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Hire Without Fear: 50 Strategies for LawsuitProof Hiring

An organizations liability begins the moment a hiring manager speaks to a job candidate for the first time. Just one wrong move — a wrong question, a skipped step in the process — can expose your organization (and yourself) to massive liability. The best way to prevent such a disaster is to train your hiring managers on how to conduct the hiring process legally , yet still hire the best candidate available — every time. This 75minute training session makes it easy — and costeffective! Key Topics: Interviewing: Best practices for 2005, based on new important court cases. Creating a comprehensive preinterview checklist for all managers to follow. Tapping into hundreds of liabilityfree questions to ask job candidates. Understanding EEO interviewing laws and how they affect your organization. How to deliver the offer or the rejection. Dos and Donts: Reference checks, preemployment physicals, testing, hiring from the competition, interviewing disabled applicants, and drug & alcohol testing. Plus ... YOUR questions answered during our Q&A session! Gather round the speakerphone — Educate your organization and build morale! Invite everyone in your organization that will speak with an interviewee — have them bring a brown bag lunch — or splurge and orderin from your favorite local pizzeria or deli! The ROI is infinite! About the Speaker: Mindy Chapman is a partner and the national director of training and development at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, which provides workplace training solutions to large and small organizations globally. Mindy has been acknowledged as a master trainer in the areas of legal and HR training by federal compliance agencies, Fortune 100 legal departments, HR associations and professional legal associations. She has extensive training experience in all industries and at all levels of the workforce, from boardroom executives to hourly employees. She has been responsible for many compliance training initiatives stemming from landmark litigation. Mindy is the coauthor of "Case Dismissed! Taking Your Harassment Prevention Training to Trial," a topselling book published by the American Bar Association. "Case Dismissed 2" about discrimination prevention is coming soon.

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