Dresser & Associates

A Question of Fit

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As a Human Resources professional, have you ever been in a situation where you have a job candidate that looks perfect for a position? He/she has the training, background, and experience to do the work. You hire the individual and he/she appears to be perfect at first, but over time it becomes obvious that he/she is not meeting expectations. What happened?
Another scenario: Perhaps you have two openings for the same …Read More

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Kevin S. Hickey, Ph.D. Management Psychology
404-233-5949

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The Benefits of Employee Self Service

In addition to being a boring, repetitive administrative task, data entry can also be extremely time consuming and leaves room for inaccurate information to be entered and errors to be made. Because of these reasons, it has become clear to many HR departments that switching over to a self-service system makes sense.
Long time Sage Abra and Dresser & Associates customer, GreenbergFarrow was an early adopter of this process. It has improved their …Read More

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Dresser & Associates
(207) 885-0809

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Get Control Your HR Documents Before They Control You

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Not only is the amount of documents, files and information associated with HR departments staggering, but the manual filing, organization, management and storage of these documents can be almost unbearable.
The HR department of most companies is a repository for countless documents, many of which the department is required by law to store and have access to for specified periods of time. This paper conundrum makes HR …Read More

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Advanced Processing & Imaging
800.430.7011

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New Resources Available to Help Develop or Enhance a Veteran’s Hiring Initiative

Employers who have made the decision to include transitioning service members, veterans and wounded warriors in their recruitment and hiring initiatives will have an easier time thanks to a new online toolkit made available by the U.S. Department of Labor. The toolkit was developed to simplify the process and to make resources more readily available to employers who currently have a difficult time navigating veterans hiring information.
A …Read More

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Dresser & Associates
(207) 885-0809

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Best Practices when Updating Software Versions

After 20 plus years of Technical Support experience, there is one thing I have learned. No update to a new version of software goes according to plan. Every configuration or setup is different, and the software developer only takes the default or typical installation, configuration or setup into account when they release a new version. There will always be defects in software because, after all, the developers are human and make mistakes when …Read More

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CAASPRE Consulting, LLC
813.649.8250

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