Sat.Apr 27, 2013 - Fri.May 03, 2013

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Improve Your Hiring Process: Cast Wide Net for Talent by Going Social

ExactHire

Much of what I’ve addressed in my Improve Your Hiring Process blog series to this point has been about bringing efficiency and structure to your hiring process. Not to discount that by any means, as larger groups of unqualified applicants for open positions makes this more important than ever. But, ever think about why so many unqualified applicants end up in your pool?

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[Infographic] Overcome disengagement by tackling the recognition obstacle course

Achievers

Is your employee engagement strategy directly tied to business results? Top employers realize that highly engaged employees produce better business results than organizations with low levels of engagement. It just makes sense. Organizations with high engagement rates are 78 percent more productive than disengaged organizations. 1 The powerful combination of engaged employees and brilliant performance is critical to business success.

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Love The Product, Hate(d) The Service

NoExcusesHR

'I am a big fan of Spotify. Wait, I may have understated that.I freakin'' love it. I use it every day in my office; I plug my iPhone into my car and listen on my commute, and I pop the headphones in when I''m going on a run. I''m a die-hard, premium subscriber, Spotify-guy. I have to be their biggest fan. Except for the time I was really pissed at Spotify.

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Preparing for the Worst: What's Your Layoff Plan?

The Bamboo Project Blog

'What''s Your Layoff Plan? from Michele Martin on Vimeo. A big part of career resilience is being prepared for what work throws at you. The more prepared you are when something bad happens, the better you''ll feel. One work event more and more of us are having to deal with is a lay-off. Sometimes you''ll see the writing on the wall and can plan for a lay-off.

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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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What Did You Do Today? Avoid New Employee First Day Nothings

ExactHire

When you were a kid, did your parents ever ask you, “What did you do today?” Typically the answer, “nothing,” would roll off the tongue and away you went doing something else. Or, maybe you now ask your children this same question as you have gotten older. What if someone asked one of your new hires what they did with your organization on the first day of work?

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Power Base

NoExcusesHR

'Once you accept a leadership position you immediately have power. You may feel the same as you did ten minutes prior to saying yes to that job offer, but in reality your world, and the world of the employees around you just changed. Power often has a negative connotation and that is unfortunate. Having the power to change things that are going poorly, or the power to make a difference in some one''s life are usually afterthoughts.

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Your Career in a 401(k) World

The Bamboo Project Blog

'More things seem to be changing in my world than ever before, but I can’t quite put my finger on it, let alone know how to adapt. So let me try to put my finger on it: We now live in a 401(k) world — a world of defined contributions, not defined benefits — where everyone needs to pass the bar exam and no one can escape the most e-mailed list.--Thomas Friedman, It''s a 401(k) World .

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5 Zingers on The Spirit of Kaizen (Robert Maurer)

David Zinger

'Small is the new significant. The Spirit of Kaizen is a small book by Robert Maurer that offers excellent guidance on making changes one small step at a time. This is an invaluable resource in employee engagement to counter the withering away of employee engagement because of the failure of many large scale programs and change initiatives. Back in 2009, I wrote a short review of Maurer’s other Kaizen book: The Kaizen Way: One Small Step Can Change Your Life.

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Does your CFO know the difference between engagement and morale?

Achievers

As Jean-Pascal Tricoire, president and CEO of Schneider Electric SA, said in an interview with PricewaterhouseCoopers, “People need a sense of purpose. Gross margins are not the stuff of which dreams are made. And even without going so far as to talk of dreams, you cannot inspire people to take action, create, or motivate without instilling a sense of purpose, especially when times are difficult.”.

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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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HR In a Truly Capitalist System

True Faith HR

'What would happen if HR truly operated in a truly capitalistic society where everyone is a rational actor? In such a world, there would be a plethora of choices and perfect information about which choice to make. Needs would be addressed quickly as businesses operate to fill that vacuum at maximum profitability. Employees will find those organizations which put together the optimal compensation package with the appropriate work/life balance.

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Customizing Performance Reviews for Higher Education

Reviewsnap

'Faculty and staff populations at universities are filled with people who have been doing the same thing for many years, as well as new employees trying to find the best ways to be productive on small budgets. The performance review can seem like an interruption when people have other priorities. Instead, universities can embrace their learning culture with Reviewsnap and make the performance review an opportunity for development.

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Friday Factoid #30: India, Employee Engagement, and Wellbeing

David Zinger

'Wellbeing dipping in India. Just 10% of India’s workforce are thriving. From Is India Having a Crisis of Soul? by Deepak Chopra and Jim Clifton in the Huffington Post. . Commentary. One of my biggest lessons from visiting India earlier this year was that there is no one India, there are many “Indias” As India moves towards 2020, I trust there will be a greater experience of thriving in the workplace when engagement is done powerfully, authentically, and for the benefit of all

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10 ways to wake up at work: Energize your workforce and stop hitting “snooze” on productivity

Achievers

From our headquarters in San Francisco, we hear about and see plenty of strange happenings. One recent protest by the possibly fictional San Francisco Sleep Movement highlighted the prevalence of insomnia and “incessant yawning” in our fair city. Pajama days are best left to school environments and spontaneous urban gatherings, but this got us thinking nonetheless.

