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March 2017

Recruiting
March 10, 2017

How to Justify Executive Search Fees

Companies that routinely hire consultants and law firms (and that's virtually all companies) have no issue with paying those professional fees, since they recognize the value proposition that outside experts offer, right? To that I say: the skills, experience and valuable insights of an executive recruiter – particularly in a "niche"…
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Compliance
March 8, 2017

Technology & The Scarcity of Compliance Talent

By: Carlos Guillen At the end of a year in which regulators placed compliance management at the top of their list of priorities, financial firms should assess the processes and systems they have in place to prevent compliance breaches, such as failing to develop and enforce written policies and procedures…
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New DOJ Guidelines for compliance officers
Compliance
March 7, 2017

DOJ Issues New Guidelines for Compliance Programs

The Department of Justice in February quietly released a document,  “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” (Evaluation), on the Fraud Section of its website. The document is an 11-part list of questions that encapsulates the DOJ’s most current thinking on what constitutes a best practices compliance program. Within the list are some…
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Leadership and career
March 6, 2017

Racial Strife in the Workplace — What’s an HR Professional to Do?

By: Bob Cooper Consider the following. A client calls with an urgent problem: A white employee jokingly made a racial comment to an African-American employee, whom he thought was his friend and whom he wrongly assumed would not be offended.  The comment was clearly overheard by several other employees. Understandably, the…
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Engaged Employee
Leadership and career
March 3, 2017

5 Pillars of Successful Employee Engagement

As the job market continues to gradually improve, employers are being held by their staff to new standards for positive and engaging workplace experiences. Gone are the days where workers held on to their jobs for dear life. Instead, employees are constantly on the lookout for better opportunities, better perks…
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A Machine to Measure Trust
Compliance
March 3, 2017

How Easy is it to Lose Trust? Just ask Wells Fargo

Billionaire and legendary investor William Buffet had some scathing words this week for former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf. Buffet – who happens to be the bank’s biggest shareholder — said he couldn’t explain why Stumpf failed to take action in the face of evidence that the bank’s high-pressure culture had…
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