Thu.Oct 27, 2016

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Physician Turnover Costs & Causes, Healthcare Recruitment Challenges Continue

Hospital Recruiting

Emergency medicine physician Dr. Travis Ulmer blogged about some of the reasons why new physicians often don’t stick with their first jobs. . The main points to this blog post have to do with new physicians being relatively inexperienced with contract review, benefit packages, and compensation negotiation. The blog could have expanded on ways to avoid this problem by casting a wider geographic net , starting the interview process early , and avoiding saturated job markets , but this is sti

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There Are Many Ways to Practice Mindfulness

HR Bartender

Over the past few months, I’ve shared with you some information about mindfulness and how it can help us to be better leaders. I remain fascinated by the practice. With all of the talk about work stress and burnout, I wonder if mindfulness practices can be used in a wellbeing program. So I decided to do a little experiment and practice mindfulness for a month.

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Measure for Measure: The Evolution of Recruiting Metrics

Visier

Like many aspects of human capital management, recruiting practices and outcomes are under increasing scrutiny. Operational metrics are no longer enough. At the same time, organizations are realizing that operationally focused processes and technology solutions are no longer enough either. Aptitude Research Partners’ recent research on strategic talent acquisition found that as the pressure to identify talent intensifies, companies need to address a more holistic view of every stage of the candi

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How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Drive Employee Engagement

Achievers

By: Leigh Burger. Senior Implementation Manager, Achievers. Now more than ever HR professionals are being called upon to demonstrate their value and generate tangible business results through their efforts. This can feel exciting and terrifying at the same time. It opens up a tremendous opportunity to leave your thumbprint on the organization’s bottom line.

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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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WEBINAR: Building a High-Performance Company Culture

Pomello

Build a better company culture. Find Out If Our Webinar is Right for You. If your culture isn’t aligned with your success factors, you’re in for trouble. Within a company, culture is a guiding factor that not only helps people understand how to behave, but also serves to reinforce a business’s priorities and objectives. In this webinar, HR professionals in many industries will learn what it takes to redefine “culture,” fix a broken company culture and adapt the unde

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You Are Where You Sit at the Table - Psych/Business 101.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note - I'm running this post today from 2009 - an oldie but a goodie. I remembered it because I gave a person a hard time (in a good natured way) last week about sitting at the head of the table while my CEO/founder/my partner was on the side as our leadership team meeting was about ready to start. I then watch 2 other members of our leadership team come in, look at the seat at the head of the table and pass on that seat.

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Yes, Talent Acquisition Matters For Restaurants Too

Hoops

What’s eating restaurant profits? Rising rents, food spoilage, and empty tables are the usual suspects but another culprit is also taking an excessive bite. Labor costs are cannibalizing profit margins. Recruitment and retention are two of the top five industry challenges, rising above food costs in a 2016 operator survey by the National Restaurant Association.

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Temporary Nondiscrimination Relief Gets Another Year Extension By IRS

ACA Times

As Closed Defined Benefit Plans are still being worked out rules-wise, the IRS has provided an extension to an important aspect of qualified plans. In a notice released toward the close of September, the IRS has extended Temporary Nondiscrimination Relief. Notice 2016-57 explains that for another year, temporary relief may be provided for closed defined benefit plans.

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Blind recruitment: A small step forward, but how do we make the leap?

HR Zone

Acquisition. Blind recruitment: One way to tackle hiring bias?

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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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Choosing Tools to Promote a Culture of Wellness

TalentCulture

Have you made promoting a culture of wellness a top priority in your workplace? Well, I have to tell you, you’re on the right track—and others would do well to follow your example. Why? Because placing emphasis on workplace wellness is one of the most effective ways employers can help boost employee productivity, reduce absenteeism, and control healthcare costs.

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7 sure-fire ways to earn your employees’ trust

Insperity

Employees are sensitive creatures, and one of the quickest things they pick up on is whether or not their boss trusts them. Trust is a critical element for a healthy work group and company. Without it, morale and productivity suffer, good employees leave and the rumor mill works overtime. What does a failure to display trust look like? Micromanaging and a lack of willingness to delegate are two of the most common traits.

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Filing Fees Set to Increase

Workology

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has annouced that starting on December 23, 2016 , U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) filing fees for temporary visa petitions, family and employment-based visa petitions for lawful permanent residence (“Green Cards”), and applications for adjustment of status, naturalization, and waivers will increase.

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The Business Case for Human Resources

Everwise

The success of every organization rests on the people who compose it. Collaboration and communication between employees and teams can propel a business to success or to a premature conclusion. So, it is without a doubt essential to keep skilled, competent employees in an organization and develop them into even more effective, resourceful professionals.

