Tue.Jan 17, 2017

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6 Ways to Use Technology to Advance Your Career – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

The New Year always makes me think about goals and the things I want to accomplish. Based on today’s reader note, I’m not the only person who thinks that way. Hi, I’m an HR professional living in India. I want to learn new things in human resources but my only option is online study because I can’t relocate. What can I learn and do for my career? Whether you can’t or don’t want to relocate, there are plenty of online resources you can use to keep your professional knowledge current.

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A Career Coach's Secrets to Recruiting Talent in the Age of the Job Hopper

Cornerstone On Demand

Opportunities for advancement are the second most common reason job seekers look for a new position — following compensation — according to an October 2015 Manpower survey. That same survey showed four in ten U.S. employees are always looking for their next job. Due to the frequency of job hopping among today's job seekers, some professionals have even coined a new term to describe them: "continuous candidates.

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3 Unique Challenges faced by HR in non-profit organizations

Unicorn HRO

3 Unique Challenges faced by HR in non-profit organizations As with for-profit companies, non-profit organizations face the same issues in their day-to-day workings, albeit with limited resources. As a result of their non-profit status, these organizations face a much more difficult road, as the increase in the amount of non-profit organizations over the past several years has meant a decreased amount of overall funding.

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Before You Write Job Descriptions, Answer these Seven Questions

ClearCompany HRM

The best recruiters treat job seekers like their customers. Job descriptions are often the only advertising space you get for your position. Write a requisition that is too long, full of irrelevant information, or uninteresting and your potential candidates will move on. This is especially true of the best talent; they know they can be choosy.

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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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4 Easy Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Job Post Performance

Linkedin Talent Blog

If you’re looking for general best practices and techniques for writing great job descriptions, then this blog post is unfortunately not for you. Try this one , or perhaps this one. But, if you're sitting on a LinkedIn job post that isn't getting much traction or getting ready to write your next one, read on. The four tips below are proven methods for boosting your job post on LinkedIn that many recruiters don't know about.

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How Am I Doing? The Importance of Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Reflektive

We have spoken before about the importance of core values in a workplace and we’d like to bring up another factor that is just as important: environment. Remember in high school biology class when learning about the central nervous system and the “fight or flight” response the body has to fear? There’s no reason for employees to be taming down either of these responses at work.

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8 Tips To Manage Anger In The Workplace

Hppy

Do you get angry at work? Anger is a perfectly healthy human emotion that we all experience from time to time. But what do you do when something happens at the office that threatens to send you over the edge? Imagine the scenario. You’ve spent days preparing for an important meeting but the client is in a combative mood and shoots everything you say down in flames.

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Talent Acquisition In The New Year: Are You Ready?

Spark Hire

We just started 2017, but it’s clear we need to prepare for a lot of changes coming this year. This is especially true in talent acquisition. According to ManpowerGroup , 40 percent of companies worldwide had trouble filling jobs last year. In order to make this year better, you can expect there to be a lot of new trends impacting how we hire employees this year.

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12 Job Skills to look for in Employees

EmployeeConnect

A lot of articles have been written about the job kills of potential leaders, but in this article we have tried to cover a list of basic job skills which every employee should have. Irrespective of your job title or your position, the skills which listed out in this article are the job skills which every organisation looks for in the employees. While some of your might consider the job skills that are listed out here as very basic, and there is no denying the fact that they are in fact!

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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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Your Sales Comp Plan Stinks (And What To Do About It)

WorkHuman

As you read this, some of your best inside and outside sales people are either thinking about leaving or are being actively poached by your competitors. Why? It’s a new year and organizations are rolling out sales comp plans that are often underwhelming to their sales staff. Think your staff is immune to compensation frustration? Mark Donnolo, managing partner of SalesGlobe, may have said it best : “It’s rare that sales compensation plans are presented to cheering crowds of salespeople, vibratin

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Customize Your Own Employee Happiness Survey With Our Free Download

Justworks

As Brian Kristofek, President and CEO of Upshot put it, “Being a great place to work is the difference between being a good company and a great company.” The reason is simple: Happy employees are more productive, more collaborative, and even boost company profits. In fact, happy employees’ productivity increases from anywhere between 12-20% according to a study by the University of Warwick and Social Market Foundation.

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Looking Ahead: Future-Proofing HR

TalentCulture

The HR function of today is not the one of yesterday, and it certainly won’t be the one of tomorrow. So how do businesses make sure their HR departments are ready for upcoming challenges? One of the surest ways is to put resources toward future-proofing HR—implementing policies, procedures, and technology that will enable business to keep pace with further evolution.

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Middle-Aged Health and Fitness Goals

Laurie Ruettimann

Quite a few of my middle-aged HR friends are focused on health and fitness goals in the new year. I’m not going to lie. I’m jumping on that bandwagon. It’s hard to hustle when you’re carrying a little extra weight. Unfortunately, I see a lot of disordered eating and compulsive exercising behaviors among my middle-aged friends.

