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5 Onboarding Tips to Win Over New Hires

ClearCompany HRM

Hiring is a two-way street. To begin a hiring journey, the candidate must woo the potential future employer. For the candidate to stay on the journey, the employer must woo the new hire. 33% of employees knew whether they would stay with their company long-term after their first week. This is where the onboarding process starts its work.

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Company Purpose and Passion Drive Bottom-Line Results

HR Bartender

Several weeks ago, I published a post titled, “ Company Purpose and Passion Are Always Changing.” The post focused on organizations engaging employees by making a connection between their work and the company’s purpose. Employees want to see how their work impacts the organization and customers. A Facebook reader sent me a note. I’ll paraphrase it. “Senior management doesn’t want sappy conversations about purpose and passion.

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Which Leadership Archetypes Make Employees Want To Quit?

15Five

Every employee has their own experiences with management heaven and hell , with the hellish vastly outweighing the idyllic. According to Gallup this is often the result of a system where leadership positions are granted for the wrong reasons. Based on Gallup’s research, only 1 in 10 people possess the talent required to manage effectively, and companies have an 82% failure rate when attempting to choose the right candidate based on their talents.

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Top 6 Takeaways from Total Rewards 2016

WorkHuman

While at WorldatWork’s Total Rewards conference in San Diego this week, my colleague and I visited a local spot called The Cat Café. And it’s exactly what you would expect—a place where you drink coffee and play with cats. There are rules, though. You can’t pick up the cats. Only 8 people are allowed in the room at once. And noise must be kept to a minimum.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

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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New York Insurers Under the ACA Demand Staggering Rate Increases On Premiums

ACA Times

United Healthcare has been quite vocal about its losses due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), coupled with threats to withdraw from the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace come 2017. However, they are not alone in making graduated demands in the face of ACA-accused financial losses, especially in the state of New York. UnitedHealthcare, along with many other health care providers, is requesting huge pumps in premium rates to balance whatever losses they’ve reported.

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This Is How You Add Personality To Your Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Whether you realize it or not, your company has a personality all its own. Your employees, values, and company culture all contribute to what makes your organization special. But does your hiring process let that uniqueness shine through? A 2015 LinkedIn survey found that 83 percent of job seekers would change their mind about a company after having a bad interview experience.

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Communication Fail

Laurie Ruettimann

A few weeks ago, I tried to connect with a woman on LinkedIn. Nothing good comes from being online, but I’m trying to meet new people. She is an accomplished leader who works for a successful venture capital firm. We have many friends in common, and her name has popped up in recent conversations. LinkedIn seems to know this, too, because it suggested that we connect.

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Strengths-based recruitment: are you hiring people for the wrong jobs?

HR Zone

Acquisition. Are you hiring people for the wrong jobs?

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SHRM 2016 Unofficial Party, Cocktail & Reception List #shrm16

Workology

Hello and welcome to the 2016 SHRM Unofficial Party, Reception, Meetup, Cocktail and Activities List. Let’s get this party started in Washington, D.C.! Recently updated or added parties, events or mixers within the last 24 hours will have a *New* or *Updated* tag. To receive this information immediately, text ‘SHRM” to 55678. RULES OF THE BLOGGING4JOBS PARTY GUIDE.

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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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5 Recruiting Habits Of Successful Leaders

TalentCulture

At some point in our job-seeking lives, we’ve all interviewed at a company that felt more like a military school than an exciting, flexible, creative, ever-evolving workplace culture. The signs start early in the hiring process: a dry, lifeless job posting or stale employer branding that does not feel inspired. A blizzard of paperwork, including reams of rules and regulations for submitting a resume.

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Design Thinking: Why are so Many Business Leaders Talking About it?

WorqIQ

Across industries around the world, attention is shifting to design thinking as an approach for unleashing creativity and innovation in organizations. Read More» The post Design Thinking: Why are so Many Business Leaders Talking About it? appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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This Is How You Make Working With Recruiters Easier

Entrepreneur

What to do when a recruiter may see a job candidate as a perfect fit but the hiring manager views them as a bad choice?

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Are you ready for a performance management transformation?

Ceridian

A key part of any business’ strategy for managing human capital should be its approach to performance management. Once you’ve brought talented people on board at your company, the next step is to follow up regularly, monitor their progress, ensure they’re acclimating well and make adjustments if necessary. Opinions vary, though, on specifically how to do this.

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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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When to Say “No”

Women of HR

Whether you’re just starting out in your career or whether you’re well into it, it’s important to take on new opportunities. Joining a task force, working on a cross-departmental project, taking on a group presentation to a new client. things like that give you a chance to find out what you like and what you’re good at. Taking on such projects tests your will and your fortitude, especially those projects that are likely to stretch beyond the usual forty- or fifty-hour workweek.

