Tue.Jul 26, 2016

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4 Ways To Be The Best Company At Your Next Job Fair

Spark Hire

Oh, job fairs. Setting up the perfect, eye-catching booth, preparing your winning pitch, and fighting for the attention of job seekers. Events like this are great to attract new talent, network, and promote your business, but you have to do them right if you want to reap the rewards. So how do you make your business stand out amongst the rest? These hiring experts shared their insight on making your company the best at the fair.

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Rearrange Desks, Increase Revenue: Study Finds Seating Charts Impact Performance

Cornerstone On Demand

Could the secret to boosting your human capital—the economic value of your employees' skill sets—be as easy as rearranging a few chairs? According to a new report from Cornerstone and Harvard Business School, the answer is yes. The report, which analyzed data on more than 2,000 employees over a two-year period, found that placing the right type of workers in close proximity to each other generated up to a 15 percent increase in organizational performance.

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7 Must-ask Questions When Shopping for a PEO

Insperity

Are you uncertain about how to find the most suitable professional employer organization (PEO) for your company? Have you explored all your options? After all, not all PEOs are the same. Deciding which one offers the best service , the greatest value and the type of expertise that your organization isn’t always so simple. Be a well-informed buyer.

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4 Predictions About Candidate Experience

ClearCompany HRM

We’re over halfway through 2016 and as with every year, which means in the coming months the trends of 2017 will begin taking over our streams. We’ve been known to make a few of our own in the past. Though, it’s absolutely impossible to truly know what the workforce has in store for HR and recruiting teams around the country, we have a few ideas about the direction your candidates want you heading.

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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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8 Must-ask Questions When Shopping for a PEO

Insperity

Are you uncertain about how to find the most suitable professional employer organization (PEO) for your company? Have you explored all your options? After all, not all PEOs are the same. Deciding which one offers the best service , the greatest value and the type of expertise that your organization needs isn’t always so simple. Be a well-informed buyer.

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Transforming Performance Management for Increased Agility

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a global leader in cloud-based talent management solutions. They were named a winner in HRO Today’s annual “ TekTonic Awards for excellence in HRMS Suites. ” Congrats to them! Enjoy the post.). When it comes to agility, there are two definitions. The first refers to the ability to anticipate change and respond and the second refers to an incremental method of design.

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Helping Employees Deal with Being Passed Over for a Promotion

Everwise

Not everyone up for a new position and promotion will be lucky enough to land the role. Helping team members who are passed over for a promotion cope with disappointment and rejection is vital, because while they might not have been right for a role now, they might be the perfect fit for future opportunities. Essentially, employees who miss out a promotion still remain in your talent reservoir – they’re skilled individuals who will likely take on more significant roles with the passage of time

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3 Ways to Turn Managers Into Coaches

Reflektive

Work is already busy enough. Most of your managers don’t have time to invest in themselves as leaders. They’re running a team, and as long as everything stays on track, they don’t want to hassle their reports too much. After all, nobody likes a micro-manager. But frequent feedback is key to helping employees be successful in their work and to expand their knowledge.

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Ask Czarina Live Replay: How My Daughters Inspired My Last Livestream

The Aristocracy of HR

010011000010Last week, I shared my thoughts on the importance of speaking up when things have gone horribly wrong in society. I also shared that I would be hosting my “Black Out Show” as my first Ask Czarina Live after vacation. What I didn’t realize was how much extra courage and strength I had to muster […].

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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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16 Strategies to Be the King of Credibility at Work

EmployeeConnect

Credibility is the quality of being trusted and believed in. It influences your relationships, career and professional life. For many years, research has focused on the importance of credibility to achieve organisational objectives. Whether it’s when you’re with colleagues, partners, clients or suppliers; being credible enables you to implement and strengthen a culture of collaboration in the workplace, which in turns allow to reach individual and collective objectives.

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Small Businesses Are Still Not Moved By Health Care Tax Credits, Per Update From The GAO

ACA Times

Applicable Large Employers, i.e. those with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, have reluctantly taken to the ACA’s mandate for employer-sponsored health care for its employees. And while small businesses are in a somewhat better position with federal tax credits, it’s reportedly not enough of an incentive to actually cash out. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued an update regarding Code Section 45R, the small employer health insurance tax credit, during a meeti

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Executive Perspectives: Impact of Digital Transformation

Trish McFarlane

Digital transformation is a topic that comes up every time I talk with leaders. Whether you’re in human resources, finance, IT or in other parts of the organization, the impact of digital and how it’s transforming the way we work is top of mind. I am partnering with Infor on a series of webinars to help executives gain perspective and insight on many of the ways technology is changing the workplace.

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3 Ways to Raise Employee Morale with Effective HR Management

Hppy

Regardless of which industry or region your company does business in, there’s always benefit to be had from raising employee morale and increasing the overall happiness of your workforce. Studies have repeatedly proven that happy employees are more productive and display better problem solving skills than those who are stressed or disappointed with their job positions.

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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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Tangible Vs. Intangible Assets

China Gorman

You might not be aware of a trend in the corporate valuation world. You might not think that developments in how companies are being valued by the financial world would be of interest to HR. But, hold on to your horses! Validation of “our people are our greatest asset” is here! Ocean Tomo LLC , the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm, publishes an annual study of intangible asset market value.

