Thu.Mar 17, 2016

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The Staffing Industry Engagement Struggle is Real

Kazoo

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending Staffing Industry Analysts’ 25th annual Executive Forum in delightfully warm and sunny Phoenix. During my long tenure at Fieldglass I went to dozens of SIA conferences that catered to corporate buyers of staffing and consulting services, but this was my first in-depth look at the staffing side of the equation.

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Job Interview: Hard Enough Without Playing Tricks on Candidates

HR Bartender

Have you seen the article floating around about the CEO of Charles Schwab and a breakfast job interview ? Basically, he takes candidates out to breakfast and, on the sly, asks the server to intentionally mess up the candidate’s breakfast order so he can see how they respond. Oh, and he promises to leave a big gratuity for the server. On one hand, I get it.

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How Workplace Culture Can Attract the Right Employees

Trinet

Driving Culture! Determining Culture! Re-establishing Culture! On any given day I speak to a number of small business leaders and entrepreneurs who are concerned about their company’s culture. This. Visit site for full story.

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Why Connecting Workforce Outcomes to Business Outcomes Matters

Visier

During our most recent Visier Customer Forum , keynote speaker Dave Ulrich told a story that has stayed with me, as it’s illustrative of many of the key challenges we face in connecting workforce outcomes to business outcomes. The CHRO of a large organization had called to get advice on a vexing issue. They had uncovered that a company they were considering acquiring had a culture that was negative and at odds to their own.

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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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How Time off Accruals Can Enhance Your PTO Policies

nettime solutions

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American employees are working 160 hours more each year than they were 30 years ago. This equa tes to one full month of additional work. As a result, the additional job-related stress has reported to contribute to absenteeism, los s of productivity, and an influx of health issues that are co llectively co sting businesses within the US $344 billion of their revenue on an annual basis.

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How to Encourage Everyday Innovation

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Important moments of innovation occur in the span of everyday work. Social recognition calls attention to these moments and creates a powerful culture of innovation. Reacting to so-called “20% Time” policies made popular by Google and others, a recent article on Inc. argues that innovation rarely comes from protected time or spaces away from normal work.

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Product Update: Invitations, Pay Stubs, PTO, and More

Justworks

We have some exciting feature updates coming out of our Hack Week — that’s right, you can start using them now.

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Nobody Wins When C-Level Leaders Agree To Dance at Company Events (Windows 95 Version)

The HR Capitalist

I know. You've been brainstorming as a HR leadership team, maybe looking at the results of your latest employee survey. It said they never see the leaders of the company. You took that as meaning they wanted to see them. Potential mistake #1. You then brainstormed, and came up with the following idea. Potential mistake #2. You: "We know Bill, Steve and the gang are great guys - we need to make them more accessible.".

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Leaders vs. Managers: 17 Traits That Set Them Apart [Infographic]

WorqIQ

Time for some brutal honesty: not all great leaders make great managers and not all great managers make great leaders. Read More» The post Leaders vs. Managers: 17 Traits That Set Them Apart [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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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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Want to Recruit Great Talent? Focus on Your Online Presence

TalentCulture

There’s no question that technology is a game changer today—no matter what your industry. One of the greatest changes happening with the advances in mobile technology, for example, allows businesses to both find and work with employees located quite literally around the world. While this opens up millions of hiring opportunities for recruiters, it’s also a bit of a Faustian deal.

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Disruptive Innovation in Compensation Communication Practices

Compensation Cafe

Here's another article on compensation communication. I hesitated to write it for you because I thought, "Why do they want to hear AGAIN that most of the world (that includes you) is making a hash of it?" Nothing like getting bad feedback over and over again to make a person stop listening or caring. (Thinking performance reviews, of course.). But in a world that glorifies disruptive innovation , I thought I'd give you a different look at the following findings from a Harris Poll , conducted on

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11 Ways to Painlessly Change Your Organization

WorqIQ

From time to time, each of us wants – or is asked to – make changes in our personal or professional lives. Many of us struggle to leave behind the familiar and move into the unknown. When we initiate change in the workplace, usually it’s because we want to achieve something concrete – we reorganize, install new software systems, and develop quality-improvement projects, for example.

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How to Get Leaders to Really Care About Employee Engagement

TLNT: The Business of HR

When a recent Gallup poll found that only 68.5 percent of workers consider themselves “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” at work, it’s no surprise that we find ourselves in an employee engagement crisis.

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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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Choose Your Parents Wisely

WorqIQ

“My teachers were really concerned about me,” he says, laughing. “They were concerned about my mental health. They called my mother in. They said, ‘He’s disrupting the other kids. Could you ask him to come to school dressed like a normal kid.’”. Read More» The post Choose Your Parents Wisely appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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The Grand Crisis Response Management Strategy: 5 Crucial, Time-Sensitive Steps that End All Crises

Take It Personel-ly

My definition of a crisis is a people-stopping, show-stopping, product-stopping, reputationally redefining event that creates victims and/or explosive visibility. The operative word in this definition is the word victims. You can blow things up, burn things down, damage property and even create a lot of visible activity. But so long as you neither hurt, kill […].

