Fri.Apr 19, 2019

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Avanoo Earns $39M Valuation By Helping Companies Build Positive Corporate Cultures

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Daniel Jacobs founded Avanoo with the intention of helping companies tell positive stories to increase employee engagement and enhance bottom-line impact. Five years later, the start-up has raised its second round of venture capital financing and earned a nearly $40M valuation.

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Seek out 'Culture Expanders' not 'Culture Fit'

Great Place to Work

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4 Steps to Creating a Successful Digital-HR Strategy

HRExecutive

The world of digital transformation is upon us, and it touches every facet of our organizations, from technology to finance to human resources. As an HR executive contemplating the digital transformation of your workforce, your approaches are being challenged in the best ways possible. Every process comes under scrutiny, and every technology decision is placed under the microscope as the world outside of work continues to change at a faster pace than that inside of work.

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8 Steps for Starting Your Recruitment Agency

Manatal

Recruitment agencies don’t just identify and contact candidates for their clients. They aim to provide better career choices for the candidates as well. This win-win spirit is what motivates a recruiter to do their best every day. If you are keen on starting your own recruitment business to help more dreams come true, you should know these 8 key steps.

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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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How Programmatic Can Help Staffing Agencies Deliver Results

PandoLogic

Staffing agencies manage numerous job ads, in a variety of industries, with vastly different organizational hiring needs. It’s not just that a staffing agency has a lot of jobs to post; it’s that each of those job types requires a.

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#WorkTrends: Building a People-Focused Culture

TalentCulture

Donna Kimmel is executive vice president and chief people officer at Citrix, so I guess you could say she’s literally a people person! And that makes her the perfect guest for this week’s #WorkTrends topic: the importance of building a people-centric culture. It’s something that too many organizations merely pay lip service to, rather than investing the time required to ensure that their cultures really do revolve around their people.

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Protected: Introducing the First Graduating Class of Generation Z

Yello

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Three Reasons People in Drug Recovery Can Make Great Employees

SHRM

12 years ago I overcame meth addiction. I remember the feeling like it was yesterday. I reached three months sober and the world around me seemed to change over night. I started to see things with more color, food tasted better, and things felt brand new. I had woken up from what seemed to be nothing more than a nightmare and right back into my 15 year-old mindset with a desire to explore what the world had to offer because I wanted more.

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Can I Require Employees to Speak English?

Evil HR Lady

I manage a group of employees at a company where English is our official business language. There are a few people that speak only English, while another group speaks English and Spanish. The bilingual group often communicates in Spanish, which makes the English speakers uncomfortable. I asked the Spanish speakers to stick to English at work, but they say I’m violating their rights.

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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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How the exit interview fails the company

HRNasty

Keep employees engaged so they don’t think about giving their two-week notice. Does your company conduct exit interviews? Last week I blogged about employees turning in their two-week notice. As an HR person, it has been my experience that more than half the employees leave a company without saying anything to their manager about what causes the disconnect.

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What makes a good ATS?

Manatal

A recruiter will very quickly understand the perks of an Applicant Tracking Software (ATS). But when it comes to deciding which one to choose, it is a different matter. Here are a few tips on what makes a good one. It should be simple to use. Some of your hiring consultants may be reluctant to change the way they operate. An ATS should be built to take only a couple of hours for everyone to learn how to work on it.

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Client Appreciation Week 2019

exaqueo

Mid-April is a busy time for all. It brings showers, taxes, holidays and a special opportunity for us to thank our valuable clients, with #ClientAppreciationWeeek. At exaqueo, we are fortunate to engage with organizations to build authentic employer brands and the unique experiences that drive meaningful work and cultures. Our clients impact our teams in many ways, challenging and inspiring us every day to work harder, smarter, and with heart.

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How Viewing Your People As Individuals Can Dramatically Impact Your Bottom Line

Forbes Coaches Council

Leaders today across all industries must be more aware of who they are and who their team members are while possessing more progressive and engaging leadership skills than ever before.

