April, 2020

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Data-Driven HRBPs: Reacting Quickly in a Crisis

Visier

Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a sudden emergency situation. Today, it’s the COVID-19 pandemic and HR Business Partners (HRBPs) are feeling the effects of this crisis in a huge way. Today, HRBPs are being called upon to quickly adapt and manage huge changes throughout the organization, disseminate critical information, counsel business leaders, ensure business continuity –AND do all of this while managing talent strategies that maintain an engaged workforce

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When Businesses Reopen, Be Ready to Hire Fast

SHRM Resources

Once the pandemic eases and the business world tries to create a new normal, many employers will need to ramp up staffing—quickly and prudently. How do you go from standstill to full throttle on the hiring track during and after a period of unease, uncertainty and semi-dormancy? HR professionals supply the following 10 tips.

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Lights, camera, action: Interviewing in our new reality

HRExecutive

Despite all the money that employers invest in technology, many don’t train recruiters on how to effectively prepare for digital interviews. It’s an issue that’s coming front and center now, as so many Americans are navigating the new reality of working from home. “They’re antiquated and fall behind the curve,” says Paul Bailo, executive, Digital Strategy & Innovation and adjunct professor of applied analytics at Columbia University.

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Top 100 HR and Recruitment Blogs [by Organic Traffic with Top 3 Articles Each]

Ongig

There are a ton of great HR/Recruitment blogs. But which ones get the most traction and are right for you? We’ve compiled a list of the top 100 HR blogs by organic traffic they receive via Google and search engines (see Methodology below). Ongig, of course, has its own recruiting blog — you’re reading it right now! Just to show that we aren’t “padding our own stats” as they say, Ongig’s blog didn’t even break the top 10 (we’re #19).

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Top Tips on Staying Healthy Working from Home

6Q

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic working from home has become a necessity rather than an option. Where once it was the preserve of the freelancer or people with flexible working schemes it is now how we all have to work. For some this is an easy transition, for others it is complex, stressful and full of challenges. We wanted to look through some of the main factors that go to make working from home as healthy and sustainable as possible…after all, we may be doing it for a while.

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24 Actionable Employee Engagement Ideas and Activities

Achievers

Two-thirds of employees in North America are considering leaving their jobs in 2020. For employees under 30, that number is even higher. One of the fastest routes to a better retention rate is by improving employee engagement. Highly engaged employees are not only more likely to remain with an organization – they also perform better, help companies achieve greater profitability, and have more positive interactions with customers.

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Simple Ways to Create a Better Candidate Experience: Ramblings of a Quarantined Recruiter

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Candidate experience is a critical point to recruiting and hiring the top talent. These tips will help you re-evaluate how applicants interact with your company.

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HR Tech Companies Laying People Off: Was It Overdue?

Josh Bersin

Over the last two weeks I”ve talked with more than a dozen HR Tech companies that decided to lay off a large percentage of their workforce, and a new article in the WSJ lists dozens of Silicon Valley tech companies letting thousands of people go. To me, this is another dimension of The Big Reset. Read more» The post HR Tech Companies Laying People Off: Was It Overdue?

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what’s reasonable for managers to expect of parents working from home?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: What are reasonable expectations for managers whose employees are now working from home? For myself, I can adhere to my normal schedule while homebound, but I have a great employee who, having gone above and beyond in normal times, pleads child care issues now that she is home. She is productive, but putting off some time-sensitive tasks because her toddler demands her time.

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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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Announcing Bridge: Connecting laid-off workers with new employers

Workable

And now, as Workable’s co-founder and CTO, I’m seeing many companies faced with unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 crisis. They’re finding themselves in the unenviable position of having to lay off or furlough employees in response. Some of these affected companies are our own customers, many of whom we’ve partnered with for years. It’s heartbreaking to see and we feel a responsibility to do something.

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How to Help Employees Navigate Unemployment During COVID-19

SHRM Resources

?As coronavirus-related claims for unemployment insurance reach historic levels, state systems are. overwhelmed, laid-off workers are frustrated, and anxiety is mounting.Employers can't solve all these problems, but they can provide support to make the employees' transition as smooth as possible. That begins by recognizing there may be a stigma around collecting unemployment benefits even in these unique times.

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How to Get Started with Employee Recognition

Achievers

Lack of recognition at work is among the top reasons your employees look for another job. Despite this, many companies fail to recognize employees outside of performance reviews and annual years of service awards that leave team members feeling unappreciated day-to-day. But there’s a huge upside to this morale crisis: employees who feel valued work harder and stay longer.

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4 Benefits of Building a Proactive Talent Pipeline

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

If you’re removing currently employed folks from your talent pipeline, you’re doing it wrong. Here are the pros of keeping your pipeline fresh and diversified!

