Thu.Jul 15, 2021

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How to deal with toxic coworkers or emotional vampires at work

Rise

Want to create a more harmonious workplace? Help employees learn how to deal with toxic coworkers. . We’ve all dealt with toxic coworkers—the person with the short fuse, the one who always rolls their eyes when offered a suggestion, the office gossip. Not only are toxic coworkers bad for morale, but according to experts , they can also make other employees less productive.

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How to calculate the ROI of an ATS: A step-by-step guide

Workable

Don’t be discouraged! We’ve got four simple calculations to help you break down the ROI of an ATS and build a rock-solid business case. 1. Avoid bad hires. A bad hire is shorthand for a new employee who leaves the business within 12 months of their hire date. The US Department of Labor estimates that the individual cost of a bad hiring decision is roughly equivalent to 30% of that new hire’s first year salary.

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Experts watching if TikTok can help solve their hiring woes

HRExecutive

An increasingly remote world and a hot job market are causing employers to embrace an out-of-the-box way to recruit workers: TikTok. Chipotle, Target, WWE, Shopify and other employers are partnering with a new feature on the social media platform to recruit potential workers. Advertisement TikTok—best known for short and trendy videos—is getting into the recruiting space with its launch of TikTok Resumes platform.

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How to become and remain a successful recruitment agency

Manatal

Let’s start with the facts. Did you know that in the U.S., there are about 20,000 staffing and recruiting companies, which altogether operate around 39,000 offices? Approximately 55% of companies and 74% of offices are in the temporary and contract staffing sector of the industry ( Labor Works ). To add to that, the same source mentioned that America’s staffing companies hire nearly 15 million temporary and contract employees in one year alone!

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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10 Ways To Stop The Great Resignation At Your Company

Zenefits

Earlier this year, associate professor Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M University predicted a ‘ Great Resignation ’ would be the next challenge for American business. As post-pandemic employees are called back to in-person work or increased hours, many, he predicted, would be reconsidering their options. Some may completely exit the 9 to 5 grind, others will want to continue to work remotely, still others will be enticed to move on in the tight labor market. .

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International Conference Calls: The Do’s and Don’ts

Hppy

Conference calls can be a challenging way to communicate, even when everyone is a native English speaker. But if your call includes participants from different countries or others whose first language is not English, it can take even more work to ensure engagement, collaboration and understanding. Using tactics like these can help everyone contribute to their full potential.

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Recognize and Mitigate Expense Fraud in Business

SutiHR

Expense fraud ranks as the most common type of staff fraud. With an estimated 7% of revenues usually lost to fraudulent activities around the world, this fraud accounts for 15% of all the fraud uncovered. Employees will seek to benefit at the expense of their manager for one reason or another. But each inappropriate expense claim harms your business.

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How to Balance Both Work And Family

6Q

Human beings are social animals. Undeniably, we are set on a pathway to excellence! While this has some extraordinary benefits of its own, we cannot deny that the rapid pace of life takes a great toll on our mental health. We often find ourselves caught in the baffling situation of handling our workplace as well as our relationships. To lead a successful life, we must create a balance between both these aspects.

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Sage-Gavin: Key to bold leadership? The foresight to create the future

HRExecutive

We’ve all heard the saying “hindsight is 20/20.” That’s true, but after what we all went through in the year 2020 , is it enough? Advertisement Foresight is required after 2020; Watch these 2 signs Instead of solely looking to the past for answers, leaders are increasingly expected to anticipate—even design—the future. It seems to me that bold leadership in 2021, and beyond, centers less around the lessons of history and more around anticipating what’s to come.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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What remote work revealed about the role of onboarding

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

When I joined a consulting firm straight out of business school, we had a week-long orientation for new employees. It was a great onboarding experience – a big production. But only three things stand out in my memory from that distant past: one of the firm’s co-founders told the story of the firm’s first and oldest customer, we received an in-depth book on problem-solving and I sat next to a gregarious fellow named Will, who has since become a partner at the firm.

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McDonald's Offers Emergency Childcare, Tuition Assistance to Win Back Employees

SHRM Resources

?McDonald's is among the latest employers to offer caregiving benefits to attract and retain employees. Now desperate to attract and keep employees, companies are.

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Why Background Screening is Important for Your Brand’s Reputation

Accurate Background

A company’s reputation matters more than anything – it’s tied to how others view your business, purchasing decisions, revenue, and more. And in today’s digital era, the public can instantaneously know your reputation with just a quick Google search. If companies want to succeed in today’s digital-first world and avoid tarnishing their image, it’s essential to invest in reputation management.

