Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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HR Certification Guide: Untangling the Web

Workology

The HR certification landscape is now complex, political and often times confusing for practitioners. Just last week HRCI announced their new aPHR certification for entry level or college student professionals. I can’t imagine what newbies feel like as they begin researching HR certification programs and testing. Some practitioners also feel forced to take sides with either HRCI or SHRM showing their support for organization or the other by recertifying with only one organization.

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Maximizing Team Performance with Workforce Planning

New to HR

Workforce planning consists of a set of strategies engineered to maximize the use of resources to accomplish goals , estimate and plan for progress and outline the basis of decision-making techniques while anticipating the needs of the business in the future. Integrating and aligning these strategies with the day-to-day operations of the business can dramatically increase productivity levels, while encouraging engagement and maximizing team performance, providing a vast array of benefits to the

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friends think I should bash an employer on Twitter, recruiters who text, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My friends think I should bash an employer on Twitter. I went abroad to get my master’s, finished, I’m doing also an internship abroad, and now I am looking for a job. I filled out an online application (taleo system) for a large multinational consumer goods corporation in my home country.

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Client Spotlight – CEP America

Hospital Recruiting

In our newest edition of our client spotlight series , we spoke with Adam LaFevers, who manages candidate sourcing for CEP America. CEP America is a leading practice management organization that has successfully managed hospital-based physician group practices across the Acute Care Continuum since 1975. In our interview, Adam answered questions about what makes CEP America such a successful company and what makes them a great company to work for.

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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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5 Critical Steps to Future Proofing Your Human Resources Strategy

Insperity

If you think it’s important to have a business plan and strategic vision, you need a human resources (HR) plan, too. It’s just as critical. An HR plan gets your people ready to execute on your business strategy and goals. It helps you prepare your current staff and anticipate the people you’ll need to add in the future. It preps your business for employee turnover and your managers for making future hiring decisions more strategically.

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Talent and Performance Management—What’s Really Happening?

HR Daily Advisor

By Stephen D. Bruce, PHR. Editor, HR Daily Advisor. What’s happening with talent and performance management in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out! Please participate in our brief survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll get answers to these questions and more: Do you have a system for predicting staffing requirements, and if so, how do you maintain that system?

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If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It?

ClearCompany HRM

Even though this is a true statement, you can manage what you can’t measure , it’s not easy. In today’s increasingly data-filled business world, there’s little room for managing what you don’t understand. Because technology is so vastly intertwined in organizational practices , including talent acquisition , although it’s possible to measure what you can’t see, it’s much more difficult (and quite frankly, less accurate).

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5 Critical Steps to Future Proofing Your Human Resources Strategy

Insperity

If you think it’s important to have a business plan and strategic vision, you need a human resources (HR) plan, too. It’s just as critical. An HR plan gets your people ready to execute on your business strategy and goals. It helps you prepare your current staff and anticipate the people you’ll need to add in the future. It preps your business for employee turnover and your managers for making future hiring decisions more strategically.

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Candidates Want to Work At the BEST Companies

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. The Workforce Institute at Kronos released the third book in its thought leadership trilogy aimed at developing and retaining a competitive and engaged workforce: It’s All About Bob(bie) – Strategies for Winning With Your Employees.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Why Cleaning Matters: 3 Reasons to Keep Your Workplace Tidy

Trinet

Guest post by Quill.com. Please also check out our previous post on scent aversions in the workplace. Stand at the door of your office. Are you looking at a clean and orderly workspace or a. Visit site for full story.

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Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Stop Recognizing Employees.

What is Paul Thinking

This post is a redo of a post from a few years back (about 4 or 5 to be not-exact.) I decided to remix/repost based on a twitter conversation I had with @TrishMcFarlane and @AKABruno (aka Matt Stollack.). Trish said: “Interesting. Recognition makes me uncomfortable (personally) but validation is important to me. Wonder why?”. Today the idea of recognition is huge!

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Solving Gender Disparity Requires Analytics that Discover the Intersections

Visier

How can leaders use analytics to identify the best ways to accelerate women’s career progress? The answer requires a different perspective and looking for sets , intersections and configurations instead of common (and simple) linear solutions. Statistics suggest that women make up 59% of the U.S. labor force and 51% of the U.S. population, but in companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Twitter and Amazon, women make up only 29% of the workforce, only 16% of technical po

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6 Abilities Every Employee Needs To Be Successful

HR Bartender

In the past, I’ve written about the skills that every employee needs to possess. But what about abilities ? Abilities are equally important. They are those qualities that we need in order to be skillful…and ultimately successful. Over the past year, I’ve heard some words come up frequently when it comes to the abilities that organizations are looking for in candidates and employees.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Star Wars, Expectations, and Leadership

DecisionWise

You know you have a problem when you start seeing leadership issues in everyday things, such as the new Star Wars Movie, Episode VII, The Force Awakens. I guess that’s our lot in life. Our current research efforts here at DecisionWise are focused on the best way to define expectations in the workplace. We call it “The Contract,” which is the explicit and implicit contract (the psychological contract) that exists between an organization and its workforce.

