Fri.Sep 02, 2016

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3 tips for recruiting recent college grads

Ceridian

By Maurice Fernandes, Manager of Employment Brand & Social Media at Ceridian. As the generations making up the majority of today’s workforce begin to shift, so must the recruiting strategies of employers. Staying up to date on emerging staffing trends helps ensure businesses are positioning themselves as attractive companies to work for. And today more than ever, it’s so important that organizations are able to effectively tap into the talent pool of recent college graduates.

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165,000 reasons to remember that associational discrimination violates the ADA

The Employer Handbook

165,000 reasons meaning 165,000 dollars. But, you probably figured that out. What the heck is associational discrimination? Well, funny you should ask because, last Summer, I had a post about it. In the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act , associational discrimination occurs when a company excludes or otherwise denies equal jobs or benefits to someone because he or she has a relationship with or associates with someone else who has a disability.

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Culture Fit Is the First Step to Successful Onboarding [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

If you haven’t seen it, there’s an interesting article over on the Harvard Business Review blog titled, “ Don’t Let Your Company Culture Just Happen. ” My big takeaway from the article was that in order for employees to be engaged, they have to fit with the culture. Meaning that cultural fit needs to be an important part of the recruiting process. There are lots of companies that do this – hire for attitude and fit, train for skills.

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165,000 reasons to remember that associational discrimination violates the ADA

The Employer Handbook

165,000 reasons meaning 165,000 dollars. But, you probably figured that out. What the heck is associational discrimination? Well, funny you should ask because, last Summer, I had a post about it. In the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act , associational discrimination occurs when a company excludes or otherwise denies equal jobs or benefits to someone because he or she has a relationship with or associates with someone else who has a disability.

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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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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. How the Former CEO of Campbell Soup Used a Skill We All Learned as Children to Inspire Teamwork and Affection in His Company -- by Shana Lebowitz. 2.

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11 Affordable Team Award Ideas

Kazoo

What kind of team award ideas does your company have on tap? Think about it: You might be recognizing individuals doing great work every day, but what about an entire team, department, or office that’s just pulled off the impossible? Does it feel like they’re getting little more than a quick shoutout at the occasional all-hands meeting sometimes?

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Gregg Williams of BountyGate Fame Would Like To Explain Why He's Riding Your ### In The Workplace.

The HR Capitalist

Some of you are NFL fans. Remember "Bountygate" in New Orleans, where the team was paying bounties for vicious hits and knocking opposing players out of games? Read up here if you need a refresh - the whole scandal caused coach Sean Payton and his defensive coordinator to be suspended for an entire season. That defensive coordinator? It's a guy named Gregg Williams, and he's back as Defensive Coordinator of the Los Angeles Rams, the team featured on the HBO series "Hard Knocks", which basically

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Defend your Business against a DOL Wage and Hour Audit

Paychex

How would you and your business react to a wage and hour audit by the U.S. Department of Labor? Take these steps now to help your business avoid or prepare for a surprise audit.

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Job Seekers Give Props to These Companies for Awesome Interview Experiences

Outmatch

You’ve seen all the lists of the 10 or 50 or 100 Best Places to Work. But what about the Best Places to Interview? Glassdoor recently revealed the winners of its Candidates’ Choice Awards, honoring The Best Places to Interview in 2016. Glassdoor says that this award recognizes employers with “the best interview experiences, according to those who know best—the job candidates.” And the results are in!

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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The Future Of Work Has No Boundaries

TalentCulture

Among the many facets of this new way of working: a not-always smooth shift from officemates to virtually connected nomads who communicate and work via all sorts of virtual channels: social, mobile and video. A statistic that’s been reverberating since I first read it: by 2015, which is now , 1.3 billion of us worldwide will be working remotely. That’s about 40% of the global workforce.

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Get ready: IRS Obamacare penalty letters are on their way

HR Morning

On the heels of the HHS’ notice letters to employers about ACA premium subsidies their employees may have received, the IRS has begun issuing its own ACA compliance letters. The biggest difference: The IRS notices come with penalties attached. . The IRS letters are the first phase of its ACA enforcement efforts and could eventually lead to a full-scale ACA verification audit.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Clashing Cultures During M&As

TalentCulture

Mergers and acquisitions happen in business. Combining two businesses with two different staffs and two different cultures can be cause for concern. Join Host Meghan M. Biro and Guest Patrick Morin to discuss how to handle clashing cultures during mergers and acquisitions. Patrick Morin is a Managing Director with Transact Capital Partners, a Virginia-based investment banking firm that specializes in the mergers and acquisitions of privately owned companies.

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Immigration Is an Economic Resource, Not a Threat

Workology

As we rapidly approach the apex of this year’s Presidential election campaign the issue of immigration and employment continues to be one of the most talked about issues. In particular is the issue of what impact lawful foreign nationals, working in the U.S., have on our economy and the American labor pool. While many attempt to argue that legal immigrant workers undercut wages and displace the job prospects for native-born workers, evidence simply does not seem to support this superficial notio

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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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Body Count

NoExcusesHR

The talk about corporate culture is at an all time high. Just about every CEO lies. ahem.claims their people are their most important asset. Really? I'm calling B.S. on that.and these questions explain why. The Questions - How many "good" people have left your organization? - How many times do you need to hear complaints about misbehaving leaders before you are going to take action?

