Tue.Jun 21, 2016

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Is employee engagement your No. 1 challenge? 5 other things to keep in mind

Ceridian

In most offices, talent management leaders have zoomed in on employee retention and productivity as crucial goals for both their short- and long-term needs. In an effort to put together a hardworking staff that’s built to last, companies have put a great deal of emphasis on engagement, and rightfully so. Engaged employees tend to stay in their positions longer and achieve more than their disengaged counterparts.

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Are you Prepared for Predictive Recruitment?

cipHR

Talent attraction has changed in recent years. The availability of advanced recruitment software , coupled with easily accessible talent pools on social media, means that companies no longer have to rely solely on recruitment agencies to source candidates. Bringing recruitment in-house also affords brands the opportunity to capture, record and analyse valuable candidate data, which helps to optimise recruiting campaign effectiveness, reduce costs and improve talent quality.

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The Nitty Gritty Guide to Writing the Best Job Ads

ClearCompany HRM

Building better job ads for mobile. When it comes to job boards, 31% of midsize businesses devote more than a third of their recruitment budget to job boards. That means, the companies with some of the greatest hiring challenges are turning to these avenues to find their next great hire. Midsize or not, chances are your company is allocating some of your hiring dollars to online job boards and career site postings.

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Asking Your Boss to Telecommute – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

The harder it is to find qualified employees, the more we pay attention to retaining talent. Companies don’t want employees to leave, because they can’t find a replacement. Or they can’t find a replacement quickly. So one of the ways to keep employees is to give them a benefit – like working from home. But for telecommuting to be successful, everyone must be on the same page.

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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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Overcoming the Manager Divide: How HR can Accelerate the Path to Gender Pay Equity

Visier

Over the past few months, I had the privilege of taking part in a ground-breaking research project. It leveraged the Visier Insights database — a workforce database unmatched in the world in its breadth and depth, which allowed us to examine gender equity like never before. Here’s what we found. Discovering the truth behind the gender wage gap is no easy task — and neither is closing it.

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Management By Weekly Check-in Is The New MBWA

15Five

Management By Wandering Around (MBWA) sounds like a distraction, something for team leads who are either lazy or confused. But it’s a process that has helped some of the world’s largest and most successful companies. MBWA managers walk around the workplace to check-in with employees, check on the status of equipment, and to be more present and available.

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This Is Why Skill Set Isn’t Everything In The Hiring Game

Spark Hire

There are only a few organizations that truly need to hire based on skill alone. The New York Yankees, for example. Major movie studios, definitely. Modeling agencies would be another one. It’s tough to win a World Series, an Oscar or land a major ad campaign with someone who doesn’t have the necessary set of skills to get there. But for nearly every other type of business, a candidate’s skills are important, but they’re not the be all, end all.

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What We Learned About Performance Management at SHRM 2016

Reflektive

Performance management is evolving, and it was a big trend at the Society for Human Resource Management conference this year, in D.C. this week. We were excited to hear conversations on how to transition away from performance reviews, or use more frequent feedback, with examples of Adobe and the Mayo Clinic, and how to train managers to coach and lead.

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Webinar Alert – Fistful of Talent, Recruiting, Awesomeness!

What is Paul Thinking

I love my FOT tribe… we get to talk about weird and wonderful stuff associated with HR. And we get to talk to interesting people when we do webinars and videos. Heads up – another great FOT webinar is coming your way… Jobvite , Kris Dunn and Dawn Burke are logging in and talking recruiting with the newest hit FOT webinar: Instagramming HR: 5 Filters HR Pros Can Use To Transform Into Better Recruiters on June 29th at 2pm EST!!

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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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Save Time and Simplify Transferee Moves with a Knowledge Base

UrbanBound HR

Transferees have questions. Lots of them. Well, to be more specific, there tend to be three types of transferees: ones with no questions, ones with every question imaginable, and one who ask no questions even though they have every question imaginable and everything goes horribly wrong and you get blindsided and now it’s your problem. Despite doing everything you could, answering any and all questions asked, and guiding the vast majority of your transferees through a successful relocation, the u

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How This Entrepreneur Danced Her Way Into Founding a Company

Everwise

Payal Kadakia loves to dance. She loves dance so much that her passion produced ClassPass, a fitness subscription company now valued at $400 million. Since she was three, Kadakia channeled her passion for Indian dance into performing in her free time. After graduating from MIT with a degree in Operations Management and Economics , Kadakia worked as a consultant at Bain and Company.

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HR Tech and Relocation: In the News

UrbanBound HR

UrbanBound’s weekly roundup of the top news from HR Tech and Relocation is here!

