Thu.Jan 24, 2019

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Bookmark This! 2019 Politics Edition

HR Bartender

Before you totally dismiss today’s article because of the word “politics” in the title. I hope you will hear me out. I know none of us enjoys getting up in the morning and hearing that the U.S. government is still shut down. That being said, we can’t simply tune it out. Our current representatives – meaning both Democrats and Republicans – are proposing new laws every single day.

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Five Words to Describe Human Resources

Life and Work Blog

As the head of Human Resources for our company, I have a vision for our employees. It comes down to five words. We want to be: person-centric, performance-minded, strengths-based, engagement-focused, and self-aware.

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Why Managing Compliance Manually is a Sisyphean Task

360 factors

We are all aware of the tragedy of Sisyphus, cursed to roll a boulder uphill, only for the boulder to roll back down the moment he neared the top of the hill, resulting in him repeating the process ad nauseam. Banks and financial institutions face a similar situation when it comes to managing compliance manually. They keep investing resources into the process but never seem to get the result that they need.

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5 All-Time Best Recruitment Tools For Hiring

Recruit CRM

Technology will continue to transform and disrupt the way professional recruiters work this year. Job Boards have made candidate sourcing a lot easier but at the same time, competition between recruiters has also increased dramatically. Using the right tools to manage candidates has become more important today than ever before. Recruitment tools can be classified into two types: Tools that help with sourcing and tools that help with candidate relationship management (CRM).

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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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#BlackBlogsMatter : Let’s Separate For Peace Sake

The Aristocracy of HR

010010000000As I continue on my journey of life, I find the one thing I consistently seek is peace. I enjoy peace in my relationships, peace of mind, peace in matters of the heart, and just general equilibrium as much as possible with most things in my life. Please do not discount the effort it takes […].

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How to Turn Employees into Employer Brand Ambassadors?

TalentLyft

Your best employer brand ambassadors are your employees. They are the most trusted source of truth about how your company works. If you want to tell the story of your company, they are your best storytellers. Learn how to encourage them to share a compelling story about your company and help you recruit top talent! Read More.

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CHRO Briefing: WalMart/CVS Battle Shows Why Amazon is coming to Rx Business.

The HR Capitalist

Here's your latest CHRO briefing that matters: CVS and WalMart have agreed to laid down their weapons, reaching agreement and ending a dispute would have prevented some CVS Caremark customers from picking up their prescriptions at Walmart pharmacies. Walmart and CVS didn't reveal the terms of their new agreement in a joint statement. CVS had said that Walmart, the biggest retailer in the world, wanted to raise the cost of filling prescriptions by too much.

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The Biggest Lies HR Should Stop Believing

HRExecutive

Do cats really have nine lives? Well, that’s certainly debatable, but here’s something else that makes use of the number nine: Marcus Buckingham’s latest book. In Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World , the world-famous consultant (and opening keynoter at the HR Tech Conference a few years ago) offers his take on what’s holding back everyone at the workplace.

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Recruiters, Trainers Find New Uses for Virtual Reality

SHRM Resources

PwC is one of a growing number of companies to use lower-cost but still innovative VR technology in HR functions. While artificial intelligence and machine learning capture the headlines, more-mature but improving VR technology is quietly making a big impact.

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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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Four Firm Foundations That Lead To Rock-Solid Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

In the midst of a changing business world, leaders have the opportunity to stand the test of time if they lead with a rock-solid mentality and build their organization on a firm foundation.

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How to Recognize a Strong Work Ethic?

TalentLyft

Recognizing a strong work ethic is a key for differentiating top performers from average job candidates. Candidates with extensive relevant experience and the right skills won’t be an asset for your company unless they exhibit a strong work ethic. Learn the most effective ways to recognize a strong work ethic in your candidates! Read More.

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Recruiting Manager Job Description [Template]

Workology

Job descriptions can also be the most difficult part of a recruiter’s job. Job posts are essentially talent brand marketing, job descriptions are meant for use on your career site and for links in. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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HTML interview questions

Workable

Use these HTML interview questions to test candidates’ knowledge on HTML. When and how you should test candidates’ HTML skills. A good knowledge of HTML is usually required in roles like Web Developer , Front-End Developer and UI Engineer. If candidates don’t have enough experience in this markup language, they might not be able to do their job properly.

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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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Encouraging Employees to Make Healthy Eating Choices

Rise

This January, Canada’s Food Guide received its first refresh in over 10 years, and this new edition represents one of the more radical revisions of Canada’s food and nutrition recommendations in the guide’s history. Compiled by Health Canada, the comprehensive food guide provides guidance on how to eat healthy, affecting eating decisions for many Canadians.