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my coworker tells others I’m going to be overwhelmed

Ask a Manager

This post, my coworker tells others I’m going to be overwhelmed , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: First, some background: I (f) am an engineer in shared services in new product development. This means that I do not report through R&D, but I do support their teams on a dedicated basis. I am considered a team member for the duration of a project, which can last several years, and the R&D engineers and project leads provide significant input

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Employers Use Returnships to Diversify Workforce

SHRM Resources

Employers are using returnships to attract more women into their workforce, according to Tami Forman, executive director at Path Forward. It works with organizations to.

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Q&A With Christina Spadaro, Recruitment Marketing Rising Star

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s Global Talent Brand Manager Christina Spadaro was recognized as a Recruitment Marketing Rising Star – learn more about her work with Workhuman in this article on Rally Recruitment.

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my coworker’s bad customer service is irritating me … and she’s friends with my mom

Ask a Manager

This post, my coworker’s bad customer service is irritating me … and she’s friends with my mom , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I work in a very small public library. One of my coworkers is an older woman who has been friends with my mom for decades, and she and I are also on friendly terms.

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Brexit: More Than Six Months In—Where Are We Now?

SHRM Resources

More than six months have passed since the U.K. officially left the European Union on Dec. 31, 2020, yet the post-Brexit landscape remains far from settled.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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I’m overhearing my partner’s work conversations and they’re bad, rude companies during a labor shortage, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, I’m overhearing my partner’s work conversations and they’re bad, rude companies during a labor shortage, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I’m overhearing my partner’s work conversations and they seem bad. For the last year and a half of the pandemic, my partner and I have been working remotely.

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Skill-building strategies: How to grow professionally

Business Management Daily

Whether interested in going on the job market, advancing at a current company, or simply growing as a professional, savvy workers realize the importance of continuously expanding their skillset. In today’s ever-changing workplaces, commitment to lifelong learning shows a willingness to evolve with the times and stay relevant. Building skills, however, should not be a random effort to pile more onto a resume.

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This Is How Women Leaders Are Leveling Up Their Project Management in 2021

Replicon

“The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world.” – Charles Malik Remember how the project management industry looked a decade ago? There was very little focus on automation. Microsoft Suite was the only go-to tool.

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Listening, understanding, and taking action for change

Qualtrics HR

Today we’re publishing our DEI report, as part of our ongoing commitment to transparency. Qualtrics DEI bi-annual report - Q2 2021. For more than a year, we all faced incredible challenges. Our employees around the world are still dealing with the effects of COVID-19. In parallel, we also faced historic injustices, violence and racism towards the Asian and Black communities.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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5 Key Focus Areas For CEO’s : The Post Pandemic Shift

Engagedly

In the past couple of months, organizations saw a drastic change in the way they function. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the workforce to go remote and made organizations resilient, agile, adaptive, and open to changes at the same time. This is what helped most C-Suite employees navigate their businesses successfully amidst a global pandemic. . While now many organizations are opening their doors and resuming their work from physical locations, the post-pandemic world is not the same.

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Remote Working Tools to Help Build Trust & Security | Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

One of the biggest challenges of working remotely is the lack of social and collaborative connection that comes with face-time and proximity. In the absence of the regular in-office routines and conversations that help to cultivate psychological safety, employees – especially new hires that have been onboarded remotely – risk feeling isolated, invisible and inaccessible.

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5 Collaborative Learning Techniques to Try in Your Next Workshop

FlashPoint

Does Your Team Feel Connected? From training and team meetings to high-level strategy sessions, we’ve become adept at virtual communication. In this constantly changing environment, we know leaders are craving personalization and connection as much as leadership and management skills. Collaborating and connecting with others – especially if they work in a virtual environment or as a remote employee ­– gives employees an opportunity to really work with others, versus just reporting to them or man

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Engaging Remote Employees for Sustainable Performance

EngagementMultiplier

Many people are continuing to work from home, and indications suggest that remote work to some degree will be a permanent feature of many workplaces. If this describes your organisation, it’s time to start thinking about the unique challenges posed by a remote workforce, and engaging remote employees for sustainable performance. When it comes to keeping remote employees engaged, first and foremost, one needs to consider that employee engagement is chiefly about removing the barriers that impede

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Organic Instagram Growth: Strategies to Build And Make Your Brand Rock

Take It Personel-ly

Instagram is one of the top social platforms targeted by marketers and brands given that it has 1.974 billion users across the world. That is a growth of about 23 percent since 2020 showing the platform has reaped benefits related to coronavirus lockdowns. Compared to Facebook, Instagram generates 4x more interaction. The platform makes for […].

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How to support non-binary staff in the workplace | HR blog

myhrtoolkit

Learn how to better support non-binary employees and colleagues in the workplace with this guide from employment lawyer Catherine Wilson.

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Top 5 Things Millennials Want In the Workplace in 2021

Great Place to Work

Over 300,000 millennial employees in the U.S. tell us what matters at work.

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