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What I Learned as a Monk About Business Success

WorqIQ

As a monk I was bound by my vows. They became my role. The same is true in business. Adherence to role clarity brings business success. Read More» The post What I Learned as a Monk About Business Success appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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American Eagle Outfitters Drives Business Value with Oracle HCM Cloud

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

A group of the nation’s top retailers gathered at Oracle HCM World in Chicago recently. They came to hear Brian Jones, VP of HR for American Eagle Outfitters describe the process of going full digital with global cloud recruiting and HR. The retail audience was mainly interested in three things: what was the business case, how was the transition planned and executed, and what results has American Eagle achieved so far?

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4 Ways You Can Use Summertime To Build Employee Engagement

BambooHR

Employee engagement is about loyalty, not work rate Employee engagement is, in many ways, a level of an employee’s loyalty; it’s the emotional commitment the employee has to their organization and its goals. And having this emotional commitment means engaged employees actually care about their work and the people they work for and with. And […].

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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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30,000 reasons to review your job applications now for unlawful questions

The Employer Handbook

There is a growing trend across the country for employers to remove job-application questions about criminal-record history. Ban the Box notwithstanding, other common job application no-no’s continue to trip up certain employers. For example, last week, the EEOC announced ( here ) that it had settled a discrimination complaint filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act against a North Carolina temp agency.

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The Importance of SBI When Giving Feedback In The Workplace

Engagedly

This is the third part of a series of articles on Feedback. The first two articles dealt with dealing with negative feedback and learning to give negative feedback. In this article, we are going to focus on a […].

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30,000 reasons to review your job applications now for unlawful questions

The Employer Handbook

There is a growing trend across the country for employers to remove job-application questions about criminal-record history. Ban the Box notwithstanding, other common job application no-no’s continue to trip up certain employers. For example, last week, the EEOC announced ( here ) that it had settled a discrimination complaint filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act against a North Carolina temp agency.

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4 Reasons Most College Students Won’t Earn a Degree

EDSI

2) High School graduates lack the “occupational maturity” their parents or grandparents had. In effect, they’ve usually had far less work experience than their predecessors upon graduation. Given this, it is difficult for them to understand the difference between good jobs and bad jobs. They simply don’t have enough experience. 3) Students lack direction.

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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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The 9 Big Workplace Distractions and how to Counter them

cipHR

In a CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,000 hiring and HR managers, from companies of all different industries and sizes it was found that, among some very strange reasons for not being productive, there are 9 very definitive reasons why we're distracted while at work. The key to avoiding these distractions is identifying them and knowing how to quash them before they take hold.

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How to set up your millennial talent for future success

Ceridian

Baby boomers are retiring at a relatively rapid rate, and as hiring heats up the focus is on millennials. Millennials surpassed Generation X as the most substantial demographic in the labor market during the first quarter of 2015, according to Pew Research Center. These young workers are a valuable resource and are eager to make their way in the workplace, but often they’re in need of assistance.

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What Does Productivity Mean to You?

HR C-Suite

What does productivity mean to you? Does it mean how fast you can get through the never-ending emails? Does it mean being prompt to every meeting? Or is it about how good you are at multi-tasking? Those factors may be a part of it, but there is a larger picture to be considered for Human […].

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INSIGHT: The Subtlety of Emotional Intelligence

Inpower Coaching

I gave an interview last night and as soon as the subject of success came up I jumped in with my favorite bit of advice: work on your emotional intelligence skills to increase your chances for success. “ Why ?” “There is a high correlation between high performance and emotional intelligence. Plus people just like working with people who know how to work with people.” “How can being happy or sad make us better leaders?

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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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The Difference Between Best Available and Best Fit Candidate

Acacia HR Solutions

Update: this post originally ran in June of 2014, but a recent conversation with a client made me think of it and update it so I wanted to run it again. As a recruiter, I tell my clients that I promise to find them the best fit candidate, not just the best available. Often, they.

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Fun New Ways to Make Peer-to-Peer Recognition Work For You

RecogNation

Whether this is your first time to the Baudville Blog or you’ve been faithfully following along since our humble beginnings, you should know that we’re in the business of appreciation (and helping others do the same). Recognition around the office doesn’t have to be a premeditated extravagant event. Sometimes a simple note or high five can give a team member a much needed boost of energy.

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Dilemma of The Month: Fragrance in the Work Place

Evil HR Lady

I recently developed a sensitivity to fragrances. I get headaches, suffer from vertigo and generally feel awful. My boss allowed me to post signs that say “Fragrance-Free Zone,” but some people persist in wearing fragrances. Once, a perfume-wearing coworker came to my cube and I felt a migraine coming on. I explained my problem and asked her to step back.

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