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Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for a Natural Disaster

Precheck

Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for a Natural Disaster Oct. 24, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. This year has had its fair share of devastating storms and wildfires, highlighting the importance of preparedness for natural disasters. The need for being prepared goes double for healthcare organizations, which play a front-line role in helping people recover from disasters.

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Employee Coaching Works When It’s a Part of Company Culture

HR Bartender

I ran across an article in Chief Learning Officer Magazine titled “ 7 Ways to Create a Coaching Culture ”. It’s a good read that you might want to check out. There’s one sentence in the article that I want to elaborate on today. “The magic of a coaching culture is that it is infectious.” I get the point of the sentence. I’m just not sure that it’s quite as simple as the sentence implies.

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Are Recruiting Layoffs a Sign of an Economic Downturn?

The Tim Sackett Project

Have you been watching the recruiting news lately? My good friend Stacy Zapar (who runs The Talent Agency focused on recruiting recruiters!) and I send notes back and forth on stuff we hear in the industry. She’s in California, I’m in Michigan, we swap all the rumors and verified stuff we are hearing to get a better understanding of what’s going on.

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Helpful Resources for Women in Tech

Women of HR

Google is recently caught under fire over allegations of gender pay discrimination. An employee-led probe at the tech giant alleges that female employees are still compensated less than their male counterparts , at most job levels. As a matter of fact, three ex-Google employees have filed a class-action lawsuit for such discrimination. Bridging the gender gap in technology has been one of the main narratives in the call for equality for quite a number of years now.

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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.

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How Healthcare Employers Can Overcome Unprecedented Turnover

Precheck

How Healthcare Employers Can Overcome Unprecedented Turnover Oct. 25, 2017. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. It’s not just your organization — turnover is rampant across healthcare employers. According to Leaders for Today , a hospital management staffing firm, 37 percent of respondents plan to leave their current employer in the next two years, and more than 68 percent plan to leave within five years.

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Employee Scheduling Drives Engagement – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos was recently awarded a When Work Works distinction by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for their workplace wellbeing initiatives. Congrats! Enjoy the post.). I was chatting with a colleague the other day about working styles.

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Powerful Ways Technology Helps With Diversity Recruiting

ClearCompany HRM

Diversity hiring is beneficial to both your colleagues and your company. If you want to increase engagement, productivity ( inclusive teams outperform their peers by 80% ), and even profits ( 6% greater revenue ), diversity is the answer.

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4 HR Tech Trends Shaping the Future of Work

Cornerstone On Demand

Historically, HR departments have been assigned time-consuming tasks ranging from oversight of onboarding, benefits administration and policy development, to organizing internal training and maintaining employee files. But in the last 20 years, thanks in large part to technology advancements that now automate these tasks, HR professionals are dedicating their time to business-growing efforts like career pathing , employee engagement and talent retention.

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What Business Owners and Their Employees Need to Know RIGHT NOW to Fight Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Trinet

The issue of sexual harassment has received a lot of public attention recently as news stories have thrust it into the forefront of our social narrative. However, sexual harassment is still not clearly understood by many people, including some business owners and managers. This article is intended as a general guide to help businesses better understand sexual harassment in the workplace, take steps to prevent it and properly respond to allegations of sexual harassment.

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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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Professional Development for Learning and Performance Professionals – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

We’ve talked several times about how human resources generalists can develop their career. But what about the specialist functions within HR, like learning and performance? That’s what today’s reader note is about. I’m currently working in the hospitality industry and would like to eventually move into the learning / training and development department.

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50+ Insights into Good Employer Qualities

ClearCompany HRM

An increase in revenue, better performance, a larger talent pool and more engaged employees are just a few of the benefits of being a great employer. According to SHRM , 88% of U.S. employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job. This is the highest level of employee satisfaction we’ve seen in over a decade, and there are well-defined reasons behind this.

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Office Hours: Learning When to Say "No" Will Save Your Career

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our biweekly "Office Hours" video series, featuring quick career, workplace and leadership tips from talent management experts and business leaders across the globe. Saying “no" to a request to do something can feel unnatural, especially at work, where you want to jump at every opportunity and be known as a team player. "As young children and teens, we have had 'no' drummed out of us," says social psychologist Susan Newman, Ph.D.

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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. These Top Tech Companies Are Hiring First, Training Later -- by Lydia Dishman. 2.

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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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It’s Time for a People Strategy Revolution

Visier

It goes without saying that great HR functions are strategic: they play a vocal role in critical business decisions and control a significant portion of a company’s expenses. Yet the most commonly monitored HR metrics do very little to deliver true insight into the workforce. In the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBR-AS) study, How CEOs and CHROs Can Connect People to Business Strategy , 67 percent of CEOs say they get at least a basic set of human capital metrics from HR – but only

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Retaining Millennials: Solve This Problem and Get an HR Job Anywhere

Reflektive

Remember when you were a kid, and your parents dragged you along with them to visit a relative or friend’s house? I use the word “house” loosely because, for a kid, it felt more like a prison. There was no cable TV, no video games, and no other kids to play with—just adults talking about boring adult stuff. Of course, this was before you had a cell phone to pass the time ( kids have it so easy these days ).

