Thu.Jun 22, 2017

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The Next Great Trick in HR to Become World Class!

The Tim Sackett Project

Oh, Tim must be talking about the great A.I. tech that’s coming out, or the next great tech that will replace staffing agencies, or the next website that will change the entire industry forever – “Oh hey! Google Jobs.” I’m sure he’s going to be talking about using Fitbits to increase our organizational wellness! No, it’s probably how if we write one sentence of feedback a day to each employee our engagement and retention will go up 3,000%!

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Everything #HR Needs to Know About Boolean Search

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I attended the SHRM Talent Management Conference and TAtech Spring Congress. Both events are very heavily focused on talent acquisition, which isn’t a surprise given all of the media attention on “full employment”. But it made me realize that there are some fundamental tools human resources professionals might not have focused on over the past few years.

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Find Your Happy Place in the Moment

CONCERN: EAP

Recent studies have uncovered something surprising about happiness and attention. In one study, 15,000 participants were sent signals at random times during their day which asked them to respond to an in-the-moment poll. The poll contained a few questions like these: How do you feel on a scale ranging from very bad to very good?What are you doing?Are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing?

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Staying Engaged During Corporate Change (Part 3)

Achievers

In fact, change can sometimes feel downright terrible. Even if change feels frustrating, scary, or pointless, transformation can often lead to growth and opportunity for any person willing to accept it. But why would someone buy in to corporate transition amidst the chaos that comes with it? In the first two parts of this three-part series, I discussed how science shows that to successfully navigate change, employees need to stay engaged in the workplace.

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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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Boost Your Online Networking Skills in 5 Easy Steps

Justworks

Business networking can feel tiring. Even if you’re a social butterfly, occasionally it’s nice to skip networking events and relax at home instead. The good news is, you can still expand your professional networking connections even if you begin online. In fact, many small business owners and entrepreneurs use online networking to boost their businesses and make valuable connections — and websites like Startup Nation and The Small Business Hub include online forums and community meetups to.

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#SHRM17: A New Perspective on ‘All In’

WorkHuman

At SHRM’s annual conference in New Orleans this week, the theme was “all in” – what it means to be all invested in your career, in the business, and in your people. What happens when you’re not all in? What if you don’t treat your employees like humans ? I got a glimpse of that on my journey home yesterday. While waiting for a layover in Newark, I received several text updates that my flight was delayed.

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Giving Gifts to Coworkers: 7 Gift Ideas for Office Friends

Hppy

Finding the right gifts to give to coworkers can be downright frustrating and stressful if you can’t come up with any good ideas. Getting unique office gifts for coworkers can be even more difficult than for friends because in spite of how much time you spend with your coworkers, it’s likely you keep business and personal matters fairly separate.

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Find Your Happy Place in the Moment

CONCERN: EAP

Recent studies have uncovered something surprising about happiness and attention. In one study, 15,000 participants were sent signals at random times during their day which asked them to respond to an in-the-moment poll. The poll contained a few questions like these: How do you feel on a scale ranging from very bad to very good?What are you doing?Are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing?

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Living With My First Employee for 2 Weeks Taught Me Everything About Recruiting

Entrepreneur

This entrepreneur couldn't fly out to meet a prospective hire, so she invited him for a two-week visit.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Find Your Happy Place in the Moment

CONCERN: EAP

Recent studies have uncovered something surprising about happiness and attention. In one study, 15,000 participants were sent signals at random times during their day which asked them to respond to an in-the-moment poll. The poll contained a few questions like these: How do you feel on a scale ranging from very bad to very good?What are you doing?Are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing?

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HOW TO: Use Social Media Ad Buys to Get Better Recruiting Results.

The HR Capitalist

My team at Kinetix is dropping a whitepaper today - The Talent Acquisition/HR Leader's Guide To Social Media Buys for Recruiting. You should check it out. There's a lot of options for your recruitment marketing spend - Job Boards, Indeed, the new Google Jobs (actually not asking for your spend yet, just disrupting for now) - it's a confusing marketplace and it's easy to miss changes in what works.

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How Data is Driving Employee Burnout—and What to Do About It

TalentCulture

Big data has gone from buzzword to business staple , affecting everything from how companies recruit and hire to how employees perform core functions in the workplace. It’s indisputable modern tech has infiltrated work habits and boosted the potential for team productivity; nowhere is this observation more evident than in employees’ usage of mobile devices both in and out of the office.

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Preventing Workplace Harassment: 5 Proactive Steps

Paychex

If your company hasn't come to terms with the potential for workplace harassment, this should become an immediate HR priority. Here are five proactive ways to help prevent harassment in the workplace.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Lead Better, Resist Generational Labels

TalentCulture

When it comes to leadership, one of the best cause and effect situations is when leaders care and step up to genuinely help and mentor… but not all will take the time to get better at being a leader. Today on #WorkTrends, TalentCulture Community member and guest host, Patrick Antrim welcomed Karl Bimshas. The two discussed how placing erroneous labels on people can stagnate career development and reduce efficiencies in the workplace.

