December, 2016

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Executive Freelancers: An Interview With Antoinette Forth

Everwise

Everyone knows work is changing, but it’s the breadth and magnitude of that change that we’ve yet to fully understand. That’s especially true when you look to independent workers in this country. The U.S. workforce is now 35 percent freelance , and it’s growing quickly. In February, Deloitte reported that 51 percent of executives planned to hire freelancers more this year than they did in 2015.

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Top Funding News in the HR, Recruiting and Benefits Space | 2016

Advos

Funding Announcements in the HR, Recruiting and Benefits Space | 2016. January 2016. The recruitment marketing platform Smashfly started off 2016 raising $22 million. The first of many big funding announcements in 2016. Lever Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding to Help Companies Reinvent the Way They Recruit and Hire. Job Today inks $10 Million Series A.

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The big boom: The ABCs of preparing your company for the exodus of retiring baby boomers

Rehmann

As featured in Jackson Magazine. The U.S. is on the brink of an inevitable employment crisis: the Baby Boomer generation – comprising nearly 75 million Americans – has begun to retire in large numbers. In 2010, the percentage of retired baby boomers was 10 percent; that figure has nearly doubled today. Here are a few tips to prepare for the impending retirement boom sooner rather than later, to help ensure a smooth transition for your business and employees.

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Your Career Success is Based on Your Self-Awareness

HR Bartender

There’s no secret sauce for career success. If there was, we would all get an index card with the secret and everyone would be a high-performer. Boom! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), it doesn’t work that way. We should consider that our careers are a work in progress. The business world is constantly changing. Our career goals should change along with it.

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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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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. The 50 Best Places to Work in 2017, According to Employees -- by Rachel Gillett. 2. 4 Things Successful Leaders Need To Know About Their Own LinkedIn Profile -- by David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom. 3.

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10 Recruiting Dos and Don’ts for 2017

ClearCompany HRM

2016 is coming to a close and whether you feel it was good or not, one thing we can all agree on is recruiting has continued to advance. From. digital recruitment. marketing efforts to AI and more, it’s tough to keep up. This is also the best time to start preparing for any other changes that may come your way. What can you do in 2017 to help your recruitment endeavours?

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Top M&A News in the HR, Recruiting and Benefits Space | 2016

Advos

M&A Announcements in the HR, Recruiting and Benefits Space | 2016. January 2016. SterlingBackcheck Made Several Strategic Acquisitions in 2016. SterlingBackcheck Completes Merger with TalentWise. Kronos Acquires Empower Software Solutions. TrueBlue’s PeopleScout Acquires RPO Business from Aon Hewitt. Salary.com Founding Team Acquires Compensation Portfolio From IBM.

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5 Reasons NOT to Quit Your Job in 2017 - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

5 Reasons NOT to Quit Your Job in 2017. Article by Tracy Maylett originally published on Business2Community.com. As I valiantly fought the annual Christmas lights battle again this year, detangling the matted mess of strings that were to be placed across the front of my house, it hit me (as it does every year): Why not just get rid of these lights and start over?

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Employee Perceptions of Time Are Important

HR Bartender

Earlier this year, I heard an executive say, “Silicon Valley doesn’t think in terms of years. They think in terms of days/weeks/months.” While I understand Silicon Valley doesn’t rule the world, they do produce much of the technology that drives business today. Which means their perception of time is important. Because their perception of time drives the way they design the technology we use.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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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. 6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking -- by Dr. john Sullivan. 2.

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How Small Businesses Can Shape Learning and Development

Cornerstone On Demand

How do you approach learning as a small businesses? Contrary to popular belief, you don't need an expensive technology system, or hours of classroom lectures to guide employees toward success. Excellent teachers and coaches are right there in your organization. Using internal resources for learning is a win-win for both those who learn and those who teach.

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The New Year’s Resolutions Every Leader Needs

ClearCompany HRM

Whether you believe in the practice of making a resolution or not, the beginning of a new year is certainly the best time to work on forming new habits. It’s a fresh start to leave the past behind or build on the progress you’ve already made in the prior year. As a leader in your organization, you should always be looking for opportunities to improve and progress in the way you lead and challenge, not only your team, but yourself.

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How to Inspire Employees (Without Using Money)

15Five

Pop quiz time. Without doing any research, how would you respond to the following sentence? When a company really wants to motivate employees, the most effective strategy will rely primarily on: a) Compensation-based incentives. b) Employee perks. c) A combination of A and B. d) None of the above. If you answered anything other than “d,” be sure to read this post all the way to the end.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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17 Inspiring Quotes for HR Leaders

Reflektive

‘Tis the season to get inspired. As 2016 comes to a close and the New Year is upon us, now is the perfect time to press the reset button, set new goals, and get excited for what’s on the horizon. Working in HR means being a leader by way of cultivating leadership in the workplace. It’s a big responsibility and one that is constantly evolving; therefore, it’s important to feel motivated and inspired even when at times you’re finding yourself in an HR crisis spiral.

