Thu.Oct 06, 2016

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The Top Issues In Healthcare Recruiting Are.

Hoops

Filling positions in the healthcare industry is growing more and more difficult each day. No one is more acutely aware of this than hiring managers in the space, who find themselves struggling to attract and retain quality personnel. So what are the top issues in healthcare recruiting? Here are two. Competition for scarce talent is a huge problem in the industry.

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Using VUCA to Process Organizational Change

HR Bartender

During this year’s WorkHuman Conference , hosted by Globoforce, I learned a new acronym – VUCA. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Wikipedia says it was introduced by the U.S. Army in the 1990s. In recent years, it’s been used in strategic leadership conversations. Basically, it means the world is a little wild and crazy.

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5 Insanely Great Company Perks That Will Draw Top Talent

Achievers

Life would be simple if hiring the best people were only a matter of offering competitive pay. Incentive Magazine revealed employee benefits are more valuable than ever – according to MetLife’s 10th annual study of employee benefits trends, there is a strong relationship between satisfaction with benefits and overall job satisfaction. In today’s tight talent market, employers have to claim a unique position for their brand if they want to snag the top-tier candidates.

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Who Inspires You to Get Out of Bed in the Morning?

RecognizeThis!

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – Simply expressing to others they are appreciated and important powerfully and positively impacts both the giver and receiver of the praise. How do you change someone’s perspective of themselves? How do you change your own perspective of yourself and your mission? One step – recognize someone. Celebrate the good in them.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Turning The Tables: How Job Candidates Are Vetting Employers

Everwise

It used to be that employers had all the power when it came to interviewing prospective employees for a position. Nowadays, the tables have turned and job candidates are doing the same. We live in a “social media generation” where online reviews are king. With the invention of Yelp, Amazon, TripAdvisor, and Angie’s List, people commonly check out reviews before committing to anything.

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3 Steps To Becoming A Strong And Confident Leader

Hppy

A dream pay package and six-hour working day won’t make up for a dictator-like manager screaming down the office every afternoon. You can provide all the incentives in the world, but for most employees a job is either made or broken by a boss. Still, knowing how to be a good boss is difficult, especially since the title itself can be authoritarian and off-putting.

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Fixing Your Total Rewards Mix: Tom McMullen Q+A (Part 2)

WorkHuman

Get insights from Tom McMullen on finding the right mix of rewards for employees. Which reward programs provide the greatest impacts and ROI for employees? What role does peer recognition play in driving engagement? For the first part of our Q&A with Tom McMullen , senior client partner and North America rewards expertise leader at Korn Ferry Hay Group , we asked about the latest trends in pay practices and why salary increases have remained stagnant.

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You Wish You Had These Friends 

Laurie Ruettimann

You could do worse than having three middle-age white guys as friends. Trust me. Somebody’s always giving me good advice, I’m never alone, and I’m not allowed to take myself too seriously. It’s not bad having friends like these! The post You Wish You Had These Friends appeared first on Laurie Ruettimann.

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Form 5500 Gets A Makeover: Find Out What Has Changed

ACA Times

Form 5500 is getting a makeover. The forms are under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) , will now require more information to complete from plan sponsors. While the mission here appears to be fluid data mining and maintaining a stricter compliance under the Affordable Care Act, these new proposed changes can very well affect employers and plan sponsors in ways that weren’t expected.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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The Importance of Leadership in the Workplace

TalentCulture

Higher education, known as continued education in the US and further education (FE) in the UK, is greatly in need of leaders. College, like any businesses, needs driven individuals to help it succeed. Yet, many don’t really appreciate the importance of leadership in the workplace, in roles in further education, or how important finding these staff members is for the all businesses in every industry.

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Freedom, Purpose, and the Opportunity to Achieve Success

WorqIQ

we do all have aspirations and we do all have something to contribute. We deserve the opportunity to do so. And some of us, by a twist of fate, have had less opportunity to contribute and have come further in our quest to do so. Read More» The post Freedom, Purpose, and the Opportunity to Achieve Success appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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The Social And Mobile Workplace: Climate Change Is Real

TalentCulture

We’ve all watched (and some of us have helped) Social and Mobile (SM) rise to the forefront of the world of work. It’s applied a new source of heat; flooded the banks of formerly tame streams of data and processes and turned them into wild seas for recruiters, candidates and everyone else. It’s turned the sometimes chilly field of recruitment into a kind of digital garden, where Cloud-based tools and software bloom in increasing density and profusion, fed by huge new storms of new information a

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3 Characteristics to Look for That Strengthen Your Culture

BambooHR

Have you ever tried to work with a fish? To reward our two oldest kids for good behavior, my wife and I recently agreed to buy them each a fish. But finding the right fish proved to be a challenge. We knew our kids weren’t prepared to handle any fish that required a lot of […]. The post 3 Characteristics to Look for That Strengthen Your Culture appeared first on.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Why Are You Letting Tolerance Undermine Your Culture?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Leaders will often ask me what they can do to accelerate a change in their culture. As someone who likes to find ways to provide simplicity on seemingly complex and theoretical topics, I’ve long been searching for that mythical “one thing” that will make the most difference. I think I’ve found it. I’ll be interested to hear if you agree with me.