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The Secret for Boosting Employee Performance? Vacation Time

Namely

It’s often said that the US has a working problem. On average, Americans work over 2 50 more hours per year than their European counterparts. Attitudes toward vacation may play a large part in the discrepancy. In 2016, US workers took an average of just under 17 days of vacation a year—a number that has been on the decline since the 1980s. It’s a wholly unique, American phenomenon unmatched in other western countries.

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How to Use Data to Make Better Hires

TLNT: The Business of HR

There has been a lot of buzz around the use of people analytics, but the evidence for its impact has been sparse. Now, though, we have emerging evidence that people analytics can successfully be applied to improve hiring. This new category of people analytics is known as predictive hiring – and if you haven’t invested in predictive hiring you’ve already fallen behind.

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7 types of insurance every business owner needs

Insperity

Real business success requires a heady combination of taking risks in some areas and mitigating or eliminating other risks. A business leader can’t eliminate all risks, but insurance can provide some cover should the sky begin to fall. Despite this, insurance is an area where owners often try to skimp on the type of insurance they pay for or the amount of coverage they choose.

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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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HRE Column: An HR Technology Conference Preview #HRTechConf

Steve Boese

Once again, I offer my semi-frequent reminder and pointer for blog readers that I also write a monthly column at Human Resource Executive Online called Inside HR Tech that can be found here. This month, as I have been wrapping up the program development for the upcoming HR Technology Conference that will be held at in October, I take a look at some of the more interesting trends and themes in HR tech that have emerged from reviewing about 450 proposals and talking with dozens of HR leaders and t

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Court Says You Can Fire A Worker You Believe Made Up A Discrimination Claim

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s not just people who fabricate complaints of discrimination at work who can be fired, but those whom you believe fabricated discrimination claims.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. With $31M in fresh funding, Yello is about to do some hiring of its own. Entelo Raises $20 Million Series C to Modernize Recruiting.

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3 HR Talent Metrics You Should Start Tracking Today

Namely

The field of human resources is changing. In our HR Redefined series, we give innovators a medium to share personal reflections, professional advice, and best practice guidance. The following is inspired by a presentation given at Namely’s Client Summit by our very own Chief People Officer, Nick Sanchez, and Senior People Operations Analyst, Eric Knudsen.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Why Workplace Happiness and Job Satisfaction is Critical for New Hires

Corn on the Job

It is often said that money cannot buy happiness. The size of one’s monthly salary hardly equates to job satisfaction and this observation is becoming increasingly apparent in modern times. This is the very same reason why overall workplace contentment is one of the most sought-after traits of most jobseekers. Potential employees are no longer satisfied with simply landing a position.

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Which Generation Job Hops the Most?

Namely

When it comes to millennials and work, assumptions abound. High among the rumors is the idea that millennials are “job hoppers.” Surveys suggest that millennials serve much shorter tenures and are also more likely to look for new job opportunities. According to the 2017 Deloitte Millennial Survey , 38% of millennials say they would leave their jobs within two years if given the choice.

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What to Expect From New Generation Z Workers: In The Eyes of a Gen Z

Maritz Motivation

The workplace is ever-changing, and although most employees understand that there is a new generation on the cusp of entering the workforce, it’s fair to say that many don’t understand how this will impact their day-to-day lives. Generation Z is unlike any generation to come into the workforce, including the millennials that came before. Anyone born between the years of 1996 and 2010 is considered part of Generation Z.

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Employee Email Pitfalls Small Businesses Should Avoid

Acacia HR Solutions

As much as we all lament it’s existence, email is still a primary tool for communicating in the workplace. At least once a day I get asked for my email address by someone wanting to send me information. It is the one tab that is open the most on my web browser. Even though I.

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eBook: Global Workforce Management: Unpacking the Risks and Challenges

This eBook examines the complexities of global workforce management, including country specific labor and payroll regulations, and the risks and consequences of non-compliance.

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update: my coworker acts like the food police

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer last December whose coworker was constantly policing and commenting on people’s food choices ? Here’s the update. I don’t have MUCH of an update on this issue, but did want to mention something that happened recently. I was in the break room with two coworkers — one being the Food Police — and overheard a conversation that went something like: Totally normal coworker eating a totally normal broccoli/cheese/rice casserole: (insert some sort

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3 Takeaways from HR Tech World

Workday

Last week, I attended the HR Tech World conference in San Francisco during a beautiful couple of days—a nice break from the “June gloom” we typically experience here. Between catching up with friends in the industry, exchanging ideas on the burning issues HR practitioners face on a daily basis, and listening to our own Leighanne Levensaler give a great keynote on how HR technology can be used for good, I observed three key themes that are very much top-of-mind in our industry: Improving the Work

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How Do Your Office Perks Stack up Against the Competition?

Evil HR Lady

Healthy office perks are big business, even for small businesses. When deciding what’s best for your company, it makes sense to look at what will actually make your employees happier and healthier — not just things that are more fun. Employees Want Options. You may think your employees want free lunch or yoga classes, but it’s not the case. According to a report from Glassdoor , 40 percent of employees consider health insurance the top benefit they want from their job.

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