Thu.Jun 20, 2019

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A wrinkle In time: Is #TooOld the next #MeToo?

Workplace Diva

Sexual harassment has been outed on Twitter, thanks to #MeToo. But another movement is primed, plumped and patiently waiting to have its moment in the social media sun: age discrimination. If you have ever felt like you weren't hired or promoted because of your age, then you might be interested in the story of five New York City TV news reporters who are suing their former station for alleged age and gender discrimination.

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Keeping Work Human: How to Keep Work Human in the Wake of HR Tech Advancements

Achievers

What will it be like to work in the year 2029? I’m a futurist – let me paint you a picture. A decade from now imagine going into work… and yes some people will still work in offices 10 years from now. Imagine it’s a Monday and you’re headed into the office. But in 2029, you will work in a sentient office building. Your building is filled with sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) all computing and sharing data that is being processed by Artificial Intelligence (A

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How Workforce Planning with Org Charts Helps Engage Employees

Pingboard

Employee engagement is highly valued by top-performing companies for a good reason: Engaged employees demonstrate their commitment to company goals through exceptional effort and results. Research shows that engaged teams are more profitable, have lower turnover, and yield more satisfied customers than less engaged teams. A great way to improve your employee engagement is to actively involve your team in professional development opportunities.

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How to hire the best developer talent at your next career fair

Hacker Earth

For the past nine years, software engineers have been at the top of the ‘hardest to fill jobs’ in the US. Over 120,000 tech jobs open in the US each year, with only close to 60,000 computer science graduates. It’s no different in European countries, where tech talent shortage is hitting the market. The trend is making some recruiters nervous, as finding talent gets tougher across the tech landscape.

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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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The Staffing Agency's Guide To Programmatic Recruitment

PandoLogic

Staffing agencies are finding it increasingly difficult to help their clients find the best candidates. Concerns of a diminishing talent pool coupled with a highly competitive market for top candidates makes for some difficult terrain. But that's not where your.

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#WorkTrends: How to Build a Company Where Everyone Wants to Work

TalentCulture

We all want to work at an organization with a great culture, but how can you build your own? Sprinklr Chief Culture and Talent Officer Diane Adams joins #WorkTrends to break it all down. The post #WorkTrends: How to Build a Company Where Everyone Wants to Work appeared first on TalentCulture.

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6 Steps to Managing a Social Media Crisis

Take It Personel-ly

Company controversies, C-Suite scandals, and disgruntled employees have ran especially rampant in our news’ cycles over the past few years; however, what has been more explosive has been the extent of public criticism and backlash to insensitive products or media campaigns. Luckily though, to our benefit, history has exposed a number of companies who […].

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4 Steps to Build an Effective Training and Development Program

Namely

As a new generation enters the workforce, there is an even more pressing need to invest in workplace learning and development. As the baby boomer generation moves toward retirement––taking years of valuable expertise with them––millennials are quickly becoming the dominant group in the workforce. In fact, millennials are on track to make up 75 percent of employees by 2020.

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Tech Revolution Imperative: The Time to Future-Proof is Now

HRExecutive

The pace of change in today’s business environment is unparalleled—and with this change comes the inherent need to field talent that’s ready for the future of work. Talent that has the right digital/tech skills to drive innovation. Leaders need to consider the right balance of hiring and upskilling their existing workforce to have access to these skills.

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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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More Organizations Are Expanding Severance Benefits, Survey Finds

SHRM Resources

More employers are offering severance benefits to all workers, according to a recent survey, evidence perhaps that the trend toward designing an improved employee experience includes separation and even termination.

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How Leaders and Organizations Can Cope With Understaffing

IO At Work

Understaffing presents distinct problems for employees and organizations. Researchers study how leaders and teams can succeed in the face of this problem.

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How Post Office puts CX in the hands of its employees

Qualtrics HR

There are more than 11,500 Post Office branches around the UK, making it the country’s largest retail network. However, unlike other big brands that would take a cookie-cutter approach to running over 10,000 branches, the Post Office is different. Each of its branches is unique, each having its own quirks. Some are based in town halls and churches, some share a shop floor with another brand.

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The Definitive Report: SocialChorus’ 2019 Internal Communicator Index

Advanced Learning Institute

Originally published on SocialChorus. If you read only one communications report this year, make it this one. We wanted to understand the current state of employee communications. What are today’s biggest challenges? How do budgets compare to just a few years ago? What are the most pressing concerns from CEOs? Partnering with Branded Research Inc., an independent market research organization with an active proprietary global panel of over 2 million respondents, we surveyed 400+ U.S. internal com

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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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SHRM Helps You Find the Right Veterans for Your Open Jobs

SHRM Resources

Your organization has made the commitment to hire military veterans. But where do you start? The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has a solution: HireVets. The web portal, launched in late 2018, connects SHRM members with the largest database of veteran job seekers.

