Sat.Jan 28, 2017 - Fri.Feb 03, 2017

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The Changing Role of Human Resource Management – HRM

EmployeeConnect

The function within an organisation that is focussed towards recruitment, management, and offering direction to the people of the organisation is termed as Human Resource Management (HRM). In other words, all the processes and programs that are centred in and around people are part of the HR umbrella. The members of the HRM department are responsible for providing the necessary tools, knowledge, administrative services, coaching and training, talent management, legal and management advice for th

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Is it Time to Update Your Approach to Reviewing Application Materials?

HR Daily Advisor

by Bill Driscoll, district president for Accountemps. As a Human Resource (HR) professional, reviewing application materials and interviewing applicants is a part of your job—so you probably feel like you have the process down pat. Not so fast. As the economy has picked up and the job market has tightened, hiring has become more complex and challenging for HR professionals.

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Keeping your company culture intact during rapid growth

Insperity

Sometimes business leaders concentrate so much on acquiring the next big account, they forget to actually plan to protect and nurture the company’s culture. To optimize any expansion, it’s important to create specific plans – before the growth takes place – that focus on issues of infrastructure and personnel. Otherwise, you’re likely to look up after the dust settles and realize you’ve lost key personnel and that “special something” that helped define your company.

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20 Little Known Ways to Get Hired Fast

ClearCompany HRM

Time to hire is at its highest, with the entire hiring process taking roughly 23 days. The length can leave many job seekers less than optimistic when looking for a new career. If you’re looking to make a move soon, you may wonder if there’s anything you can do to speed up a lengthy process. Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a list of 20 things you can do to get hired faster.

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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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The 3 Key Metrics in HR Predictive Analytics

HR Bartender

For the past few years, every HR related trends post included predictive analytics. So, what exactly are predictive analytics? I like to think of it this way: HR metrics tell you what happened in the past. For example, time to fill. Or they’re focused on cost-containment, such as cost per hire. Both of these metrics are valuable, but it’s not all the information we might need to make business decisions.

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The Red Envelope

Compensation Cafe

As a Compensation practitioner, have you ever seen the use of the "Red Envelope?" In Chinese and other East and Southeast Asian societies a red envelope or packet is a monetary gift given during the holidays or special occasions such as weddings, graduation or the birth of a child. Multiple cultural distinctions exist between various countries, from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand to South Korea, Japan and the Philippines and other countries.

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How to Create Winning Job Descriptions For Your Company Culture

ClearCompany HRM

When used properly and written effectively, job descriptions set transparent expectations for candidates and current employees, creating value for the company and your workforce from the first day on the job to the last. Use this checklist to craft better job descriptions to attract the top talent you are searching for!

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Managing Organizational Hierarchies In a World of Networks

HR Bartender

During KronosWorks 2016 , I had the opportunity to hear keynote speaker Seth Mattison of FutureSight Labs talk about the future of work. One of the things that I found intriguing about his session was his comment that, “You can’t talk about the future without having some perspective on the past.” I totally agree with his statement.

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3 Steps to Move from Administrative to Strategic HR

Cornerstone On Demand

What is the role of human resources? And no, that's not a rhetorical question. Human Resources is a big topic in business media right now—decades old "administrative" HR roles are being swapped out for "strategic partnership" roles. But if you ask an HR leader to make a pie chart of the time he or she spends on administration and strategy work, it would probably look like this: The truth is, administrative work takes time and resources—both of which are typically rare on HR teams.

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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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How to Lead and Engage Millennials in the Workplace

Visier

Born before 1982 and in a leadership or management role? If yes, you may have asked yourself the question: “How do I motivate and communicate with the Millennials (born 1982 -2000) on my team?” I’ve been asked this question many times since Millennial values, beliefs, and communication style are perceived as quite different. This is in fact true and below are ways to better lead and engage the Millennials on your team.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Skilled Workers Are Scarce in Tight Labor Market -- by Jeffrey Sparshott. 2. A Recruiter at Yelp Shares the 2 Best Questions You Can Ask in a Job Interview -- by Áine Cain. 3.

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Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Hold Managers Accountable

ATD Human Capital

The best organizations know that engaged, high-performing employees drive business success. Engaged employees are more productive, more profitable, more customer-focused, and more likely to stay. And highly engaged workplaces grow faster, adapt quicker, and innovate more. It’s no wonder that Quantum Workplace’s State of Employee Feedback report found that almost 37 percent of organizations said increasing employee engagement was their top people priority this year.

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Dear ReWorker: I Haven't Had a Raise in Five Years

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, My husband has been working for the same company for over 25 years. None of the employees, including my husband, have received a raise in the last five years. The owner of the company keeps telling the workers the company isn't making any money; however, the employees have watched this same owner drive up in a brand new pickup truck, towing a brand new boat that he boasted about paying for with cash.