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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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Going Agile: Beyond the Buzz

TalentCulture

Agile’s not just a buzzword: when implemented right it helps organizations weather today’s realities. Certified Agile Coach Gene Gendel looks at how to harness agility now. The post Going Agile: Beyond the Buzz appeared first on TalentCulture.

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my employees don’t want to return to work because they’re making more from unemployment

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a small business owner who had about 45 employees before the COVID-19 shutdown hit us hard. We laid off or furloughed the entire staff, and we’ve now been approved for and received a PPP loan. Here’s the problem — most of my furloughed employees are making more on unemployment than they did when they were at work (because of the $600/week supplement from the federal government on top of regular benefits) , and now don’t want to come back to work before their unemployme

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How to reinvent your tech hiring in a remote-first world

Workable

Overall, data from Coderbyte , a web application for interview prep and technical screening for engineering candidates, shows the number of software developer interviews has severely declined since mid-February. If your company is fortunate enough to be hiring for software development, you’ll likely find more available and eager talent than ever before – even in a fully remote tech hiring environment.

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6 Tips for Managing Your Newly Remote Team During Coronavirus

The Muse

If you’re a manager trying to navigate your new role as a remote team leader during the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not alone. Here are six tips to help you successfully manage your team from home.

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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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Virtual Onboarding of Remote Workers More Important Than Ever

SHRM Resources

?Most organizations have transitioned to remote work in response to the coronavirus pandemic, making completely virtual onboarding of new hires a necessity. But providing a superb onboarding experience virtually can be a challenge for employers doing it for the first time."Hiring and onboarding new employees completely virtually is a new concept for most employers.

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Why your employer brand is more important than ever | Jobbio Journal

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Its is a very strange time right now, we can’t deny that. With things being tough for everyone, it can be hard to look at the good stuff. But there.

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Keep Your Workforce Informed With Electronic Solutions

TalentCulture

In any workplace, health and safety has to be top of mind. Complying with workplace laws takes a lot more effort when your workers are remote and are teams dispersed — as is happening in so many organizations. And right now, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, employee safety in any working environment is an ongoing concern for leaders and managers — and employers need to not only navigate new laws, but inform their […].

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Employee trust: a valuable commodity in times of crisis

HR Zone

Employees Why trust is so valuable in times of crisis.

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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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You Don’t Lack the Discipline

Evil HR Lady

Have you seen the “motivational” tweets and advice about what you should do during Quarantine? Like these: If you don’t come out of this quarantine with either: 1.) a new skill 2.) starting what you’ve been putting off like a new business 3.) more knowledge You didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline — Jeremy Haynes (@TheJeremyHaynes) April 2, 2020.

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Managing Workplace Stress During Covid-19

BambooHR

Life certainly took an alarming turn in March. First came toilet paper-hoarding, then toilet paper-hoarding memes, and then real worries about food and medical mask.

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Employers Get Creative with Hiring During Coronavirus Pandemic

SHRM Resources

?The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked innovations in recruiting, hiring and onboarding, from drive-up I-9 verifications to matching furloughed workers with open positions at like companies. A panel of HR leaders shared their lessons learned from working in this new reality, as well as other talent acquisition strategies being explored for the remainder of 2020, at the Society for Human Resource Management's first virtual Talent conference.The panel was moderated on April 20 by Ton.

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Top 10 Employee COVID-19 Concerns Every Leader Needs to Understand

TinyPulse

This research is co-published by Dr. Brooks Holtom of Georgetown University and TINYpulse. The Coronavirus / COVID-19 impact is not evenly distributed geographically, and vital themes have emerged when reviewing the Top 10 Concerns of Employees when it comes to this pandemic. We created the following playbook based on data collected from hundreds of employees across multiple geographies and industries for leaders as they captain their team through this crisis.

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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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After COVID-19: Improving Your Employee Wellness Program

TalentCulture

The impacts of COVID-19 and the measures governments and organizations are taking to contain it right now are unprecedented. The hourly breaking news headlines of outbreaks and cancellations have our heads spinning and have kept the wellness of our families, friends, and co-workers top of mind. Companies like Google led the way in implementing work-from-home policies to keep their employees safe; now remote work is mandatory as part of stay-home, stay-safe policies.

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How HR has changed more in the last 20 days than in 20 years

HR Zone

Change HR in the last 20 days versus the last 20 years.

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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

HRExecutive

What if COVID-19 is one of the most important things to ever happen to HR? What if it is a massive catalyst for the transformation of how talent is managed, in ways that HR has long advocated for but never been able to advance? My friends, this is our moment. The coronavirus crisis has elevated the HR function and its cohorts to unprecedented levels of visibility, importance and influence.