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Reading Between the Lines on the 4-Day Work Week

Jason Lauritsen

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Why Your Company Should Invest in Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Namely

Building a diverse and inclusive organization starts with creating a culture that embraces and celebrates people’s differences. Investing in employee resource groups (ERGs) is a great way to give your employees a forum to meet like-minded people, raise awareness on key issues, and share their culture and values.

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: Pocket Recruiter (@pkrecruiter)

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on The Weekly Dose I review the recruiting technology, Pocket Recruiter. Pocket Recruiter drastically reduces the time it takes to screen, source and evaluate candidates, helping recruiters achieve a higher interview to placement ratio. Pocket Recruiter is one of these new recruiting technologies built around the concepts of Machine Learning and A.I.

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7 Questions to Ask When Implementing a New Payroll System for Your Staffing Agency

Efficient Hire

As a staffing agency, your payroll needs aren’t exactly the same as those for a typical employer. This means your vendor selection and setup process are different as well. Do you know what questions to ask when implementing a new. Read more. The post 7 Questions to Ask When Implementing a New Payroll System for Your Staffing Agency appeared first on Efficient Forms.

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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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What Do California's New Training Requirements Mean for Staffing Firms?

SHRM Resources

California’s expanded sexual-harassment-prevention training requirements raise new challenges for staffing firms and their diverse working environments.

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Important Lessons From the Slower-Growing Gig Economy

Visier

“Retail arbitrage” is how Juston and Kristen Herbert are saving $50,000 to adopt a child. They scour big box stores such as Target for clearance deals on products like water bottles, which they then buy for $5 and sell on Amazon for $19.95. Chris Green, a former sales representative for Bosch Power Tools, penned a book that teaches people to use Fulfilment By Amazon to make money through this type of gig.

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Hire Faster and Smarter With These 3 Recruiting Plan Templates

SnackNation

Hire Faster and Smarter With These 3 Recruiting Plan Templates . Companies of all sizes can use recruiting plan templates to make smart hiring part of their overall growth and business strategies. Even if you’re not hiring at the moment, you never know when when employee shifts or company changes may send you back into an unexpected hiring spree. For example, employees sometimes leave without notice or warning at unexpected or inconvenient times.

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What Happens to Recruiting in a Recession?

Allegis Global Solutions

Next week, I will be speaking about recruiting in a recession at Hiring Success 2019 , presented by SmartRecruiters. Here's a look into why I'm talking about the upsides of a down economy to an audience of mostly tech recruiters in the middle of San Francisco during the longest sustained period of job creation in US history. Besides, of course, having committed to a conference preview post with our partners at SmartRecruiters, and pitching a topic that's the antithesis of the rest of the agenda.

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7 Ideas for Celebrating Employee Appreciation Day

Engage2Excel

One week to go for the official “unofficial” Employee Appreciation Day holiday - in case this is news to you its March 1 st ! At Engage2Excel we know really terrific people are hard to find, that’s why we believe in the power of delivering appreciation and recognition moments to employees all year long…but we admit we get a little giddy for fun days like this throughout the year to show employees how much you value them.

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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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What is EQ and How Do You Improve It?

Reflektive

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is increasingly seen as an important trait in the workforce that matters as much, if not more, as IQ. People with strong emotional intelligence tend to be happier and more successful in life, and are better able to manage stress and interpersonal challenges. So what is emotional intelligence, anyway? SEE ALSO: Managing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Age of The Millennial.

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5 Ways How Technology Has Reshaped Talent Acquisition

TalentLyft

Technology has revolutionized talent acquisition like never before. In this blog post, you will discover 5 keys ways technology has reshaped talent acquisition in a few recent years. This is a must-read for every HR professional who wants to keep with the latest technological advancement in HR and recruitment. Read More.

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update: we have twice-daily mandatory group therapy at work

Ask a Manager

Remember last week’s letter-writer whose office was requiring people to attend twice-daily group therapy ? Here’s the update. Hi! OP here! OMG it’s been a week. So when I wrote this, I called out the whole week because I couldn’t wrap my head around all of this, and I had luckily enough gotten a job interview somewhere else. I appreciate your comments and the support and advice and I’m going to give some back.

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4 Ways to Hire More People with Disabilities

SHRM Resources

Hiring people with disabilities may seem daunting. Find out how these companies have tested the waters and developed methods to create a workplace that suits the applicants and works for the business.

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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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Human Performance Deserves More Than a Review

TalentCulture

We know that people are happier and healthier when they know their work matters — and performance reviews can be a powerful tool to help us all know how we’re doing at work. But the performance management process in many organizations is broken. I think it’s time for a major change in how we think about performance reviews. In a 2017 survey by Gallup, only 29 percent of employees strongly agreed that the performance reviews […].

