Thu.Dec 06, 2018

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What an Increasing Retirement Age Could Mean for Your Business

Criteria Corp

Retirement isn’t quite what it used to be. While the average age of retirement for Americans is around 63, the number is rising , and that will have an impact on the current workforce.

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How to Keep Your Remote Workers From Feeling Isolated

TLNT: The Business of HR

Remote working has become an increasingly common practice for modern businesses worldwide, whether that’s as a full-time replacement for the 9-5 office job, or as an occasional bonus for regular commuters. Gallup found that in 2016 43% of employed Americans spent at least some time working remotely.

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Transform Recruitment Marketing Conference is Back for June 2019!!! @Smashfly

The Tim Sackett Project

Transform is Back!!! Smashfly Transform is the bold community that’s impressively grown from 200 at the first-ever Recruitment Marketing Conference in Boston in 2016 to more than 10,000 strong across the globe today. Transform is the place for this community to come together. I was the Emcee for the very first Transform in Boston, and I’ll be the Emcee once again for this event!

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Organizing a Remote Workforce: Hiring, Onboarding, and Keeping Track of Everyone

Pingboard

Over the years, remote working has transformed from a once-in-a-while occurrence to an increasingly common work arrangement. A global study of full-time professionals across 96 countries found that 70 percent of employees work at least one day a week remotely. And the trend is moving toward more remote work arrangements. According to the 2018 Flexjobs State of the Remote Job Marketplace report , 3.9 million U.S. employees, or 2.9 percent of the total U.S. workforce, work from home at least half

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Interviewing in Healthcare is Different: 3 Reasons Why

Select International

Healthcare staffing experts are now forced to re-think their approach. Finding the nurse, allied health professional or front line worker who has the right experiences or credentials isn’t enough anymore. Here's an example: An oncology clinic needed a nurse. They were “lucky” enough to find a candidate with twenty years of experience running the practice of a retiring oncologist.

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Leveraging Recognition and Feedback to Boost Employee Engagement

Achievers

Employee engagement is an ongoing issue. What can we do to effectively engage employees? Start with recognition and feedback. According to Aptitude Research Partners , companies identified recognition as having the greatest impact on engagement. And it doesn’t stop at recognition. Go the extra mile with employee feedback, pulse data and personalized actions in real-time to immediately address any disengagement.

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What Do Millennial Workers Want? Student Loan Repayment

Justworks

Looking for a way to set your company apart and attract top millennial talent? Helping employees repay their student loans could be the answer. Student loan debt is a huge source of anxiety for today’s workers, particularly millennials. A survey by American Student Assistance reports that 56% of employees often worry about repaying their loans and 40% fear that their anxiety about repayment has negatively impacted their health.

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HighGround’s Top 5 Must-Read Blog Posts of 2018

Kazoo

The world of HR moves fast. While workforce trends come and go, it doesn’t change the fact that today’s highly competitive business environment means that employee performance is more important than ever. HR leaders must do everything in their power to create environments where employees can thrive and perform at high levels. That’s where HighGround comes in.

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6 Practical Engagement Strategies to Beat Holiday Stress at Work

Engage2Excel

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – unless you work in HR. Holiday anticipation and upcoming vacations often leave employees feeling distracted and disengaged during one of the most chaotic months of the year. Without a solid engagement strategy, ramped up customer demand and preoccupied employees create a perfect recipe for seasonal stress. December is one of the trickiest months for engagement.

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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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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

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Kazoo’s Top 5 Must-Read Blog Posts of 2018

Kazoo

The world of HR moves fast. While workforce trends come and go, it doesn’t change the fact that today’s highly competitive business environment means that employee performance is more important than ever. HR leaders must do everything in their power to create environments where employees can thrive and perform at high levels. That’s where Kazoo comes in.

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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

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Kazoo’s Top 5 Must-Read Blog Posts of 2018

Kazoo

The world of HR moves fast. While workforce trends come and go, it doesn’t change the fact that today’s highly competitive business environment means that employee performance is more important than ever. HR leaders must do everything in their power to create environments where employees can thrive and perform at high levels. That’s where Kazoo comes in.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

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99% perspiration: the challenge of being a midlife professional woman

HR Zone

Culture. 99% perspiration: the midlife professional woman.