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Why Work Still Sucks (And Organizational Change Is SLOW)

Jason Lauritsen

We’ve been working on making work suck less for quite a while now. Gallup has been measuring employee engagement for nearly 30 years and the results have always been terrible. Most employees are not fully engaged at work. In other words, work isn’t working very well for the people doing it. Don’t get me wrong, there are some organizations out there who have figured it out.

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Can I Pay My Employees However I Want?

Close HR Connections News & Insights

“As a business owner, can’t I pay my workers however I want?” This is one of the most common questions I get from business owners. Unfortunately, the Federal and State Departments of Labor under the Fair Standards Labor Act as well as the IRS have guidelines business owners must follow. So, the answer to the question above is no. There are several questions that businesses need to ask in order to determine how to classify the worker and what guidelines exist for that classification.

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Ep 20 – Trends in Neuroleadership and Change Management

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Forrester Recognizes Quick Base for “Seeking to Revolutionize Enterprise Development”

Quickbase

The low-code market is revolutionizing the way businesses approach digital transformation, speeding it up and pushing it further into processes it hasn’t touched before. We’re proud to play a role in leading that revolution. Forrester has recognized Quick Base as a leader for the second time in The Forrester Wave TM : Low-Code Platforms for Business Developers, Q2 2019.

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A #SHRM19 Interview with True Colors

SHRM

This is a 2019 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition (#SHRM19) interview is with True Colors International , a global consulting and training company. Below is a quick Q&A with the CEO, Robert Cook. Who is True Colors!? Tell us everything, just as you would someone approaching your booth and asking you this question at #SHRM19 in Las Vegas. True Colors is a global consulting and training company with a proven model for maximizing organizational performance through better people performan

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The Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement

BambooHR

Employee engagement has become the holy grail of the business world. It promises a boost in productivity, higher innovation, increased retention, and a better reputation.

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Why Qualtrics – Maciej Weksej – Senior Software Engineer – Krakòw, Poland

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Maciej’s “Why Qualtrics” story. For most of my engineering career, I have been working in remote teams that delivered high-quality software. Two years before joining Qualtrics, with a group of ex-Googlers, we founded an engineering office in Krakow for a small start-up based in New York.

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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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Overcoming the Most Common Challenges for Managers Conducting Stay Interviews

Career Partners International

Over the past few years, the job market has become increasingly competitive. As a result, workers are gaining more power and have a greater say in where they choose to share their talents. Many organizations have seen a growing number of departing employees, despite no obvious decrease in happiness. Quarter after quarter employee surveys show the same results, and yet top talent continues to leave for greener pastures.

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Why being a best place to work is good for business

Insperity

When your company is a best place to work, it attracts and produces employees who are eager and determined to drive your business forward. Achieving this status can create immense benefits for your business. But these types of organizations don’t just appear out of thin air and well wishes. They are carefully constructed and iterated upon. Like any strong bond, marriage or partnership, you must start with a strong foundation of trust and understanding that evolves and adapts over time as circums

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See you at #SHRM19?

SHRM

I am packing my bags and heading to Las Vegas to join approximately 19,000 people with an interest in HR. Once again I am an official #SHRM19 blogger and tweeter, though there are so many people tweeting that is almost redundant, or is it? An Invitation If you see me please connect with me. Stop me and say, "Hello." You will find me at the general sessions, at some concurrent sessions, in the Expo, or in the blogger’s lounge (LVCC N264).

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Looking To Implement Daily Self-Care For Your Employees? Follow These 11 Tips

Forbes Coaches Council

Happy employees, happy business. Ensure your team is fulfilled and de-stressed with these tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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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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Social Media and Recruitment: Top 7 Uses in 2019

Digital HR Tech

Social media have become commonplace in our personal and professional lives. As such, the LinkedIns, Twitters, Facebooks and Instagrams of this world provide a huge platform to connect with people. Social media have become a rather common way to connect, make new contacts and sometimes even become friends with people who have the same interests as we have.

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How blind recruitment can help employers avoid the ‘black hole’

HR Zone

Acquisition. Avoid the recruitment black hole.

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You Can’t Teach Your Employees to be Human! #Transform

The Tim Sackett Project

You might have seen this in the news a few weeks back. Mom and Dad take their Autistic son to a Universal Theme Park in Orlando. The son is over the top excited for the Spiderman ride, and Murphy’s Law comes into play. The family gets to the ride and it’s broken down. The son loses it. Full blown, five-alarm tantrum on the ground in front of the ride.