Fri.Aug 12, 2016

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Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) Pricing Guide – Don’t Let Price Confusion Slow You Down

HR Morning

The recruitment process can be arduous for both employers and candidates. From sourcing candidates to tracking current applicants and ultimately hiring the ideal candidate, an ATS will reduce the time and expense of hiring new employees for both HR departments as well as recruiting and staffing agencies. There are hundreds of ATS solutions currently on the market, with different solutions for organizations of different sizes, industries and hiring models.

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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. Why I Won't Hire A 'Money-Driven' Candidate -- by Liz Ryan. 2. KPMG Scraps Multi Stage Interview Process -- Richard Crump. 3.

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Recipes for #HR Success: Critical Evaluation

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: This series is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. Capella is an accredited online university dedicated to providing an exceptional, professionally aligned education that puts you in the best position to succeed in your field. Enjoy the post!). A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Harvard Business Review article titled, “The Changing Role of the CHRO.

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Engagement Pitfalls To Avoid, The Common Sense Guide To Employee Engagement, Should People Over 40 Work Less, And The 3 Signs Of A Super Employee #FridayFinds

Hppy

This week’s #FridayFinds edition brings you back to the basics of employee engagement. You’ll also find out how to spot top employees and why employees over 40 should be working less hours. Here are this week’s most shared articles in HR and Employee Engagement: 5 Employee Engagement Pitfalls Senior Leadership Should Avoid. It’s always good to circle back to the basics once in a while, especially when things aren’t going as well as they should.

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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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Compensation Cafe: What’s Happened to Worker Productivity?

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! –. Numbers have come out recently from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on worker productivity, and the conclusions aren’t all that positive. According to the report , productivity has been on the decline in the US for the previous four quarters at an annualized rate of 0.4%. Yet, number of hours worked over the same period have increased by 1.5%.

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The Top 100 Movie Quotes for HR Pros: #71 is Don Draper: "That's What the Money Is For".

The HR Capitalist

New series at the Capitalist : The Top 100 Movie Quotes of all time for HR Pros. In no special order, I break down the 100 movie quotes that resonate most for me as a career HR pro. Some will be funny, some will be serious. Some will tug at your heart like when the Fox voice-over guy said, "Tonight - a very special episode of 90210". You get the vibe.

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What You Need to Know When Identifying High Potential Talent: An Expert Interview

Select International

It’s all too often the case that when you need to hire an employee, you need to move fast. By the time a requisition opens, the position has been vacant for a good amount of time and you need someone, anyone to be in the position. Backfilling, often with a delay, is the name of the game. But, when you are considering high impact, leadership roles, this method is far from ideal.

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Smart Recruiting Strategy Drives Relationships And Conversation

TalentCulture

Passive recruiting is kind of like the darker, more mysterious sibling of active recruiting. Because it is so different from traditional recruiting and usually involves targeting people who don’t have a strong desire to be recruited, many HR professionals and leaders are confused about passive recruiting and how it can help them fill job positions. Making passive recruiting work for your organization is very possible, but to do so you need to understand why it works and how it is done most eff

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Employee Holiday Programs: Start Early & Make It Personal

Total Employee Recognition

The Perfect Employee Gift. We all know that employee recognition is not a once-a-year event. However, the holidays are a great time to show appreciation for your employee’s hard work and dedication. In order to have a successful program, you need to make it personal and you have to start EARLY. But, what is the perfect employee gift during the holidays?

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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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Why We’re Going to the IBM HR Summit #PowerUpHR

Advos

There are more than 1,000 HR conferences each year in North America. I know because HRmarketer monitors all of them. Why are there so many? Despite the rising costs and hassles of traveling and the growth in “virtual” events, people still value the face-to-face interactions that only a physical presence at a conference can deliver. “48.5% of HR professionals consider attending conferences highly valuable with respect to staying knowledgeable about Human Resource management – more than webi

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#WorkTrends Recap: Maintaining Productivity in a Distracting Work Environment

TalentCulture

There is a massive trend right now in the enterprise toward open office environments, and understanding how that trend impacts employees is important. IT should understand the distraction challenges that employees face in different environments. In addition, mobile workforces now face distractions in a wide variety of other environments. On this week’s #WorkTrends show we were joined by Jennifer Adams , Head of Global Collaboration Markets for Plantronics.

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Negotiation Techniques That Never Fail [Infographic]

WorqIQ

Pro-active listening is just one such technique for more effective negotiating, but for many it’s the gateway to a new form of positive compromise. To tune up the other aspects of your technique, be sure to check out this new infographic which identifies and explains seven effective tools to boost anyone’s game, from business beginner to seasoned entrepreneur.

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5 Things to Have in Place Before Hiring Freelancers

Entrepreneur

Businesses need to do a little prep work for the relationship to succeed.

