Mon.May 09, 2016

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Rapport Building on Job Interviews: How Much Does It Matter?

IO At Work

You are ready for the job interview. You have all of the right answers to all of the difficult questions, including the one about escaping the blender if you were a pencil. Yet strangely, the first order of business is to establish good rapport with the interviewer. But what does that have to do with job qualifications? Will your entire interview be affected by your ability to establish initial good rapport?

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When You're Cornered, Why Not Step Aside?

Compensation Cafe

We're all familiar with the "deer in the headlights" experience. You know those days that you're sure everything's finally going smoothly then, without warning, you're staring at a speeding car bearing down on you. It could be as simple as a call from the CEO. Here are a few tips from organizations that have learned about the ugly combo of panic and compensation.

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How Mobile Technology is transforming our approach to HCM

Unicorn HRO

The advances in Human Resource technology are helping HR executives to manage their employees more successfully and improve the efficiency of many HR tasks. One of the latest additions to the HR industry is mobile technology, a trend which is here to stay. There are many HR tasks which can be easily transferred over to mobile platforms. Some of the most common areas include the use of mobile apps for recruitment, scheduling, and employee self-service.

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3 Ways Not-for-Profit Leaders Can Help Employees Avoid Burnout

Trinet

As a leader in a mission-driven organization, it can feel like a badge of honor when your employees work long hours, refuse to take a vacation and lie awake at night wrestling with the struggles your. Visit site for full story.

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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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Josh Flagner on the “Paul”Cast – What I wish I had been told…

What is Paul Thinking

Another day another dollar and another “Paul”Cast. This time, it is Josh Flagner (@railbirdj). Josh is a seasoned podcaster (I hope I pass his critique… finger’s crossed.) Josh writes, posts, whatever at JoshFlagner.com and hosts the podcast called “RailBirds Nest.” And no – I never asked him why it is called that.

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Justwomen 2016: 6 Questions with Elizabeth Galbut

Justworks

Above: Elizabeth Galbut (right), with business partner Pocket Sun. Elizabeth Galbut is not your typical entrepreneur. At 26 years old, she’s already created two venture capital firms: SoGal Ventures and A-Level Capital. Recruited to work for Deloitte while still in college, she eventually went on to attend John Hopkins and the Maryland Institute College of Art for a dual masters in business and design.

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Salary Negotiation: It’s Not a Zero Sum Game

UpstartHR

In every company, there comes a time when someone makes an offer to a candidate to come and work for them. What is interesting is the wide variety of advice in the marketplace that advises candidates on how to handle that critical negotiation. Years ago I got my start in blogging by sharing career advice with job seekers looking for an edge in the hiring process.

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Your Guide To Employee Experience Mapping

Hppy

What do you think is keeping your employees from becoming digital nomads? After all, the telecommuting and freelance economy is growing faster than ever, with half of the American workforce expected to be self-employed by 2020. Most of the people joining in this trend have left stiff, corporate jobs, where they felt trapped, overworked, demotivated and unappreciated.

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How to get comfortable accepting praise

Achievers

by Iain Ferreira, Proposal Writer. In the rapidly growing, highly competitive corporate world, most people work hard to stand out from the rest of their colleagues through productivity and performance. However, when praised for the contributions they have made, most will respond with a sheepish smile and humbly try to deflect the praise elsewhere. While humility is an admirable quality, consistently deflecting praise can have numerous negative effects, including: You could receive less recogniti

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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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A New Book About HubSpot Reinforces The Truth About Your Culture.

The HR Capitalist

We all like to think our culture is special. Some of us talk about our culture without really doing anything to support it. Others work hard at culture, to the point where the cynic would claim there’s a cult-like feel to what’s created. . The dirty little secret? . . Whether you throw some stuff up on your website as an afterthought or have full time HR pros chasing culture as the sole purpose of their job, the truth about your culture lies somewhere in the middle of what you say it is and

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10 Sales Hacks the Pros Use to Maximize Every Prospect

Entrepreneur

Save time and iincrease your bottom line with these easy to use methods for imporving your sales numbers.

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I'm At #WorkHuman This Week: In This Photo, Only One Person is Working Human.

The HR Capitalist

I'm in Orlando early this week taking in WorkHuman , a new kind of HR conference put on by the folks at Globoforce. I'm currently in a remote part of the airport waiting for Tim Sackett to get off his first class flight from Detroit, watching workers paint the floor on a water feature that's designed to relax departing passengers. In this picture, only one person is working human.

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How to Foster Leadership Within Your Team

WorqIQ

YEC (Young Entrepreneur Council) surveyed some folks about how they develop leaders in their organization. Here are their answers: How do you develop leaders within your organization? 1. Have Leadership Development Programs In order to effectively develop leaders within our organization, we’ve implemented a leadership development program that makes employees feel more connected to the business.