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Tell Me About a Time…Bringing Your Interviewing Game to the Next Level

The SHRM Blog

The resumes are in, the interviews scheduled, and you print up the same set of behavioral interview questions you’ve been asking for the last 5 years. But know, your candidates are prepared, they’ve researched, prepped, Googled responses to every interview question imaginable. You need to put in the same amount of preparation, your goal is to hire the BEST people, so your interview game needs to be next level.

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Tell Me About a Time…Bringing Your Interviewing Game to the Next Level

SHRM

The resumes are in, the interviews scheduled, and you print up the same set of behavioral interview questions you’ve been asking for the last 5 years. But know, your candidates are prepared, they’ve researched, prepped, Googled responses to every interview question imaginable. You need to put in the same amount of preparation, your goal is to hire the BEST people, so your interview game needs to be next level.

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Recruiting Is Tougher in 2019

SHRM Resources

The latest Recruiter Nation Survey from Jobvite, a recruiting technology company, reveals the difficulties of attracting and hiring talent in a candidate-driven job market, as well as the creative methods recruiters are deploying to get job seekers’ attention. Experts weigh in below on how—and why—recruiters can put these methods to use.

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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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Want to Attract Top Talent? Provide the Best in Employee Benefits: Financial Wellness Plans

TalentCulture

The first quarter is widely known as the biggest hiring season of the year. As you post job listings, interview candidates and narrow down your top choices, you may wonder: In a job applicant’s market, how am I going to ensure that the best and brightest join my team? Over 300,000 jobs were added to the market in December, which means you have to work harder than ever before to win over top talent.

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Human Resources KPIs: An In-depth Explanation with Metrics & Examples

Analytics in HR

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, is arguably Edward Deming’s best-known quote. It is impossible to improve at managing people if you do not measure the results of your work. If you do not define what ‘good performance’ looks like and how you can measure it, how will you find out if you’re doing well? So in business, if you don’t measure your progress towards your HR goals, how will you know how successful you are?

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ISTR 24: Symantec’s Annual Threat Report Reveals More Ambitious and Destructive Attacks

Symantec

ISTR Volume 24 is here, providing insights into global threat activity, cyber criminal trends, attacker motivations, and other happenings in the threat landscape in 2018.

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Seven Excellent Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day

Bonusly

Employee Appreciation Day is celebrated each year on the first Friday in March. On this day, employers around the world make the extra effort to appreciate their employees’ hard work and dedication. Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of companies have embraced this occasion to recognize the achievements and contributions of their employees.

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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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9 Questions to Ask Candidates' References

Entrepreneur

Job seekers aim to present themselves in the best light. But the very people they offer to validate their claims might point to other useful information.

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Ep 170 – Becoming a More Strategic HR Leader and Business Partner

Workology

Too often by others outside of human resources, HR is seen as order takers who fill requisitions, calculate compensation tables, and run surveys. To win over internal and external clients, HR. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Too often by others outside of human resources, HR is seen as order takers who fill requisitions, calculate compensation tables, and run surveys.

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12 Tips for Purchasing HR Tech Wisely, Part 1

TalentCulture

Company size and industry are the two biggest influences on the technology that HR buyers select for their companies, when they buy it, how they buy it and how often they replace it. What’s different from company to company is the complexity of the workforce and the industry layers on the other side of that. Buying HR tech for a company with 50 hourly workers, for example, is a very different proposition from buying HR […].

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New Onboarding Technology Cuts Down Manual Tasks

SHRM Resources

It’s no secret that good onboarding practices can reduce turnover and greatly improve new hires’ time to proficiency. What many HR leaders may not be aware of, however, is how next-generation onboarding technologies can eliminate much of the manual work in the process, reduce the chance of problems or delays, and leave more time for HR and line managers to train and socialize new 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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How to Train Someone to Translate Business Problems into Analytics Questions

Analytics in HR

Analytics translators perform some of the most essential functions for integrating analytics capabilities in a company. They define business problems that analytics can help solve , guide technical teams in the creation of analytics-driven solutions to these problems, and embed solutions into business operations. It’s specialized work, calling for strong business acumen, some technical knowledge, and project management and delivery chops.

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Just Say NO to Dangerous Winter Travel

Workology

The winter is upon most of us across the nation. For those in the northern half, we have had an extremely cold and blustery start to the new year. For many, getting to and from work has been a. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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The reference check: How to get useful, honest info

HR Morning

Reference checks can be one of the most valuable tools for making an informed hiring decision – but, as you know, it’s often tough to learn anything from a contact besides employment dates, titles and salaries. . How can you convince reluctant references to open up? The 5 best approaches. Here are some strategies experts recommend: Keep it light. As with any discussion, it’s important to warm up the reference before asking him or her to divulge any information.