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On Navigating Technology During the Application Process

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Craig Fisher, Talent Consultant & Author.  In a world where technology has made it easier than ever to overapply, Fisher explains what companies are doing to find qualified candidates, and what job seekers should be aware of before they submit their applications. Specificity, Fisher says, is the best way to get your resume in front of human eyes and find the position that works for you. “Focus is one of the most important things. Don't try to be everything to everyone. Don't try to be a Jack or Jill of all trades. Don't apply to anything and everything. Focus very specifically on the thing that you would most likely get hired to do and get paid well to do.” --- AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable. Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235. If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe [https://insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

On Dealing with Workplace Activism

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re going to talk about workplace activism. Our guest is Peter Rahbar, an employment attorney, workplace issues expert and founder of The Rahbar Group. He offers a three-step process—strategy, policies, and communication with employees—to handle whatever comes up, and with this being an election year, surely something will. A company can’t predict or control problems created by workplace activism. But it can control its preparation for handling it. “If you don’t have a rapid response team set up as a company, you’re probably not doing your job, in my estimation,” he says. “You need to have a cross-company team ready to go when a crisis emerges. That would not only include general management executives, but also lawyers, comms people (and) technology people.”  --- AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable. Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235. If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe [https://insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

On Religious Accommodation in the Dobbs Era

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we’re going to talk about religious accommodation in the Dobbs era. Our guest is Ann McGinley. She’s a recently retired law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, where she also served as the co-director of the Workplace Law Program. She sees rising controversy due to growing interest in religious accommodation, particularly as it relates to job duties. As she wrote in a recent piece and expands on here: “The stakes are high. Employers have no choice but to try to ameliorate the conflicts at work arising from this powder keg, and religious accommodation requests are often central to either creating a conflagration or dousing the fire.” --- AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable. Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235. If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe [https://insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

On College Sports and Unionization

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we are going to talk about college sports and unionization. Our guest is Nellie Drew. Drew is a law professor and founder of the Center for the Advancement of Sport at the University at Buffalo. In this episode, we talk about myriad employment law issues the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) is facing, from the rise of name, image and likeness deals to the unionization of Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team, to arguments about who, exactly, the athletes work for if they are, in fact, employees. Collectively, all of this portends seismic changes in the NCAA in the employment law space. “It’s clear that this ball’s been rolling downhill a long time,” Drew says. “It took a while. It took a long while, and for most of our lifetimes, the NCAA had a stranglehold on what was previously known as a student athlete.” But that term could become a relic of the past. “The prospects for the NCAA do not look good. There’s at least one case out there that may very well sound the death knell for the NCAA in terms of just massive amounts of liability,” Drew says. --- AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable. Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235. If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe [https://insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

On the Future of Noncompetes

Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we talk about the future of noncompete agreements. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to ban them in April 2024, but are they really dead? That’s the question everyone is asking, and we put it to Stewart Schwab, a former Cornell Law School Dean who, in his 40 years as a professor, has taught and spoken on this topic frequently. Schwab believes the Supreme Court will ultimately rule that the FTC overstepped its bounds in banning noncompetes. In the meantime, he advises companies to rethink how they use noncompete agreements. --- AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable. Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235. If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe [https://insights.joinaccelpro.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]