June, 2015

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Recruiting Best Practices for Social Professional Networks

Spark Hire

Social recruiting continues to be a huge trend within the staffing industry. Specifically, social professional networks, such as LinkedIn, are expected to become an even more necessary tool to be included in a staffing pro’s toolbox. In the past 4 years, utilization of these networks have increased by 73 percent making them the fastest-growing global source of quality hires.

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The Reluctant HR Champion? It’s About Leading the Workplace Orchestra

TLNT: The Business of HR

Editor’s Note: This is the 11th of 12 essays from the new book, The Rise of HR; Wisdom From 73 Thoughts Leaders. It’s compiled by Dave Ulrich, Bill Schiemann and Libby Sartain, and sponsored by the HR Certification Institute. By Robert E. Ployhart. Dave Ulrich’s 1997 book, Human Resource Champions , helped capture the role of HR professionals for the modern world.

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Ready, Set, Go, Go, Go!!!

Compensation Cafe

I'm working with a small company with huge potential for growth. They are setting up another production location and we have been talking about how to make this work. Like every company back to the Cro-Magnon period, they are starting out by looking at compensation. You've got to start somewhere and insight into compensation provides the newbie with a staffing study, organizational chart, large portion of operating budget and so on.

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A Roundup from the Roundtable: SHRM India

Cornerstone On Demand

In Mumbai today, SHRM India hosted a CHRO Roundtable around the topic "Is your organization realizing it’s true potential: Is your talent strategy a facilitator or a road block?" Good questions, both. The conference was focused on addressing the notion (and one you've heard a fair amount about here on this blog) the fact that learning strategies hold the key to organizations' talent and business goals.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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3 Things Only the Best Applicant Tracking Systems Do

ClearCompany HRM

If you’re just now starting your quest for the best applicant tracking system out there, we feel for you. There are hundreds of applicant tracking systems out there, and many of them come short. Some of them don’t have basic features every ATS should have. Some are just software made by someone on the side and sold to small businesses that don’t know any better.

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Applicant Tracking System User Access Levels [VIDEO]

ExactHire

In this Q&A video chat, Jessica Stephenson discusses the common differences between applicant tracking system user access levels. In particular, she reviews manager and assigned user ATS access in detail — including feature availability and ideal timing for involving new users in the selection process. Video Transcript: Hi, I’m Jessica Stephenson and welcome to another episode.

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8 Methods To Reduce Costs During Slow Season

nettime solutions

All businesses have a slow season. It’s within this period that companies have a tendency to place urgency on reducing costs. In most cases, it’s a good way to tackle costs by trimming the fat. Unfortunately for some organizations the presumption is that managers will take the right actions to control their department costs. Or perhaps follow their CFO’s suggestions to delay critical investments, shift costs from one accounting category to another, or reduce overhead.

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The Importance of Recognizing Other’s Perspectives

Something Different

<zorbitsmath.com> …Getting this one up pretty late. Earlier this week I was involved in an employee relations issue where I thought I underestimated how strongly a colleague felt about something, and in the process didn’t dedicate the time I should have to what it turned out was a critical matter. And by the time I realized how upset the person was about the situation, it had escalated well past the point that I should have allowed it to.

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Why Mobile Learning Makes L&D Better, Faster, Stronger

Cornerstone On Demand

Lifelong learning is now an institution, as evidenced by the massive success of digital "universities" like Coursera, Khan Academy, and more. And while consumers are taking education into their own hands —signing up for classes ranging from Economics 101 to mapmaking—companies are equally eager to incorporate self-motivated learning into employee learning and development.

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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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How to Craft a Better Performance Appraisal

ClearCompany HRM

The performance appraisal isn't the most popular part of an employee’s job. Though companies around the world commit to them every year, 45% of employees think they are a complete waste of time.

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Quick Shots for #HR and Business Pros – #SMDAY

HR Bartender

Tuesday, June 30 is Social Media Day. It was started in 2010 by Mashable to recognize and celebrate social media’s impact on global communication. Many cities host a local version – here’s what my community in South Florida is doing. If your city isn’t doing anything, then at least participate by expanding your social network by one meaningful connection.

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Calculate the ROI of Employee Onboarding Software

ExactHire

Calculate the ROI of Employee Onboarding Software By Jessica Stephenson Need to make a compelling case for onboarding software to senior management? Read on! Making sweeping changes to your employee onboarding process (or perhaps enacting a documented process in the first place) isn’t easy or free. In fact, developing and maintaining a sound and effective onboarding experience for your newly hired employees can be quite labor-intensive for both human resources staff and other process stakeholder

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After ‘King’ Ruling, States Look at Medicaid Expansion

ACA Times

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the administration’s position in the ‘King v. Burwell’ case, supporting the legality of Affordable Care Act subsidies in all states, residents and legislators in states that have declined to expand Medicaid coverage are pondering what that ruling means to them. Drafters of the ACA assumed all states would take advantage of the law’s offer to cover most or all of the cost of expanding Medicaid coverage to include all Americans whose income was belo

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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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Your HR Certification is Worthless (#SHRM15)

UpstartHR

I had the distinct pleasure of seeing my friend Steve Browne speak this morning at SHRM. His session was intended to fire up the audience, and I’d say it was a smashing success. One of his comments was powerful, and I thought it deserved to be repeated here because I talk about certification quite a bit. If your certification is only about getting hours and credits, get the heck out of this profession.