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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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Meet the #StateLineCrew #SHRM19 Bloggers- Introduction

SHRM

Paul LaLonde, Mary Williams, Jeff Palkowski, and Kyra Matkovich How do four human resources professionals who had never met one another less than a year ago end up heading to the 2019 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition as members of the #SHRM19 Blogger Team and more importantly, as great friends? It is still a whirlwind as we look back about how all this transpired over the past year, but here is our brief story.

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Why And How To Switch From Competitive To Collaborative Talk

Forbes Coaches Council

Being kinder and more caring and compassionate in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world takes practice — especially if you’re used to a “winner take all” environment.

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open thread – April 19-20, 2019

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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How to Solve the Happiness Crisis

WeSpire

Saturday Spark #10. By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO. This week, while attending a conference for 600 human resource executives, I learned that we have a “Happiness Crisis” on our hands. Released a few weeks ago, the World Happiness Report , commissioned originally for the UN, ranks countries on six factors: life expectancy, income per capita, social support, trust in institutions, generosity, and freedom to make life choices.

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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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Track Communication Flow In Your Company Using Organizational Network Analysis

Perceptyx

Interest in organizational network analysis (ONA) has been trending in HR for several years, but the underlying idea has been around for decades. The purpose of studying these informal or relational networks, as they were formerly called, was to identify the informal connections, hierarchy, and leaders within the organization—just as it is with ONA.

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Why Athletes Are Perfect Candidates For Franchise Ownership

Forbes Coaches Council

Athletes have been coached by others their entire lives, so the transition to being coached/trained by a franchisor is natural.

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What is international PEO?

Global Upside

If global expansion is on your radar, then you’ve likely come across something called international PEO as a potential avenue for adding employees in new locations around the world. Let’s get right to the point: Much of the information circulating about international PEO is mistaken. That’s because the term “international PEO” largely has been co-opted to describe a practice that, when employed on the global scale, doesn’t actually fall within the realm of a professional employer organization, o

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How To Set Your Goals Appropriately When Job Searching

Forbes Coaches Council

There are a few ways you can aim for your dream position while remaining realistic.

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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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France-based HR Path Raises $112.5 Million USD for Global HRO and HRTech Systems Integration

WorkTech

Another funding announcement from France. HR Path, an emerging HR outsourcing and systems integrator has raised $112.5 Million USD to fuel their global expansion. While we aren’t aware of HR Path’s pricing or business model, this category is attractive to investors, normally focused on license fees and minimizing services. The large global enterprise market is […].

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How To Start Networking -- Differently

Forbes Coaches Council

There is always more than one way to develop new business connections in your life.

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Innovapptive Raises $16.3 Million Series A for its Industrial Connected Workforce Platform

WorkTech

The latest platform to connect an industrial workforce productivity with performance and communication gets funding. From their press release: HOUSTON, April 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Innovapptive, a leading connected workforce platform for asset intensive industries, announced today a Series A investment of $16.3 million led by Tiger Global Management, LLC, a New York investment firm. […].

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Onboarding: why new starters need a 'travel guide'

HR Zone

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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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Hungary-based Talentuno Raises $4.5 Million USD for its Job Board Marketplace With “Matching Network”

WorkTech

The job board category continues to attract venture capital globally. Specialization continues to be a prevalent trend in this category. From FinSMEs: Talentuno, a Budapest, Hungary-based HR tech startup, raised €4m in Series A funding.The round was led by Hiventures Ventures Fund Management Plc. and Bonitás Venture Capital Fund Management Ltd.The company intends to […].

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How to Address the Gender Pay Gap with Effective Enterprise Compensation Management

HRsoft

Determining whether there is a gender pay gap and taking appropriate measures to address it has become an increasingly important priority for companies across the U.S. There are many reasons why a pay gap may occur, ranging from lack of visibility into pay practices and siloed pay data to the absence of a compensation philosophy which can be enforced consistently throughout the organization.

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Austria-based TeamEcho Raises $349K USD Seed for Employee Survey Tool

WorkTech

Austria-based TeamEcho is the latest startup to join the crowded employee survey category wiht $349K USD seed round. From TeamEcho blog: TEAMECHO SECURES INVESTMENT OVER € 310,000April 16, 2019TeamEcho’s 13-strong team exceeds its own expectations with its employee survey tool and secures € 310,000 investment from Austria’s largest startup investor network primeCROWD.

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