SNAP Recipients

Recently, we wrote an article, outlining the nine Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) target groups.  Here we’ll be focusing on one of the higher volume target groups, SNAP or what was formerly known as food stamp beneficiaries.  SNAP participants can qualify your company for as much as $2400 per eligible hire. The requirements to qualify are twofold: Candidates…

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WOTC Target Groups

Recently we’ve heard from a quite a few people that said they don’t participate in the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program (WOTC) because they “don’t hire people that would qualify.”  More often than not, after a brief discussion, we were able to discover that they did hire qualified employees.  We’re not sure where the misunderstandings…

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Don’t Avoid Hiring Persons with Disabilities

Companies often miss hiring amazing employees because of unfounded fears associated with hiring persons with disabilities. Many major corporations have found tremendous success and benefits by hiring from a talent pool that most shy away from. Here we’d like to help ease your fears by proving that most of them are truly myths. Hiring persons…

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Are Today’s Youth HR’s Best Kept Secret?

Progressive companies seem to have cracked the code of hiring teenage help and leveraging those employees as strategic assets. More specifically 16-17 year olds for seasonal help. It’s true that there is a certain unflattering stigma associated with teenage employees, but it doesn’t mean that you should overlook this segment of the workforce.  In fact,…

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