April, 2014

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Which Recruitment Metrics Are Right For You – Cost Per Hire?

ExactHire

In the age of Big Data, we have access to crunch numbers and draw insightful conclusions in many situations. The recruiting and human resources realm is no exception thanks to ATS, HRIS, LMS…and many other alphabet soup acronyms. But sometimes having that much information at our fingertips can be disabling and intimidating if we aren’t sure which metrics are worth our attention for our specific company.

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What Are Your Employees Up To? How to Uncover the Truth with a Time Tracking System

Insperity

Time and attendance automation can be a beautiful thing. It can cut down on errors from manual processing and the time it takes to reconcile your payroll. But, don’t stop there. It also can help your human resources strategy and improve your bottom line. When you manage your employees’ time efficiently, your business can run more effectively. Staffing, productivity and compliance all become clear.

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Strategic Workforce Planning is the Way Forward

Cielo HR Leader

'Thought Leadership Discussion: Steve Hunt, Director of Resourcing, Thales Group. While McKinsey’s famous ‘war for talent’ may have dwindled to little more than a skirmish in many markets over recent years, it never died out completely and has remained hard fought in many of the emerging nations in the east and the south. And now, with signs of recovery in the U.S., UK and other established economies, it seems set to erupt again around the globe in all its past fury.

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Aspire 2014: The Future of the Workplace

Achievers

The future of the workplace is based on facts: The modern workforce is fundamentally different and the shifts we’re all witnessing are seismic. Employees expect more out of their workplaces. Customers expect far more out of your employees. Companies today need to ensure they are positioned to thrive in the face of these changes which, most of all, means leveraging the modern workforce to win.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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11 Reasons Candidates Don’t Want to Work for You

The HR Minion

'This past month a great Slideshare was being passed around online, “Congratulations Graduate! Eleven Reasons Why I will Never Hire You” by Mark O’Toole. As an HR pro who’s done her fair share of hiring, I loved it. Sure, none of the information is anything you haven’t heard before but it did a great job of putting it in an interesting, straight forward manner that hopefully will resonate with the intended audience.

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Candor & Accountability: Dynamic Duo for Employee Engagement

ExactHire

Hopefully you’ve been in an organization…maybe right now…where you felt as though you were on the precipice of something exciting. Maybe you can tell by an intangible buzz or rhythm to how things get done on a daily basis…all the pieces have finally fallen into place and work is productive, a fine-tuned machine. If you’ve ever read Jim Collins’ Good to Great then you might consider this the “Flywheel Effect” in which, through diligent effort and discipline, an organ

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Goal Setting Works. But Avoid Those Goals Gone Wild.

Reviewsnap

'Helping employees set achievable performance goals delivers substantial benefits. Goal setting helps employees prioritize their work and focus their day-to-day efforts effectively. It lets them know exactly what they’ll be measured on (in part) during performance reviews. It can facilitate their communication and interaction with managers. And it shows them how important their personal contributions are to department, functional and overall company targets.

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I'm Hiring! - Talent Acquisition Manager

NoExcusesHR

'We are expanding our human resources leadership team at All Children''s Hospital and I need to find a Talent Acquisition Manager who''s ready to live, work, and play in Tampa Bay. Us Yes, it really does look like this here. We are one of the most progressive healthcare human resources teams in the country. (Yes, I said it.) We''ve built social tools into our work, and we''re not afraid to try new things.

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Aligning Your Workforce: One, Two, Three Strikes – You’re Out

Achievers

Picture this: it’s the bottom of the ninth and bases are loaded. Two outs and you’re down by three. Batter up! That’s you. The worst thing you can do right now is strike out. You look up at your coach for your play, but … wait, your coach isn’t there. You glance out the field and realize that your team has no idea what to do next. Okay. You think. Now what?

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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The Five Elements Of A ‘Simply Irresistible’ Organization

Bersin with Deloitte

New Deloitte Global Human Capital Research shows that organizations today must work hard to create a meaningful, humanistic work environment to drive engagement, performance, and a magnetic attraction in the market. And this is good business. The Great Place to Work Institute has published studies which show that the “100 best places to work” outperformed the S&P 500 by […].

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The 8 Word Definition of Employee Engagement

David Zinger

'Employee engagement in 8 words. Good work, done well, with others, every day. David Zinger is an employee engagement expert striving for lean, simple, and significant approaches to employee engagement.

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Finding Your Niche… Job Board

ExactHire

Each day, you’re in a fast-paced race against your competitors to try to fill vacant positions with qualified candidates who fit well within your organization. Specialty positions with sought after key skill sets can be especially hard to fill. Job seekers often use job aggregator sites (often called spider boards that pull job listings from many sites) such as Indeed and SimplyHired to search for jobs.

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Employee Learning and Training—No Retreat, No Surrender!

Reviewsnap

'How much do employers spend on learning and training? According to the American Society of Training and Development’s 2013 State of the Industry Report , U.S. organizations spent more than $164 billion on employee learning in 2012. (In this case, “learning” encompasses a wide array of educational initiatives including training.) Training magazine’s 2013 Training Industry Report , on the other hand, offers a narrower focus on training initiatives and the dollars spent.

