Linkedin Talent Blog

APRIL 8, 2016

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. 12 Recruiting Stats That Will Change The Way Your Hire -- by Laurence Hebberd. 2. 3 Questions Every Employer Should Ask in a Job Interview -- by Tulika Tripathi. 3.

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Trinet

APRIL 8, 2016

California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill into law that will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years. In this historic move, California will have the highest. Visit site for full story.

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Justworks

APRIL 8, 2016

There’s nothing more exciting than bringing on a new hire. After all your hard work to find the right person, it’s a time of celebration — and a time to put your best foot forward. Make sure you and your new employee are on the same page from day one with a clear job offer letter. Prospective employees should sign a job offer letter before they begin work.

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Kazoo

APRIL 8, 2016

In a recent interview , NPR asked the director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United what the biggest problems facing restaurant workers were. Her answer? Wages and benefits. With the hospitality industry’s minimum wage debate getting attention lately, is anyone talking about the benefits side? It’s a fascinating part of the equation for us—not just because Kazoo helps companies with their employee rewards programs, but because we see customers in the hospitality industry using rewards and

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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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Hppy

APRIL 8, 2016

Although it’s tough to outshine a news like the Panama Papers leak, we’ll still going to try and bring into focus some of this week’s best articles in the HR world. Here they are: Inside the happiest office in London — where some employees get a $14,000 travel allowance. Glassdoor’s 2016 rankings named online travel company Expedia as the best place to work in the UK.

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WorqIQ

APRIL 8, 2016

Chances are your office could stand to have a little more fun. Humor is often toned down because people don't think it has a spot in the workplace. Read More» The post The Need for Humor at Work appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Ceridian

APRIL 8, 2016

By Kristina Cleary, SVP Global Marketing, Dayforce HCM. Recent events, both sad and touching, have reminded me how important my colleagues are to my work life. That all the great things I get out of working here, all the pleasure and enjoyment I take in coming to work, is so much more than just the tasks I complete. People make my work life what it is.

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IO At Work

APRIL 8, 2016

Negative emotions are unfortunately found in most workplaces, and they can threaten the productivity or well-being of employees who have them. So what is the best way for leaders to manage their followers’ negative emotions? A new study finds that some strategies work better than others, and may even enhance job satisfaction and job performance. [Read More].

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HR Morning

APRIL 8, 2016

When new managers hit the ground running, it makes HR’s life easier. Good managers keep your brightest stars engaged, which improves retention and keeps you from having to fill talent gaps. Poor managers — or at least those who start off poorly — have the opposite effect. . Below are three common, but avoidable, mistakes new managers make that prevent them from hitting the ground running.

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TalentCulture

APRIL 8, 2016

Continuing with our series The TalentCulture Corner Office , Cyndy Trivella, Events Manager with TalentCulture, spoke with former New York Yankee, turned entrepreneur, Patrick Antrim. In this third installment, she chatted with Patrick about leadership, business, teamwork and how being a former athlete has helped him succeed as an entrepreneur. As with former interviews in this series, the discussion centers on the perspective and experience of someone who has made the move to the “corner office

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HR Morning

APRIL 8, 2016

If you don’t want your employee handbook to qualify as a contract in court, then here’s what it should say. . “This is not a contract.”. It sounds simple, but missing this language in one of its employee handbooks recently got an employer in some legal hot water. The lesson came from a new appeals court ruling, which said a handbook can create a contract unless it includes a disclaimer to the contrary.

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Compensation Force

APRIL 8, 2016

In response to the many, many requests received and continuing a long tradition here at the Force, I am pleased to bring you the latest turnover rates by industry, provided to us by CompData Surveys. The information in the following charts - both voluntary and total turnover rates - has been drawn from CompData's 2015 edition of their annual BenchmarkPro Survey, which features data submitted by more than 28,000 organizations.

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Total Employee Recognition

APRIL 8, 2016

Employee engagement is a powerful tool for companies looking to increase profits, drive innovation, retain talent, and energize the workforce. And while the process of implementing a better plan for engagement can often take some time, there are three steps any organization can take to accelerate the process on every level. So, as we discuss this ever-important topic over the course of our next three blog entries, let us once again turn to Gallup’s report titled, “ State of the American Workplac

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The Employer Handbook

APRIL 8, 2016

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to provide a reasonable accommodation to an individual with a disability, if doing so will allow that person to perform the essential functions of the job. Temporary light duty? Yep, that’s a reasonable accommodation. But, what about permanent light duty? Last night, I was reading this opinion about a woman — oh, what was her name?

