Fri.Sep 16, 2016

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Recruiting Secret #5

The Tim Sackett Project

Everyone wants to know the secret to great recruiting. Candidates want to know how to get into companies. Recruiters want to know each other’s secrets to finding great talent. No one seems to be sharing their secrets, so I thought I might as well fill everyone in… Recruiting Secret #5. I haven’t read a cover letter to a resume since 1999.

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Quick Shots for #HR and #Business Pros – Employee Feedback Edition

HR Bartender

Recently I was having a conversation with a group of new managers about feedback. It was enlightening because the discussion turned to the negative connotation of the word feedback. You know, that feeling when someone says, “I’d like to give you some feedback.” We’re just waiting for the bad news. Then when we want to deliver good feedback, we have a tendency to not even use the word feedback.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

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. The One Interview Question I Ask Every Potential Hire -- by Moira Forbes. 2. Text-Interviewing — The Next Big Thing In Recruiting?

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10 Great Ways to Keep Your Employees Happy

Hppy

How often do you think about if your employees are happy with their job? We’re not just talking about the paycheck and various perks they get (though those are important too), but how they genuinely feel about the work they do. There are many types of leaders, but only the best ones are able to grasp the importance of their workers coming to the office ready to actually make a difference.

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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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Designing a Technology-Enabled Employee Experience

PeopleStrategy

He reached up and touched the screen, but nothing happened. He touched elsewhere on the display and pressed firmly. Still nothing. He looked back at me with a puzzled expression, unsure of how to proceed. This scenario played out recently as I watched my toddler, and it reminded me of just how much technology has blended into our everyday lives. In this instance, my son expected the TV to be a touchscreen like every other electronic device he sees his parents use on a daily basis.

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Handshake 3.0: Staying Human In The Digital Age

TalentCulture

In the age of working social media, Twitter is the water cooler, FaceTime means smile at the phone, Instagram, Pinterest is for eye candy and the closest encounter your team may have is via a networked chat or a Google Hangout. No worries! If we follow the same set of rules for good relationships that have always existed, but translate them into our digital world, we’ll be fine.

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How to motivate employees, whatever their age

HR Zone

Employees. How to motivate employees, whatever their age.

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The Business Benefits of Happy Employees

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the biggest lies we’ve been told in our professional lives is that once you’re successful, you’ll be happy. You work hard, get ahead, make more money and all that is supposed to lead to happiness…right? Wrong. In the last several years, research has shown emphatically that the formula is reversed – happiness leads to success rather than success leading to happiness.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Building a Business Case for Company Culture

TalentCulture

Numerous studies have confirmed that employee satisfaction with company culture is positively correlated with business outcomes, such as customer satisfaction, productivity and performance. Executives tend to be overly optimistic about the state of their company culture and employee engagement. Therefore, to make the case for investing in culture, you have to help executives understand your company culture.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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What is the Actual Cost of Workplace Negativity?

Paychex

Workplace negativity may cost your business in terms of profits, employee turnover, and lost customers. Here are some ways to get your business back on track.

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Really Bad Interview Questions. Really Bad. Like, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

Evil HR Lady

Lots of people stink at interviewing. They think it’s important to come up with “interesting” or “out of the box” questions for job candidates. Yeah, well, this is what happens. Here’s my favorite (least favorite?) of the bunch: If you were stuck in an elevator, with no way to get out, and every 30 seconds a 5th grader would fall through a ceiling tile of the elevator that would periodically open, and was programmed to kill you, how long would you last and how

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It’s a jungle out there: Setting up an effective progressive discipline plan

HR Morning

In an ideal – if boring – world, employees would show up for work on time every day, exceed standards in their day-to-day duties, get along perfectly with their bosses and co-workers, and follow every company rule. Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world. And that’s where the concept of progressive discipline comes in. . On the surface, the concept of progressive discipline is simple: It’s a structured approach to dealing with workforce problems ranging from poor performance to unacceptable behav

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Friday Five: Health, Being Heard and Negotiating Space, Time and Money

Workology

Welcome back to the Friday Five! Another week of big news in tech and politics — don’t worry, I’ve kept the election reads to a minimum, since I know we all need a break. This week I’ve largely focused on different kinds of sexism in the workplace, from invasive questions about health, to lack of representation, to unconscious bias.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Coffee break: Leadership training, cultural fit and a new way to tackle racism in the workplace

HR Zone

Culture. Cultural fit & tackling racism in the workplace.