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The Best Ways To Simplify Salary Planning

SutiHR

Salary planning is one of the most complex business challenges every organization face. Data access, analysis, entry, and re-entry – multiple departments across a business dread the mere thought of the salary planning process. Sometimes it requires months, days and hours of Finance, HR and Management involvement. Effective salary planning can reduce the time spent.

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How 3 women technologists built a career of their dreams

Hacker Earth

Did you know that women seeking leadership roles often report a lack of good mentors as an obstacle to their career growth. We recently ran a survey for women technologists and almost 47% of the respondents claimed that they had no tech mentors or role models to look up to. With a growing demand for technologists worldwide, organizations have a need now, more than ever, to create workplaces which support and uplift women in technology.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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How Friends Influence Behavior: Friendships and School Performance

EverFi - HR

When you think back to your time in school, what do you remember most? Is it the homework and tests, or is it the relationships you built with others? If you’re like most people, it’s the latter. But, how do those friends influence behavior? Recent studies have concluded that friendships are more important than you might think. In many cases, they’re even among the biggest indicators of success in school.

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Bad news for businesses affected by Brexit uncertainty

Workable

With just months to go until the UK leaves the European Union, and no deal yet in place, many employers continue to worry about the possible impact of Brexit on UK businesses and the labour market. Although 25% of UK businesses currently employ staff from the EU, an August 2018 survey reveals that over 50% of UK business leaders would be put off employing someone from the EU after Brexit changes the UK’s immigration laws.

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The Impacts of Fair & Predictive Scheduling on Workforce Management

Workforce Software

Within the U.S., a class of legislation is gaining momentum around the predictability of schedules, primarily aimed at the retail and food service industries. This webinar will be valuable to a broad HR audience from businesses where demand is dynamic and therefore results in the need to make schedule changes close to the start of the shift.

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HR Departments Everywhere Are Embracing Video. Are You?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Not long ago, companies viewed videos as optional tools to achieve communication objectives. They were a luxury reserved mainly for marketing departments with huge budgets. Meanwhile, learning and development departments had only canned, off-the-shelf videos to draw from. And because creating and editing them was time-consuming and expensive, videos were developed to have long shelf-lives.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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How to Create Value by Mapping the Employee Journey

Digital HR Tech

The employee journey is receiving an increasing amount of attention from HR practitioners – and for good reason! In this articles, I will explain what the employee journey is and how it can be leveraged for the benefit of the employee and the employer. So, let’s get started. What is the employee journey? The employee journey is the time an employee spends at a company, starting when the employee applies to the organization and ending when the employee quits the organization.

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Survey Says Cold, Hard Cash Is Your Workforce’s Favorite Holiday Perk This Year

TLNT: The Business of HR

Ah, the holidays. A time in business to tie a bow on the past year and exhale from what was hopefully a time of prosperity. And according to a new survey, it’s a time when your employee want to get paid a bonus.

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A Jewish Guy Who Wears a Chai gets Personal

SHRM

For many years, around the holiday season, I have written cautionary tales from “The Jewish Guy Who Wear A Chai.” Chai is the number 18 in Hebrew and means life. This year, I was reluctant to use the title. For this first time in a long time, I have been the target of antisemitism. Then, there was the massacre of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

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A Jewish Guy Who Wears a Chai gets Personal

The SHRM Blog

For many years, around the holiday season, I have written cautionary tales from “The Jewish Guy Who Wear A Chai.” Chai is the number 18 in Hebrew and means life. This year, I was reluctant to use the title. For this first time in a long time, I have been the target of antisemitism. Then, there was the massacre of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

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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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How to Structure your Digital Interview Candidate Experience

Spark Hire

Digital interviews are splitting the hiring process wide-open. They’re giving candidates more power over their own interview experiences while showing hiring professionals a colorful, honest, in-depth look at candidates. It’s no surprise 31.2 percent of talent acquisition pros in our 2018 Growth Hiring Trends in the United States report told us they’re adding digital interviews to their strategy this year.

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Busyness Is Our Worst Addiction

Forbes Coaches Council

Do you know what most of us are addicted to? Being busy. Busy is habit-forming.People pride themselves on being busy, but busyness is an addiction that needs to be cured.

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Pre-employment assessment, skill testing and interviewing: what’s the difference?

Owiwi

We often hear terms like pre-employment assessment, skill testing and even interviewing used interchangeably. While they may have similar high-level goals, such as identifying a suitable candidate, they are fundamentally different methods of achieving those goals. It’s important to know the difference because each evaluation method will produce completely different outputs.