March, 2016

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5 Major Challenges in Healthcare Recruitment Today

Hospital Recruiting

rawpixel/123RF.com. For this post I interviewed Jason Campbell, Talent Acquisition Manager at Mount Carmel Health System. He shared the top challenges and solutions of healthcare recruitment today. This blog provides specific solutions to some of the current top healthcare challenges. Jason Campbell, who manages half of Mount Carmel’s 30-member recruitment team, shared with me industry challenges and his top solutions for delivering top patient services within the Trinity Health network of healt

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Your Hiring Process Sucks!

Dave's Weekly Thought

A friend of mine recently won the lottery. Well not exactly, but let's just say he lucked-in to a family fortune that put him in a position to never have to work again. He thought about working at the local hardware store , but while the concept seemed compelling, the reality was a bigger headache than staying in corporate america. He hated his current boss so he quit his high-paying Enterprise sales position.

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The Most Popular Lies Recruiters Hear Every Day (and Why You Should Avoid Them)

Evil HR Lady

If you think you’ve heard it all, you’re either a therapist or a recruiter. (Of course, sometimes people treat their recruiters and HR people in general like therapists, but that’s another post.) The thing is, when much of your job is spent evaluating people and talking with them, you learn to spot lies pretty darn quick. Some of these lies are little things, and don’t matter. “How are you today?

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7 Tips to Straighten Out the Kinks in Your Employee Onboarding Process

ClearCompany HRM

It costs a lot of money to replace an employee. In fact, depending on job level and industry it can cost over 30% of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. That number climbs exponentially for highly educated executive level positions and that’s just the monetary costs! Losing a new hire reflects poorly on a company’s Quality of Hire metrics and sends a ripple effect through the recruitment, hiring and management practices of the company.

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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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Why Your Staffing Firm Needs to Prioritize Branding [INFOGRAPHIC]

Linkedin Talent Blog

According to our research, the majority of today’s job seekers aren't turning to staffing agencies for their next career move. In fact, only 18% of respondents said they think of a staffing agency when they look for a new job. Your first thought might be that this is due to bad experiences or lack of results. But in reality, it's due to job seekers lack of awareness of both of your agency and the jobs you can provide. .

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HR Analytics – The “GPS” of True HR Transformation

Visier

Since the mid-1990s, the phrase, “HR transformation,” has been a part of HR’s common vernacular. In fact, it is so often-used some regard it as almost a form of HR “smart talk” – something that many talk about, but few really understand how to do. The same could be said – most recently – for the terms, “workforce analytics,” “talent analytics,” and other variants of this.

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This is what could kill Slack’s growth

Pomello

When we were first pitching Pomello to investors, one of the most frequent criticisms we heard was that a great company culture is nice to have, not need to have. Here was the parting line they would leave us with as they told us they weren’t going to invest. “You guys are vitamins, not aspirin.” What kept us going after investors kept telling us no is that companies were telling us yes.

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Identifying, Resolving & Preventing Roadblocks – A Key to Succeeding as a Manager

Kazoo

Removing roadblocks is a major component of the manager/employee relationship. As a manager, learn what you can do to mitigate these obstacles and strengthen your relationships with the team. On your mark …. Get set …. Stop. Roadblocks at work can quite literally stop you in your tracks, but responding to challenges is a significant component of the manager’s day-to-day responsibilities.

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Changing Up the Way You Lead: You're Not Always Right

ClearCompany HRM

There is no one perfect way to lead. There are leaders that excel because of their impeccable communication skills, their charisma or even the respect their presence demands. But when your leadership techniques aren’t working time and time again, what are you supposed to do? Switch it up. Try new approaches. Fact: No one’s right 100% of the time and if you really truly think you are then working in leadership is likely not the place for you.

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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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Monday FunDay: Love Is Spelled…B-I-N-G-O

ExactHire

While the ExactHire team has enjoyed a somewhat mild winter this year, February in Indianapolis is still a time to hunker down and indulge in some tried and true indoor activities. February’s Monday FunDay was no exception. ExactHire’s Fun Committee (Yes, that is the official name; and, yes, I am a member of it.) channelled childhood memories of Valentine’s Day parties for this month’s event.

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Let’s Make the Hiring Experience Easier – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries – including more than half of the Fortune 1000 ® – use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.

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How to Develop a High-Impact Succession Plan

EDSI

Let’s take a closer look at the steps involved in developing a succession plan below. The starting point for any succession plan begins with two important questions: What is the main goal or goals you hope to accomplish? What does success look like for your organization? The point of this step is to develop SMART goals; specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound goals.

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3 Key Metrics for Predicting Performance, Engagement, and Turnover

Pomello

Human resources leaders focus on engagement, performance, and turnover for good reason: They’re some of the most important indicators of a company’s productivity and value. Yet many companies still struggle to influence and predict their HR metrics consistently. . Infinite variables affect employee engagement, performance, and turnover.

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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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Identifying, Resolving & Preventing Roadblocks – A Key to Succeeding as a Manager

Kazoo

Removing roadblocks is a major component of the manager/employee relationship. As a manager, learn what you can do to mitigate these obstacles and strengthen your relationships with the team. On your mark …. Get set …. Stop. Roadblocks at work can quite literally stop you in your tracks, but responding to challenges is a significant component of the manager’s day-to-day responsibilities.