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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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Time to Change How We Choose Talent in the NBA and NFL

True Faith HR

'Over the past week, two major events in talent management occurred in the NFL and NBA Sunday, April 28 was the deadline for, basically, those basketball players who still have at least one year of college eligibility remaining to declare for the NBA draft. Similarly, this past weekend saw the 7 round NFL draft. Unlike most organizations, where employers can choose to hire whomever they want at whatever rate of pay they want, and applicants can choose to apply at organizations where they want to

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Boost Employee Morale this Summer with Cookouts, Sports, & More!

Boost Rewards

'Have fun this summer and improve employee morale at the same time. Summer is the perfect time to get outside and have some fun in the sun with your employees and co-workers. Company Cookouts Summertime brings great opportunities for fun cookouts with employees. A potluck cookout is a simple and effective way to get everyone Click Here to Read More.

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In 100 Words: There is No Bad Weather

QAspire

'A retired weatherman was once questioned by a friend, “What kind of weather is it going to be tomorrow?”. “The kind of weather I am going to love,” was the instant response with a gentle smile on his wrinkled face. “How do you know that it will be the weather you will love?” the friend was curious. The weatherman went on to explain, “35 years in weather department has taught me just one thing: there is no bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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The Fear Invasion

Root

Realism and truth telling are at the heart of authentic engagement. However, many organizations lack this realism. By not embracing honesty and truth, we are running many risks in our organizations. As truth telling declines, cost, bureaucracy, redundancies, and lack of confidence in the future all rise. People become afraid of change, and we lose the best we may otherwise have been able to get from them.

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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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9 Out of 10 Dentists Agree – Choose RPO

Cielo HR Leader

'It’s been more than two years since you’ve visited the local dentistry. Like every sane individual on this planet, you hate dental appointments; how they recline you in that 1960’s vinyl chair chock full off scratch marks, how they poke and prod, and that horrendous bubble gum fluoride paste they bathe your mouth in during a cleaning. You didn’t visit the dentist because it was time for a cleaning, though.

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Why Super Human-Capital Manufacturers Outperform Their Peers

DDI

'Find out what defines a Super HCM organization and what manufacturers can do to make the transition to becoming a Super HCM.

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How to Write a Job Description Optimized for Job Boards and Internet Search, Tip 4

ExactHire

Is writing job descriptions more of an art or a science? It is perhaps less of a science than it used to be since practices like keyword stuffing are now counterproductive while the focus is truly on producing quality content (as it should be) these days. I’m going to take the easy way out and claim that its a blend of both art and science…or perhaps, strategy is a better word.

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Reflections on Seth Godin and Career Resilience

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Knowing that I''ve been doing a lot of writing and thinking about career resilience , fellow career coach Scott Woodard recently pointed me to a Seth Godin post on the topic. A few things from Seth''s post stood out for me, further underscoring the points I''ve been trying to make here. . First, he says: Most of the time, we build our jobs and our organizations and our lives around today, assuming that tomorrow will be a lot like now. .

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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 to test your BC plan with a structured walk-through test

OnSolve

The structured walk-through test is usually performed with a single team. A version of the test can be performed with team leaders to exercise coordination between teams. Participants. Business recovery coordinator. Team leaders, customers and alternates. Facilitator. Other personnel as determined necessary. Procedures. Facilitator. Be sure that the plan, including exhibits, has been distributed to each participant and has been updated before the exercise.

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Why Super Human-Capital Manufacturers Outperform Their Peers

DDI

Find out what defines a Super HCM organization and what manufacturers can do to make the transition to becoming a Super HCM.

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Improve Your Hiring Process: Manage Your Applicant Pipeline Effectively

ExactHire

Now that you’ve made candidates aware of your position, leveraged contacts to draw applicants, and have gone through the process of thinning the initial herd of applicants , perhaps the most important part of the hiring process begins. Now is the time to dig deeper and take applicants through your remaining steps to hire. If your hiring process is very short and compact, keeping track of applicants as they go through it likely isn’t much of a challenge.

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Channel Your Inner Lady Gaga for a Great Career

45 Things

'What can Lady Gaga and Led Zeppelin teach you about career and business success? Peter Cook believes quite a bit. As the author of “The Music of Business,” and head of the Academy of Rock in the U.K., Cook looks at artists such as David Bowie and Alice Cooper and finds lessons he believes will transform the way you do business. In an interview with Anita Bruzzese, Cook talks about how we can glean business wisdom from our music idols.

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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 Find Employee Engagement: Just Say No

David Zinger

'No content. No tips. No tricks. No talking head videos. No business case. No rules. No donuts. No mojo. No infographic. No drivers. No enablers. No evidence. No gurus. No experts. No statistics. No PowerPoints. No eBooks. No tweets. No flow. No secrets. No whitepapers. No competencies. No blame. No fault. No webinars. No formulas. No rants. No promos.