Wed.Aug 12, 2020

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How to Adjust Your Talent Acquisition Strategies for a Diversifying Candidate Pool

Spark Hire

The talent market is constantly changing. In recent years, it has shifted to become increasingly diverse. These shifts occur for many different reasons, including the aging population working longer, layoffs forcing individuals close to retirement back into the workforce, and a general increase in the amount of talent available. While many professionals are focusing their talent acquisition strategies on hiring a more diverse workforce, it’s challenging to actually prepare for an already diverse

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HR’s Role in Hazard Pay Policies and Compliance | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

For some employers, hazard pay is part of the job. Dangerous worksites, physically demanding tasks, and other duties require additional compensation to keep positions staffed with skilled workers. For others, hazard pay probably won’t ever enter the budgeting equation. Still, great HR professionals take it upon themselves to learn the ins and outs of the workplace, so consider this your primer on hazard pay compliance.

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L&D During COVID-19: How to Keep Your Team Engaged

Justworks

From commuting to office banter, COVID-19 has put many of the activities that define the everyday employee experience on hold — not the least of them professional development. Whether your team is in its fifth month of remote work or starting to return gradually to the office, it’s unlikely that employees are packing a conference room to capacity to hear a guest speaker, or traveling to conferences and industry events.

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10 ways to create a fully inclusive remote onboarding process

HR Zone

Retention Inclusive remote onboarding in 10 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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i4cp Named to the Inc. 5000 List for Sales Growth (i4cp login required)

i4cp

Inc. magazine today ranked the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) on its annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list recognizes leading companies within the U.S. economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small and midsized businesses. This is the fifth time i4cp has appeared on the list.

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What Percent of Health Insurance is Paid by Employers?

PeopleKeep

When evaluating a new or existing health insurance program, your organization's contribution strategy is an important consideration. In simple terms, how much will individual employees pitch in for coverage, and what percent of health insurance is paid by the employer?

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Workology Extends $75,000 Scholarship Program Deadline to August 31st

Workology

Application Deadline Extended Through Sunday, August 31st, 2020. Through the Workology Scholarship Program, my goal is to help 600 HR leaders who have been impacted by economic circumstances in past. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Clickbait Reporting on HR Issues in Today's World.Sucks (The HR Famous Podcast)

The HR Capitalist

Look, I get it. We live in a clickbait society designed to write a great title to any story and get everyone enraged about whatever the issue of the day is. Politics. Masks. All issues on COVID. You can list all your other examples in this box -. It's clickbait all the time, and few reporters take the time to present a balanced account of the issues at hand.

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my boss brags about giving “clear, direct” feedback — but really is just mean

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I love how often you mention direct, clear feedback ! The best manager I ever had, who thankfully was also my first manager, was such a pro at giving clear feedback on the spot with the most polite and respectful tone. It made me want to perform better, and I became a flourishing, high-performing employee because of it. A different manager I had after her, though, became known very quickly for making people cry after feedback.

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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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Customize 360 Feedback Survey Questions According to Departments

Engagedly

360 feedback is now a hotshot topic in the HR industry. Most of the organizations all over the globe have started instating the process or are already running it successfully. Given the need for constant streamlining, no amount of information about it is too much at the moment. So here we are to answer a vital question on it – why you need to customize your 360 Feedback Survey Questions according to different departments?

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5 Useful Employee Communication Tips For Remote Workforce

Vantage Circle

Employee communication is the key to organizational success. It is the sharing of information and ideas between employees and the management and vice versa. How management and employees connect tells a lot about the fate of the organization. If communication is not your top priority, all of your other priorities are at risk. ~Bob Aronson. Today millions of corporates all around the world are working from home due to the covid crisis.

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The Contingent Workforce: Everything You Need to Know

Digital HR Tech

Most organizations today work with different types of temporary employees and have developed a contingent workforce as a result. In this article, we’ll zoom in on the contingent workforce. We’ll look at trends, contingent workforce management, and share three best practices. Let’s dive in! Contents What is a contingent workforce? Contingent workforce trends Benefits of a contingent workforce What is contingent workforce management?

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What You Should Do With Your Job Matches on the Talent Exchange

Eightfold

The Talent Exchange is dedicated to matching individuals who are seeking employment with companies that are actively hiring. In our last article, 3 Things to Check to Make Sure You’re Set Up For Job Seeking Success , we outlined why you want to maintain a profile that represents your full self, the benefit of receiving job matches, and how to review your job recommendation emails.

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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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how to disagree with your boss

Ask a Manager

When you disagree with your boss, it can be tricky to know whether you should speak up and how to speak up — and a lot of people get this wrong. They assume they shouldn’t speak up at all (even when they have info their boss doesn’t have and might appreciate hearing!) or, on the other end of the spectrum, they disagree so often and so aggressively that they lose credibility and get a reputation for being annoying.

