May, 2017

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What is a PEO? The solution to making your company great!

EmployeeConnect

A Professional Employer Organization , or PEO, allows businesses to outsource their administrative needs to a third party that specializes in these duties. This can include (but is not limited to) managing human resources, taking care of payroll, overseeing workers’ compensation issues, and offering employee benefits. The relationship is beneficial for both the owner and employees of a business: the boss is able to focus on the bottom line without being bogged down by details or red tape, and wo

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5 Expert Ways to Find Great Candidates for Management Positions

Spark Hire

Hiring from within seems appealing to many companies, but is often not the best solution when filling management positions; despite familiarity or tenure. A company must challenge their business models to grow. In order to do this effectively, management should be the appropriate fit to support the organization. This is true regardless of whether the candidate is internal or external.

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When to hire a recruiting agency

Workable

Recruitment agencies save your company time and effort by sourcing and shortlisting candidates for your open roles. Why you should use a recruitment agency: There are many benefits of using a recruitment agency, especially when you: Have short-term hiring needs. A recruiting firm finds employees fast, since they have a network of candidates with whom they have built relationships.

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The Ripple Effect of a Pay Strategy Change

Compensation Today

Did we catch you in beautiful Snowbird, Utah last month? PayScale was there for The Elevate Summit , BambooHR’s first ever user conference, and we know many of you were too. There were tons of great sessions and keynotes — from the brilliance of Susan Cain to The Science of Happiness — and so many smiling faces. We’re already looking forward to next year.

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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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Four Ways Company Culture Can Support Women in Leadership

Cornerstone On Demand

While more than 75 percent of CEOs say gender equality is part of their top 10 business priorities, women remain underrepresented across every level of the corporate pipeline—comprising just 37 percent of management positions and 19 percent of C-Suite positions, according to a recent study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org. This gender disparity doesn't stem from the inability of women to perform at top levels.

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Cultivating a Business Culture that Encourages Lifelong Learning

EmployeeConnect

What if lifelong learning promised steady increases in the quality-of-life for your family, better earning power, increased recognition, guaranteed career advancement and greater job satisfaction? That’s certainly something that would make most people rethink their educational strategies. Well, guess what? Ongoing learning, personal development, and training offer all of these benefits and more.

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7 Often Overlooked Strategies Your Staffing Firm Should Use to Attract New Clients

Linkedin Talent Blog

Today, the majority of individuals in our profession generate 75% of their sales from less than five clients. The problem? This is not recession proof and could lead to inconsistent sales and profits. That’s why it’s so important to continually upgrade and attract new clients to your staffing firm. If you are in the direct segment of the recruiting profession, you should have 10 key accounts and 20 back-ups.

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Trust: Why It Matters and How Tech Can Help

The Aristocracy of HR

000010000000Campaign/FTC disclosure: This is a sponsored guest blog post. I will receive compensation for this post. I only work with companies I feel have great products, services and offerings. In accordance with my blog disclosure statement, I will only work with and showcase products, events and/or companies I believe my readers will benefit from.

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What’s the Difference Between Human Resources and Organization Development? - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

What’s the Difference Between Human Resources and Organization Development? Being part of a consulting firm that focuses on people analytics and organization development, I am often asked to explain the precise differences between human resources (HR) and organization development (OD). Both functions deal with people, right? So, many naturally assume they do the same thing.

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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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Why HR Needs a Marketing Strategy

Cornerstone On Demand

When most of us think of marketing, we think of promoting a business: brand creation, strategic positioning, social media, advertising, pricing, etc. Almost every business makes a strong investment in these practices; and few (if not none) could exist without it. So couldn't these same principles be applied to a line of business? I think so—and Human Resources, in particular, could benefit from some marketing.

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Employee Engagement Surveys: 4 Planning and Execution Must-Haves

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Readex Research , which provides expert survey services to help businesses understand their internal and external customers. Their services include employee experience surveys. Enjoy the post!). Two important pieces of any organizational initiative are planning and execution. Planning helps set the foundation for any project.

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Why Compensation Doesn’t Drive Motivation

Reflektive

Everyone can use more money. No matter how happy and engaged your employees are at work, they won’t turn down a raise or a perk. But will the incentive of a higher salary or compensation bonus improve their work performance? Well, that’s another story. Financial incentives can undermine autonomy and intrinsic motivation Click To Tweet. More than 70 percent of today’s workforce are knowledge-based employees, meaning their performance is driven by their skills, attitude, and their ability to innov

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5 Ways to Establish Trust With Candidates and Make Interviews More Effective

Linkedin Talent Blog

A recruiter’s job can be a bit of an odd conundrum. You’re there to help candidates find their dream job—but from the start, a lot of candidates don’t believe you’re on their side. They may see you as wanting to low-ball them on salary, or just as someone trying to fill a position as fast as possible without truly caring about their career goals. If the candidate-recruiter relationship starts off with this kind of trust deficit, that’s obviously bad.

