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Virtual Onboarding (in the Era of COVID-19)

Workology

I recently got to experience virtual onboarding due to the Coronavirus pandemic and wanted to share my experience as well as best practices since many companies are onboarding virtually right now. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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A Rare Glimpse at Leading Labor Market Indicators and the Path Back to Work

Allegis Global Solutions

The global pandemic has unexpectedly given companies in the human capital space a unique opportunity to use data and analytics to deliver a leading-indicator glimpse into the road ahead. In a series of special labor market reports on its COVID-19 resource center , AGS taps into a wide range of data sets, including key labor market indicators, job requisitions (reqs) opened, reqs canceled, and start rates for new roles for its managed services provider (MSP) business.

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Helping Managers Understand and Address Stress

DecisionWise

About a year ago I received one my favorite perk s. It was peak season for us – my workload was heavy , and support was limited. This meant late nights in the office with the stress that so commonly follow s. . As my supervisor and I were talking about what could be done to address my stress, I brought up exercise. I hadn’t been going to the gym regularly for the past few months.

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The Power of Human Interaction in the Current Hiring Climate

Allegis Global Solutions

AI has become an increasingly pervasive part of the talent acquisition landscape. But even the most sophisticated algorithm in the most advanced instance of any talent management product couldn’t have predicted COVID-19.

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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 a Doggy Daycare is Coping with COVID-19 & Preparing to Reopen

Homebase

While it’s no secret the dogs of America have been relishing the extra quality time as we remain stuck at home during the COVID-19 outbreak, social distancing has prevented them from enjoying quality time with their furry friends due to the closures of doggy daycares. . One of these daycares that has had to close its doors is The Watering Bowl in St.

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Cisco Supports #FirstRespondersFirst to Open Four Bright Horizons Centers to Provide Free Child Care for Frontline Healthcare Workers

Thrive Global

Cisco is supporting #FirstRespondersFirst , an initiative of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Thrive Global, and the CAA Foundation. The initiative takes a whole human approach to supporting first responder healthcare workers as they serve on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. #FirstRespondersFirst’s fundraising call to action helps provide essential protective equipment, accommodations, child care, food, mental health support, and other resources to this demographically and soc

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HR Tech Companies Laying People Off: Was It Overdue?

Josh Bersin

Over the last two weeks I”ve talked with more than a dozen HR Tech companies that decided to lay off a large percentage of their workforce, and a new article in the WSJ lists dozens of Silicon Valley tech companies letting thousands of people go. To me, this is another dimension of The Big Reset. Read more» The post HR Tech Companies Laying People Off: Was It Overdue?

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Why your employer brand is more important than ever | Jobbio Journal

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Its is a very strange time right now, we can’t deny that. With things being tough for everyone, it can be hard to look at the good stuff. But there.

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How to reinvent your tech hiring in a remote-first world

Workable

Overall, data from Coderbyte , a web application for interview prep and technical screening for engineering candidates, shows the number of software developer interviews has severely declined since mid-February. If your company is fortunate enough to be hiring for software development, you’ll likely find more available and eager talent than ever before – even in a fully remote tech hiring environment.

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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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Keep Your Workforce Informed With Electronic Solutions

TalentCulture

In any workplace, health and safety has to be top of mind. Complying with workplace laws takes a lot more effort when your workers are remote and are teams dispersed — as is happening in so many organizations. And right now, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, employee safety in any working environment is an ongoing concern for leaders and managers — and employers need to not only navigate new laws, but inform their […].

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Virtual Onboarding of Remote Workers More Important Than Ever

SHRM Resources

?Most organizations have transitioned to remote work in response to the coronavirus pandemic, making completely virtual onboarding of new hires a necessity. But providing a superb onboarding experience virtually can be a challenge for employers doing it for the first time."Hiring and onboarding new employees completely virtually is a new concept for most employers.

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if the job that laid me off wants to bring me back, can I decline and still collect unemployment?

Ask a Manager

I’ve gotten a lot of questions lately like this one: I’ve been laid off for the past three weeks, and now my employer has asked me to return. Legally, do I have to accept? And if I don’t accept, will that give me a problem filling for unemployment? I want to move on from them as I don’t see it being a fit for me anymore. I left a job of eight years to go work for them and I believe I made a mistake in doing so.

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Best practices for recruiters during a hiring freeze

Workable

All set, right? But this also means putting your typical recruiter job responsibilities on hold, including sourcing and screening. What other options are available to you to stay productive, relevant, and goal-driven during a hiring freeze? Whether it’s happened in your career in the past or you’re experiencing it for the first time, a company’s hiring freeze doesn’t only put a halt to a company’s hiring intentions, but also to the recruiters’ daily habits and responsibilities.

