Fri.Sep 13, 2019

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Time to Ditch the Probationary Period

Affinity HR Group

I recently received a call from a client asking what his rights were to fire an employee who was still in her probationary period. It was a good question which I answered with my own question: Why do you have a probationary period in the first place? Typically, a probationary period is a period of time after hiring an employee—usually between 30 and 90 days—when an employee is assessed to determine whether s/he is able to satisfy the requirements of the job.

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How To Improve Employee Financial Wellness

Payactiv

Blog › What Employers Can Do How To Improve Employee Financial Wellness By Insights Team on September 13, 2019 According to a Federal Reserve report, the majority of workers without savings lack access to basic financial products and services. This can lead to costly, challenging situations where employees are forced to use expensive payday loans and check cashing… The post How To Improve Employee Financial Wellness appeared first on PayActiv.

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HSA vs 401k: The Benefits to Employers and Employees

InfinityHR

Did you know that there is a rising trend within workforce benefits that includes supplementing traditional employee retirement options such as 401k, 403(b) SEP and more with a Health Savings Account (HSA)? According to Fidelity Investment Research, an HSA can add an additional $119,000 in retirement savings for employees. However, many employers and employees still do not understand the benefits of this triple-tax advantage savings plan.

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3 HR Trends On The Horizon That Will Transform The Industry

PandoLogic

As an HR professional, you’re undoubtedly aware that your ability to consistently hit your target performance goals and be successful is tied to a number of key variables—and chief among them is your ability to stay on top of the.

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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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Most Important Developments in HR for 9/13

GetFive

The bots aren’t coming for our jobs anytime soon, but another kind of revolution needs to take place as a result of automation, according to a new report by MIT. The report , which represents the initial findings of MIT’s Task Force on the Work of the Future, punctures some conventional wisdom and builds a nuanced picture of the evolution of technology and jobs.

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Boring to brilliant: empowering your employees to understand their pension

HR Zone

Employees. Bringing passion to your pensions communications.

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Learning to be a Better Ally

SHRM

I like to think about myself as being a good ally. But I still have a lot to learn. I have relied on my own reality and experiences and made assumptions that other people's experience is similar. It's not. Not even a little. As someone who was adopted, I have some insight into what it feels like to be 'other' and not belong. As a woman attorney, I have plenty of experience with gender bias and sexual.

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How to Be Found by Recruiters on LinkedIn

Celarity

LinkedIn has been changing the recruiting industry. Whether you are passively or actively looking for a job, this is a great social platform for recruiters to find you. Well, that is if they can find you. . To ensure that you are using LinkedIn to the fullest, be sure to follow these tips: . 1. Think Strategy . First, do your research; whether it’s checking out people’s profiles that have similar professions, following companies that interest you, or sending invites to new contacts, it’s importa

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McDonald’s Is Showing Us the Future of Recruiting!

The Tim Sackett Project

Mikey D’s announced this week that they purchased an Artificial Intelligence speech recognition company. Why? Well, quite simply the vast majority of interactions that happen between McDonald’s and it’s customers happen through the drive-thru speaker. So, if you want to save money. Become more efficient. Make fewer errors. etc. You need to find a way to add technology into that equation. “Yeah, um, well, I’d like a #3 with a large fry and large diet, and an extra Mc

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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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Five Ways To Tame Your Fear Of Public Speaking

Forbes Coaches Council

As a certified professional career coach, public speaking has become key in establishing myself as a thought leader, building my client base and helping others to add value to their own careers.

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Effective one-on-one meetings – your guide to listening to employees

Qualtrics HR

When the work we do feels meaningful, we’re challenged by our goals, and supported in achieving them, this creates a powerful experience. One of the best ways for leaders to foster meaningful, challenging, and supported experiences for employees is via their one-on-one conversations. Set goals for yourself before you head into your one-on-one meetings.

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The Benefits Of Cultural Diversity In The Workplace

Forbes Coaches Council

Business today is increasingly global, and that's not likely to change anytime soon.

