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Hey managers, here’s how to onboard your first hire

Lattice

But hiring someone is often just the beginning of a new process: onboarding. An introduction to onboarding: 1. What is employee onboarding? Why is onboarding important to the company? Some onboarding dos and don’ts. What is employee onboarding? Often, companies confuse onboarding with training.

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6 Key HR Strategies in a Recession

Zenefits

The 2007-2009 Great Recession is fresh in the public consciousness as another potential economic downturn looms over the market. However, unlike in 2007, most industries need workers more than ever. Improve our virtual onboarding experience. Improve our virtual onboarding experience. Simplify benefits administration.

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HR Versus People Ops: What You Need to Know

Pingboard

Boosting employee engagement and retention . Realizing that twelve weeks of paid maternity leave wasn’t enough for women who had just given birth, they changed the benefit in 2007, offering five months off at full pay and full benefits. Recruiting, hiring, transferring, and promoting employees. Mediating employee issues .

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Podcast: HR vs People Ops – What’s the Difference?

Pingboard

So daily activities or projects they work on could include reducing time to hire, improving employee engagement, establishing a strong company culture and increasing employee retention. They realized that they were starting to have a retention problem, they looked further into it and realized a lot of women were leaving the company.

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Podcast: HR vs People Ops – What’s the Difference?

Pingboard

So daily activities or projects they work on could include reducing time to hire, improving employee engagement, establishing a strong company culture and increasing employee retention. They realized that they were starting to have a retention problem, they looked further into it and realized a lot of women were leaving the company.

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5 financial industry HR challenges and how to solve them

PI Worldwide

The financial services industry now finds itself facing a shortage of mid-career candidates after losing some of its workforce in the 2007-2008 economic downturn. “The shortage of mid-career candidates is a clear sign that we’re still feeling some of the effects of the 2007 recession,” says Andrews.

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What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When a Crisis Hits

Thrive Global

Tips for financial restructuring process: Redefine your goals Make operational improvements Increase net asset turnover. To outline this, the financial crisis of 2007 – 2009 led to what we now call the “gig economy,” opening up entirely new opportunities for entrepreneurs. How long do you estimate the crisis will last?