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4 Ways Technology Can Amplify Your Employer Brand

Cornerstone On Demand

A job is a job is a job. When I search for Director of Content jobs in Denver, I see at least 75 results in the Google Jobs widget alone. The title doesn't pique my interest (I have it currently). The list of responsibilities is a given (I do them now). The bullets of requirements are expected (I've seen them before). I'm not impressed or intrigued enough to change jobs.

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Should I Get My Master’s Degree in HR?

UpstartHR

For most of you, I’ll go ahead and said it: You should not get a master’s degree in HR. Really. While that doesn’t apply to everyone, it does apply to a large number of the people that email, comment, and interact with me online. That’s mainly because this question looks a lot like this template: I just completed my bachelor’s in xyz. I have decided/now want/think I should get into human resources.

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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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If You Manage People This Post Will Make You 100% More Effective

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. My newest post is up on my new site. Click through to see it!

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California Ban The Box

ExactHire

Less than 75 days until the new year! 2018 will be here quickly along with new legislation that directly impacts our daily employment processes. One key piece of legislation that will impact the hiring processes for many HR professionals is the passage of California AB 1008 on October 14, 2017. This legislation is also called the California Fair Chance Act but is also known commonly as California Ban the Box legislation.

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What Hourly Workers Really Want (It Might Surprise You)

Achievers

Hourly workers are among the most unhappy employees in the workforce. They often take fewer vacations, have worse benefits, and are passed over for promotions compared to their salaried counterparts. This isn’t surprising. When most companies hire hourly workers , they often focus solely on the dollar amount they must pay to attract qualified candidates, rather than the perks and benefits that can set them apart from other potential employers.

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Employee Productivity: Encourage Deep Work With These 5 Tips

Justworks

There’s work, and then there’s deep work. We’ve all engaged in deep work at some point — it’s that experience when you’re on a roll. Deep work makes a task more enjoyable as everything else melts away. Unfortunately, deep work is also an increasingly rare experience in the age of computers and mobile phones. According to Cal Newport, author of Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, constant interruption is more of a problem than we’d like to admit.

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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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Being a Participant VS Participating

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. Check out my new post (old post?) on the new site: The author, in full-on “Dad mode” thought it would be fun to explain the ins and outs of sailing using the navigation tools such as nautical charts, c

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The Recruiting Reel Episode 19: How To Empower Candidates During The Hiring Process

Spark Hire

@SusanLaMotte from @exaqueo is here to teach you how to #empoweryourcandidates. Click To Tweet. In the 19th episode of The Recruiting Reel, Susan Lamotte, Founder and CEO of Exaqueo, gives us some ideas on how to empower your candidates during the hiring process. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan : My name is Josh Tolan and I’m the CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizations around the world.

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Automating HR Tasks For Workplace Efficiency

Hppy

Many industries have been gravitating towards automation in their business processes. Automation has become increasingly common in the human resources industry, but has been met with much skepticism. In a survey of HR managers on behalf of Career Builder, 55 percent of them said that they believe that artificial intelligence will become a regular part of HR in the next 5 years.

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5 Leadership Skills to Look for When Promoting In-House

Achievers

Promoting in-house is a smart way to grow your business and invest in your staff towards leadership development. Companies that promote from within often have higher satisfaction ratings from employees and there’s nothing like the possibility of a promotion to keep your team working hard. According to Adam Foroughi , a co-founder and CEO: “Outside hires can sap the motivation for mid-level and junior-level talent to work harder and move up the ladder.

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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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3 Steps for Effective and Ethical Goal Planning

Reflektive

It’s not always about the destination. The journey counts too. While every organization is goal-driven, the process used to achieve a goal is equally important to the overall well-being of the company and its employees. If your organization prioritizes results above all else, ethical issues can emerge. When results are placed on a pedestal, internal values will inevitably fall by the wayside.

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Sneak Peek: WorkHuman 2018 Agenda

WorkHuman

Over the past several months, my colleagues and I have been hard at work putting together the agenda for WorkHuman 2018. To the right is a picture of us from a working session back in August when we reviewed all the submissions from our call for speakers. We looked for people who are not only rockstar presenters, but can also bring something new to HR leaders and practitioners who attend the conference.

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Employee Fringe Benefits - What Are They, Exactly?

Justworks

As an employer, you’ve heard about benefits before. But what are fringe benefits? To understand fringe benefits, first it’s important to understand how employees are paid. Employees are normally paid wages via written or printed checks, direct deposit, payroll cards, or sometimes cash. All wages paid to employees are taxable income, and subject to income tax withholding.

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