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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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What Do You Mean I'm A Brand

NoExcusesHR

'I never imagined the concept of "brand" would apply to me. Brands are big things like BMW or Rolex or Calgon. I''m just a regular person, not bath soap. But somewhere between joining twitter and writing lots of blog posts, something happened. It''s odd to think about really. As it turns out when you push lots of content out to the web you get a little traction whether you want it or not. ( Apparently the Internet has a certain permanency to it.

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Four Daily Practices for HR Professionals

Achievers

As an HR professional, you can have an incredible impact on the engagement and motivational levels of your leadership. Here are four daily practices that you can channel, guaranteed to help your managers succeed. 1. Seek a new way of thinking about bonuses. Bonuses! Your employees think. How will I save or spend this?! Bonuses are an exciting time for the workforce; but what do they mean for HR professionals?

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Update on Technology: Review from Analyst Days

Bersin with Deloitte

Tis the season — of analyst briefings: those events in which companies strut their stuff, as it were, before the industry analyst community. Some years the messages seem “same old, same old” – and some years – like this one — there are new and exciting stories to tell. Recent events I attended included […].

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Employee Engagement Definition: A focus on “with others”

David Zinger

'Employee engagement is not a solo endeavor. (Reading time 42 seconds). I loved reading Kate Nasser’s deeper look at my employee engagement definition of: “good work, done well, with others , every day.” Thank you Kate. She offered an excellent elaboration of the “with others” part of the definition: Leaders, you can fill this gap by asking the following two questions consistently with your teams: Who does this issue impact?

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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How to Learn to Receive Feedback Well

45 Things

'This morning your mirror confirmed that yes, indeed, you do look fat in those pants. Your new puppy let you know that your house-training efforts are not working. Then you got to work and your boss had edited your report so heavily the only original thing was your name and the date. No matter where we get feedback – from our dog or our boss – it can be difficult to take.

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Rethink Employee Engagement -- Already?

Reviewsnap

'Employee engagement continues to be a hot-button issue for employers and HR professionals worldwide. Some of the questions swirling around this issue include: How, exactly, should we define employee engagement? Does engagement really drive productivity? Are employee satisfaction and happiness part of employee engagement? And, of course, how can we improve our engagement levels?

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My Personal Board of Directors

NoExcusesHR

'Until Charlie Judy wrote about having a personal board of directors several years ago I had never heard of the concept. Kudos to Charlie for being so far ahead. At the time I thought it was a fabulous idea, and in the '' old '' Jay Kuhns style I moved on. No follow up.no call to Charlie to explore it further.no email shout out. Nothing. Not This Time Recently I saw another piece about the value of a personal board of directors and I realized it was time to do something.

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Great Managers are your Secret Weapon

Achievers

You wouldn’t call someone handy if they only knew how to fix one thing. When you hire a handyman, you expect the service provider to be able to fix the loose railing and the leaky kitchen tap, replace the light fixture, and maybe also give you some advice on how to make your computer run faster. Middle managers are like the handyman; they need to be able to do it all.

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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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The Impact of IMPACT

Bersin with Deloitte

With Bersin’s seventh annual IMPACT conference officially in the books and planning for the next already beginning, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the experience. While heralded as the “best-ever IMPACT” by Josh Bersin, the conference this year was particularly exciting for me as it was the first time I attended as […].

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Employee Engagement is Not About Great or Amazing Work or Workplaces

David Zinger

'Have a ball at work by doing good work well with others every day. (Reading time: Under 1 minute). I have sharpened my focus on engagement in 2014 to: Good work done well with others every day. I believe this is both attainable and sustainable while also being a big challenge. What I too often see is the cheerleaders of engagement trying to lead us on to great and amazing work and workplaces.

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The Importance of Branding In Hiring

Effortless HR

'Companies know they have to maintain a certain level of branding when dealing with consumers – but what about with prospective employees? Company branding is becoming a major element to the hiring process. In an age where social media has personified businesses to a level not experienced before, human resources must understand the company’s image must also correspond to the way it presents itself to candidates.

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The Art of Effective Performance Reviews

Reviewsnap

'Conducting a great performance review is a bit of an art. Managers who are just learning this art often ask us what they should be talking about—other than specific performance targets—with their people during reviews. In addition to the fine details (specific performance goals, noteworthy achievements, critical skill gaps, “reach” projects, future potential roles, etc.), we advise managers to ask questions that will help them understand the “big picture” where each individual is concerned.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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Not Enough

NoExcusesHR

'It''s not enough to want it. It''s not enough to think about it. Even if you think about it every day. It''s not enough to talk about it. It''s not enough to hope for it. Even if you hope for it every day. It''s not enough to wish for it. It''s not enough to pray for it. Even if you pray for it every day. It''s not enough to plan for it. It''s not enough to long for it.

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The Ultimate Check-List: 8 Manager Essentials

Achievers

Your employees are your biggest and most important asset. When you think about where you’re investing efforts to keep employees engaged, aligned and recognized, what comes to mind? Cash bonuses? Celebrating their tenure? Perhaps it’s a fruitcake on their birthday. Well, what if we told you that the secret weapon to driving employee success was your managers?

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Is Saba Coming Back?

Bersin with Deloitte

Saba Software, the pioneer of the enterprise LMS business (yes, they really did define this market), seems to be coming back. I had the opportunity to attend the 2014 user conference and things feel different. I've been following Saba for more than 14 years now (I used client/server version – Saba 3.0), and the company […].

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