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‘Let’s set the HR industry on fire’

HRExecutive

What’s one thing the pandemic has given HR executives if they didn’t have it before? To use a tortured cliche, it’s a seat at the (virtual) executive leadership table. But that should be just the beginning, said Mark Stelzner, founder and managing principal at Inflexion Advisors, as well as one of HRE’ s 2020 Top 100 HR Tech Influencers , during a recent Twitter chat with HRE.

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we were told to bake cookies for our IT team, keeping quarantine hair, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. We were instructed to bake cookies for our IT team. This happened a few years ago but I wanted to get your take on it because it always seemed a little iffy to me. At my job, IT had created a new program for my department (as is their job) that was much needed and we were all very appreciative of having it.

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Top Ten Work from Home Tips

MTM Recognition

For many newly remote employees, working from home is a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of the office. The lack of commute, greater independence, and having a furry friend nearby are all wins. For others, the WFH experience leaves something to be desired. Whether you fall into one category or the other, or even somewhere in the middle, we can all agree on one thing: working from home is a very different experience.

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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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How The Pandemic Changed Consumer Spending Habits

FingerCheck

It shouldn’t come to a surprise that U.S. consumers are cutting back on expenses and limiting purchases amid the pandemic. That said, the economy and certain small businesses have benefitted from increased spending in certain retail areas ( thanks in part, to the federal stimulus checks ). But we take a closer look at how COVID-19 has initiated a transformation of consumer spending trends that offers signs of further economic recovery.

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5 Tips To Improve Your Next Interview

McQuiag

We all know how a typical interview works. You meet your candidate, probably online these days, ask a bunch of common interview questions, and then try to make the best hiring decision you can based on what you've learned. Odds are you have a favourite approach when it comes to interviewing or a standard set of questions you rely on. But times are uncertain these days and relying on an old strategy might not be the best way to gain the insight you need.

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OutMatch Named to the Inc. 5,000 List as One of the Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies in the U.S.

Outmatch

OutMatch helps companies transform the hiring and managing of employees. DALLAS, AUG 12, 2020 — OutMatch , a leading SaaS-based talent intelligence platform, announced today that it was ranked No. 4678 on Inc. Magazine’s annual 5000 list. This is the first year that OutMatch has been recognized for this prestigious award, which identifies the fastest-growing privately held U.S companies.

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Break From Home

Shortlist

As a teacher in my first job after college, leaving campus on school breaks meant truly disconnecting: no messages from parents, no papers to grade, no reports to file. Holidays were refreshing because it was really easy to disconnect. In contrast, it’s pretty difficult to take a proper break while you’re “Out Of Office” if […]. The post Break From Home appeared first on SHORTLIST.

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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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Survey: Employers are Turning to "Extreme Flexing" to Support Working Parents (i4cp login required)

i4cp

The 2020-2021 school year is fast-approaching and working parents with school-age children are confronting continued COVID-19-driven uncertainty about what’s ahead. Data from a new pulse survey of 275 business professionals fielded by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) , which explored the strategies organizations are implementing to support working parents as the pandemic persists and summer winds down, found that the number-one strategy continues to be flexing work arrangements.

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How Accounts Payable Software Ensure Business Continuity in COVID-19?

SutiHR

As its the high time for businesses – due to COVID 19 pandemic, processes that depend on people versus automation disrupts businesses significantly. Organizations experience a sudden transformation in operations while back-office processes such as human resources and accounts payable must quickly adapt to the change. Research shows that around 85% of businesses reported that automation could help run their operations smoothly.

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Employees Need Time Off, Even In A Pandemic

Wellable

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees have transitioned into working remotely from home. Some employees now enjoy increased flexibility with schedules and project timelines. Unfortunately, this has complicated workers’ abilities to disengage from work tasks, which can often be done at any time of day and virtually. After all, what is the point of using up hard-earned paid time off, when an employee can easily change around their schedule to fit in any other obligations?

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Perceptyx Named One of the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies for the 5th Year in a Row

Perceptyx

With over 8 million employees surveyed in 2019, 2020 on track to far outpace last year as organizations’ need to understand employee sentiments at an all-time high.

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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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How to Create a Collaborative Approach to Measuring Learning Impact

Pixentia - HCM

Learning and d evelopment ( L&D ) wants to measure business impact, but only a small percentage of l earning and development ( L&D ) leaders know what and how to measure. Even if they do, odds are they don't have in-house data skills, so the ir tools go unused.

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SHRM Tune in Tuesday – “You Can’t Outsource Integrity” – Rob Chesnut

SHRM

The August session of SHRM’s “Tune in Tuesday” featured a great discussion by Rob Chesnut, the former Chief Ethics Officer and General Counsel for Airbnb and author of the book “ Intentional Integrity.” Rob shared several stories and examples about how, more than ever, ethics and integrity have taken center stage in companies and organizations worldwide.

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Employer Challenges This School Year Will Bring

HR Counselor's Corner

By Nancy Owen, PHR, Senior HR Consultant, East Coast Risk Management. It has been months since we were introduced to the Coronavirus; and ever since, it has greatly impacted our children and their school systems. Though the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) helped many parents manage the day care challenges they were facing, no one could have predicted that we would still be facing the same challenge this upcoming school year.