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5 Steps to Better Job Description Click-Through Rates

ExactHire

In most organizations, marketers don’t own the task of writing job descriptions for new opportunities available within their organization. This responsibility generally belongs to people in human resources or recruiting. And even if those folks have marketers review a draft before it posts (at least for marketing positions, that is), many times the urgency of the request prevents anyone from worrying about fine-tuning the job listing’s content.

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What's the Difference Between An Employee Benefit & Perk?

Justworks

A compensation package from an employer is more than salary. Employee benefits like health insurance and 401(k) contributions, should to be factored into an employee's annual salary. But great work perks also go beyond salary and guaranteed benefits speak to your company's culture. It’s important to know the difference between a perk and a benefit. Want to learn more about both?

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Candidate Experience 2.0 [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Lots of talk about the candidate experience these days. Lots! Almost to the point where I wonder if we’re starting to tune the conversation out. And we certainly should not because the discussion is more important than ever. I ran across a new term that intrigued me: Workspace Consumer. The idea is that workers will control where, how and when they work.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Hiring Smarter through Mobile Recruitment

Trinet

What if you could dramatically increase the number of job applications your company receives? Attracting qualified candidates to your open positions is easier than you might think. The secret? Visit site for full story.

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Liza Galliher | Business Development

ExactHire

Liza joined ExactHire in August 2016 as our Business Development Specialist after several years of sales experience at a technology firm in Washington, DC. Liza serves as our main point of contact for our clients who are in need of our software solutions for their organizations. Previously, Liza worked at WeddingWire Inc. in a similar consultant role, and even more recently she worked as a Behavioral Clinician at Meridian Health Services utilizing her educational background in psychology.

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Don't miss your next great superstar employee

Hoops

Hiring, like most areas of business, is about wins and losses. It’s about making the right decisions at the right times, eating the costs of wrong decisions and hopefully learning from them. Recruiters are always on the lookout for superstar hires that can make a difference from day one. But sometimes, great hires are overlooked. Whether it’s résumé overload, time pressure to get jobs filled, or great interviewing skills which don’t translate to effective job performance, top performers don’t al

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Powerball Planning for the Rest of Us

What is Paul Thinking

I hear a lot of people say that those of us that buy Powerball tickets are stupid. They say we are throwing away our money. They say we have no chance of winning. Well… not exactly… we have a chance. But it is a really, really, really, really small one. ( Click here to see all the things you have a better chance of – being killed by a vending machine is one of them.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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The Ultimate Guide To Employee Engagement

nettime solutions

As business owners, managers, and employees, we all know one truth: the heart and force of a business is its people. The more motivated and engaged the individuals are in your company, the greater the success of the employee’s career and personal well-being, and the greater the success of the business. 1. Site User ability. Having a clean and elegant site that is easy to navigate is important.

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Tax Deductions for Small Businesses Giving to Charity

Justworks

Giving to a charity has many benefits for small business, not the least of which are the tax deductions that it offers. A tax deduction reduces the amount of income that is subject to tax and therefore reduces the amount of taxes you owe. A charitable contribution is a great way for businesses to receive tax benefits, but what how exactly does it all work?

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It’s All in Your Head: Why Neuroscience Is the Key to Talent Development

ATD Human Capital

Why should talent development professionals learn about neuroscience? Why should we study the workings of the brain and nervous system? Understanding the brain helps us explain why instructional design practices work. It helps us understand why people embrace change—or not—and why some leadership practices are more effective than others.

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Employee Engagement is a Lot Like Parenting – #NextChat Jan 13th At 3:00 pm ET

What is Paul Thinking

During conversations over Christmas break with my 22 year-old and my 24 year-old children they were surprised to learn that all this parenting stuff they had to suffer through growing up (and continue to for at least a little while longer) … their mom and I were making up as we went along. Like EVERYONE else, we didn’t know what we were doing. Sometimes you guess right and you repeat it.

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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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Feeding the beast in 2016: It’s my turn to pivot

The Aristocracy of HR

0210100000020 Happy New Year! I hope you all had a happy and safe holiday. I took some time off to breathe, recharge and position myself and business for the New Year. It was a reflective time where I was fortunate to catch up with family, friends and colleagues. In doing so, I gained a perspective […].

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5 Reasons Why International Screenings Might Be Crucial for Your Business

Trinet

Guest post by Backgroundchecks.com. Please also check out our previous post on pre-employment background checks. One of the trends going on in employment circles right now is that international. Visit site for full story.

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Don't miss your next great superstar employee

Hoops

Hiring, like most areas of business, is about wins and losses. It’s about making the right decisions at the right times, eating the costs of wrong decisions and hopefully learning from them. Recruiters are always on the lookout for superstar hires that can make a difference from day one. But sometimes, great hires are overlooked. Whether it’s résumé overload, time pressure to get jobs filled, or great interviewing skills which don’t translate to effective job performance, top performers don’t al

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