Sat.Oct 26, 2013 - Fri.Nov 01, 2013

article thumbnail

Can I-9 and W-4 Federal Documents be Completed Electronically?

ExactHire

Can I-9 and W-4 Federal Documents be Completed Electronically? So, the short answer is…yes. Federal I-9 forms (documents that must be completed for all new hires to verify their eligibility to legally work in the US) and federal W-4 forms (documents that allow employees to determine how much federal income tax is withheld from their payroll checks) completed electronically are considered as valid and binding as if they were completed manually.

article thumbnail

10 Employee Appreciation Day Hashtags

Kazoo

It is our strong belief at Kazoo that every day should be employee appreciation day. We think, breathe, and share appreciation every day in our office and via our employee recognition and reward software. We know first hand that all kinds of magic happens when people are recognized for their efforts including higher levels of engagement, job satisfaction, collaboration, camaraderie, and retention.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The “How To” Era Has Arrived

Achievers

Guest post by: Jeff Waldman. Let’s take a trip back in time to the medieval days. The date was December 16, 2011. Yes, that was the medieval period in HR. Fear not, a lot has happened since then and here is the story. I had some experiences, which turned into several observations, which evolved into ideas, which morphed into a concept, and then emerged into a launched initiative.

article thumbnail

The No. 1 Reason Employers Can't Find the Right Talent

45 Things

'There have been many complaints by some companies that they can’t find people to fill positions, despite a 7.3% unemployment rate. What gives? Are the unemployed a bunch of no-talent, bottom-of-the-barrel drudges who should never be given a job? Hardly. Check out Twitter or LinkedIn, and you’ll find experienced, smart, driven people looking for work.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Employee Engagement is not working even though it is about working

David Zinger

'Engage: Go small, be good. Large scale programs, endless competencies, and 22 drivers of engagement are not the solution to our dis-ease with work and our chronic disengagement. Employees and organizations are weary of being cajoled and counseled to be great. We need to restore the sanity at work, the caring for what we do, and the connection we have with one another as we do good work.

More Trending

article thumbnail

[Award] There’s still time to get recognized as best-in-class!

Achievers

Here’s the best decision you’ll make all week (at least we think so). It’s your last chance to get recognized as one of the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™! Your outstanding achievements in driving employee engagement have not gone unnoticed this year. You have a competitive workplace and everyone should know about it. There’s still time, applications are due Friday, November 8.

article thumbnail

How to Figure Out What an Interviewer is Thinking

45 Things

'An interview can be a nerve-wracking experience. The job seeker feels pressure to answer questions and make a good impression. But career experts say interviews need to be two-way streets if job seekers want to make sure they won''t hate their new jobs in six months. Specifically, job candidates must be armed with questions to really learn what an organization is all about.

How To 97
article thumbnail

Tips to Become Famous in Your Company

TheHRBlog

True success is not just keeping your job, but being famous by excelling in the workplace. Being famous in your company for the right reasons is an uphill task especially if the company is composed of highly competitive people. The hard work and toil needed to become famous should not deter you from trying it […].

Company 85
article thumbnail

Building A #HealthcareHR Community

NoExcusesHR

'Sometimes I convince myself I''m on top of my game. It''s not hard to do. I''m fortunate to have a good job at a great company, I have a supportive boss, and am surrounded by a team that makes me look much more effective than the truth would show. That last part stings a bit, but it''s true. Finding Communities Being part of a profession filled with caring people who are willing to drop out of the limelight in order to help their organizations ( and corresponding brands ) get the credit is refr

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Ask Achievers: Best practices for inspiring your employees to stay longer

Achievers

This week, Cheryl Kerrigan shares her insights for decreasing a troubling rate of voluntary turnover in today’s tough talent market. Cheryl is the Director of Employee Success for A chievers, where she oversees the brand’s strategic HR initiatives that focus on employee engagement and performance management, including recruiting, retaining, and inspiring A -Players.

article thumbnail

Global Talent Trends: New Research Opportunity

Bersin with Deloitte

One of the biggest challenges we hear from our clients is "how do I effectively globalize" my HR and talent programs? As we described at IMPACT last year, the world has become both highly connected and very uneven. Fast growing economies like China, Eastern Europe, and Brazil have drastically different labor markets and skill sets […].

Trends 69
article thumbnail

Finding Clarity

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Long-time readers of this blog know that I''ve been focusing on how we can develop our career resilience skills in order to deal with a very uncertain world. In trying to practice what I preach, these are skills and habits I''ve been working to develop for myself, in addition to facilitating them with clients. . Lately, I''m grappling with the Clarity part of career resilience, looking at the intersection between my gifts and passions and what the world needs from me.

