Fri.Aug 26, 2016

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5 Ways Your Company is Turning Off Promising Employees

Take It Personel-ly

High employee turnover is, as ever, a pressing concern for HR executives globally. When an employee decides to leave, the department is forced to readjust. A replacement needs to be hired and trained and there is an inevitable loss of productivity as the employee gets up to speed. On top of this, rehiring places a … Continue reading 5 Ways Your Company is Turning Off Promising Employees.

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The Best Recruiters Don’t Get Surprised!

The Tim Sackett Project

Talent Acquisition 101. If there is one thing I could give a new Recruiting Pro it would be this simple advice. No matter how prepared you think you are, you really only need to prepare yourself, for one thing, being surprised. You don’t really get judged on your daily stuff. Let’s face it, 99.9% of the time that goes off without a hitch. You get judged on how you handle surprises.

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WIRTW #427 (the “treat me like your mother” edition)

Ohio Employer's Law

Someday I am going to convert this legal blog into a full-time dad/music blog. Until then, you get my semi-regular kids/musical posts. Like today’s. The lot was definitely rocked today for School of Rock Strongsville’s fall show preview. This was my personal fav from Norah’s Jack White set - Treat Me Like Your Mother by The Dead Weather. Full shows on Sept. 17 and 25 @brotherslounge.

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Recipes for #HR Success: Communication and Business Acumen

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: This series is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. Capella is an accredited online university dedicated to providing an exceptional, professionally-aligned education that puts you in the best position to succeed in your field. Enjoy the post!). HR must speak the language of business. I realize there are times when we share a group eye roll or collective sigh after hearing someone lecture us about the need to learn the numbers and speak in business terms.

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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. 10 Things You Should Never Put In Your InMails…Like Ever -- by Michelle Burke. 2.

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Exiting Your Organization Like a Pro

Something Different

<www.conovercompany.com> …From Dunn (in an April 2016 post titled “MAMBA OUT: When Leaving Your Company, You Should Go Out Doing What Made You Special” – bold emphasis mine): When the end comes at your company – whether you’re voluntarily leaving or you’ve impacted by a reorganization that allows you to stay in your role for a month or two – WE SHOULD GO DOWN SHOOTING AND SWINGING.

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These Social Media Tips Will Make You Rethink Recruiting

Entrepreneur

The four biggest social media outlets provide unique features that can be used to grab the attention of job seekers.

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Doing Good Work Matters More Than Your Personal Brand

TalentCulture

There’s still a lot of chat on the topic of personal branding. Particularly for people just entering the world of social media, there’s major pressure to create a distinctive personal brand now more than ever. For those in a career flux, there’s major pressure to catch up with the sexy branding thing and seize the new networking and career opportunities that social media can offer.

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Exempt Employees with Same Titles and Different Rules

Evil HR Lady

Hello, I am a salaried employee at a hospital. Despite the fact that there is no official start time for us (3 total), 2 full-time, 1 part-time, the full-time employees work 4 days and the part-time works 3. I am being told that I am late at least once a week. Respectfully, office operating hours are 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, I generally start around 9a and truthfully I do arrive around 930ish somedays. there are occasions when I arrive around 10:00.

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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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#WorkTrends Preview: Meaningful Communication’s Impact on Happiness and Morale

TalentCulture

Meaningful communication has a dramatic impact on happiness and morale in all facets of life. Join us for this #WorkTrends podcast and Twitter chat as our guest Mike Lindstrom discusses some powerful communication tips and tools to help you better understand the impact of your words on others. We will also cover why engaging people around you on a deeper level actually triggers happiness in the brain and creates a strong rapport.

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Don’t get hijacked. Use your emotional intelligence

HR Zone

People. Don’t get hijacked. Use emotional intelligence.

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Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know about Reference Checking?

Outmatch

True or false? Reference checks and background checks are basically the same thing. Candidates usually tell the truth on resumes and job applications. Employers can be sued for saying something negative about a former employee. Want to know what’s what when it comes to reference checking? Our new eBook will help you separate fact from fiction.

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Employee Development: Who, How & What You Need to Know

AssessTEAM Performance Management

Employee development not only results in individual improvement, but also leads to motivated employees who work more efficiently towards the goals of the organization. The key is to encourage growth and career development by improving skills and knowledge along with keeping them motivated. While it is a known fact that only 9% of the employees want challenging work, these nine percent could be your future leaders and you can help them get there with the right kind of employee development program

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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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Weeks Worked to Afford a Health Care Plan: Exploring the Cost

Paychex

Although the U.S. government has spent an average of $9,086 per person on health care, Americans are still feeling the pinch when it comes to paying their share of employer-based plans. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) wage data and the Pew Trusts State Employee Health Care Report, Paychex crunched the numbers to calculate how many weeks of work on average it takes for employees to afford their medical care plans.