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five updates from letter-writers

Ask a Manager

Here are five updates from people who had their questions answered here recently. 1. Company wants to have tea with my family as part of an international interview. We did end up having coffee in Tivoli a couple hours after we landed. My kids were enthusiastic and a little overly-rambunctious despite my warnings, but they really enjoyed themselves and I think the “interviewer” enjoyed showing off his favorite things about the park.

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Compference16 Recap: Communicating Comp, Transparency, and a Stranger Things Joke

Compensation Today

Hi, my name is Ashley, and I’m an HR conference junkie. I love HR conferences, maybe a little too much. I love being around ‘my people’ nerding out on compensation and proudly letting my comp flag fly. Who doesn’t love getting a little weird on free wine with other like-minded nerds who get more impassioned about range penetration & compa-ratio’s with each glass of chardonnay?

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I have a weird patchwork of responsibilities, sharing a desk, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. I have a weird patchwork of responsibilities and feel unqualified for anything else. I don’t know what my job is. Or, more accurately, I don’t know what to tell prospective new employers what my current job is. I work for a nonprofit with almost 100 ‘field’ employees but a very small central office team, fewer than 10.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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How the Candidates Compare On Employment Immigration

TLNT: The Business of HR

Employment-based immigration isn’t just a recruitment option for U.S. employers. With the growing skills gap, it’s become a necessity to grow and keep operations afloat. And with diametrically opposed candidates campaigning for the White House, it’s apparent that U.S. immigration could change drastically depending on who takes office in January.

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can you live down work mistakes from years ago?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have been at my current job for seven years now. About six years ago, I almost lost my job because I was making too many mistakes. I made them because I was too busy and didn’t have the time to give full effort to my work. Quite frankly, I was overworked. My boss would get furious with me and wouldn’t speak to me for weeks.

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Five for Friday: Keeping good people

Jostle

New research via Deloitte reveals retention and engagement are key concerns for 86% of business leaders. And for good reason. The competition for talent is fierce and the replacement cost of lost skills and knowledge is high. Furthermore, employees are more demanding about lifestyle balance, more informed about compensation, and more discerning about aligning personal and workplace values.

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"It will be the collaboration and thinking styles that make a project a success."

HR Zone

People. A Day in the Life of: Kate Wadia.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Tedx Talk: How I Became a Localist

WeSpire

The opening lines of Deborah Frieze’s Tedx Talk, “ How I Became a Localist ” is quite provocative, especially for those of us who aspire to change the world for the better. . She states, “The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work and it’s never going to work.”. In her talk she offers, what she calls, a “radical” theory of change: “You can’t change big systems [meaning healthcare, education, business, government].

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Politician analysis: Boris Johnson

HR Zone

Future. Politician analysis: Boris Johnson.

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open thread – September 16-17, 2016

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 Find Work/Life Balance When Kids Go Back to School

Paychex

Work/life balance is tough for everyone, but busy parents may find it especially challenging to meet the demands at the office and at home.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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New OT regs: 2-step strategy to convert salaried workers to hourly

HR Morning

To comply with the new OT regs, you may be considering converting salaried staffers to hourly employees. . The big question: Is there a simple formula that, when OT hours are factored in, will allow them to pay employees the same amount as they were getting before the classification switch? Employment attorney Bill Pokorny, writing on the Wage and Hour Insights blog , offers a painless two-step strategy to do just that.

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Women, Weight and Employability

HRGem

I came across this study a few days ago. Research into the impact on employability of being overweight on both men and women. Now as a former Big Girl this caught my interest.

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What Drives Retention Around the World

HRExecutive

Around the world, pay matters most to workers. But other factors that keep them loyal vary quite a lot, a new study finds. And they’re changing as the nature of work evolves. The results are part of the 2016 Global Talent Management and Rewards Survey by Willis Towers Watson. Every other year the company surveys workers around the globe to see what rewards and conditions keep them happy or attract them to new jobs.

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