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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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Dr. Marla Gottschalk joins Jostle’s Board of Directors

Jostle

Vancouver, Canada (October 27, 2016): Dr. Marla Gottschalk , workplace effectiveness expert and Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, has joined Jostle Corporation’s Board of Directors. Dr. Gottschalk specializes in workplace success strategies and organizational change. Her expertise and interests are closely aligned with Jostle’s vision to create more connected and highly functioning workplaces.

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How to Prevent and Address Bullying in the Workplace

Paychex

Workplace bullying can have serious consequences for the employees involved as well as a company's culture. In fact, 51 percent of businesses report having dealt with an instance of workplace bullying. Take a look at how business leaders and managers can prevent and address bullying in their place of business.

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"Operational excellence cannot be one of fifteen initiatives you have running."

HR Zone

Business. Interview: Justin Hughes, MD, Mission Excellence.

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my coworker has become needy and wants a closer friendship than I want

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Over the past year, I have developed a casual friendship with a coworker. Think: occasional happy hours, venting to each other about rough days, etc. She’s about a decade older than me and has very different personal interests so we’re not really friends outside of work. The problem began two months ago when she told me she was having minor surgery and didn’t have anyone to pick her up from the hospital.

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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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Retaining Talent Is More Cost Effective Than Hiring

TLNT: The Business of HR

Most savvy businesses owners know that it’s much more cost-effective to hold onto a current customer than it is to go out and get a new customer. That’s why avoiding customer churn is such an important part of sound business performance, and why companies invest in loyalty and discount programs – to keep customers happy and increase the amount of repeat business they get.

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Culture and HR at Great Ormond Street - an interview with the hospital's deputy director for HR and OD

HR Zone

Culture. Interview: James Devine, Deputy Director HR, GOSH.

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3 Ways the Gig Economy Should Be Changing Your Workforce Planning Now

TLNT: The Business of HR

Freelancer. To some, the word sounds like a synonym for someone too lazy or unqualified to work a ‘real job.’ But I’ve found that working with freelancers has been integral to my success as an entrepreneur.

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can I be friends with candidates who I reject for jobs, telling an employee to talk more normally to foreign colleagues, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Can I be friends with candidates who I reject for jobs? I am a hiring manager and I meet A LOT of candidates that I do grow to like. I have had some applicants ask if we can be friends after I send them a rejection email. I’m new to the area and only have work friends, so I really do want to be their friend!

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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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HRE Column: How to choose which disruptive HR tech solutions to chase

Steve Boese

Here is my semi-frequent reminder and pointer for blog readers that I also write a monthly column at Human Resource Executive Online called Inside HR Tech that can be found here. This month, in the aftermath of the HR Technology Conference and still thinking about all the innovative and potentially disruptive HR tech solutions that continue to appear in the market, I thought about how much more difficult it must be getting for HR and business leaders to assess and evaluate and decide which types

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How One Woman Made Lemonade Out of a Job No Man Was Asked to Do

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This is the first in a series of interviews conducted by Rob Cahill, CEO of the management-training and education firm Jhana, with industry leading scholars, CEOs, founders and consultants on the topic of management. .

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Setting interns up for success [Part 2]

Ceridian

By Celine DuPuis, Product Marketing Manager, Ceridian. In the first part of this blog series, I discussed the ways in which internship programs can benefit both students and employers, as well as the many ways managers can structure these programs to ensure our interns get the most out of them. The next step of facilitating internship success is to implement a process that makes the transition from intern to employee as smooth and seamless as possible. .

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why group brainstorming doesn’t work, you’re leaving too many vacation days unused, and more

Ask a Manager

Over at the Fast Track by QuickBase today, I take a look at several big work-related stories in the news right now: the problems with group brainstorming, the hundreds of millions of vacation days we leave unused each year, and more. You can read it here. You may also like: my coworker booked all the best vacation days for the year and no one else can have them update: our time off is being rescinded — Hunger Games style is it wrong to take a sick day when you’re not really sick?

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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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Build from Within: Why Leaders Are the Backbone of an Engaged Business Community

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Leaders are the backbone of every organization. They set the tone for the business and represent its beliefs and values. But leaders also drive the success of a business on a much deeper level. Throughout each employee’s tenure, the company’s leaders are supposed to define what success looks like and help align employee performance goals with the company’s values and long-term vision.

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How to Get More Millennials to Apply to Your Company (and Stick Around a While)

The Muse

Don't have applicants rolling in the way you'd hope? Read on for proven tips for attracting and retaining Millennials.

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Elevate 2016-Meet the Speakers (Part 2)

BambooHR

They’re the biggest thought leaders and experts in the industry. They have fantastic tips and insights for elevating your work. And they want to hang out with YOU on November 10th. Well, you and 20,000 other HR and business professionals. They’re our Elevate 2016 speakers! To give you a sneak peak of the more than […]. The post Elevate 2016-Meet the Speakers (Part 2) appeared first on.

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