Sat.Mar 14, 2015 - Fri.Mar 20, 2015

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5 Ways to Use Time and Attendance Data to Improve Decision Making

nettime solutions

'The Wall Street Journal reports that data is a currency –– meaning it has value, just like cash. Here are five ways you can use time and attendance data to further your business: 1. Identify problems before they happen. We’re not saying that big downturns can’t suddenly occur; life happens. But when employees use an advanced time and attendance system, you can run easy-to-read reports and proactively monitor employee time monthly, weekly, daily –– heck, even hourly –– because the data is collec

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The 2015 Staffing Industry Trend Report [WHITEPAPER]

Spark Hire

'It’s that time of the year again—when all of us here at Spark Hire make our predictions for what can be expected for the staffing and recruiting industry in the upcoming year. After a ton of research and hours of analysis, Spark Hire recently published the whitepaper entitled “The 2015 Staffing Industry Trend Report” which details the importance of active and innovative staffing solutions.

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Stop Relying on Job Descriptions and Find Candidates You Really Want

TLNT: The Business of HR

'Job descriptions, those horribly written, barely comprehensible strings of roughly 500 words of stuff that only barely resembles reality if you squint hard, are the coin of the realm in the recruiting world. And no matter how much we complain about them to each other, they remain as unchanging as a rerun. Not only do they persist, but recruiters and talent acquisition professionals continue to rely on them at every stage of the recruiting process.

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Will My Growing Startup Face ACA Penalties?

Namely

'It has been hard to avoid the buzz surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its legislative roll-out these past few months. How exactly will a growing company, one that traces that fine line between “small employer” and “applicable large employer,” be affected? Should you be worried about the stiff penalties everyone keeps talking about? Before we jump in, let''s look at a few definitions: A small employer generally has fewer than 50 full-time employees, according to the IRS definition.

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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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Why Video is the Next Big Thing in Recruiting

Cornerstone On Demand

'“Big Data” and “video” are among the buzziest of buzzwords in HR technology — and for good reason. The rules of recruitment are changing, leaving hiring managers to meet candidates on their terms. Increasingly, job seekers want to be seen and heard on mobile, social or video rather than as faceless facts listed on résumés.

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Hiring Wisdom: HighPo’s Are Great, But High Producers Pay the Bills

TLNT: The Business of HR

'High Potential , or High Producer? The difference between these two desirable types of recruits or employees are that the High Producer is a proven entity who makes the numbers now, while the High Potential is a promising. potentially High Producer. Because of this difference, the High Potential is most likely getting a lot of recognition, challenges, and interesting work.

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Better Hiring Through Mobile: Building a Smoother Mobile Experience [Part 4]

ClearCompany HRM

'You’ve decided you need a better mobile application experience , have your employee branding and job ads where you want them, and have a good social media recruiting and sourcing strategy. Now it’s time to build your site and make sure you’re ready to process mobile applications. If you want to attract mobile candidates, your site needs to work well.

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Will That Tattoo Cost You a Job?

Cornerstone On Demand

'Glance across at your neighbors next time you're in a coffee shop or on the train — how many tattoos can you spot (including, perhaps, your own)? From Sanskrit symbols to colorful sleeves, getting inked has moved from a counterculture movement to a pop culture norm, particularly for young people. The most recent survey from Pew Research Center found that four in 10 millennials have at least one tattoo.

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Handling Your HR Mistakes – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

'This is one of those situations that might not come up regularly, but it raises a lot of questions about how to handle mistakes. The company I work for is closing. Each employee is being given a severance package of 1 week for every year worked. I started June 2010. When I was told that I would receive 2.5 weeks of severance, I questioned it and was told my hire date was listed as July 2012.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Another Sign of Tighter Labor Markets: Time to Fill Rates Getting Longer

TLNT: The Business of HR

'With the economy adding jobs at the fastest clip since the depression began eight years, it’s taking longer and longer to fill vacancies. In January, the national average was almost 26 working days, an increase of 3.5 days in the 12 months from the previous January. The Dice-DFH Mean Vacancy Duration Measure , a sophisticated measure of how long it’s taking employers to fill jobs, came in at 25.7 working days.

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Better Hiring Through Mobile: Harnessing the Mobile Interview [Part 5]

ClearCompany HRM

'After deciding you need a better mobile application process , you’ve built your job ads and have started developing your brand the way you want to, done the work of socially sourcing your applicants , and built or outsourced your brand new mobile careers page. Your candidates can find your job postings, they like the way you’ve presented your company online, and can get in and out of the mobile application process in minutes.

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5 Management Lessons You Won’t Learn Online

Cornerstone On Demand

'A version of this post originally appeared on Fistful of Talent. For HR professionals interested in improving our organizations and our abilities to find, attract, recruit, develop and retain great talent, there is no shortage of freely available resources: HR/Talent blogs, HR and workplace podcasts , webinars, LinkedIn Groups, Twitter chats, white papers — the list goes on and on.

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Can You Facilitate While Learning

HR Bartender

'I was reading an article about internships when I ran across the phrase “facilitating while learning”. It made me think, can you facilitate a topic that you aren’t knowledgeable on? One of a facilitator’s primary responsibilities is questioning. I can see where it would be very helpful to have some working knowledge of a topic in a facilitation. That might help ask better questions.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Think We Have Skills Shortages Now? Just Wait Until We Get to 2020

TLNT: The Business of HR

'Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Skills shortages in 2020 will rise to an entirely new level. And I’m not talking about STEM skills , although they’re critical. Or the ability to speak multiple languages, which needs to be more common in the U.S. Or even the readiness of college graduates to take a place in the economy, which a majority of employers report is lacking.