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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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Employee Retention: Tomorrow’s Recruiting Metric

Lighthouse

As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for discussing how it is actually performing. Recruiting, in some ways, is actually easier to measure because it is very similar to sales: you either have results or you don’t. This is evidenced by our recent study on talent acquisition priorities , where half of talent leaders said that they were focused on improving the recruiting process over

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Applying Design Thinking for Employee-Driven Solutions

Everwise

The business operating environment has transformed over the past decade with the development of technology. While the amount of time, risk and financial investment in new products used to be relatively large, businesses can now leverage real-time consumer data to constantly evolve existing products and test out entirely new ones. The cost and risk to experiment has substantially decreased.

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Google for Jobs: Disrupting The Recruiting Market?

Josh Bersin

One of the most challenging problems in business is matching the right person to the right job, and this goes on all the time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics show that 20-24% of Americans. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Human Resources Is the Architect of Work

HR Bartender

Whenever people ask me what I do and I say “human resources”, their first response is … oh, you hire people. Which is true, HR often has responsibility for talent acquisition. But it’s certainly not the sum and substance of the role. So, when I try to explain what HR does , it becomes this long list of things – benefits, compensation, safety, employee relations, etc. etc.

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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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What's the Difference Between an Employee Benefit & Perk?

Justworks

A compensation package from an employer is about more than just salary. Employee benefits like health insurance and 401(k) contributions should also factor into an employee's offer package. Great work perks also go beyond salary and guaranteed benefits speak to your company's culture. It’s important to know the difference between a perk and a benefit.

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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. Why You Need to Hire Job Candidates With These Three “Weaknesses” -- by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. 2. 17 Things Recruiters Wish You Knew About Recruiting -- by Bryan Chaney. 3.

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5 Ways to Create a Work Experience that Mirrors Your Best Customer Experience

WorkHuman

(Listen to our interview with Jeanne Meister in the episode of WorkHuman Radio, embedded at the top of this post.). Job candidates and employees expect their workplace experience to resemble their experience with Amazon, Apple, or Netflix. And they have the power to provide instant feedback on their workplace experience, a growing phenomenon I call the “yelpification” of the workplace, where former, current, and prospective employees rate a company’s culture and management just as they rate a bo

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Want Tech Workers to Stick Around Longer? Think 30 Years -- Not Three.

Entrepreneur

Turnover can have a huge impact on your bottom line. But, there are meaningful steps you can take to ensure your people will want to stay with your organization for years to come.

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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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Google Jobs: Disrupting The Recruiting Market?

Josh Bersin

Have you ever looked for a job? Of course you have. It’s a daunting process, and one which Google hopes to make easier than ever. The Bureau of Labor Statistics show that 20-24% of. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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What Do Employees Want – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

The title of today’s post is a question I hear all the time. “What do our employees want?”. The first answer that comes to mind is “If you don’t know, ask them.” But I do realize that’s easier said than done. It’s hard to survey employees. Organizations could be apprehensive to ask a direct question for fear of what employees might say. The last thing anyone wants to do is ask, “What would make you happier working here?

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13 Ways to Encourage Employee Development (and Strengthen Your Team)

Justworks

Boost Employee Development In your company's day-to-day routine, professional development activities may not seem like a priority. After all, the workday should be focused on, well, working! But it’s important that your employees continue to learn and grow professionally. According to go2HR, 40% of people who receive poor employee training leave within the first year.

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Leveraging the “Beautiful Game” in the Age of Collaboration

ATD Human Capital

Soccer—often referred to as the “beautiful game”—represents the best example of a sport with teams charged to perform their work under changing conditions. The best soccer teams in the world succeed by applying a mindset that recognizes a mutual dependency—that is, interdependency—between players on the field, which is genuine collaborative teamwork.

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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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Employees for Life

WorkHuman

(Listen to our interview with Lee Burbage in the episode of WorkHuman Radio embedded at the top of this post.). Heading up the people team at The Motley Fool, one of my favorite self-appointed duties is to greet Fools (that’s what we call each other at The Motley Fool – it’s a sign of love and affection, I promise) for their first day on the job and show them around.

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Why You Should Have A Mentoring Culture In Your Company

Hppy

Imagine working in an organization where the culture was one where every day was a day of learning. Every day we came to work we knew that we would grow on a personal and professional level. Imagine putting both feet on the floor in the morning with the anticipation and excitement that we would learn something new that day. Imagine exploring who you really are as a person.

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SuccessFactors by SAP: Growth And Innovation Continues

Josh Bersin

Harvard Business Review research shows that 70-90% of corporate acquisitions fail [1], often driven by an unclear strategy, lack of culture alignment, or poor execution on business integration. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.