Whois & Analysis for hercjobs.org

The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) is a non-profit consortium of leading higher education institutions in the United States that believe in advancing diversity, work-life balance, and employee success.

HERC connects the brightest minds with careers at over 700 workplaces.

HERC Vision - To promote equity and excellence in higher education recruitment worldwide.

HERC Mission - HERC advances the ability of member institutions to recruit and retain the most diverse and talented workforce and to assist dual-career couples.

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

Employees work in return for payment, which may be in the form of an hourly wage, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does or which sector she or he is working in.

Employees in some fields or sectors may receive gratuities, bonus payment or stock options.

In some types of employment, employees may receive benefits in addition to payment.

Benefits can include health insurance, housing, disability insurance or use of a gym.

Employment is typically governed by employment laws or regulations or legal contracts.

Social exclusion, or social marginalization, is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.It is a term used widely in Europe and was first used in France.

It is used across disciplines including education, sociology, psychology, politics and economics.

Job hunting, job seeking, or job searching is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment, underemployment, discontent with a current position, or a desire for a better position.

The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired.

The job hunter or seeker typically first looks for job vacancies or employment opportunities.

In sociology and political studies, the term diversity (or diverse) is used to describe political entities (neighborhoods, student bodies, etc) with members who have identifiable differences in their cultural backgrounds or lifestyles.