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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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Dual Existence

NoExcusesHR

The world of work presents a ton of challenges. How do I look? How do I sound? Am I prepared? Did I cover every potential issue? Did my slide deck work well? Did I say too much? Did I say too little? What do people really think of my work? Work can be exhausting.and I'm not even talking about doing the actual work. Professional Persona After so many years in traditional conservative corporate environments I fully appreciate the series of questions above.

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Recruitment and selection: Personality is more important than skills?

TalentLyft

Assessing candidates' personalities during recruitment and selection processes is much harder than assessing their skills. Yet, personality is crucial for a good fit. Hiring is an exceptionally complex and very stressful process, which can result in engaging the best people or end up in a disaster. Often times, we focus more on people skills than the human factor.

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How to Win Candidates Over (Before They Even Apply)

TalentCulture

The recruitment process has become increasingly impersonal for both candidates and recruiters – and neither side is satisfied with the experience. It’s become clear that it’s time to get back to basics. The good news? As an employer or recruiter, you have a unique opportunity to change the experience candidates have with your company and your application process.

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Decoding social media for the workplace

HR Zone

Perform. Decoding social media for the workplace.

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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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Video Interview? Don’t Panic

Workology

As time passes, in-person interviews may start to become more and more of a thing of the past. By chatting with prospective hires over the internet, companies can save time–both yours and theirs—and often handle the hiring process more efficiently. Rather than having you come back multiple times to meet with different members of the organization—some of whom may be off-site or otherwise engaged, with just a few moments of free time—a video conference call with software like Blue Jeans can easily

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Time to Change the Working Mom Culture

Inpower Coaching

Have you ever been asked “How do you do it all”? For me this question sets off many emotional triggers , like: “Wow! You think I’m doing that well?” – I’m proud. “You think I do “it” all?” – I’m shocked. “Have there been times when you thought I didn’t “do it all”? – I’m worried. “What’s the big deal? Why do I get asked this question?” – I’m confused and angry.

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What will society believe about talent in 2020?

HR Zone

Talent. What will society believe about talent in 2020?

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The Link Between Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organization Development, and Change Management

Workplace Psychology

Goldfish jumping from three different bowls | Credit: Caroline Purser. I often find people confusing and commingling the terms “organization development” and “change management”, even I/O psychology experts and authors. To set the record straight and help clear up this persistent and ongoing confusion, I offer this post on the link between Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology, Organization Development (OD), and Change Management.

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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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Preventing the Costs of Mindlessness At Work

WorqIQ

While mindfulness in our professional and personal lives is a hot leadership topic at the moment, the flip side… the prevention of mindlessness should also be on every leader’s radar. Read More» The post Preventing the Costs of Mindlessness At Work appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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The Link Between Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organization Development, and Change Management

Workplace Psychology

Goldfish jumping from three different bowls | Credit: Caroline Purser. I often find people confusing and commingling the terms “organization development” and “change management”, even I/O psychology experts and authors. To set the record straight and help clear up this persistent and ongoing confusion, I offer this post on the link between Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology, Organization Development (OD), and Change Management.

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10 Tips for Dealing With Conflicts Among Team Members

Clarity Wave

Some of the biggest challenges you may face as a manager are the problems that may exist among the members of your team. The key to resolving any internal tensions starts with the creation of a favorable working environment and the use of communication as an effective tool to solve tensions, thereby improving productivity. The conflicts that can slow and damage the smooth running of the company are of two types: personal professional Personal problems can be difficult to approach from the manage

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3 programs that will help your organization drive culture #PulseOfTalent

Ceridian

By Lisa Sterling, Chief People Officer, Ceridian. A great culture is driven by a number of different elements: leadership, collaboration and employee engagement to name just a few. As the world of work rapidly evolves, employers are investing more and more into HR programs that aim to drive their company culture by putting their values on display for staff and ensuring employees are invested in the company.

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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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Does Your Organization Measure ROI on Employee Engagement?

WorqIQ

This question and many more were asked in a recent study done by management consulting firm, DecisionWise. Read More» The post Does Your Organization Measure ROI on Employee Engagement? appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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An Agile Workplace Enhances Employee Satisfaction and Company Culture

Asure Software

An agile workplace is a fluid working environment where work is done wherever, whenever, and however necessary, by matching technology and flexibility to employee needs. For example, remote work, long seen as an employment perk, is becoming the norm, and is often expected, where feasible, in certain lines of work. Flexible work schedules also empower employees to maximize productivity by allowing them to work at the most productive times of the day or night.

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2016 is the Year for Recruitment Marketing, says New Report

HR Daily Advisor

To keep up with today’s technology-savvy job seekers, modern recruiting professionals are using recruitment marketing tools to proactively attract and engage passive candidates and build “pools” of talent for future hiring needs. Recruitment marketing has increasingly become a core competency of talent acquisition. To keep up with today’s consumer minded job seekers, modern recruiting professionals are adopting recruitment marketing techniques and tools to establish and sustain connections with