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Timely blog posts by HR and Recruiting consultants responding to every day questions, hot topics and compliance-related news as it relates to attracting, engaging and retaining talent.

Lauren Shreve

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Best Practices

By: Lauren Shreve
April 30th, 2025

Traditionally, HR departments work in a largely administrative environment, completing transactions such as hiring and onboarding employees, processing promotions, and managing performance review processes. All of this work needs to occur and is usually guided by a larger HR strategy. In Strategic HRM, that strategy looks beyond the immediate needs of the human resources team and instead focuses on larger business goals and business strategy.

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Business Management & Strategy | Talent Acquisition

By: Lauren Shreve
May 15th, 2023

Human resources leaders play a crucial role in every organization.

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Business Management & Strategy | Talent Acquisition

By: Lauren Shreve
July 12th, 2017

Often, when an organization loses an HR Director, Benefits Manager, or HR Business Manager for whatever reason, they know that the standard two (or in some cases a bit more) week notice period won’t be enough time to make an offer to the next person to fill the role. While precious handover time slips away, the business will do its best to make a placement before the departure.

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Risk Management | Benefits

By: Lauren Shreve
May 5th, 2017

Since revisions to the Fair Standard Labor Act’s (FSLA) overtime rule was stopped ten days prior to going into effect on December 1, 2016, overtime has been on the minds of employers. Many HR professionals, myself included, poured over reports of employees and salaries to see who would be pushed back into the hourly (non-exempt) classification and who would remain salaried.