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Advice from legendary CLO Steve Kerr: Start with the back of the manual

Everwise

Steve Kerr, former CLO of GE and Goldman Sachs. For years, HR leaders have sought to get “ a seat at the table.”. I recently discussed this dilemma with Steve Kerr, the legendary head of learning at GE under Jack Welch and the world’s first Chief Learning Officer. Steve has a knack for using simple catch phrases to explain and reinforce critical ideas.

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The Trait You Should Look for In Every Job Candidate

Criteria Corp

The job market is filled with a diverse array of jobs suited for an equally diverse set of personalities. A sales associate probably won’t have the same personality as a software developer, nor should they. There are very few personality traits that are predictive of success across every type of position. However, extensive research has demonstrated that one personality trait is correlated with success in just about every job out there.

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The Machine Learning Big Data Guide for HR & Recruiting #hrtechconf

Workology

This is a two part series that dives into the basics for machine learning for human resources and recruitment. . In a world where the demand for qualified knowledge workers is greater than ever before, highly-skilled professionals expect nothing less than the best from their employers when it comes to workplace benefits, compensation and development for themselves as well as their employees.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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The Trait You Should Look for In Every Job Candidate

Criteria Corp

The job market is filled with a diverse array of jobs suited for an equally diverse set of personalities. A sales associate probably won’t have the same personality as a software developer, nor should they. There are very few personality traits that are predictive of success across every type of position. However, extensive research has demonstrated that one personality trait is correlated with success in just about every job out there.

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Your Hiring Managers Are Still Asking Dumb Questions

TLNT: The Business of HR

When I was a teenager and applying for a job the manager who interviewed me asked what even then I thought was about the dumbest question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?

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#WorkTrends Recap: Live From #HRTechConf: State of the State

TalentCulture

This week’s #WorkTrends show was live from the HR Tech Conference in Chicago. Host, Meghan M Biro was joined by Dwane Lay , Vice President of Customer Experience of Dovetail Software , to continue the discussion on the state of HR Tech. Dwane shared his thoughts on what’s hot in HR technology, what’s happening at the conference and much more.

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100% healed policy = 100% violation of the ADA

The Employer Handbook

Someone didn’t read my post back in May. [cue music ]. Last night, I read this opinion about an employee-plaintiff whose position required her to conduct several weekly tours of the employer-defendant’s facility. In 2012, the plaintiff fell on a ladder, broke her leg, and took 12 weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Near the end of her FMLA leave, the plaintiff provided the defendant with all sorts of information from her physician, which detailed a number of accom

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Unlocking Global Payroll Potential

This whitepaper examines the rise, and subsequent challenges, faced by U.S. companies expanding globally, and explores best practices for achieving seamless and compliant global payroll operations.

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Retail domination: technology and the ever-changing face of HR in retail

HR Zone

Change. Tech and the ever-changing face of HR in retail.

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update: my coworker responds to everything I ask him to do with profanity and “your mom” jokes

Ask a Manager

Remember last week’s letter from the person whose coworker responded to everything she asked him to do with profanity, name-calling, flat refusals, and and “your mom” jokes ? Here’s the update. Not too long after my letter was published, Boss, Clerk, and I sat down to discuss my concerns. Boss said “I’m here as a mediator only… OP, take it away” and only cut in sparingly to clarify points or add her two cents.

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Why is Recruiting So Hard?

HRExecutive

Four panelists at the HR Technology Conference — all of them from recruiting vendors — struggled to answer the question on so many minds these days: Given all the technological advances during the last 20 years, why is recruiting still such a frustrating experience for many jobseekers and employers? Part of the problem may be technology itself, said panelist Jennifer Seith, CareerBuilder’s vice president for software solutions during the session, which was titled “Two Dec

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How To Make Your Contractors Part of the Team

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s no secret that contract employees often feel like second-class citizens in the workplace. Employers are prone to separating full-time and contract workers, sometimes to the extreme: placing contractors on separate floors of the office, giving them different security badges, or providing contractor-specific email addresses. While contractor status may limit access to certain sensitive company information or decision-making, employers stand to benefit by better incorporating contractors into

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8 Pillars of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts have long been a priority for companies, but the pandemic has made the need to increase these efforts even more apparent. As many companies have doubled down on efforts, how can they transform promises into company-specific actions? This eBook shares what a comprehensive commitment to DEI looks like at every part of the employee lifecycle.

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What Is the Link Between Formal and Combined Real-Time Feedback?

Workology

We’re hearing more and more about how real-time feedback can solve engagement problems and drastically lower turnover. But for those companies that already have a great performance management process in place and a highly engaged workforce, is real-time feedback really worth it? No matter what your situation is, adding real-time feedback to the equation can support and strengthen your performance management process in several ways: Building On and Tracking Progress Between Reviews.

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Digital HR, Innovation, and the Future of Modern HCM

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Now that the hustle and bustle of Oracle OpenWorld has ended, I want to share with you one of my favorite sessions of the week. It was a joint session with Stacia Garr from Deloitte and Gretchen Alarcon from Oracle on the latest trends in human capital management and how technology helps us connect the dots. As an avid techie, I’m always interested in seeing how innovative ideas and technology will reshape our future and the workplace.

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Should you allow employees to discuss politics at work?

Insperity

As political discourse ramps up, so does the likelihood that hot-button discussions will boil over between coworkers. How can leaders limit the distraction posed by emotionally charged political talk ? Can you ban all political discussions? It may surprise you to learn that our country’s First Amendment right to free speech is protected in public companies and government agencies, but not in most private companies.