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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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Scaling Culture 3: *How* To Keep It From Going Wrong

TalentCulture

PIZZA AND PING PONG, PLEASE . For a while I’ve attempted to fight the misconception that culture is simply pizza and ping pong. Ancillary benefits like these are not the whole picture, but they do play a role. In a framework I co-authored outlining the components of company culture I found where perks become useful, and it is exactly how companies can overcome relationship decay.

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HR Giant Randstad Purchases Monster. What Does That Mean?

Evil HR Lady

When a consulting firm purchases a big job board, what does that mean? Monster was at it’s heyday in 2000 with a stock price of $91 a share, and was sold for a little more than $3 per share. There are tons of problems with the internet recruiting. Maybe they can fix some of the problems with online recruiting. Or maybe online recruiting is dead.

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Redefining HR with emerging workforce trends

Ceridian

It’s no secret that the global workforce is going through a major transformation. As millennials continue to assume leadership roles, the number of remote workers increases and the gig economy gains traction, it is presenting employers and HR leaders with some challenges. Most of the transitions occurring stem from one of three workforce trends , which were recently highlighted in the 2016 Mercer Global Talent Trends Study.

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How Alexander Hamilton’s Legacy Can Make You a Better Leader

DDI

The Broadway Show Hamilton is much more than just entertainment. This award-winning musical also shares 7 ways Hamilton’s Legacy can make you a better leader.

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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 Employees Can Advocate Your Brand on Social Media

Take It Personel-ly

Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/zzkt/6820378862/?rb=1 Employees can promote the brand they work for on their personal social media accounts to extend the brand’s reach, increase sales and influence customer impressions. Before it can happen, brands need to integrate employee advocacy into their marketing strategy and learn how to make employees start sharing.

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5 Tips to Help a Business Avoid Cash Flow Problems

Paychex

Managing cash is one of the most important functions of a business. Without access to liquid capital, a company may lose the ability to act quickly on investment opportunities or handle unexpected events. Here are five tips to help you maintain a healthy cash flow.

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how can I get out of our awful Staff Appreciation Day?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: How do I get out of our Staff Appreciation Day? Sounds more like Staff Punishment Day to me, with activities including traveling together to an inconvenient location outside our city, a “one-hour bike ride,” mandatory potluck, and ball games. I hate bike riding (I’m in great shape, so it’s not because I feel intimidated… I just hate it).

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Do most employers pay minimum-wage workers more than $7.25/hour? YES! (And it’s not even close)

The Employer Handbook

Since July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees has been $7.25 per hour. Many states and cities have raised that floor, with some cities, like Seattle, headed to $15/hr. But, federally, despite pressure from many to raise it, we’ve been stuck at a $7.25 minimum wage for over 7 years. And, you’d think that with the new overtime rules going into effect on December 1 , American businesses wouldn’t be too keen on paying their minimum wage workers any

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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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Do workers understand how their jobs fit into your overall performance?

HR Morning

Do your employees really know how their day-to-day duties connect to your overall success as an organization? . If a recent study is any indication, the answer for more than half of them is: No. Nearly half of workers in the Robert Half Management Resources survey reported they are always able to see the connection between their duties and their firm’s performance.

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Do most employers pay minimum-wage workers more than $7.25/hour? YES! (And it’s not even close)

The Employer Handbook

Since July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees has been $7.25 per hour. Many states and cities have raised that floor, with some cities, like Seattle, headed to $15/hr. But, federally, despite pressure from many to raise it, we’ve been stuck at a $7.25 minimum wage for over 7 years. And, you’d think that with the new overtime rules going into effect on December 1 , American businesses wouldn’t be too keen on paying their minimum wage workers any

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Friday Five: Acquisitions, Olympics, and Sexism in the Advertising Industry

Workology

No theme this week. My heat-wave melted brain can only take so much, so instead of looking for five reads on a related topic, I’m sharing with you fives reads — on five issues — that I’ve been thinking about this week: HR tech acquisitions, Twitter’s censorship algorithm, the Olympics (naturally), and a new report on sexism in the advertising industry.

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company asked what I have to earn, what I’d like to earn, and what I’d be thrilled to earn

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Company asked what I have to earn, what I’d like to earn, and what I’d be thrilled to earn. Just saw this question on an online job application: “Give us three annual salaries. (1) What you HAVE to earn. (2) What you would LIKE to earn. (3) What you would be THRILLED to earn.” The next question goes on to ask about job and salary history for the last three jobs.

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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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Coffee break: Credibility, Lego offices, and why we're all responsible for a bad culture

HR Zone

Culture. Credibility, Lego offices & bad workplace cultures.

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open thread – August 12-13, 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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Over, Under, and Properly Rated #2 - Summer Olympics Edition

Steve Boese

My current favorite sports talk show is the Russillo and Kanell Show that airs nationally on ESPN radio. On the show, the hosts occasionally do a 'rated' segment where they categorize sports teams, players, and other aspects of sports and pop culture into one of three buckets. 'Overrated ' for things they think are generally praised or valued more than they should be.