Sat.Oct 12, 2013 - Fri.Oct 18, 2013

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Should I Use Cognitive or Skills-Based Assessments for New Hires?

ExactHire

It’s no surprise that in an age where there are often many candidates applying for any given job, many hiring managers are using pre-employment assessments to review applicants. Using assessments can help a company find new employees who are the best fit for its company culture and for the position. There are several kinds to choose from; picking the right one for your needs depends a lot on the organization and the type of job being filled.

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Sample Sales Incentive Program – Short Case Study

Kazoo

Sales leaders have lots of options when when it comes to researching the perfect sales incentive program. We recently summarized the experience of a Kazoo customer who uses our employee recognition and reward software as their primary incentive plan for over 300 employees. It’s a sample of many ways in which our customers integrate Kazoo into their day-to-day employee reward initiatives.

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Protecting your reputation in the information age

Achievers

In the digital age, your reputation is everything. In seconds, you can go from nobody to hero—or villain. Consider the restaurant employee who recently faced racial discrimination from a customer at work. She chose to share the customer’s offensive comment—left on the receipt in lieu of a tip—on her Facebook page, and irrevocably changed three people’s reputations: hers, the customer’s, and her employer’s.

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When You're Not A Good Fit Anymore

NoExcusesHR

'The word "fit" is used so frequently in my world that I almost feel that I need an organizational sizing chart for our selection process. I don''t know when the word "fit" became such a requirement (or excuse) for making decisions about people''s careers, but it is clearly one of the most en vogue terms in the world of work. Good Fit It seems to me there is no greater compliment that can be bestowed on a person than to say they are a " good fit.

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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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3 Tips to Engage Your Applicants During the Hiring Process

ExactHire

Any decent recruiter knows that it is critical to have an active pool from which to source candidates for jobs, but that doesn’t just mean a large number of any past job applicants. A truly good applicant pool includes applicants that are interested in future positions with your organization and have the qualifications required. Here is an overview of three tips to engage your applicants throughout the recruiting and selection process.

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Award deadline extended! Don’t let your hard work go unnoticed

Achievers

Will you be one of the 50? Celebrating success in the workplace is the key to sustained engagement and keeping your employees happy. What better way to celebrate your awesome workplace than by winning awards to prove you’re the best? Your outstanding achievements in driving employee engagement have not gone unnoticed this year. You have a competitive workplace and everyone should know about it.

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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.) Just about every vendor I met […].

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Teneo's #talent7th - integrating acquisition and development

Strategic HCM

'I''ve been at Teneo''s 7th Talent Management seminar ( #talent7th ) yesterday and today. We''ve had a good tour through talent acquisition and development, and am now onto a more integrated perspective reviewing the balance of global and local strategies, and focusing on the input from workforce planning. The most interesting session for me also focused on integration within the talent acquisition slot of the agenda - and was delivered by Chris Taylor at SAB Miller.

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Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone

The Bamboo Project Blog

'A career coaching client shared this fantastic video with me on moving out of your comfort zone. It very nicely highlights the key issues we face as we deal with taking risks. On October 30, I''ll be doing a presentation for the Women on the Edge (of Greatness) virtual conference on how to use career experiments to move out of your comfort zone and into your dreams.

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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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Ask Achievers: Best practices for creating engagement surveys that yield positive results

Achievers

In this week’s Ask A chievers, Jewel Celestine shares best practices for creating impactful engagement surveys and inspiring employee participation. Jewel is the Employee Success Business Partner at A chievers, where she develops and implements strategic HR initiatives pertaining to employee engagement and performance management. Dear A chievers, We are always trying to improve employee engagement at our company.

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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.). Just about every vendor I met had some type of analytics solution.

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Employee Engagement: Good Work and the Aggregate of Marginal Gains

David Zinger

'Recently during a conversation with Anisa Cousin from Osney Media she referred to the aggregate of marginal gains. Anisa got it from someone else at work who got it from British cycling as a performance key. The term instantly resonated with me with my focus on good work so I did what anyone would do in this situation, I “Googled” it. Here is what I found: We’ve got this saying, performance by the aggregation of marginal gains.