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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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4 Tools To Help You Attract Talent to Your Company

TalentCulture

While the job search has almost gone global thanks to the Internet, it’s getting harder and harder to find qualified enthusiastic employees. Manpower’s 2016 Talent Shortage Survey found that 40 percent of global employers are not able to find the right talent for jobs that need to be done. What’s the answer? Making sure that the right talent is naturally flowing into your company is the first step to take.

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3 Ways to Brainstorm and Reserve The Right To Tell Someone Their Idea Sucks.

The HR Capitalist

If you're responsible for leading a team through change, you ultimately need ideas about what you should do given challenges your company or team are going through. That means you're going to ask for ideas - usually in the space most often described as brainstorming. When we lead our teams through brainstorming, we like to say " there are no bad ideas ".

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Whose job is it anyway? How HR can spearhead digital change in organisations

HR Zone

Strategy. How HR can spearhead digital change.

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Why You Need a Mentor, and How to Find One

EmployeeConnect

Every successful person has a mentor. That mentor might be a teacher, parent, sibling, political hero or business associate. One mentoring organisation reports that 25 percent of high potential employees plan to resign within a year, so it becomes increasingly critical for organisations to find new ways to retain top talent. Example of famous mentor relationships include Plato and Socrates from historical times and these mentor-mentee relationships: Richard Branson enlisted help from Sir Freddie

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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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Recruit in a Way That Reinforces Your Messages

ATD Human Capital

This is the third in a series of five posts about a total onboarding program. Our fundamental premise is that onboarding is the process of acquiring, accommodating, assimilating and accelerating new team members, whether they come from outside or inside the organization. We now turn our attention to recruiting itself; specifically, what you must do to recruit in a way that reinforces your messages about the position and the organization.

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Is Your Small Business Ready For HR Tech?

TLNT: The Business of HR

When we talk about talent strategy, we’re talking about a responsibility full of moving parts. HR professionals are tasked with finding talent to match a business’ momentum, which means they are constantly scaling programs up and down, looking back while thinking ahead, and keeping a close eye on the culture and morale of an organization.

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5 Qualities to Look For in New Hires

Ceridian

By Deb LaMere, VP of Employee Experience, Ceridian. The performance of your company hinges on your employees – so making sure you hire talented individuals while retaining your top performers should be an utmost priority. In this highly competitive job market, you need to make sure you are hiring the ideal candidate, not just for the position itself, but for your company as a whole.

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The changing face of HR legislation - are you keeping up to date?

HR Zone

Strategy. The changing face of HR legislation.

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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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How to Transform Managers into Inspired Leaders - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

How to Transform Managers into Inspired Leaders. It’s been fascinating to watch the Michigan Wolverine football team’s dramatic transformation over the past couple of years. Following several lackluster seasons with high-profile coaches in Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke, Michigan hired former Wolverine quarterback Jim Harbaugh. Coach Harbaugh had previously seen enormous success coaching the Stanford Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers. .

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That State of American Jobs and Workers

China Gorman

While I was browsing the internet looking for some economic data, I came across this 2016 report from the Pew Research Center: The State of American Jobs. And it is compelling! The Pew Research Center is “a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.”.

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Do You Know the Difference Between a Boss and Leader?

Paychex

If you can become a leader rather than just a boss, it could mean a more positive impact on employee engagement and employee retention. Learn the difference.

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Use Assessment Testing Instead of Relying on the Force

Workology

This post is sponsored by Dice. Read more about their partnership with HackerEarth by clicking here. How to Hire Using The Force In Star Wars, the force is a gut feeling. It’s an intuition. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Is Strategic Sourcing the New Recruiting?

BambooHR

Not too long ago, you’d have been forgiven for thinking recruiting and sourcing were one and the same. To the uninitiated, it’s all one job: finding qualified applicants to fill open positions. However, in a short chat with JD Conway, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager for BambooHR, we clarified that despite similar end goals, recruiting […]. The post Is Strategic Sourcing the New Recruiting?

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Deciding to Win

NoExcusesHR

Consider your situation right now.personally or professionally. Have you achieved your goals? Are you hustling with a company that you love? Have you found a sense of inner peace.with all of the successes and failures and near-misses and disappoints and noise that are part of "peace?" Hoping to Win It's funny how our early dreams of future lives.filled with hope for personal satisfaction and professional success.somehow never seem to get to an end point.

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How to Reduce Office Noise + Improve Focus

Take It Personel-ly

Think of a time when you tried to sit down and read. Just as you were getting into your rhythm, some outside noise caught your ear, and you suddenly found yourself rereading the same sentence over and over without taking in a word. Even if you’re one of those rare people who can read in … Continue reading How to Reduce Office Noise + Improve Focus.

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