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10 Surprising Ways to Improve Daily Workflow

Namely

Businesses and organizations are challenged daily to do more, plan more, and accomplish more tasks. Psychologists spend hours studying ways to improve daily workflow, and some of what they’ve found is surprising.

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7 Excruciating Mistakes to Avoid When Managing Remote Employees

6Q

Before this technological era, when business models made use of brick and wall as their offices, the usual practice was for you to watch your employees running from pillar to post in a bid to execute their individual tasks. But in today’s business world where more things are being automated, business owners now appreciate the essence of recruiting remote employees.

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23 Awesome Ways To Make Every Employee Work Anniversary Memorable

Vantage Circle

How would you feel if it’s your birthday and no one ends up wishing you? Obviously, that will be quite disappointing and it may ruin your mood for the rest of the day. Amidst a busy schedule, it’s quite obvious for us to miss out on special occasions. However, as professionals there’s one special event that we shouldn’t forget i.e. the work anniversary of your colleagues and employees.

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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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Technology to boost team blend and performance

HR Zone

Acquisition. Technology to boost team blend and performance.

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should I apply to jobs I’m not fully qualified for?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve gotten advice from a lot of other blogs, friends, and family that I should be applying to jobs even if I’m only about 50-75% qualified, and I was wondering what your opinion was. I’ve been applying to jobs that I believe I could do, but for which I don’t have all the qualifications (it calls for a masters but I’m still writing my masters, or it asks for experience with one database but I have experience with a similar but different one), but I

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Getting comfortable with being wrong

HR Examiner

“It’s normal to be scared of doing it wrong. But always needing to be right is trouble. In order to maintain a universe where you are perfect, and always right, you have to make your world very tiny, so that you can control it.” – Heather Bussing. It’s good to be wrong. Getting comfortable with being wrong is the secret to a lot of things.

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how do you avoid burnout when your work is under-funded and emotionally draining?

Ask a Manager

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I’m in my tenth year of working in an elementary school, not as a classroom teacher but in a role that is still certified and student/teacher/parent-facing. My school and district serve a suburban community of mixed income…we have some very white collar, professional families, as well as blue collar, working-class, and then down into pure poverty.

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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 to Manage a Network of Freelancers

Take It Personel-ly

Modern business is almost nothing like the business our grandparents, or even our parents would imagine. Gone are the days of sharp suits, stuffy offices and endless meetings. While there may still be a hierarchy in many businesses, we understand that great ideas can come from anywhere and everyone has something to add. As the […].

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Will robots take my job? No, if you read this.

Insperity

The impact of automation on employment is inevitable. Long gone are the days when you could get a position at a company, do the exact same job for 30 years and retire. Like anything, times change. And with the pace of technology and innovation, more and more positions are being automated. This means companies can now do more with less people. Think back to Henry Ford’s moving assembly line where workers continuously executed simple, repetitive tasks.

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What is talent optimization?

PI Worldwide

Take a good hard look at your company. Is it performing at its absolute best? If you’re like most leaders, you struggle to overcome common business challenges like turnover, employee disengagement, a changing market, bad hires (the list goes on and on). In spite of your best efforts and your best intentions, you can’t quite accelerate your company’s performance.

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Beyond Benefits Emails: 7 Creative Ways to Engage Your Hardest-to-Reach Employees

Jellyvision

Download this eBook to find out how to: Grab your least-engaged employees’ attention by using a multi-channel approach Leverage the power of technologies your company already uses Team up with other leaders and employees to increase the reach of your messages. The post Beyond Benefits Emails: 7 Creative Ways to Engage Your Hardest-to-Reach Employees appeared first on Jellyvision.com.

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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 do I tell my boss to fire our new hire?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a coworker who was hired about a month and a half ago. She works very closely with me and I’m unofficially her supervisor – I have done almost 100% of her training, I’m responsible for reviewing her work, and it is expected that she comes to me with questions before going to our boss. Our company has a 60-day acclimation period and I think she should be terminated at the end of her 60 days, if not before.

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How To Become More Self-Aware: Get To Know Your Brain

Forbes Coaches Council

Further develop your thinking, your emotions, your connections (internal and external), and the choices you make.

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How to Spot a Fake Glassdoor Review

Evil HR Lady

It used to be that references only went one way– companies would call your former bosses , but you could never get a list of former employees that you could call to find out what the company is really like. Glassdoor changed all that. Now, you can easily find out what people are saying about any business. However, while telephone references are pretty confidential and you can’t know what your former boss really said about you , anyone at the company can look at their Glassdoor review

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