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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 Work Productively During COVID-19

TalentCulture

Working from home is a necessity for many of us right now. It’s a critical way to help flatten the curve, for one. It can also have its appeal even during this unprecedented, harrowing crisis that faces us all. But being productive at home even under the best of circumstances — without remote schooling, sick loved ones, relentlessly bad news, and economic turmoil — can be a challenge.

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Employers Get Creative with Hiring During Coronavirus Pandemic

SHRM Resources

?The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked innovations in recruiting, hiring and onboarding, from drive-up I-9 verifications to matching furloughed workers with open positions at like companies. A panel of HR leaders shared their lessons learned from working in this new reality, as well as other talent acquisition strategies being explored for the remainder of 2020, at the Society for Human Resource Management's first virtual Talent conference.The panel was moderated on April 20 by Ton.

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Five secrets to successful remote onboarding during a crisis

HR Zone

Acquisition Remote onboarding in a crisis.

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From Onboarding to Long-boarding: Keep top talent motivated for the long term

HR Morning

HR leaders know you can’t afford to endlessly cycle through top talent: replacing an employee can cost as much as twice that employee’s salary. Retention is the name of the talent management game. Many HR leaders focus their retention strategies on the onboarding process , hoping that a meaningful welcome period will sustain employees’ motivation well beyond their transition.

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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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#WorkTrends: Culture That Counts Right Now

TalentCulture

Now more than ever, the culture of a company matters. From values to purpose to behaviors, culture is what crosses through every level of an organization and connects its people together. This week on #WorkTrends, Meghan M. Biro and Organizational Culture Strategist Josh Levine got into the power — and the importance — of work cultures today. As companies have transitioned their workplaces to remote, grappling with new policies and tough decisions, it’s the leaders who have […].

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5 Do’s and Don’ts of Video Interviews

SHRM Resources

The coronavirus pandemic has made remote working and social distancing the norm, pushing recruiters and hiring managers to rely on videoconferencing platforms to interview candidates.

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Josh Bersin: 4 ways to build organizational resilience

HRExecutive

This pandemic has demonstrated just how brittle our society is. A tiny virus has drastically upset our lives, our economies and our societies. In a time like this, resilience —the ability to adapt and bounce back—will be one of the most important characteristics that will help us recover. But how do we design our organizations for resilience ? Here are four things to consider: . 1.

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26 Incredible Quotes on Work and Life: COVID-19 Edition

Vantage Circle

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sudden shift in the dynamics of workforce behavior. More and more companies are bound to rush towards work-from-home arrangements in an extremely short period. Although many companies already had a WFH policy managing a large scale of remote employees and that too in such urgency can be overwhelming.

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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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Make Remote Work Feel Human

TalentCulture

Meghan M. Biro on why we need to infuse a sense of fun into our remote workplaces. The post Make Remote Work Feel Human appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Five tips for HR during the most stressful ‘Stress Awareness Month’ on record

HR Zone

People The most stressful ‘Stress Awareness Month’.

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Marketing through uncertainty: 6 tips from a marketing leader

Workable

Almost a decade later, the 2008 financial crisis hit. I was in my first VP Marketing role for a cash-strapped online auction startup that was trying to raise money at a time when venture funding had almost entirely dried up. Fast forward twelve years to the COVID-19 pandemic, and I find myself facing a new set of challenges as a marketing leader in a high growth SaaS business.

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WFH Self-Care Guide: Easy Ways to Improve Your Wellbeing

marenated HR

I’ll be blunt: coronavirus absolutely sucks. No matter who or where you are, it has affected us each in one way or another. Many people are now forced to work from home. Some employees are used to working from home, and many companies already have a clear WFH policy. I’ll be blunt again: we’re the lucky ones. Of course, working from home indefinitely is an adjustment, but some people are out of a job right now, and some people’s careers are paused due to furlough.

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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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Why Workplace Disability Inclusion Matters Now More Than Ever

SHRM

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a profound shift in workplaces across the United States and the world. “Because we’ve always done it that way” is suddenly out the window. Instead, much of the American workforce has had to get creative and find new ways of working. In the language of workplace disability inclusion, “accommodations” are supports that enable employees to thrive at work.

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How Can Companies Benefit From International Recruitment

TalentLyft

International recruitment is on the radar of most companies today, but some are still reluctant about it. What are the exact advantages of hiring internationally? Discover the 6 key benefits of international recruitment! Read More.

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Dogs, Kids and Baseball Caps – 4 Tips For Remote Project Success

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Jeff Fox and Jim Fox, Baker Tilly. Have you been working from home for the past month and a half? With remote work now a part of our national conversation, our partner Baker Tilly wanted to share some of their tips. Learn more about them at their website. Is your project team working from home in this “sequestered world”? Don’t let that slow you or your critical project down!