Tag Archives: Professional Development

How a Learning Management System Can Have a Positive Impact on Employee Training and Growth

When it comes to providing the most effective training solutions for your employees and your business, you’ll find yourself at a disadvantage unless you’ve at least considered a learning management system (LMS). Especially in today’s new normal, with the number of remote workers growing by leaps and bounds, the advantages of an LMS are numerous […]

4 Benefits of Online Learning

The benefits of online learning have been known to professionals around the world for some time – but the popularity of eLearning has risen to a new level since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Just because your employees aren’t on site doesn’t mean training should be moved to the back burner on your list […]

Action Required: Don’t Let the Pandemic Overshadow State Mandated Harassment Training

It is hard to believe that we are entering the last few months of 2020. With the chaos that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused all businesses, it has been easy to push certain tasks to the side to focus on pandemic-related matters, such as reopening businesses and keeping employees safe. However, employers cannot ignore non-COVID-19-related […]

Skilled Trades Employee Shortage: How Apprenticeship Programs Can Help Fill the Gap

Filling skilled trades jobs has always been a challenge – but never more so than today. A 2018 skills gap study released by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute notes there are more than 488,000 jobs left open today and that may grow to be more than 2.4 million by 2028. Seventy-nine percent of construction firms […]

NY Employers Required to Adopt Sexual Harassment Policy and Training Program By 10/9/18

On April 12, 2018 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law several bills that were included in the 2018-2019 New York State budget. The bills address workplace sexual harassment. Some of the major areas the new laws addressed are: Requiring all employers to implement and issue a written sexual harassment prevention policy to all employees; Extending […]

HR Works’ HR Academy series presents HRCI and SHRM accredited training for HR Professionals

HR Academy is a series of courses designed to give HR professionals the skills to resolve HR issues while protecting their organizations from lawsuits, promoting effective employee relations, and supporting employment decisions. These courses take a two-prong approach to human resources: compliance with Federal and State employment laws and best practices for employee relations. Each […]

HR Works promotes Stuart

HR Works, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Mary H. Stuart to Director, Talent Acquisition. In this role, Stuart spearheads recruiting and sourcing of top human resources talent at HR Works.  Stuart has over twenty-five years of recruiting and talent management experience working in corporate environments as well as staffing organizations.  She has […]