Sat.Mar 24, 2018 - Fri.Mar 30, 2018

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3 ways to take charge of your HR career

PeopleStrategy

Think you’re deserving of a promotion or raise this year? Don’t wait for someone to come to you; be your #1 advocate and take charge of your HR career! Here are three actions you can take to get started: 1. Seek out new experiences . We all know how easy it is to fall into the same comfortable daily routine. But that probably won’t get you noticed.

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4 Effective Tips For Creating a Strong Employer Branding Strategy

Hppy

With today’s job market and unemployment rates, there’s a big focus on branding oneself to be as attractive as possible to employers. But companies need to brand themselves as well—not just for customers, but to attract the best possible candidates. We’ve already explored some of the branding mistakes and pitfalls that companies often encounter. If you want your employer branding to truly shine, here are some helpful strategies and techniques that you should keep in mind.

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Emerging Performance Management Lifts the Lid on Leadership

Reflektive

In his 2011 bestseller, “ The 5 Levels of Leadership ,” John C. Maxwell suggests that there is a five-tiered progression of leadership development: Positional Leadership: People follow you because they have to. Permission Leadership: People follow because they want to. Production Leadership: People follow you because you make them more productive. People Leadership: People follow because you help them to become better.

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What It’s Like to Manage HR at a Casino

Namely

We’ve heard all the HR stereotypes –from principal’s office to the fun police. But what happens when you drop an HR professional in a cubicle-free workplace, like a casino? To find out, we spoke with Robin Schooling, VP of Human Resources at Hollywood Casino Baton Rouge , about the ins and outs of HR in the hospitality business. How did you get your start in HR?

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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 Weekly Dose of HR Tech – @FlashRecruitApp – Live Chat for Recruiting

The Tim Sackett Project

The week on the Weekly Dose I review the recruiting chat application FlashRecruit. FlashRecruit built a technology for recruiting that everyone is already familiar with and comfortable with. It’s not a chatbot, but a real-time messaging application your recruiting team can use to connect with candidates when they are engaging with your employment brand.

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Why a Little Pessimism Can Benefit You as an HR Manager

Cornerstone On Demand

Seeing the silver lining can make your life easier in many ways. However, there are benefits of pessimism in the workplace. As an HR manager, having a little pessimism can go a long way in preventing workplace problems from getting out of hand. No, you shouldn't be purposefully negative at work. But, a substantial part of any HR manager's job is to reduce a company's risk of lawsuits, government fines and excessive turnover.

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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. When You Start a New Job, Pay Attention to These 5 Aspects of Company Culture -- by Allen H.

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Defining Work-Life Balance for Your Small Business

Justworks

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “work-life balance?” Is it an unlimited vacation policy, or catered lunches? Maybe you think of remote work opportunities. Or that not being in the office equates to time with friends and family, and being disconnected from work entirely. Work-life balance is almost always referred to in the abstract.

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Workplace Distractions Are Impacting the Bottom Line – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

I know the open office concept is all the rage right now. And I’m not opposed to it. I can see the advantages it brings in terms of collaboration and team development. However, it’s important for organizations to realize it can also contribute to workplace distractions. The same is true for technology. I love my tech gadgets and toys as much as the next person, but they can also be distracting.

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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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3 Ways to Improve Your Recruiting Strategy in 2018

Cornerstone On Demand

The "war for talent" has been grabbing headlines for over twenty years, after McKinsey's Steve Hankin coined the term in 1997 and wrote a book with the same name. Back then, the phrase referred to growing competition to attract and retain employees as Baby Boomers left the workforce. The war for talent still rages on in 2018, but now applies to companies struggling to fill open positions with candidates qualified-enough to fill skill gaps created by emerging technologies.

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Will Your Employee Promotion Strategy Improve Or Harm Your Work Culture?

15Five

When you think of workplace culture , what comes to mind? You may think of how your team interacts in a meeting, if employees hang out with one another after hours, or if there’s a table tennis tournament lighting up your office. But culture goes beyond that , and is created by the sum of your—and everyone else’s—behaviors and actions. One important element that defines and reinforces work culture is employee promotions.

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Change Management Must-Haves: 15 Ways to Start Your New HR Program on the Right Foot

Kazoo

In today’s highly competitive business environment, a company’s employees are its most powerful asset. But plagued by a talent shortage that stretches across nearly all industries, HR leaders have been tasked with revamping retention strategies for the modern workforce. To do this, many companies have placed a high priority on improving the employee experience.

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Organizational Trust Is the Key to Innovation

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the first time, Kronos was named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For according to global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work. Congrats to them! Enjoy the article.).

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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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7 Fun Ways to Host Team Meetings

Achievers

Team meetings are renowned for being boring and, to many employees, a waste of time. In fact, one survey shows that over 75% of meeting participants are annoyed by meetings they deem unnecessary, and many more will agree they find them boring, even if it’s just from time to time. So, as a meeting host in your business, it’s up to you to spice things up and bring a spark that will keep everybody engaged.