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How to Ruin Credibility in One Easy Step

UpstartHR

'Recently someone asked this question on Quora, a site that I sometimes drop by to help shed some light on the world of HR: If I lie about a past felony on job applications, will the California FCRA keep background checks from finding out? The first two responses to the question were focused on what the law covers and how the person might hide their information–interestingly enough I don’t see their answers on the site anymore, so I’m not sure what to think on that.

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Will Tomorrow's Government Leaders Need Tech Training?

Cornerstone On Demand

'From crime reports to park use statistics, cities generate huge amounts of data, yet their leaders often don’t know how to interpret it. That norm may be about to change with new educational programs designed to teach public officials data analytics and computer science. In 2014, the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and the Department of Computer Science launched a joint master's program with the aim of schooling future government leaders in technology and Bi

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Managing Your Priorities – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

'(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is from our friends at Kronos , the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Kronos recently announced a partnership with SuccessFactors to bring HCM cloud solutions to small and midsize businesses. You can check out the details here. Enjoy the post!). Sometimes the activities we can do the fastest aren’t the ones we should do first.

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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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Deloitte’s HR Wake Up Call

China Gorman

'Deloitte recently released its 2015 Global Human Capital Trends report, their annual comprehensive study of HR, leadership, and talent challenges compiled using data from surveys and interviews taken by 3,300+ HR and business leaders in 106 countries around the world. The report identifies 10 major trends that emerged from the most current research, and cites the capability gap (measuring the distance between the importance of an issue and organizations’ readiness to address it) associated with

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How Changing Latino Demographics Will Affect the Future Workforce

ATD Human Capital

'This is the third post in a series by Edwin Mouriño-Ruiz on managing human capital in the future work environment. This installment examines how changing Latino demographics will affect the future workforce. Click here to read full version.

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Five Ways to Assess a Business’s Training Needs

UpstartHR

'If you’ve been tasked with conducting a training and development program, it’s important to look at the issue from all angles. This involves taking a deeper look at the role that each individual plays in the organization, and where there are gaps in the current employee training program. Here are five areas to focus on as you examine the organization’s training needs. 1.

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Happy Spring. Cleaning?

nettime solutions

'With the first day of spring we welcome sunshine (or hopes of it), the start of baseball, and time spent outdoors with friends and family. Among all of the carefree activities spring brings, is the more laborious spring-cleaning. For our personal lives, this means weeding out closets, finally organizing the garage, and clearing out the junk mail from our inboxes.

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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 Culture Impacts Perception

All Things Workplace

'Re-published by request. Clear-thinking people everywhere acknowledge that it''s easy for two people to see the same situation very differently. . In a world where we increasingly work across time zones and cultures, this would have even greater meaning if perceptions were influenced by one''s culture. While those of us who work globally may have experienced--and thought about-- the inherent reality of these perceptive differences, Canadian and Japanese researchers have confirmed some very s

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Leaders Who Serve Others Drive Superior Results

The People Equation

'As a leader, how well have you served others? Serving others requires you to be daring, but not in the ways you might imagine. You probably won’t need to bungee jump off a bridge, or engage in some sort of epic battle. But you will need the courage step out of the spotlight, admit your mistakes, and focus instead on serving those you lead. That’s the key message of Cheryl Batchelder’s new book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others.

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Want More Happiness? Build Deeper Connections

RecognizeThis!

'by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Deeper, more meaningful relationships with others are a fundamental driver of happiness. Today is the International Day of Happiness. (Yes, that’s a thing.) Each year, a new area of focus is assigned to help us all achieve greater happiness and inspire the same in others. This year, the focus is on connections. From the International Day of Happiness “Happiness Pack” (get yours here ): “ After years of happiness research, one thing has proved fundamental – th

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Managing Meals and Breaks with Time and Attendance Software

nettime solutions

'The federal wage and hour law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), does not require lunch or coffee breaks. But when you do offer short breaks, the FLSA considers the breaks as compensable work hours. Therefore, these breaks (usually lasting about 5 to 20 minutes), are included in the total of hours worked during the workweek –– and should be considered in determining if overtime was worked.

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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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How to Calculate The Number of People It Takes to Change Your Organization

Trish McFarlane

'Back in 2010 I wrote a post about how to Tap Into Informal Leaders to Influence. The basic premise of the post was that I learned that in order to turn or change an organization, you only need to find the square root of the total employees and focus on spreading the word through that number of people. For example: Organization size- 5,000 employees.

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An eBook for the International Day of Happiness

WorkHuman

'Today is the International Day of Happiness. In June 2012, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring the 20th of March an International Day of Happiness , and inviting member states to “pursue the elaboration of additional measures that better capture the importance of the pursuit of happiness and well-being in development with a view to guiding their public policies.” The pursuit of happiness, says the UN, is a fundamental human goal.

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People Are Looking to You for Leadership

The People Equation

'“Every leader has exponential opportunity for influence,” writes Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen CEO Cheryl Bachelder in her book Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others. Considering that Bachelder believes that we all have the opportunity to lead at some point in our lives (at home, in the community or at work), this means we all can be influential.