Sat.Nov 18, 2017 - Fri.Nov 24, 2017

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Three Ways to Rank Your Employment Ads Higher on Google for Jobs

TalentCulture

Employers will have to relearn how to write job postings to leverage Google’s launch into jobs advertising, according to HR thought leader Tim Sackett, SHRM-SCP, speaking at CareerBuilder’s Empower 2017, a conference for recruiting professionals held by the recruiting software company. Sackett, president of HRU Technical Resources, an engineering and design staffing firm based in Lansing, Mich., told attendees that the June launch of Google for Jobs will “completely change ho

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I negotiated and was told not to make it weird, my coworker stole people’s credit cards, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I negotiated my annual raise, and was told not to make it weird. I started at a new company in a new industry about a year ago, and I just had my first annual review. I’ve grown a lot in my role, and have had a year full of positive quarterly reviews, and had been given a small (1.1%) unsolicited, off-cycle raise in recognition of my performance.

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The Six Skills for People Analytics Success

Visier

Jonathan Ferrar is a respected consultant, speaker, and author in HR strategy, workforce analytics, and the Future of Work. This article is adapted from his book, The Power of People: Learn How Successful Organisations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business Performance, and originally appeared on his LinkedIn Pulse. The leader of any workforce analytics team has one of the most exciting and demanding jobs in the business – and especially in the Human Resources function.

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Dear ReWorker: How Can I Get My Employees to Be on Time?

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, We have a small business with only four employees. We need our employees to be on time because our clients come to us. If our staff doesn't arrive at the designated time, we often have clients waiting for them out in the parking lot. We introduced a vacation policy for the first time, and employees can now earn paid time off by clocking in on time.

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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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Bookmark This! Resources to Develop HR Competencies

HR Bartender

Developing your skills as a human resources professional is important. We know that. The hard part is recognizing what skills to develop. At this year’s Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference (SHRM), I ran across some wonderful tools to help with developing HR competencies. These guides offer suggestions for specific activities that HR pros can do to develop their skills.

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42 Tips on How to Give an Effective Employee Review

ClearCompany HRM

Performance reviews offer helpful feedback to managers and employees, but not knowing where to start or what to say can make the process painful and awkward. Effective performance reviews are important to ensuring the growth and development of both employees and management. We’ve collected 42 performance review tips from experts so that your next performance meetings are a success.

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3 Ways to Build a Top-Down Learning Culture

Cornerstone On Demand

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller’s column “The Science of Workplace Motivation” on Inc.com. Modern technology enables employees to access information anytime and anywhere to get jobs done. But access to information does not always equate to "learning" at work. If your organization wants their employees to continue stretching and growing, you don't just need a curriculum -- you need a culture of learning.

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How to Handle a Work Suspension – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

As a human resources professional, I have suspended employees. It didn’t happen very often, but it did happen. Because it wasn’t a regular occurrence, I was extra cautious to make sure that it was handled properly. So I can understand how difficult it must be for the employee – they don’t know what to do. That’s what today’s reader is trying to figure out. .

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When It Comes To Customer Success, We’re On A Mission

Reflektive

It’s not uncommon today for a company to be driven by purpose. At Reflektive , our mission is to reinvent people management processes — for our own employees and for our customers — with the goal of empowering employees to thrive at work. Achieving this mission begins and ends with the success of the companies that choose to partner with us to achieve their performance management goals – empowered by our Customer Success team.

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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 Gratitude Can Increase Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Do employee engagement and gratitude go hand in hand? Gratitude is a concept valued universally as a pro-social aspect of human culture. It’s an idea that takes mindful practice in our personal lives, in our families, and even in our jobs. Recently, scientists have researched this concept and have found interesting connections with many aspects of well-being.

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Office Hours: Engaged Employees Lead to Happier Customers

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. In a 2016 study, Temkin Group found that employee engagement correlates with customer satisfaction, but 87 percent of employees worldwide are not engaged in the workplace.

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How Much Money Can You Earn With an HR Certification? [Free Calculator]

UpstartHR

How much does an HR certification impact your salary? While it matters differently at every organization and for each person, let’s answer that question with some data. Using data from Payscale.com we (hat tip to my youngest brother Barrett for his Excel wizardry) hacked together a calculator that shows you the median pay for job titles in HR as well as the adjusted rates based on whether the person has a PHR or SPHR certification (at the time of this data gathering there was no data on SH

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Stacy Zapar Gives Great Tips for Recruiters at Staffing World 2017

COATS Staffing Software

Gaining insight and perspective from a conference speaker is something all attendees hope for and at Staffing World 2017, Stacy Zapar of Tenfold , a recruiting consulting and training company, didn’t disappoint. She proved why she has been named as one of the best social human resources experts by The Huffington Post. Zapar gave some excellent tips that staffing firms can use to improve their response rate to job ads and improve their brand reputation.

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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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[Infographic] How To Get A Job With A Disability

Hppy

Securing employment is not easy. You need to write a CV or resume that’s going to strike a chord with an employer who will sift through dozens of applications and think nothing of tossing an imperfect application aside. If you’re among the select group of candidates who gets called for interview, that requires an altogether different skill set. The application and interview process can prove challenging for any candidate, sometimes even more so for candidates with a disability.

