New Hire Acculturation - It's Personal

ICE Unveils New Strategic Plan The folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are really feeling their Wheaties this year. They’ve published a 7 page plan for how they’re going to fight crime and single handedly pull the U.S. from the brink of chaos over the next 5 years. OK, that’s an exaggeration. The document ICE [...]

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Can an RPO Handle Your New Hire Onboarding?

Recruiting is an HR function that is often regarded as necessary but time consuming and costly. It's easy for HR to get bogged down with searching through countless resumes and reviewing hundreds of applications to find the few qualified candidates for a position. Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a service option that many companies turn [...]

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Scott Williams Quote

Scott Williams, former VP of HR for Coca-Cola and now President of The Stonehaven Group, recently said some pretty nice things about us.

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Evaluating Onboarding Podcast 2



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Onboarding in the Restaurant Industry

At Emerald Software Group, we have the privilege of partnering with many other forward thinking software providers in related industries to bring our clients a full service experience. One of those strategic partnerships is with Restaurant Magic Software, a company that specializes in SaaS data management solutions for food service industry clients. Steve Roberts, founder [...]

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Business is Booming for HR SaaS – and We Couldn't Be Happier

According to the latest Workforce.com report, the battle between legacy software and SaaS is in full swing – and customers are benefiting. No longer a newcomer or an outlier in the fight for HR client dollars, the Software as a Service model is coming into its own as a cost effective and highly versatile solution. [...]

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Military Service Member Onboarding

Service Member Onboarding and Re-Onboarding This week, Workforce.com has reprinted a very in-depth article from 2007 about the obligations employers have toward workers who may be called to active duty in the military. With combat troops finally coming home from Iraq, this is a good time to review policies regarding how to best serve workers [...]

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Easy Mondays, Part 2



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Emerald Software and E-Discovery

In case you haven't noticed, the last decade or so has seen the coinage of dozens of new words based on developing technology and cultural memes. For example, you can use your i-Phone to carry on an e-Relationship with someone who shares your passion for LOLCats. However, the internet is not all fun and games. [...]

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Interview - Scott Williams

We interview Scott Williams, founder of The Stonehaven Group and former VP of HR for Coca-Cola, about the state of the industry and the future of HR.

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Mainframe Migration



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Compliance Costs Presentation

A presentation version of Emerald's popular article, "The Hidden Costs of Non-Compliance in Hiring" is now available on Slideshare.net

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Emerald Software Now Offers Canadian Onboarding

Close on the heels of adding form W11 to our Universal Onboarding library, we've expanded our document list again. This time, we're including our neighbors "North of the Border" by making the TD-1 form available in electronic format. Both the national and provincial versions are in our universal forms library, so all Canadian employees are [...]

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Is e-Verify For All Federal Contractors?

Workforce.com has once again hit one out of the park with an insightful article about e-Verify and how mandates regarding its use impact federal contractors. Author Eric Ledbetter walks step by step through the situations in which a contractor must use the e-Verify system, when it is advisable to do so voluntarily, and when it [...]

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Electronic I-9 Regulations

Electronic I-9 Rules Clarified By DHS It’s only taken the Department of Homeland Security 4 years to issue the agency’s final regulations on electronic storage for I-9 forms. The wait hasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Technology has changed plenty just in the past few years and the DHS has responded by making more options available [...]

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Been Offline...

Sorry I’ve been offline for a while, I’ve had some personal business to take care of.   On July 5th, my Dad had kidney failure and spent a week in the ICU.   My Mom had been having some challenges due to her dementia, so we were very fortunate that we were there to take care of [...]

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Emerald Software Accepted as Member of Advanced Technology Development Center

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been accepted as a member in the Georgia Tech sponsored ATDC

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Conditional Hiring and Onboarding

Conditional Hiring And Onboarding Attorney John P. Mahoney has a blog post up about the challenges of getting and keeping a security clearance for jobs at the federal level. The process of requisitioning and carrying out the type of extensive background check required to be granted clearance can be lengthy. Occasionally, this means employees are [...]

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Open Source HR Software

Is Open Source Onboarding In Your Future? Workforce.com has a new article up about open-source software in the HR field. A couple of vendors are now offering HRIS products based on this type of non-proprietary code. As you would expect, there are pros and cons of open source solutions. Let’s take a look at a [...]

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HR & IT

This article, one of a series of articles and whitepapers by Emerald's legacy application modernization team, discusses the importance for HR & IT to collaborate on legacy workforce application modernization, and offers suggestions on how to work together.

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