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Driving Business Success: Limiting How Much We Look Back

Trish McFarlane

Since I’ve been working from my home office the last few years, it strikes me that I don’t drive much anymore. Well, I drive to the airport a fair bit, but day-to-day driving is a thing of my past. I was thinking about it because I have young teens who are already anxiously focused on learning how to drive. When we are in the car, they ask tons of questions about how the car works, what the driving laws are, how other drivers respond, etc.

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Your Leadership Team Wants Hires Only From Elite Schools - They're Wrong.

The HR Capitalist

It's a dance as old as time itself. Your leadership team has opinions on talent - which is good. They're interested. That's a positive. But one of the calls a lot of leadership teams make is this: "In order to be the best, we've got to recruit from the best. We should really focus on elite schools for our key hires - Ivy and maybe a few other schools".

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[Last Chance] Case Study Webinar: How Recognition Drives Engagement at Baystate Health

WorkHuman

How can two words—“thank you”—transform a work culture? And what happens in the absence of true appreciation and gratitude at work? This is perhaps best illustrated through a story. David Novak, co-founder and retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands is a firm believer in the power of recognition. So much so, that he recently wrote an article for Harvard Business Review on the subject—“Recognizing Employees is the Simplest Way to Improve Morale.

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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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Great Leaders Aren’t Superheroes: They Create Them

WorqIQ

The idea of great leaders acting as superheroes is typical for 20th-century-management model thinking, starting from the assumption that organizational complexity needs to be governed through systems of command and control and that being a ‘good manager’ requires you to master certain skills. Read More» The post Great Leaders Aren’t Superheroes: They Create Them appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Paycor's McKenzie Marx: Changing the Recruiting Game

Paycor

Congratulations to our very own McKenzie Marx on her selection as one of the top 25 Workforce Game Changers in 2016 by Workforce magazine. Since 2011, the Workforce Game Changers Awards have recognized high-potential young professionals under the age of 40 who are making their mark on the HR profession. A three-year veteran of Paycor’s HR team, McKenzie joined the company in April 2013 as a Recruiting Coordinator and quickly realized the importance of campus recruiting and developing campu

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4 Ways To Be A More Resilient Leader

TalentCulture

Sundays are Breakfast with music time (Could be Arcade Fire, or Keith Urban , or Tamar Braxton, or Mogwai, or any variety of other eclectic stuff I listen to every day, but those are stories for another day). This week I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a resilient person. Sunday morning, there was Ringo from the Beatles, belting away “I’ll get by with a little help from my friends”.

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5 Great Careers Pages (And What You Can Learn From Them)

BambooHR

For good reason, recruiting is often compared to dating: Recruiters try to make great impressions throughout the application process so they can attract high-quality suitors/applicants. And much like in modern dating, recruiting first impressions are often made online. Because of this, we’re in the process of redesigning our BambooHR careers page. Here are five of […].

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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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What are you doing to avoid being fired from your job?

TheHRBlog

It’s a tough world out there, with newer technologies eating the older behemoths and pushing them in oblivion. It’s a matter of time before we see organizations restructure themselves to face the new world order, that is hyper-connected and hyper-automated. So what can you do to avoid slipping into oblivion when restructuring happens, try doing these things to stay ahead of the pack, you need to make your career resilient to the future shocks, don’t be a sitting duck.

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Sexual Harassment and HR

Laurie Ruettimann

Hold the phone. You know it’s the 90s when we’re discussing politics and sexual harassment. I received a barrage of email from disaffected readers who are aggrieved by yesterday’s article on human resources, sexual harassment, and Fox News. Aggrieved! The emails fall into one of two categories. My advice was horrible. Chicks lie. Let’s take the first objection first.

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HR must shift its focus to enhance agility: leadership development is king

HR Zone

Strategy. HR must shift its focus to enhance agility.

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How to Ensure You Hire for Keeps – The ATS Way

TalentCulture

Applicant tracking has always been one of the most tedious tasks that recruitment managers faced in the past, especially for companies that receive tons of applications for each job opening. Today with the advent of the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), life has become a whole lot easier for recruiters and HR personnel, helping them hire employees that stick around for keeps.

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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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The Problem with Millennials: Is It Really a Thing…or Not?

DDI

Instead of trying to meet the perceived special needs of Millennials, organizations should focus on how to get all people to join, stay and perform well.

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Why Sourcing Is the Red-Headed Step Child of Recruiting

Workology

There have been times in my career that I’ve said recruiting is based on gut feelings and intuition. It’s that good feeling or bad one that you get when you are interviewing with a candidate. Unfortunately these instincts no matter how clear not only won’t pay the bills, but also aren’t enough for your boss or leadership team to blindly follow your intuitions.

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Social media at work: Managing its use among workers

Ceridian

In this day and age, it is necessary for businesses to have an online presence. When leveraged correctly, social media can – and should – be used as an effective marketing tool. It is fast becoming a popular platform on which companies connect and interact with customers, employees and stakeholders. And while social media is undoubtedly a useful channel for external, customer-facing initiatives, managing its use among individual employees can be a bit more complicated.

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