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The Truth About Talent

Working Girl

'I just finished reviewing a new i4cp research report The People-Profit Chain: A Model for Increasing Market Performance by up to 3x. It''s chock full of metrics, best practices and practical tips on how to connect the dots between people practices and market performance. You can learn more over at Compensation Cafe: The People-Profit Chain.

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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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Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals the impact of employee engagement on performance

Achievers

While most senior leaders recognize the need for employee engagement, few are sure exactly how to accomplish it. What systems should they put in place? How will they measure the program’s effectiveness? What best practices should they follow? Fortunately, we’ve got the answers. The impact of employee engagement on performance is a new study from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and A chievers, which includes survey data from more than 550 executives, in-depth interviews with 12 best-pra

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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.). Just about every vendor I met had some type of analytics solution.

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How to Select a Cloud-based Business Process Vendor – Part 3

Quickbase

In earlier posts, I described the business value of cloud computing and helped you identify vendors who can ensure your data is safe and secure – even in the case of a disaster. However, the day-to-day issues are less about security (which you would like to think can say invisible) than about your cloud applications […].

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Why Maternity Leave Doesn't Have to be Problem

45 Things

'Having a baby is always an adjustment for new parents, but one strategic communications company found it was going to go through some adjustments of its own when three key employees on its 16-member staff turned up pregnant at nearly the same time. After seven months of "adjusting, juggling and stretching" to accommodate three maternity leaves, "the truth is it wasn''t bad after all," writes Jon Newman, co-founder of The Hodges Partnership, in a blog post titled OOOhhh Baby…(Our three-peat feat

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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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Going Global? Make Sure Your Leaders are Part of the Solution

DDI

'How much will it cost if you neglect developing leaders’ global leadership skills? There’s the potential for internal conflict within their work teams, the potential damage to your brand or reputation, not to mention the risk of losing revenue or clients.

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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.). Just about every vendor I met had some type of analytics solution.

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Unwanted Drug Take Back Day on October 26, 2013

Aurico

'On October 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. police agencies across the country and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its seventh opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your medications for disposal to a listed site.

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You Inspire Me: Women in Politics – Dr. Val Arkoosh

Inpower Coaching

We hear a lot about how more women in politics are needed in elected leadership – to bring sanity to a system that sometimes looks insane. Yet many women don’t step up and throw their hat in the ring. Dr. Arkoosh is not only putting her bid in for elected office, but she’s inspiring young women in the process. We love the wisdom YingYing has found from Dr.

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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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Going Global? Make Sure Your Leaders are Part of the Solution

DDI

How much will it cost if you neglect developing leaders’ global leadership skills? There’s the potential for internal conflict within their work teams, the potential damage to your brand or reputation, not to mention the risk of losing revenue or clients.

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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.). Just about every vendor I met had some type of analytics solution.

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Create online invoices and control receivables using AccountSight

AccountSight

Blog about how AccountSight invoice tracking software makes online invoicing and receivables management easier than ever.

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Learning in a Connected Age: Leveraging Social Media

QAspire

'Before language evolved, we used symbols and expressions. They evolved to form words and hence sentences. Language allowed us to create stories and human beings learned through stories shared in a social context. Learning was social in nature. Then, literature evolved and allowed many people to learn from the same sources. In this world, the more knowledge you possessed, the more powerful you were.

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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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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

'I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.). Just about every vendor I met had some type of analytics solution.

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Analytics Tops the Agenda at HR Tech

Bersin with Deloitte

'I’m still recovering from last week’s HR Tech conference –what a whirlwind of great sessions and events. Not surprisingly, analytics was one of the hottest topics at the conference (I think the only way to avoid the words “Big Data” these days is to escape to a desert island.). Just about every vendor I met had some type of analytics solution.

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Create online invoices and control receivables using AccountSight

AccountSight

Blog about how AccountSight invoice tracking software makes online invoicing and receivables management easier than ever.