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About Human Resources

APRIL 8, 2016

If your candidate has been unemployed, you need to know the cause of the employment gap. It may affect your hiring decision. Find out about employment gaps.

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Laurie Ruettimann

APRIL 8, 2016

Hi, everybody. I’m back from my crazy trip to Istanbul via London. I had a great time, but I’m exhausted. I went with my friend, Jennifer McClure. We have so many crazy stories that I’ll share next week. But right now I wanted to tell you that Jennifer is reading Thrive by Arianna Huffington. Have you read it? I haven’t, but it looks good.

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QAspire

APRIL 8, 2016

We learn the most from that which challenges us the most. I remember having learned server side scripting many years back completely on my own. I had no special resources, no advanced tools and no external guidance – just a lot of willingness to pick up the skill. It wasn’t easy and that made it all the more interesting. But as we grow in our career and life, we avoid the discomfort involved in learning new things, which eventually slows down the process of learning.

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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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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 8, 2016

Sometimes people who haven’t ever been managers imagine that being a manager is somewhat like sitting in a big leather chair and issuing proclamations. The modern day equivalent of being a king. The reality is there might be a leather chair involved, but proclamations are few and far between. The responsibilities are serious and heavy. Even if you’re the CEO, there’s someone you’re reporting to in – the CEO’s case the stockholders or the board of directors or

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Steve Boese

APRIL 8, 2016

In what could have also been submitted for the pretty dormant for a time ' Job Titles of the Future' series, the latest in Talent Management trends is apparently centered around a phenomenon known as 'The Cute Dogs of Instagram.'. Check this from a recent piece on Yahoo Finance titled 'Working like a dog: Instagram's popular pups bank up to $3,000 per post : Instagram’s superstar dogs have their own talent agency, which is helping their owners rake in big money via the photo-sharing app.

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Criteria Corp

APRIL 8, 2016

Today we’re excited to launch our new internationally-friendly aptitude test, the Universal Cognitive Aptitude Test, or UCAT. The UCAT measures general cognitive aptitude, one of the most predictive factors for job success. Just like the CCAT, our most popular aptitude test, the UCAT measures critical thinking, problem-solving ability, and logic, all elements of cognitive aptitude.

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HR Daily Advisor

APRIL 8, 2016

Spring has sprung. The grass is green. The flowers are blooming. The trees are in full blossom. It’s that time of year again. Time for spring cleaning. Out with the old and in with the new. At least that’s my wife’s way of thinking. Last weekend, we spent a day cleaning out the garage. At the end, we made one trip to the dump, a second to Goodwill, and another to a consignment store.

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HR Morning

APRIL 8, 2016

Millennials will soon be the most prominent demographic in the workforce, and many of these employees have been saddled with tremendous amounts of student loan debt. So it makes sense that student loan repayment benefits are starting to gain some major traction with young workers. . As reported on HRBenefitsAlert.com , some forward-thinking firms are already offering direct student loan repayment options.

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Namely

APRIL 8, 2016

Scene 1, Take 1: A Compensation Conversation—Without the Proper Rehearsal You’re a people manager walking into a one-on-one meeting about compensation. As you begin to share the news—a pay raise you thought would be well-received—you’re having difficulty explaining how the compensation decision was made, and answering all of your employee’s questions as well.

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Take It Personel-ly

APRIL 8, 2016

Pinterest is one of those social media giants in the making. If you think it’s nothing else than a simple mood board creator targeting mostly female audiences, you might be losing some great marketing opportunities. Not many brands know how to make the most out of their presence on Pinterest, so here are 8 tips […].

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Namely

APRIL 8, 2016

Scene 1, Take 1: A Compensation Conversation—Without the Proper Rehearsal You’re a people manager walking into a one-on-one meeting about compensation. As you begin to share the news—a pay raise you thought would be well-received—you’re having difficulty explaining how the compensation decision was made, and answering all of your employee’s questions as well.

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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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Ask a Manager

APRIL 8, 2016

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. My employee keeps inviting himself into my conversations. I am currently having an issue with an employee on my team who reports directly to me. Every time someone comes to speak to me at my desk, he injects himself into the conversations and turns it into a kind of group discussion. Sometimes it’s our director who wants to speak to me about work, and this person rolls around his chair and starts joining in by nodding and agreeing with what

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HR Zone

APRIL 8, 2016

Lead. Seven Emails: the alienation of labour.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 8, 2016

A reader writes: I just started a new job last week, and it is nontraditional in the sense that there isn’t really a set office: The company is so small that we each just have a membership at a coworking space, our cells are our main phone lines, and people are often out and about for meetings. I basically stay in the “office” unless I’m accompanying someone to a meeting.

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