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EEOC is Not Seeking Renewal of EEO-1 Component 2

Berkshire Associates

In an interesting twist in the ongoing saga about the collection of employee pay data by the federal government, the EEOC announced in a Federal Register Notice that it will not seek renewal of Component 2 of the EEO-1 Report under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Importantly, this decision does not change the deadline for filing the 2017 and 2018 Component 2 data by September 30, 2019.

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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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What Can Football Teach Us About HR?

HR Workplace Services

Professional athletes have never been shy about posting their thoughts on social media. Over the last couple of months we’ve seen a top NFL player and even an active coach, bring new light on its impact. As you may have seen, Antonio Brown took to social media to allegedly “force” his way out of Oakland and find a new employer. Along the way, he made negative comments and shared documents sent to him by the Raiders.

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Three Leadership Myths Sabotaging C-Suite Executives And What To Do About It

Forbes Coaches Council

Executives often get trapped in bad habits, stuck in what has become comfortable. But the consequences of doing so can hit your bottom line.

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weekend free-for-all – September 14-15, 2019

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: The Lager Queen of Minnesota , by J. Ryan Stadal. I am a huge fan of his Kitchens of the Great Midwest (until stumbling across his photo recently, I thought he was a woman because he writes women so well).

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Mindfulness: Improving The Culture Of Service In The Hospitality Industry

Forbes Coaches Council

Rather than adopting a rigorous program, it’s often best to start small and demonstrate results.

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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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open thread – September 13-14, 2019

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 do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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Social Round-Up: 3-2-1.Action!

WEX Inc.

The moment you have planned for all year is almost here: Open Enrollment. It's time to put your hard work into action.

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Take the Survey: Berkshire Partners With HR.com on State of Pay Equity Research

Berkshire Associates

Berkshire has partnered with HR.com to conduct. The State of Pay Equity Survey. We are inviting our clients and other HR professionals to participate and take the. survey. All participants receive a free copy of the industry report before it is released to the public. Be sure to provide your email in the survey to receive the report!

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Assumptions: Silencing That Little Voice That Limits Potential

Forbes Coaches Council

Spend some time listening to your inner voice.Is it friendly? Is it accusatory? Is it limiting?What can you learn about what your voice tells you?

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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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Things You Should Know Before Working In HR

New to HR

These days, the HR sectors of a business play a very important role in that business’s overall strategy and plans for growth. In the past, HR may have seemed like a boring sector to work in, with people simply organizing. The post Things You Should Know Before Working In HR appeared first on New To HR.

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Why You Need To Uncover Your Internal 'Burn'

Forbes Coaches Council

All high achievers share one thing in common. It’s their mental mindset, their burning desire, that fuels them constantly to focus on what it is they really want in life.

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What Is An Organometric?

New to HR

What if there were a tool that could help you identify people who “just have that spark“? Perhaps even show you who they should be teamed up with and where to place them within your company? Or, maybe you are. The post What Is An Organometric? appeared first on New To HR.

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HRExaminer v10.37

HR Examiner

How To Hire Great Candidates That Interview Poorly. HRExaminer Weekly Edition v10.37 September 13, 2019. Abhijit Bhaduri and Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic join us to talk about a better way to hire. They cover known problems in the hiring process like confirmation bias, and the less known, such as How To Hire Great Candidates That Interview Poorly.

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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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How To Help Your People Master Any Subject On The Job

New to HR

The notion of “life-long” learning continues to be at the forefront of the discussion of the modern world of work. Being able to absorb new material all the time seems to be a necessity in an ever-changing world. The job. The post How To Help Your People Master Any Subject On The Job appeared first on New To HR.

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Create a Better Safety Culture Throughout the Employee Life Cycle

Select International

Many companies have safety programs in place, but as organizations continue to set higher safety goals, safety professionals can expand on the systems they have in place to develop an even stronger safety culture and continuously safer workplace. The key to a good safety culture is the people. Focus on three phases of the employee life-cycle: hiring, development, and leadership.

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6 Ways To Finance Your Business

New to HR

When you want your business to grow to new heights, you may find that you meet a brick wall with your cash reserves. Borrowing money is always on the cards for a business who wants to diversify, but knowing how. The post 6 Ways To Finance Your Business appeared first on New To HR.

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