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4 signs an employee is about to quit

Achievers

When employees quit, it has a multiplying negative impact: their co-workers may feel over-burdened and discouraged, while the company suffers from a drop in productivity. Furthermore, the expense of recruiting, hiring, and training replacements is substantial. To proactively retain your top talent , it’s important to understand why employees quit and monitor for signs that someone might be ready to leave.

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The leadership illusion

Workable

What would you say about a global industry worth $45bn annually that was delivering no apparent value? An industry which has grown by 39 percent in the United States in the last five years. One that attracts ever more investment even as its returns are seen to diminish. You might conclude that it was a failure, and an impressive one at that. This is the leadership industry, a complex that now encompasses colleges, gurus, corporate departments, startups, foundations, consultancies, publishers, th

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Employees Refuse to Change Behavior – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I honestly believe getting employees to change their attendance and punctuality behavior is one of the hardest things ever. Today’s reader is having the same challenge. . Showing up late to work is a big issue in our company. We do adjust an employee’s pay accordingly if they’re late and issue warnings. But it doesn’t seem to change their behavior.

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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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Don't Even Bother Looking for Funding If You've Not Yet Assembled the Right Team

Entrepreneur

There is no more important task than attracting and managing the right people to grow your business. Here's how to find them.

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2 Steps to Cultivate Simplicity at Work

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Competencies are one example of how organizations can achieve simplicity by paring down and leveraging everyday practices. I was thinking recently about how simplicity can be applied to improving the human experience at work. The idea grew from Josh Bersin’s report on creating irresistible organizations. In this report, he describes simplicity as fundamental, involving “the removal of formal bureaucratic overhead” while favoring “trust, autonomy, and a focus on

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3 Things to Stop Doing to Managers Now

Kazoo

People don’t leave companies, they leave managers. We’ve all heard it before, but we don’t think business leaders really believe it. According to a recent Gallup study, 50% of employees leave jobs “to get away from their manager.” Ouch. If you want engaged individuals and a successful business, your managers can be your secret weapon. And since companies struggle to believe or implement all the literature out there of how to approach it – we’ll try something a little different.

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Fringe Benefits 101: All Your Questions Answered

Justworks

All the terminology around fringe benefits can get confusing. Fringe benefits, regular benefits, perks, rewards — how can you tell them apart? Put simply, fringe benefits are an additional benefit on top of an employee’s salary. They’re the same as perks and can range from a company car to team meals out on the town. So, which fringe benefits should you offer, and what will make the biggest difference to employees?

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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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Recruiting KPIs: time to fill

Workable

There is no broad consensus in the world of recruiting about what we should be measuring. What we have in its place is a lot of noise. With more and more businesses take their hiring online, millions of jobs and candidates are finding each other through applicant tracking systems, so there’s an abundance of data to look at, including time to fill metrics.

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Learning How To Integrate Exercise Into Your Work Life

HR Bartender

You guys know I work from home so it probably won’t come as a surprise that I’m constantly looking for ways to exercise and stay active. I go to Pilates a couple times a week and I have a treadmill desk at home. But as much as I like the treadmill desk, it’s hard for me to do some things on it (like typing) and I find that I have to allocate at least 30 minutes when I’m going to be on it – away from my “real” desk.

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How can we ensure employee health and wellbeing during restructuring?

HR Zone

Perform. Ensuring staff wellbeing during restructuring.

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6 ways to promote a positive workplace culture at your company

Insperity

You might think that trying to cultivate a positive workplace as an elusive, time-consuming waste of important resources, but studies show that the opposite is true. Creating a positive company culture begins with fostering happy employees. Happy employees are 85 percent more efficient, experience a 60 percent drop in absenteeism and stay twice as long in their jobs as their less happy colleagues, creating a measurable impact on engagement, retention, safety, wellness, employer brand and even co

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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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3 Things to Stop Doing to Managers Now

Kazoo

People don’t leave companies, they leave managers. We’ve all heard it before, but we don’t think business leaders really believe it. According to a recent Gallup study, 50% of employees leave jobs “to get away from their manager.” Ouch. If you want engaged individuals and a successful business, your managers can be your secret weapon. And since companies struggle to believe or implement all the literature out there of how to approach it – we’ll try something a little different.

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RULE #1 For the New World HR Pro: You Gotta Ask.

The HR Capitalist

I'm on record as saying that HR pros can learn a lot from Sales Pro s. At the top of the list is learning to negotiate. Of all the negotiation skills available, the most valuable one is the first-strike position, or more to the point, simply asking for what you want. Check out the example given by a VC I love to read, then I'll give you three scenarios you can force yourself or your team into to practice the skill.

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Time to hire: key recruiting KPIs to track

Workable

Using recruiting metrics effectively is about finding the signal in the noise. Hiring managers, business owners and recruiters need data that delivers actionable insights. Following the release of Workable’s new Reporting Center we’re taking an in-depth look at the four key performance indicators (KPIs) worth tracking. This time we look in more detail at “time to hire.”.