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Office Hours: Engaged Employees Lead to Happier Customers

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. In a 2016 study, Temkin Group found that employee engagement correlates with customer satisfaction, but 87 percent of employees worldwide are not engaged in the workplace.

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The Performance Review Is Dead, Long Live The Performance (er…Best-Self!) Review

15Five

When major corporations like Adobe , GE , Deloitte , and Microsoft ditched their annual performance reviews, they set off sea change in the world of performance management. There’s now nearly universal agreement that these antiquated practices don’t work and need to go, but very little agreement about what to do instead. This gap has left HR and business leaders scratching their heads.

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HR guidebook: All about employee lifecycle management

PeopleStrategy

Many HR discussions revolve around how to improve specific processes such as payroll, performance management and recruitment. However, these and other HR processes make up a much larger whole that deserves attention: employee lifecycle management (ELM). Valuing strong ELM at your organization is key to attracting and retaining top talent and supporting the company’s bottom line.

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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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How To Know You Have A Fantastic Creativity Culture

Hppy

Most people and cultures are “taught” to be cautious and to make decisions based on unnecessary rigorous analysis in order to “get it perfect” As a result the process tends to be long and arduous and faces numerous levels of scrutiny before a decision is finally reached. Paralysis by analysis often sets in and the momentum of the organization continues.

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Career Ladders vs. Career Lattices - Tools for Employee Development

EDSI

The difference between career ladders and lattices. You may have no idea what the difference between a career ladder and lattice is, because they pretty much sound like the same thing. Or maybe you’re somewhat clued in thanks to the appropriate climbing object analogies they’ve earned. That’s right folks, ladders are simply a vertical rung of steps moving you upward, and lattices have rungs in horizonal and vertical directions!

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Leadership and the Civil Workplace: It Starts with You

The People Equation

Did you know that nearly half of the people in your organization are afraid to be civil to one another? According to Georgetown University researcher Christine Porath, 40% of employees say they hesitate to show civility at work because they fear people will take advantage of them. Porath, an associate professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace , has studied incivility in the workplace for nearly two decades.

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How to Strengthen Your Manager’s Leadership Practices and Why It’s Crucial to Enhance Employee Engagement

Achievers

You know it, and I know it: The key to improving employee engagement and culture is through strengthening management’s leadership practices and capabilities. Being good at management isn’t enough. Today, more than ever, managers need to practice great leadership to manage change effectively and to seriously help others grow. Doing so results in higher employee engagement and motivation, and higher engagement ultimately improves productivity and the overall health of the organization.

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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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4 Tips for Booking the Perfect Meeting Room

Hppy

Whether you need to book a meeting room to impress a client or provide space for an all-hands meeting when it’s the one time a year all of your employees come together, there are several pieces of advice you should follow to avoid making mistakes. Here are four tips for booking the perfect meeting room. Pick the Right Location. Location is a critical key to a successful off-site meeting.

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From Coach to Manager to Leader: How Yev Saidachev Made the Transition

Everwise

Yev Saidachev is a people manager in the truest sense of the word. As a manager of sales development at AppDynamics , Saidachev devotes his time to helping his team succeed in opening conversations with prospects and advancing their careers. As a lifelong hockey player, he now coaches youth hockey to give players the same team experiences he had. And as an Everwise protégé in his mentoring program , Saidachev received support and guidance in taking his passion for coaching to the next level: he

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Google For Jobs Launches "Job Board of Choice Apply", Throws Job Boards Big Bone.

The HR Capitalist

Tracking the looming giant in the recruiting industry that is Google For Jobs can be a full-time job. The latest is a biggie - GFJ rolled out 4 pretty important features last week, including auto-loading of salary data, bookmarking and better geographic search. But one feature dwarfs them all - something called "Job Board of Choice Apply", described here by industry insider Joel Cheesman over at ERE : "This update is by far the most interesting and unique to Google.

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Employers Are Using Snapchat to Reach Generation Z

TalentCulture

By Natalie Kroc. After just four weeks of running a series of ads that prompted Snapchat users to swipe to the McDonald’s careers page, the fast food chain has received 35 percent more job applications as compared to this time last year, according to Jez Langhorn, the senior director in human resources at McDonald’s USA, in Oak Brook, Ill.

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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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Managers: 5 Signs of Employee Burnout You Might Be Missing and What You Can Do About It

Hppy

Employee burnout is a harsh reality that you have to come to terms with. It is something that simply cannot be avoided, no matter how exciting the job is and how many perks the management offers. There is bound to come a time when the employee will start feeling tired of the routine and gives up the zeal that they initially used to put forth. This most certainly does not mean that the employee needs to be thrown out or that you will have to begin the process of training another ‘worker’ again.

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10 TEDTalks That Will Help you Create an Employee Centered Organization

Workology

From SouthWest Airlines to Airbnb the factor that unites successful organizations across industries is their employees. An engaged workforce is the key to increasing customer satisfaction, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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The Positive Effects of Compassionate Leadership

Engagedly

We don’t need a study to tell us how toxic leaders can wreck an organization. Some of us know all too well how much damage toxic leaders can do. They can take a perfectly good organization and wreck […].

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