Events
- July 20 & July 28 – Webcast: Interviewing Job Candidates
- September 16 – Sustainable Business Leadership Forum
- September 23 – Criterion Ventures - Structure Lab: San Francisco
- December 8 – Criterion Ventures - Structure Lab: San Francisco
Webcast: Interviewing Job Candidates: What You Legally Can And Can’t Ask
HR professionals and hiring managers can find themselves in quite the quandary when interviewing job candidates.
On the one hand, you need to objectively screen applicants to get to the root of their capabilities. You also need to pose questions that help you figure out which candidates are truly a good fit for your organization.
But there’s a fine line between what you can and can’t legally ask job candidates. Throw out a forbidden question – even in a completely innocent, conversational manner - and you could find your organization smack dab in the middle of a lawsuit alleging that you failed to hire someone due to race, gender, age, disability, or other protected characteristic.
Join us for an in-depth 90-minute webinar all about the questions you can and can’t ask during job interviews. Our experts - seasoned labor and employment Hanson Bridgett attorneys Sandra Rappaport and Lisa Pooley - will explain how interview questions may be used as legal ammunition for lawsuits against your organization and how to train everyone who conducts interviews within your organization, from HR recruiters to line managers, to always ask questions in a way that puts the law on your side.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST)
Offered by both HRTrainingCenter.com and Business & Legal Resources
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST)
Offered by Employer Resource Institute
SEPTEMBER EVENT:
Hanson Bridgett's Sustainable Business Leadership Forum:
Power of Social Technology for Good
Panelists:
Kellie A. McElhaney, PhD
Consultant, Professor & Faculty Director at the Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business,
University of California - Berkeley
Dr. McElhaney is the Alexander Faculty Fellow and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She launched this center in 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. Her Center has received global critical acclaim with The Financial Times rating Haas #1 in the world in 2008. Professor McElhaney teaches courses on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, which include in-depth, experiential consulting engagements with companies on real-world, high-visibility strategic CSR challenges, in all of the MBA degree programs at Haas. She is developing a new course on using the Power of Social Technology for Good (PoST4Good). She also teaches extensive Executive Education in this area. Kellie was named a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute in 2005. Her research focus is in three areas: (1) Analyzing and developing companies’ CSR strategy and its alignment with corporate strategy, business objectives, core competencies, and business value; (2) Exploring the linkage between diversity and CSR and using CSR as a hook to re-engage women with business as employees, consumers, and investors; (3) The business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR, on which she has written a book entitled Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand.
Moderated by Leslie Keil, Hanson Bridgett Associate
in the Business and Sustainable Business practice groups.
Additional speakers TBD
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Hanson Bridgett LLP
425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, California
Directions »
Pre-registration is required.
Space is limited.
Cost: $45.00
Register Now »
Criterion Ventures Structure Lab: San Francisco
Thursday, September 23, 2010
9:30am – 5:00pm
Hanson Bridgett LLP
425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, California
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Attendance limited to 40.
Cost: $299.00
Register Now »
New corporate forms are blurring the boundaries between for profits and nonprofits. Old silos of financing and funding streams are giving way to hybrid structures like social capital firms, public/private collaborations and venture philanthropy. Entrepreneurs and established organizations alike are bending the marketplace to meet multiple bottom lines including a return on social capital. While some nimbly explore the space between for profit and nonprofit, many more are struggling to make sense of the new landscape of social change.
Criterion Ventures is a leading voice in the structuring of social ventures. Criterion’s dual identity in launching social ventures, both for clients and by taking an equity position with internally developed ideas, has resulted in a nuanced understanding of what it takes to launch a ventures. It is itself a unique structure in the world of social ventures. As the world of social enterprise matures, Criterion is helping to create the methodology that can make it more accessible. Criterion has spent the past year creating an easy to engage process to understand how new forms are structured and how they might work to support the efforts of social change agents.
The Structure Lab provides participants with a roadmap of possibilities to navigate this new territory. Participants will have a clear understanding of the range of possible legal structures that can be employed for their newly forming venture, pros and cons of each of those structures as it applies to their prospective venture, and will be prepared to work with legal counsel to take the next steps in understanding and establishing the optimal legal structure.
Criterion Ventures Structure Lab: San Francisco
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
9:30am – 5:00pm
Hanson Bridgett LLP
425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, California
Directions »
Attendance limited to 40.
Cost: $299.00
Register Now »
New corporate forms are blurring the boundaries between for profits and nonprofits. Old silos of financing and funding streams are giving way to hybrid structures like social capital firms, public/private collaborations and venture philanthropy. Entrepreneurs and established organizations alike are bending the marketplace to meet multiple bottom lines including a return on social capital. While some nimbly explore the space between for profit and nonprofit, many more are struggling to make sense of the new landscape of social change.
Criterion Ventures is a leading voice in the structuring of social ventures. Criterion’s dual identity in launching social ventures, both for clients and by taking an equity position with internally developed ideas, has resulted in a nuanced understanding of what it takes to launch a ventures. It is itself a unique structure in the world of social ventures. As the world of social enterprise matures, Criterion is helping to create the methodology that can make it more accessible. Criterion has spent the past year creating an easy to engage process to understand how new forms are structured and how they might work to support the efforts of social change agents.
The Structure Lab provides participants with a roadmap of possibilities to navigate this new territory. Participants will have a clear understanding of the range of possible legal structures that can be employed for their newly forming venture, pros and cons of each of those structures as it applies to their prospective venture, and will be prepared to work with legal counsel to take the next steps in understanding and establishing the optimal legal structure.