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Got Coaching? How ATD’s Coaching Certificate Can Help

ATD Human Capital

According to ATD Research, only 27 percent of organizations currently include coaching as part of their talent development efforts, even though it’s widely known that coaching and providing feedback are the top ways to improve performance. No matter your role, gaining deeper knowledge of the competencies and principles of coaching can only help your organization, and its people, get desired business results, achieve goals, and move the organization forward in an increasingly competitive, c

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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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Employee Engagement: Start with a Strategy & Measure What Matters

Bersin with Deloitte

I’m excited to announce that we are publishing a new Bersin blueprint (collection of reports, tools, and case studies) focused on designing and implementing an employee engagement strategy. In doing the research, talking to practitioners, and creating these reports and tools, many important insights emerged. But one of the most essential points was the importance […].

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Strategic sourcing solutions to attract Generation Z through Millennial learnings

Allegis Global Solutions

Generation Z is coming. Whether you define this generation as people born in the mid-1990s, onwards or exclusively those born in the 21st century, its members are set to be the next big demographic influx into the world of work.

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How to Make a Business Case for Hiring Military Veterans #SHRM16

Workology

Two hundred thousand military veterans are exiting their lines of service each year according to a Maryland’s Workforce Exchange. This makes for a huge opportunity for employers who are excited to hire and employe military veterans. Yesterday at the Annual SHRM Conference, I attended the session, “A Business Case for Hiring Veterans: Designing and Implementing a Veteran Hiring Strategy.” The session was led by Lida Citroen , a personal branding expert who is one of the leading

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How TSheets Empowered Culture With HR Tech

Namely

It’s tricky to describe the company culture at TSheets —the fast-growing time tracking software startup—because frankly, it’s pretty unique. The company, now over 120 employees, has doubled business for each of the past three years—but that’s where the Silicon Valley stereotype starts to fade. TSheets is based in the heart of Idaho, and a can of PBR labeled with the TSheets company values awaits every new hire.

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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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10 Benefits of Being a Trustworthy Leader

TalentCulture

In the digital age, it’s easy to present a persona online that follows a carefully crafted narrative. That story line may be true or have elements of truth. We can be whomever we want online. I know people who appear online to have it all figured out, but offline are a hot mess. The converse it true, too: people online who appear kind and genuine are indeed both.

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The Employee Experience Is As Important As the Customer Experience

TLNT: The Business of HR

First of all I just want to say thank you for this amazing opportunity. I have learned a lot and I am still learning. The past 5 months have been life changing. By working here it has really boosted my self-confidence and gave me the courage that no matter what size I am, I can do anything. I just want to thank you for being patient with me and not getting upset when I make a mistake and for working with me step by step.

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5 Ways To Use Mobile To Recruit Top Talent

TalentCulture

These days, desktops and laptops are starting to seem like relics from an earlier age. Mobile rules. Any company that isn’t using mobile for recruitment and referrals is in real danger of losing out on top talent. Here’s a few quick stats to give you a clearer picture : 70 percent of job seekers use mobile devices in their job search; 81 percent of employees use their personal mobile devices for work; 23 percent of keyword searches that contain the word “job” come from mobile devices.

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A Dozen Ways to Help Your Team Recharge

WorqIQ

Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council were asked, "How can you help your team recharge and/or reboot?" Here are twelve responses. Read More» The post A Dozen Ways to Help Your Team Recharge appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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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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A strategy for becoming the most important function in your company

HR Zone

Business. How to make HR your firm's most important function.

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Strategic sourcing solutions to attract Generation Z through Millennial learnings

Allegis Global Solutions

Their experience with Millennials can help businesses prepare for the influx of Generation Z.

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Employee Compensation: How the Pros Do It

Reviewsnap

Compensation should be more than a strategy, it should be a shared philosophy where every member of an organization is considered. Whether you’re an executive, an HR compensation decision-maker, or a one-man HR department, one thing is for sure. Well, actually three. Here they are… 1. Pay for Performance is a Must “Tie pay raises … Continue reading Employee Compensation: How the Pros Do It.

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Can I Get out of a Relocation Repayment?

Evil HR Lady

I assumed a position with my company. However, after my arrival, I have been handed a completely different job altogether – as have many others. Moreover, upon my arrival most employees left in the first few weeks on the job because they’d been promised better positions – my top person was told he would assume my job before they hired me.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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my boss is constantly texting and emailing during meetings

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My boss, the president of our company, constantly looks at his phone during meetings. He’s grinning and typing, so I don’t know if he’s emailing or texting, but I can speculate. One example is the weekly meetings he sets up for my coworkers and me so we can give him weekly updates. However, he either doesn’t attend or looks at his phone the entire time.

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Top 10 reasons why your organisation needs to shift to a data-driven HR model

HR Zone

Business. Top 10 reasons to switch to data-driven HR.

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Bright Ideas: Thought Leadership Is About More Than Packaging (I Hope)

Workology

So I saw a great TED Talk on… things. Topics. Important topics. The speaker was very convincing and, hey, they should be since they’re a thought leader. I know they’re a thought leader because they told me so. The CBC’s radio sketch show, This Is That has an annual live show where they perform their dry parody live. This year they decided to tackle, among other things, the thought leaders of TED.

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