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open thread – September 2-3, 2016

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue :).

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Five for Friday: Motivation in the workplace

Jostle

Motivation could be one of the most heavily studied and discussed fields of organizational psychology and behaviour. Amazon has over 160,000 books related to the topic, and Google yields a staggering 31 million hits on the search phrase "motivation in the workplace". And yet for many, motivation remains a mythical creature. In this week's Five for Friday, we share a handful of ideas that might bring you one step closer to understanding how to motivate your employees.

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four updates from recent letter-writers

Ask a Manager

Here are updates from four letter-writers who had their questions answered here recently. 1. Should I temporarily live in my boss’s spare bedroom ? Thanks so much for publishing your thoughtful response to my letter. I’ll admit, I kind of wanted my boss’s offer to be an “easy solution,” so at first I didn’t want to hear your recommendation to turn it down.

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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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Brexit Vote Is Prompting An Influx of Jobseekers From the Continent

TLNT: The Business of HR

My colleague Dave Heilbron recently wrote a great blog post entitled “Brexit Fallout: Is The U.K. Facing A Brain Drain?” In his post Dave highlighted a number of key issues and some anecdotal evidence suggesting that the UK will potentially have a talent exodus on its hands post-Brexit. The issues Dave raised are very real, but the argument was written from a Continental European perspective.

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VIDEO: Steve on DisrupTV talking HR Tech, Disruption, and the NBA

Steve Boese

Quick spot for a long holiday weekend getaway Friday. Wanted to share some video from Ray Wang and Vala Afshars' DisrupTV show, where I made an appearance I did last week. On the show, Ray, Vala, (and with a special late in the show appearance by Holger Mueller, talk about HR Technology, digital disruption and transformation, and I even make a VERY bold prediction for the upcoming NBA season.

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3 Leadership Qualities of Tim Duncan That You Can Copy

Select International

It can be difficult to see an athlete’s character or impact on their team, aside from what we see during a game or from what we read in an ESPN article, but Tim Duncan gave the San Antonio Spurs over 19 years of success to realize his greatness. Tim brought Spurs fans consecutive winning records and 5 NBA championships, and for that we are grateful.

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Employment Related Job-Killer Bill to Governor

HRWatchdog

Governor Brown has until September 30 to act on bills presented to him. As the 2016 legislative session came to a close late Wednesday, 19 of 24 identified job killer bills had been effectively stopped through efforts of the California Chamber of Commerce, local chambers and the business community. While many job killer bills were stopped, one employment-related job killer already was signed and another is on the governor’s desk.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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What Presidential Election Polling Can Teach Us About Employee Assessment

Select International

Let me start with a confession: I'm not a political wonk. I don't watch cable news. I don't follow political pundits on Twitter. For the most part, I keep my political opinions to myself. So while I tend to shield myself from the presidential campaign rhetoric, I am fascinated by one element. Probably because it appeals to the I-O Psychologist in me (and no - it isn't trying to understand the personality profile of a person driving the late 90's Dodge Caravan plastered with Gore/Lieberman, Kerry

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All Recruiting is Local: Triage

Robin Schooling

This has been quite the summer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alton Sterling (July 5 th ). The ambush/shooting that resulted in the death of three law enforcement officers (July 17 th ). The flood of epic/biblical/Zeus tossing lighting bolts/ ’Tony Perkins didn’t understand God” proportion (August 12 th /13 th /14 th ). We were reeling, as a community, after the first two events; it’s the kind of news coverage no city wants.

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What’s Driving Employment Changes?

HRExecutive

As the country gets ready to celebrate the contributions of American workers on Labor Day, CareerBuilder released new research that sheds light on the marketplace in which they operate. CareerBuilder’s 2016 Labor Day Study explores three key drivers of employment changes in the United States, trends associated with each driver and occupations that are among those benefitting the most.

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Outdated engagement strategies holding your company back?

Mercer

Looking for expert HR guidance to help as your emerging business grow? Contact the HR specialists at PeoplePro and set up your free 1-hour consultation. The post Outdated engagement strategies holding your company back? appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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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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Manage Like Maddon: 6 Things HR and Front-Line Bosses Can Learn from the Chicago Cubs

Business Management Daily

This summer, baseball's historical cellar-dwelling team, the Chicago Cubs, are having a season for the ages, led by their guru/mad scientist manager Joe Maddon. HR professionals and front-line bosses face many of the same challenges as baseball managers in putting a successful team on the field. Here are six things you can learn from Maddon and the Cubs.

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Cafe Classic: Goldilocks and the 3 Broad-based Stock Plans

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: As the cymbal-bashing grand finale to our end-of-summer Classic week, we bring you a tale of HR success in selecting an employee stock vehicle - told, as only our Dan Walter can do, from the point-of-view of a familiar golden-locked heroine. There once was a dedicated professional who was tasked with creating a company-wide stock plan at her new company.

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Transitioning Employees from Exempt to Non-Exempt Status

Paycor

In exactly three months, the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules will go into effect and impact nearly 64% of all employees. With the new mandate come changes to how employees will be classified. Employees who will be transitioned from an exempt to non-exempt classification may resent the change in classification. They may feel that tracking time is beneath them, that they’re being micromanaged, that their position has less prestige or that their work has less value.

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