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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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How To Master Public Speaking

Everwise

As we progress professionally, inevitably the opportunities to speak come up more frequently, This can be in front of a team at a meeting, at a company all hands, or an industry conference. These opportunities are exciting but can also be nerve-wracking. To help support a new manager with his transition into more public speaking, our community offered advice and tips to overcoming stage fright, becoming comfortable at the podium, and potentially looking forward to speaking in front of an audienc

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Understanding Change and Its Impact on Engagement

Achievers

By: Leigh Burger. Senior Implementation Manager, Achievers. Change is a funny thing, isn’t it? We frequently resist it, yet progress is impossible without it. In fact, we can’t really move through life without it. The desired approach for most of us is to experience change in small, bite-size chunks. Otherwise, it can wreak havoc on us when there’s too much at once and we’re not prepared for it.

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WorkHuman: Disconnect and Recharge

RecognizeThis!

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – Humans are designed to need to recharge. Work often is not. What does it mean to be human? A significant part of being human requires shutting off. We need deep sleep for our brains to clear out all the muck , process the day and file it away in long-term memory , and reset for the next day. Humans need to recharge.

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The Most Popular Work Skills,Job Skills and Values Managers Look for in a Job Seeker – Tips

EmployeeConnect

Job seekers have always wished if they could unlock the secret formula to charm and win over employers. They have been wondering to unravel the mystery of the mix of work skills, job skills and values that lure employers to hire such candidates on the spot. While every employer is always on the lookout for a set of unique job skills from the potential candidates for a certain job opening, there are a number of work skills and values which are the most universally sought after skills by hiring ma

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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 Ways to Increase Your Visibility on LinkedIn

Entrepreneur

Whether building a professional network, developing a sales platform or looking to be recruited, LinkedIn offers access to millions. Here's how to get noticed.

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2 Surprising Sources of Employee Motivation—And It’s Not What You Think

Hppy

Need to decide on how to reward your employees for a project completed well? What’s the first thing that came to your mind? A bonus? A raise? Too many managers and bosses believe that money is an effective reward and incentive for doing one’s best work. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. Alarming numbers, such as 60 percent of Millennials wishing to quit their jobs, and current workplace trends attest to this, too.

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Justwomen 2017: Dale Nirvani Pfeifer Talks Ethics in Business [Q&A]

Justworks

Have you ever run into a post on social media pointing to a good cause, but quickly got distracted from donating moments later? Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, CEO and co-founder of Goodworld, set out to create a solution for that problem. “I quickly realized the way people were raising money for charity was somewhat outdated for millennials,” she said. People were finding causes they wanted to donate to on social media, but there was no easy way to make that donation.

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Common Employee Engagement Survey Questions Aligned to Engagement Drivers – Examples

EmployeeConnect

The employee engagement survey perhaps one of the most common and direct methods for managers to cause the sentiment of their teams and level of engagement across the all the drivers of engagement. It’s a known fact that approximately 92% of companies run employee engagement surveys in one form or another and remain a critical organisational metric.

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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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Staying Engaged During Corporate Change (Part 1)

Achievers

By: Courtney Clark. When change sweeps through an organization, it often causes confusion, frustration, and fear. Even when dressed up with fancy words like “transformation” and “innovation,” employees know the end result is one thing: change. One reason corporate change is uncomfortable is that it requires disconnecting. All change is, in disregard, disconnecting.

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6 Signs You Have a Growth Mindset

ATD Human Capital

When it comes to organizational learning and development, companies with a growth mindset maintain the upper hand. But what exactly is a growth mindset and why does it matter so much? Chris Miller , UNC’s program manager, examined two types of mindsets: growth and fixed. Many employers believed for years that employees either have talent or they don’t.

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Change Your Interviewing Approach When Hiring For Remote Jobs

Justworks

The presence of telecommuters is growing in the workforce and companies are placing greater importance on distributing their teams. It’s become essential to understand recruitment, hiring, and effective management of workers outside your office. But don't approach recruiting and hiring remote candidates the same you do every hire. Your interview approach should be tweaked slightly; we'll show you how.

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Changing Careers: How to Change Careers Successfully

EmployeeConnect

The thought to changing careers comes around when one begins to lose interest in the present job, or one finds another interesting job offer, or when a company downsizes. These are some of reasons when individuals find themselves on the verge of changing career path to another. When such a situation does show in your life, you need to take stock, take it slowly and ensure that you are on the right career path towards a sucessful career change.

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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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15 Advantages of Video Interviews You Didn’t Know About

Spark Hire

Technology has made the hiring process much more streamlined, providing an improved experience for both interviewer and job seeker alike. While interview scheduling tools can help take the back-and-forth struggle out of hiring, other software such as a platform for conducting video interviews has also helped to alleviate hiring headaches. Video interviews are becoming increasingly popular among businesses of various sizes.

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[Infographic] 9 Tips to Improve Workplace Productivity

Hppy

Almost every employee wants success and growth at work. There are companies with good number of engaged employees too who helps in business success. Motivated and engaged employees perform better when compared to other employees. Sometimes there comes a situation when some employees start losing their productivity at workplace. All this effects the working environment too.

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How to Offer a Great Employee Benefits Package for Your Nonprofit

Justworks

Should your nonprofit company offer benefits? And perhaps more importantly, can you afford it? According to the Nonprofit Times, about 85% of nonprofits offered some kind of medical plan to their employees. If you’re evaluating your options, read on for some information on how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacts nonprofits offering benefit plans, how you can select a group benefits provider, and how you can offer free or low-cost perks to keep your best employees around longer.