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Can you force an employee to delete critical tweets about the company? NLRB says no.

The Employer Handbook

Folks, it’s been a real crappy 2016 for Chipotle. Critical tweets about work get deleted. Last year, Chipotle’s National Social Media Strategist saw a series of tweets from a Chipotle employee working just outside of Philadelphia. The tweets had a common theme: working conditions: Continue reading.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Diminishing Unconscious Bias in Hiring

TalentCulture

Today’s #WorkTrends show addressed the topic of how to diminish unconscious bias in hiring–a topic that constantly plagues HR departments. Every day, unconscious biases influence hiring decisions. This issue undercuts the culture and success of many companies, from start-ups to Fortune 500s. According to our guest, author Gail Tolstoi-Miller , companies must build awareness of the biases that take place in the recruitment and hiring processes and take action.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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HubSpot’s Own Katie Burke Joins C.A. Short Company for Live Webcast

Total Employee Recognition

HubSpot is one of those rare companies who have actually managed to change the way businesses operate. From setting an example with their own unique culture to authoring The Culture Code , a living document that continues to shape our understanding of just how important culture can be, their influence is undeniable. Founded in 2006, they’ve since become a measuring stick for how businesses should engage their employees, which is evident in CEO, Brian Halligan’s memorable quote, “ We take our bes

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Social makes the world much, much smaller

HR Zone

Communication. Social. Social makes the world much, much smaller.

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You Might Be Hiring for Culture Fit All Wrong

Namely

At Lever , we believe building and maintaining a great company culture starts with who you hire. But hiring for culture is really hard, especially in a competitive talent marketplace. By the time a company decides they want to fill a role, it’s easy to understand the temptation to overlook culture fit and simply hire the first person with the right set of hard skills.

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Whose fault is it that you are working too much?

Steve Boese

A week or so ago I wrote about how France is considering placing a ban of sorts on after-hours email - the idea that people/workers are working too many hours as it is, and they should have the right to ignore work-related email messages that are sent outside of 'normal' working hours. As is normally the case when an idea like that pops up, a number of folks chime in about how that is a terrible idea, and that people/workers need (and for the most part want), the ability to move between 'work' a

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Are There Gaps in Your HR Policies?

Putting the right HR policies in place can help your organization grow smoothly and help your company culture thrive. Use this essential HR checklist to cover the basics and make sure there aren’t any gaps in your HR functions.

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Collaboration with Millennials and Baby Boomers: Debunking the 3 Biggest Myths

Interact-Intranet

As of 2015, Millennials comprise over one third of the American workforce, making them the largest generation currently represented. In their curiosity and eagerness to understand their young counterparts, many older employees have generalized and made assumptions about the dispositions of Millennials and their habits at work. Of course, Millennials are a vast and diverse group, and such generalizations are often inaccurate.

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Six Questions to Ask Your Insurance and Benefits Broker

Workology

Your company’s insurance and benefits offerings are the second largest company employee expense outside of your employee payroll expense. At the center of this second largest company expense sits your insurance broker who has the ability to impact your organization at a very large scale. Your insurance programs, total rewards and work perks directly impact the following: Employee turnover and retention numbers.

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Preparing For Future Opportunities

SumTotal

“Prepare yourself today for the unforeseen opportunities of tomorrow. This is a favorite piece of advice that I give to young professionals who are making the first twists and turns of their career journey. In short, this advice makes a few callouts: Show up. Participate. Be positive and open minded. Do a good job, every day. Do what you say you are going to do.

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how can I be more concise at work?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a contracts manager for a Fortune 500 company; I would liken my position to that of a paralegal. I work for the vice president of sales for my business unit. Because the nature of my job is words, I can be quite “wordy.” However, I try to remember to keep things brief with him because at his level and higher, that’s the way it is.

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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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Five Questions to Ask a new HR Software Provider

cipHR

So you’ve whittled your supplier list down to some final your preferred HR software providers, the products fit your requirements, so how do you choose? Here are some key questions to ask, to help make that important decision. 1. What kind of system training is available? Find out whether there are flexible training options which fit in with your requirements.

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my boss is livid that I don’t have experience I never claimed to have, employee always barges into my office, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss is livid that I don’t have experience I never claimed to have. I recently applied for a job that asked for experience in X, Y and Z. I have tons of experience in X and Y, but not much in Z. However, the job sounded interesting and the company would be great to work for, so I applied anyway.

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You Might Be Hiring for Culture Fit All Wrong

Namely

At Lever , we believe building and maintaining a great company culture starts with who you hire. But hiring for culture is really hard, especially in a competitive talent marketplace. By the time a company decides they want to fill a role, it’s easy to understand the temptation to overlook culture fit and simply hire the first person with the right set of hard skills.