Resources

Background Checks Primer

A Guide for Businesses to Comply with a Myriad of Federal and State Laws

12 Ways to Optimize Your Employee Benefits Program: Low-Cost Employee Incentives, Recognition Programs and Rewards

Keep your employees happy and motivated through employee recognition.

Identifying Your Job!

A simple guide to help you make the right choice.

Take HR to the Next Level: Engage Your Employees to Drive Better Business Value

In the age of the empowered individual, organizations must rethink the workplace, with the employee at the center of the business. This means focusing on three employee centric dimensions: Talent, Culture and Work. By using workforce science, analytics, collaboration tools and technologies with flexible deployment models, you can develop a more engaged and innovative workforce.

Avoid Costly Fines: Ten Compliance Mandates You Can't Afford to Ignore

Managing employer compliance can be a tedious task, but it's a highly visible, important way that the human resources department minimizes risk for the business and keeps the workforce running smoothly.

Interview Errors

Don’t make these costly mistakes during the interview process.

Five Ways to Onboard More Effectively

Join us for a free webinar on 12/11 at 1EST that will show you how to use HR technology to onboard your employees more effectively and make them productive faster.

Improving employee performance with OKRS

Since the 1950s, business leaders have embraced a variety of management techniques designed to improve employee performance. In 1999, John Doerr introduced Objectives – Key Results (OKRs) to Google, a model he first learned about at Intel, and revolutionized goal setting. Today, OKRs are a de facto standard for aligning company and individual goals.

2016 State of Employee Engagement Report

Employee engagement continues to be a top concern for executives around the world. We conducted this study to understand why engagement is important to companies and what they are doing to improve the level of engagement of their workforce.

The Executive’s Guide to Goal Setting

Once you’ve outlined your vision and strategic priorities for the year, how do you align your employees towards achieving them? The traditional approach of cascading objectives hierarchically has been disappointing for most organizations.

PayScale’s 2016 Compensation Best Practices Guide

Pay transparency, variable pay, and retention are some of the key priorities for companies in 2016. We know, because we asked nearly 7,600 business leaders in the U.S., Canada, and beyond to tell us their plans and top concerns for the coming year.

Your Best Workers May Not Be Your Employees - A Global Study of Independent Workers

Independent workers are on the rise. What does this mean for HR professionals? The IBM Smarter Workforce Institute study of over 30,000 workers globally reveals independent workers are more engaged and more innovative than other employees. In fact they are much more like high potential employees than anyone else.

Engaging Employees to Drive the Business

As HR professionals, you all know how critical people are to business success. What is much more illusive for many of us is how to unlock the true potential of our people. Learn how IBM is cultivating an engaging culture that is aligned with business strategy, enabling their employees to increase their efficiency, productivity and agility - to do their best work.

Big data meets behavioral insight - Uncover what helps differentiate the best possible talent from the rest

How do you identify talented people? How do you uncover the traits that truly make a good sales person, a great teacher or an impactful manager? You start by understanding the traits of successful performers and potential top talen. Using big data to uncover those traits reveals something surprising. The sterotypes do not always predict performance.

The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

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ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

How to Fund a Financial Wellness Benefit Without Breaking Your Budget

Financial stress is draining your workforce, impacting productivity, retention, and engagement. A financial wellness benefit can be a game-changer—but how do companies fund it effectively? The truth is, you don’t need a massive new budget to make it happen. This guide explores how leading businesses are integrating financial wellness programs using existing benefits budgets, government incentives, and creative funding approaches that maximize impact without inflating costs.

How Intelligent Employee Surveys Improve Your People Decisions

Instead of sending out the same fixed question battery every time, Eletive uses adaptive algorithms and machine learning to create a more dynamic survey sequence. This means that your employees will not receive the same questions again and again. Instead, the questions they receive will depend on their answers in the last survey. This allows the system to spot negative trends and alert managers and HR quickly that there is an issue.