Groups 76
article thumbnail

How Does Human Resources Use Social Media? [Infographic]

Unbridled Talent

Recently, BLR’s HR Daily Advisor published the results of their HR Trends survey – sponsored by SuccessFactors. Although the size was relatively small (300 HR Practitioners), the survey results offer some interesting and specific insights about how HR professionals are utilizing social media in the workplace. Top areas identified for social media integration included: Recruiting Employee Communications Training Onboarding Teambuilding Check out some of the specific responses related

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

[Webinar] Engage your multi-generational workforce and inspire a new wave of business success

Achievers

Workforces at top-tier companies are becoming younger, more social, and less employer-loyal by the day. For these organizations, achieving business goals is about more than just employee tenure and traditional Years-of-Service awards. In order to succeed in today’s competitive talent market, best-in-class organizations are utilizing technologies that recognize their employees’ valuable contributions, encourage them to work harder and smarter, and best of all, make them happier at work.

article thumbnail

6 Talent Strategy Levers for a VUCA World

DDI

'This blog offers a path forward for managing talent in a VUCA world—what you need to do and where you should start.

article thumbnail

Adverse Action: How to Take Action on Background Check Information

Aurico

'Background screening is designed to help employers confirm job application information is accurate, mitigate negligent hiring risk and help organizations hire the “A” players – the best people for the job! The screening process may uncover information that creates hiring/employment challenges and puts employers in the difficult position of denying employment.

article thumbnail

Benefits of Online Invoicing

AccountSight

Blog about advantages of using an online invoice tracking software to invoice clients timely and to control account receivables by managing all payments.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

[SlideShare] The #FutureOf Work

Achievers

The workplace is changing. Once upon a time, successful businesses all looked about the same: they had land, capital, and raw materials, and virtually everyone worked out of the same (probably large, brick) office. But these days, your employees can be just about anywhere, and what you have is a lot less important than what you know. Welcome to the future of work!

article thumbnail

Are Leaders Ready for VUCA?

DDI

'To understand the implications of a VUCA-laden reality for strategic leaders, we looked at where and how they are likely to struggle.

ATS 61
article thumbnail

From the Blooper Book

Aurico

'Each month, we try to bring you the best of the best reports for your enjoyment – or in some cases, the worst of the worst. Some job applications reveal a versatile applicant pool: Job Title: “Janitor/Web Design Combo” The job was rough, but it made for a great icebreaker at parties. Job Title: “Cow Pusher” Can you be slightly more specific? Brief description of duties: “Working” …Not what we meant by ‘specific’.

Immedis 45
article thumbnail

Benefits of Online Invoicing

AccountSight

Blog about advantages of using an online invoice tracking software to invoice clients timely and to control account receivables by managing all payments.

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

How to Delegate Without Breaking a Sweat

Insperity

“I do all the work around here, and let me tell you – business is booming!”. Said no business owner ever. Coming to terms with delegating responsibilities to employees is an inevitable stepping stone for entrepreneurs with growing, successful businesses. That’s because the pains of not delegating will push you to start handing over responsibilities (or risk handing over the business).

article thumbnail

How Does Human Resources Use Social Media? [Infographic]

Unbridled Talent

Recently, BLR’s HR Daily Advisor published the results of their HR Trends survey – sponsored by SuccessFactors. Although the size was relatively small (300 HR Practitioners), the survey results offer some interesting and specific insights about how HR professionals are utilizing social media in the workplace. Top areas identified for social media integration included: Recruiting.

article thumbnail

What Should I Wear to Work? Don’t Ignore Clothing Clichés – They Are All True

Inpower Coaching

Introducing our newest blogger, Sheila Berry Founder of Living Vicky , a non profit dedicated to empowering young professionals. We love Sheila’s insights into the timeless challenges of dressing for success. She reminds us that the answer to the question, “what should i wear to work?” is a balance between who we are and how seriously we want others to treat us.

article thumbnail

Social Media

Aurico

'Nevada joins Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington, which also adopted social media privacy laws this year, and California, Illinois, Maryland, and Michigan, which did so in 2012. Nevada has become the latest state to enact legislation restricting an employer’s access to employee and prospective employee personal social media accounts.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Millennials are the Catalyst for Workplace Evolution

Cielo HR Leader

'The careers/workplace blogosphere is littered with rants and tirades about the generations at work, much of this content circling around Millennials (or Gen Y, as they are commonly called). It’s fascinating, really, the bipolar takes that have been published. Let’s explore the contrasting views: . Millennials are Entitled, Lazy and Untrustworthy. Millennials are perhaps disloyal (Forbes), spoiled brats (CNN) who feel they are entitled to six-figure salaries ( Los Angeles Times ).

article thumbnail

Engaged Employees Lead To Engaged Customers at MGM Resorts International

Workday

'To consistently engage, entertain, and inspire guests, we talk a lot at MGM Resorts about the need to have one culture. An HR transformation strategy that includes the companywide rollout of a new shared services organization will nurture that one culture. Workday, which will go live at MGM Resorts on Dec. 30, is critical to that transformation strategy.

Workday 40
article thumbnail

What’s Your Strategy as a New Manager?

Inpower Coaching

Sometimes you get what you ask for, and when it’s a promotion to management, that can be quite a shock. “Now what?” you might say. John has some great advice for a new manager, and an experienced one as well. He says, “I hope these ideas are helpful for those of you who are new in your role as a boss, as well as for current bosses, about how best to invest your time and energy to maximize the long-term success of your company or team.” We think you’ll find the