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Why is Emotional Intelligence an Important Leadership Trait?

Select International

Emotional Intelligence has become a hot topic in terms of leadership traits. What exactly is it and how does it play out in the context of leadership? Emotional Intelligence has to do with one’s ability to both recognize and control his/her own emotions, while leveraging emotions appropriately as situations dictate. It also has to do with one’s awareness of and sensitivity towards others’ emotions.

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How To Build A Strategically Valuable Talent Pipeline

TLNT: The Business of HR

When we hire, we are bent on finding talent with performance that soars, an attitude of learning and an interest in the long haul. All those variables are difficult to identify or even encounter in the roller coaster world of talent acquisition, especially when finding an amazing candidate doesn’t mean you’ve hired an equally stellar employee. Tack on the pressure to fill empty seats during crunch time and a great team dynamic might feel unobtainable.

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HR Budget Stretching Ideas

Mercer

When it comes to squeezing "extra" dollars from your HR budget, sometimes all you have to do is ask. The post HR Budget Stretching Ideas appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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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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Coffee Break: Transparency, bias and the impact of Google on your career

HR Zone

Development. Transparency & the impact of Google on your career.

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Want to find top talent? Try these research-backed tactics [infographic]

HR Morning

You don’t want to find just any job candidate — you want to find the cream of the crop. Then, you want to convince them to join your team. But how do you do it in today’s highly competitive, highly digital environment? . To find out, talent acquisition software company RolePoint combed through tons of research to find out what’s working today to find and hire the best of the best.

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update: can I make getting to the final round of interviews – and not getting the job – count for something?

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer in May who kept getting to the final rounds of interviews but not getting a job offer ? Here’s the update. I wanted to send you an update after receiving your advice a few months ago on how to continue the job hunt when getting so close and yet so far on a number of occasions. I have a new job! Next week I start my new position as head of marketing for a “teapot-making” company.

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Workers’ comp fraud: Better watch those falling sprinkler heads

HR Morning

Luckily, they’re pretty rare. But some employees will go to astonishing lengths to fake on-the-job injuries in order to collect workers’ comp. . Take the case of Sheyla Veronica White, who worked at Cinque Terre Energy Partners in Florida. White filed a workers’ comp claim for an on-the-job injury she said she sustained when a sprinkler component fell from the ceiling, bounced off her desk and hit her in the head.

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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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should I take the blame for my manager’s mistake, CEO wants to reimburse us for political contributions, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. Should I take the blame for my manager’s mistake? A task I do at work entails printing out batches of client forms and entering each into our system. The first batch I did included 50 forms. I got half entered, and the other half I was researching issues, when my supervisor took them because he was worried a coworker might be entering the same forms.

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Facebook Shows Us How to Do Recognition the Right Way

TLNT: The Business of HR

Even though his organization is all about connecting people virtually, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently did a stellar job connecting in person when he inadvertently delivered a clinic on workplace presentations for an employee’s ten-year anniversary.

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is there any point in applying to a months-old job posting?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a question about applying to job postings that have been up for a while. There is a company in a location and field that I am really interested in. They have a job posting for a specific engineering position that is a really good match to my background and skill set and I would really like to apply for it. The issue I’m having is that the job was posted about two and a half months ago, when I hadn’t yet begun my job search.

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The Struggle In Recruiting Is Getting the Right Kind of Information

TLNT: The Business of HR

Many professionals don’t have a good handle on what their skills are really worth in the marketplace nor who would likely hire them. As a result, when they are next looking for a job, they tend to take the first warm offer that comes along.

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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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Five for Friday: Micromanaging

Jostle

Working alongside or under a micromanager can quickly become stressful and even counterproductive. Whether you're a micromanager or work with one, it's important to identify and understand their characteristics in order to collaborate with them harmoniously and efficiently. In this week's Five for Friday, we explore micromanagement in the workplace.

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Friday Five: Facebook, WhatsApp and Women’s Equality Day

Workology

On August 26, 1920, American women were granted the right to vote. We now remember that day as Women’s Equality Day. So obviously I have a few reads for you on that topic and the persistent gender pay gap (I mean, what else did you expect?). But I’d like us all to reflect that Equal Pay Day, the day on which the women have met the salary men, on average, made the year before, fell on April 12 this year.

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Employee Handbook Lessons from HR Professionals

Paychex

Three Paychex HR professionals offer an inside look at creating an effective employee handbook.