founder and CEO, Eugene F. Ferraro, is one of the premier experts on workplace misconduct in the country today. He is the author of eight books on investigatory techniques, and his most recent work, Investigations in the Workplace, is used as a textbook at universities across the nation. He frequently lectures on the topics of workplace investigations, applicant screening and employee misconduct prevention and intervention.
Laura J. Hazen, Esq., Director
Ms. Hazen is a Director with the law firm of Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC. She works with companies proactively to decrease liability and then helps them when things go sour and litigation is inevitable. In her employment practice, she provides day-to-day advice to public and private companies on allegations of employment discrimination, non-compete agreements and other labor and employment matters. Her business skills were recently recognized with her inclusion in the Denver Business Journal's list of "Top 40 under 40" in 2008.
Customized Training
In addition to public trainings, BCI & Ireland Stapleton can provide customized training for any organization or group. We can customize the content, objectives as well as the length of any training we offer. What’s more, we can deliver it where and when you want it. Call 800-650-7005 for more information and availability.
www.BusinessControls.com/training.