Human Resources

Human Resource Consulting

At Retail Alliance®, we hope you are not in the situation where employee relations deteriorate into legal action.

However, in the event that it does, and you are unsure about how to handle a personnel matter, Retail Alliance® can help.

Retail Alliance® will pay for up to one hour of legal counseling on personnel matters with the law firm of Wilcox & Savage to our members.

If you feel you need advice before you proceed further with a situation involving one of your employees call our Vice President of Retail Services® for a confidential interview. If your situation can benefit from this program we will contact our counselor at Wilcox & Savage and arrange a consultation.

 
HireVu Assessments

What is the cost of employee turnover to your organization? Employee turnover has a major adverse and often overlooked and misunderstood impact on productivity. Turnover costs for salaried employees can reach twice an individuals’ annual salary and half the annual wage of hourly employees. Incredibly, these costs are rarely measured.

There are both visible (advertising, recruiting, relocation, training, orientation, etc.) and hidden (declining efficiency of departing employees, inefficiency of new employees, etc.) costs associated with turnover, how are these costs affecting you? If you have ever calculated this amount, than you know this cost is significant.

“Chances are good that up to 66% of your company’s hiring decisions will prove to be mistakes in the first twelve months.”   Peter Drucker, Management Consultant

Here’s what the US Labor Department says…

Employment tests can be used to gather accurate information about job-relevant characteristics. This information helps assess the fit or match between people and jobs. 

Tests can be used to predict employee and applicant job performance.

Appropriate use of professionally developed assessment tools on average enables organizations to make more effective employment-related decisions.

Here’s the bottom line. If you want to put the right people in the right jobs, make great hiring and promotion decisions, reduce turnover and increase your profits, assessment testing is the tool you need.

Pre-employment Screening

In a small retail environment making the decision to hire a new employee can be as traumatic as adding a new member to the family. The individual doesn’t just work there, but becomes an extension of the owner.

So, when an employee proves to be unsuitable -- or damages the business through fraud or bad behavior -- the owner/manager is justifiably hurt.

Retail Alliance® members can take some of the risk out of the hiring decision by getting to know more about applicants through their history. HireVu, an affiliate service of Retail Alliance®, provides customers with information about their candidate from the following:

Nationwide Criminal Database Search

Statewide Criminal Record Search

County Criminal Record Search

Federal Criminal Record Search

Nationwide Sex Offender Registry

Equifax Credit Reports

Education, Employment, Degree and Licensing Verifications

Worker's Compensation Reports

Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) Warning

Social Security Number Verification

ID Alert

Drug Testing

Department of Motor Vehicle Records

And More!

The Association Package is available to Retail Alliance® members for just $25.  The summary can be supplemented with a credit report for an extra fee. See below for pricing.

For more information contact the Retail Alliance® HireVu Department at (757) 455-9333.

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Pre-employment Screening Pricing

Association Package $25	Association Package Plus $30
National Criminal Database*	National Criminal Database*
Motor Vehicle Report	Motor Vehicle Report
SSN Verification	SSN Verification
ID Alert	ID Alert
Employment Verification*	Employment Verification*
Federal Criminal Search	Federal Criminal Search
National Sex Offender Registry	National Sex Offender Registry
	Equifax Credit Report