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4 Ways HR Analytics Can Improve Workplace Diversity

Cornerstone On Demand

The U.S. has always been known as a melting pot; diversity is its strong suit. However, when it comes to corporate America, diversity has historically been lacking. Although 92 percent of U.S. population growth is attributed to ethnic groups and 36 percent of the workforce is comprised of people of color, only 21 minorities (that's right—21, not 21 percent) are Fortune 500 CEOs.

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Crafting a Better Employee Performance Meeting

ClearCompany HRM

Employee performance meetings aren’t the most popular part of an employee’s job. Though companies around the world commit to them every year, 45% of employees think employee performance reviews are a complete waste of time. If employees think this is the case, it’s likely because the organization hasn’t made a good case for why they’re important, or because they don’t have a very good one.

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Hello #SHRM15 Conference Attendees!

HR Bartender

Tomorrow I’m heading to Las Vegas. I’m attending the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference. This isn’t my first SHRM Annual – in fact, my first SHRM conference (more than a few years ago) was also in Las Vegas. At that time, a small earthquake happened – let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself. The reason I’m writing this post is because last year I attended a blogging conference and, during the event, I met someone who posted an introduction on her blog.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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How to Make a Business Case for Onboarding Process Improvement

ExactHire

You know it’s time to do something better with your employee onboarding process. Your HR-intuition is on full alert after spotting the tell tale signs: high employee turnover; low workforce morale; lagging time to productivity statistics; and perhaps even lengthening time to fill trends for open positions. But is your boss convinced that the new hire onboarding pain is palpable enough yet?

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Quote of the Week: “Our environment…

Something Different

…the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. – Earl Nightingale. <www.quoteauthors.com> For this week’s quote we can thank American Radio personality, Writer, Speaker and Author Earl Nightingale. It’s a reminder for me that while we cannot always control our environment, the way we allow it to impact us comes solely from within.

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Leadership Wisdom from Dr. Ben Carson

UpstartHR

Last week I had the chance to see Dr. Ben Carson speak at an event. For clarity, this was a faith-based event, not a political one. I have seen the movie Gifted Hands twice (highly recommended!), and I was excited to hear some of his story in his own words. I picked up four pieces of wisdom on leading people and wanted to share those insights here.

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How TED Gets Your Workforce Talking

Cornerstone On Demand

Cornerstone today announced a partnership with TED that brings curated TED Talks to Cornerstone clients and this has a lot of us really excited. TED Talks are a powerful learning tool because they not only provide learning on a vast array of subjects, they change how people think. They introduce concepts and ideas that can challenge beliefs and inspire new ways of viewing the world.

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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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Does Your HR Vendor Offer Protection? For Your Data of Course

PeopleStrategy

In case you haven’t heard, there is a major scuffle happening in the HR/payroll industry that ultimately led one party to file a defamation suit against the other. While these two companies fight it out in the press and the courtroom, one of the primary – and extremely important – issues at the heart of the squabble is about security and employee data privacy.

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Managing Time and Attendance at Fiscal Year-End [video]

nettime solutions

A business environment is comprised of both internal and external factors. We can’t control the external factors — things like market gyrations, national politics, and international events. However, what we can do is manage for those factors. Specifically, organizations like yours can manage time and attendance in response to our constantly changing business environments.

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Checklist to Improve the Small Business Employee Onboarding Process

ExactHire

Your business is agile, nimble…you’re capable of taking swift, decisive action in a short period of time. For example, it’s Thursday afternoon and your team has just finished interviewing the last of the final candidates for a newly-created job in your firm. You needed to fill the position yesterday. But, if all goes as planned, the offer will be extended yet today, the candidate (who seemed really excited) will accept on Friday, and…in the spirit of chaotic, yet productive startups,

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An Overview of Executive Benefits and Perquisites

Something Different

Sue Holloway, Senior Practice Leader at WorldatWork discusses the differences between benefits for executives and other employees, deferred compensation plans, supplemental executive retirement plans, plan design, and uses of nonmonetary compensation. …A big learning for me from this video is that a lot of supplemental executive retirement benefits and perks are not guaranteed in the way traditional pension plans are (i.e. they don’t have ERISA protections) if a company becomes insol

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Will You Vote For Me?

UpstartHR

I learned this week that one of my former bosses nominated me for a Young Professional Award for the work I have done over the past few years, both with this site and within the community where I live. I was (and still am) humbled by that support. As far as I can tell, I’m the only HR guy in the running, and I have until July 1st to gather a few votes in the competition.

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Supreme Court Rules ACA Subsidies Are Legal

ACA Times

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 25 th that it is legal for government subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to be available to all Americans, as the Obama administration had argued. [ The full text of the ‘King’ ruling, and the dissent, is available here. ]. Plaintiffs in the landmark King v. Burwell case had argued that the subsidies should only be given to residents of states that had “established” their own exchanges or online markets for health insurance, as

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Achievers selected in Gartner’s employee recognition and rewards software guide

Achievers

Gartner recently completed their “Technology Overview for Employee Recognition and Rewards Software,” a comprehensive look at the evolution of R&R technologies over the past five years. They investigated a variety of solutions, including the Achievers Employee Success Platform , to determine what features and functionality consumers can expect, the common use cases for employee recognition platforms, and what criteria HR and IT professionals should use to select a solution.