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Learn How Top Recruiters Overcome Market Challenges

Engage2Excel

Record low unemployment, a positive economic outlook and a proliferation of recruitment channels make recruiting more challenging today than ever before. To find out what’s working and what isn’t, we interviewed five senior talent advisors, each with a decade or more of experience and a track record of success in several different industry sectors. Download our latest Trendicators report, 5 Recruiting Experts Share Strategies for Success , for ideas you can use to compete more effectively in tod

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The “How” Behind Performance Management Transformation [Webinar Recap]

Kazoo

Earlier this month we hosted a webinar, It’s About the How: Making Performance Management as Agile as Your Business , with industry visionary Josh Bersin and Hitachi Vantara’s Scott Kelly. We set out with two goals in mind. First, we wanted to help attendees understand what’s driving the performance management transformation we see today, on both the micro and macro level.

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Every Bias Is Not Necessarily a Bad Bias

HR Bartender

That was my takeaway from David Rock’s presentation on The Neuroscience of Breaking Bias from last year’s Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference. All biases are not bad. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address them. Here’s why: Think of bias as our tendency to generalize or group people or information. Each of us gets our biases from a different place, so we can’t treat all biases the same.

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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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Why Effective Mentors Focus On Building High Trust Relationships

Hppy

Trust – an easy word to say however not always the easiest thing to build. It is difficult for us to build trusting relationships on an individual basis let alone in an organization. For an organization to build a high trust culture it takes commitment and it takes strong leadership. In other words, it all has to start at the top. A quick look at Fortune 100’s top 10 organizations and you can begin to see the degree of effort that is required to create that high trust culture.

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WorkHuman is Here!

WorkHuman

We’re so excited to be in the vibrant city of Austin for our fourth year of WorkHuman ­– and it’s going to be the best one yet. Each year, the incredibly unique WorkHuman community continues to grow, inspire, and innovate. Leaders, thinkers, and HR professionals across all walks of life come together to harness the transformative power of people for the next generation of HR.

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3 Ways to Steer the Right Creative Talent Toward Your Business

Entrepreneur

Showcase what your company has to offer when it comes to a creative career, and build a culture that values original employee contributions. Otherwise, your in-house creative team will be a short-lived experiment.

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Handling the tricky questions in FMLA intermittent leave

HR Morning

It’s a given: Intermittent FMLA leave is a giant thorn in the side of HR people everywhere. But not all intermittent leave requests are equal. Here’s a look at some of the most common scenarios, and how to handle them. The FMLA allows employers some flexibility in granting different kinds of intermittent leave. Employees are entitled to take it for serious health conditions, either their own or those of immediate family members.

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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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GDPR In The Workplace And How To Implement It

Hppy

As one of the world’s largest social media sites faces backlash from sharing private consumer information with an analytics site, it should be no surprise that regulatory agencies are taking extensive steps to keep companies from invading the privacy of customers and others who visit their websites. In particular, the 28 nations of the European Union have banded together to create new data regulations to keep its citizens safe from invasive advertising.

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What’s the Role of Company Culture in the Gig Economy?

TalentCulture

Company culture is a huge factor when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees and building an organization’s public reputation. […]. The post What’s the Role of Company Culture in the Gig Economy? appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Why Are We So at Good Finding the Next LeBron but Not the Next Einstein?

Entrepreneur

Professional sports searches the world for stars. We are hit-or-miss about every other sort of talent.

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Where to Start Today Building Your Talent Brand

Workology

Join me for a webinar on 4/19 at 11-12 AM CST for 7 Ways to Super-charge Your Talent Brand. HRCI & SHRM credits available. Click here to register. Why do you need a talent brand? Because measuring, monitoring and improving an organization’s reputation is becoming a crucial component of talent acquisition strategies for any company […] Source.

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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 HR Companies Can Save Money Through Outsourcing

Hppy

Those who work in the HR sector are well acquainted with the benefits that outsourcing can bring. After all, if it wasn’t for big businesses increasingly choosing to outsource HR functions, the sector would not be thriving the way that it is today. Those who understand the outsourcing model, however, are well aware that this is not just a case of salesmanship or spin – outsourcing is a win/win for both sides.

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How Retail Hiring Will Change in the Next 5 Years

TalentCulture

The shopping experience has changed a lot over the past 10 years. But the experience of applying for a retail […]. The post How Retail Hiring Will Change in the Next 5 Years appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Saying Nothing Why Talking a Lot - The Long Con of Bull * Tag Lines.

The HR Capitalist

The Capitalist is at the beach this week. . But let's talk about the art of corporate Bullsh*t tag lines. Corporate tag lines are the sayings/statements that appear in big font on primary pages to corporate websites. I've got a guy on my team that might or might not be good at these. We like to collect them in their natural habitat - corporate America - and evaluate them on their own merits.

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