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Thank You and Happy 2017 from #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Thank you for being a HR Bartender reader and for sharing HR Bartender with your contacts on social media. I can’t begin to tell you how much it means to me. Thank you to all the people who send me questions and comments. I wish that I could answer them all! But I’m honored that you have confidence in my ability to respond and hope I don’t disappoint.

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Reinventing HR Management with People Analytics

EmployeeConnect

Whether you’ve immersed yourself in a career around business or not, you would have heard or learnt, that the dynamics of HR Management are in a constant state of change. It could be from your fellow friends in business or through just a casual talk (you’d be surprised that these types of topics get brought up in a conversation!). These changes to HR Management have also created other advancements in HR software and HRIS – both time and effort savers.

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Going Digital – How Small To Medium Businesses Are Winning With Cloud Solutions

ExactHire

The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. It has freed companies from the constraints of their locations and endless paperwork, and helped them to become more robust, flexible, and cost-effective. Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Mercer and INTOO Win Silver Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award in Technology

Intoo USA

We are pleased to announce that Mercer Intoo Candidate Care has earned a Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award in the category of Best Advance in Candidate Experience Management Technology. “We proudly celebrate this win with our partner, Mercer, and our talented teams and clients who have shared our vision of a better candidate experience for all,” said Robin D.

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Psychological Safety and Its Siblings Meaning and Capacity

15Five

Employee engagement is a hard thing to measure. What’s even harder is understanding what drives it. Just Google “How can I improve employee engagement” and you will get four million results. On the first page, all but one are “list” articles: 10 Secrets to Improve…. 25 Ways to Improve… 49 Employee Engagement Ideas… 6 Simple But Effective….

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What I learned at DisruptHR Toronto

Kazoo

I attended my third DisruptHR event tonight, first one in Toronto. If you’re not familiar with DisruptHR – definitely check it out. With the plethora of events and conferences out there, we all struggle to choose where we to spend our valuable time, but this is a disruptive conference (ugh, sorry, I had to) that’s fun, entertaining, educational and just a great experience as an attendee.

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How Extreme Recruiting Is Winning Over Millennial Tech Talent

Entrepreneur

Businesses pursuing the best and brightest will have to ditch the old-school hiring playbook. Today's tech stars are all about experiential learning -- and they expect companies to keep up.

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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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Why Do Employees Quit?

EmployeeConnect

A big problem that most companies go through without stopping to think about, is their high turnover rate. Like the saying, “most friendships come and go”- the same applies to employees. Despite it being a popular belief and saying, the real problem that lies here is that companies don’t tackle the core reason as to why it even exists. Most managers would believe it’s because of the changing dynamics of the workforce, where employees roll in and out.

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Beat Monday Blues – 5 Tips for Being Energized for the Work Week

ExactHire

Staying motivated is all about staying engaged and excited about what you are doing. Therefore, the key to self-motivation is giving yourself something to look forward to on a regular basis. This can either come in the form of a goal you are hoping to achieve or a reward you will earn for yourself (or give yourself) if you achieve your goal. For example, most fitness fanatics will reward themselves at the end of a competition with a juicy burger, cupcake or some other indulgence.

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7 Factors That Determine Workplace Happiness Levels

Hppy

Take a look around your office. Who’s happy? If everyone looks like they’d rather be at the dentist than at their desks, you’ve got a problem. You may offer competitive salaries, but money isn’t everything when it comes to workplace happiness. Workplace happiness doesn’t always seem important on the surface (after all, work is work!), but most people spend a third of their day doing their job, which can add up to a lot of unhappiness during their lives if they’re unsatisfied at work.

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Here’s How Justworks Approaches Employee Happiness Surveys

Justworks

“Are my employees happy with their jobs?” This question has likely crossed your mind as you have formed your company into what it is today. There is so much that goes into building a small business — from finding financing to picking the right partners to building a desirable product or service — that such an important questions can easily get lost in the day-to-day shuffle.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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What I learned at DisruptHR Toronto

Kazoo

I attended my third DisruptHR event tonight, first one in Toronto. If you’re not familiar with DisruptHR – definitely check it out. With the plethora of events and conferences out there, we all struggle to choose where we to spend our valuable time, but this is a disruptive conference (ugh, sorry, I had to) that’s fun, entertaining, educational and just a great experience as an attendee.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Be Training Your Managers

Everwise

Effective management can be crucial to your company’s success. Managers are responsible for everything from goal setting to motivating employees, to making the company run smoothly. It’s important to ensure that your managers have the tools to keep your employees engaged, inspired and happy. Some of these tools include the ability to focus on their employees’ strengths, knowing how to curb employee turnover rates, and providing proper support to their teams.

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2 Steps to Reduce Voluntary Turnover to Zero

RecognizeThis!

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Understanding the importance of the work and the people doing it make work matter and make work more human. The new year is nearly upon us (and I, for one, am ready to put paid to 2016). With the new year often comes the opportunity for evaluation of our lives and our priorities. Many of us start a new year with new ambitions, goals for change, ideas for improvements.