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How has 2020 changed your company’s hiring goals? Are you still trying to learn how to hire and onboard remote teams? Are you working to adapt your strategies to promote diversity and inclusion? In this session, you will learn about some general best practices and come away with a new understanding of what kinds of questions should be guiding your hiring process, as well as some tips on accommodating and improving your strategy to fit your organization’s goals.

Presenter

Caroline Sarris is a Division Manager at Hollister Staffing.  As a member of the Administrative & HR division, Caroline focuses on cultivating, developing, and maintaining meaningful relationships with both candidates and clients, consulting around strategy for streamlined hiring processes, ensuring the best talent is identified in alignment with both candidate and company goals.

Hollister Staffing is a boutique, woman-owned, full-service recruiting firm dedicated to connecting talent with opportunity.  Celebrating over 30 years in the community, we service our clients with temporary, contract-to-hire, and direct hire staffing requests in Technology, Accounting & Finance, and Administrative & HR practice areas.

NPFM – Rethinking Hiring, How to Adapt Your Process for 2021 – 12-2020

The Nonprofit Risk Management Center devoted their May newsletter to the topic of financial risk management. One of the interviewees was Ed Mulherin CPA, Esq, founder and CEO of eCratchit Nonprofit, an outsourcing resource for non-profits. Ed cited three key areas of risk: access to timely, accurate financial information; liquidity and the size of their operating reserves; adequacy of staffing and salaries. Located in Boston, eCratchit serves 150 non-profit organizations across the country, giving Ed the perspective to help all of us to become better prepared in addressing the risks we face.

Most public school districts in Metropolitan Boston and across the State have submitted their reopening plans for the fall. Some are in-person, some are hybrid, and some are all remote. However, there is still a lot of uncertainty about the reopening options and how to cope with them as a parent and as an employer of those parents.  Parents are left to figure out how they will manage another term of balancing work, caregiving and education.  Employers are left to figure out how to support those parents who work for them and who are affected by the decisions that their local schools have made about reopening.

John Roch, Business Manager of East Boston Social Centers, moderated a pop-up presentation and discussion about how nonprofit employers in the Boston area are navigating this issue and how they are supporting their employees who have to care for their children during their normal work hours.  Justin Pasquariello, Executive Director of East Boston Social Centers and a member of the Executive Committee of MADCA (statewide child care advocacy organization) presented on the current thinking of the daycare industry, the school system, and the Mass. Dept. of Early Education and Care.  Fred Ritzau, President of Northpoint Human Resource Consulting, discussed the Cares Act provisions concerning this issue and shared some solutions that some companies are offering their employees.  The rest of the session was a discussion and sharing by audience members about what they are doing.

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Because information has been changing so rapidly, no summary of the actual discussion is posted.  The conversation, however, covered significant ground & questions from the participants.   

Join us for a facilitated conversation led by Rosemarie Boardman (CFO, Boston BID), to share and learn about what we all are doing about the timing of reopening and developing/implementing policies and procedures to keep employees safe.

Discussion outline Return to Office 2020-08-13