Understanding and Reducing Bias in Your Hiring Process
While the recruiting environment has certainly made progress from the overtly biased practices of the past when help wanted ads were listed as male or female, bias throughout the hiring process persists. Ageism, sexism and racism, among other “isms”, can all seep into...
Strategies for Improving Employee Wellbeing
By Kim Rummler, HR Services Manager at KMA Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of employees continues to be a top priority for employers, and we don’t foresee that subsiding any time soon. Post pandemic, many employees are still feeling burned out; add in...
Building Better Company Culture
We recently sat down with Amy Harkins, Human Resources Services Manager at KMA, to talk about why so many companies are working to build better culture. Here’s that conversation. Amy, you work with many clients to assess and improve their culture. Why is...
A Summer Internship Success Story: Emma Bushman
For the past three summers, KMA has had the pleasure of having Emma Bushman join us as our summer intern. Emma will be a senior at the University of Kentucky this fall, and will graduate with a double major in Accounting and Economics. Emma has applied her...