Sat.Jan 27, 2018 - Fri.Feb 02, 2018

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Staffing and Scheduling Are Two Different Things – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Years ago, I worked on a consulting project for a company that was facing customer service challenges. They were convinced the problem was training. So, they brought in a group of consultants to help them determine their training needs. Ends up, their challenge wasn’t training. At least not entirely. The issue was staffing and scheduling. That’s why I wanted to share with you this Time Well Spent from our friends at Kronos.

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3 Things CEOs Need from HR Leadership

Reflektive

“Our company’s most important asset is its people” — CEOs have been saying it for decades. But this sentiment isn’t always reflected in company priorities. Now, as job seekers are getting more discerning and top talent is harder to recruit and retain, CEOs are refocusing on the importance of their people — and looking to HR leadership to help make sure they’re doing it right.

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72% of HR Managers Think the Monday After the Super Bowl Should Be a Work Holiday

HR Daily Advisor

A new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam may just “bowl” you over. According to 72% of HR managers, the day after the professional football championship game should be a paid national holiday from work. Source: artisteer / iStock / Getty. That may not be a bad idea considering more than one-quarter of employees (27%) admitted they’ve called in sick or made an excuse for skipping work following a major sporting event, such as the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, or World Series.

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2018 – The Year When AI Will Humanize the Workplace

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

As we enter 2018, there are two competing forces that are impacting the world of HR. On the one hand, the rate of social and business changes is accelerating, resulting in an ever more complex business environment. On the other hand, employees are pushing for even simpler, more engaging, and human-like experience from their enterprise applications. For HR to survive, they will need to leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robots, and chatbots to s

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Prevent Toxic Work Culture and Protect Your Peoples’ Physical and Mental Health

The U.S. Surgeon General's warning about the role of the workplace on mental and physical health states that employers have an opportunity to turn workplaces into “engines of mental health and wellbeing”. Discover what it takes to foster workplace wellbeing and how to prevent a “toxic work culture”.

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: @CrowdedAtWork mine the gold in your ATS!

The Tim Sackett Project

This week on the Weekly Dose I review the TA technology Crowded. Crowded is a platform that fixes what’s wrong with most ATSs! What’s wrong with most ATSs? Let me explain. A typical ATS does one thing really well. It posts jobs to your career site and collects applicants from those jobs posted. From there it basically allows you to digitally move applicants through your hiring process.

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To Be or Not to Be: Is Retention Becoming Obsolete?

HR Daily Advisor

Employee retention is one of the most important factors contributing to the growth and success of a company. Or is it? For decades retention has been viewed by HR professionals as one of, if not the leading health-indicator of an organization. Melpomenem / iStock / Getty Images Plus. As corporate dynamics are shifting in today’s rapidly evolving talent landscape, does retention still measure up?

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Dear ReWorker: My Former Employee is Bad-Mouthing Me

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, Help! I'm dealing with a disgruntled former employee. She was fine while she worked here, and I even agreed to be a reference for her in the future. But since she left she has bad-mouthed me and my company—even leaving a terrible Glassdoor review. Meanwhile, she quit without a new opportunity lined up and still doesn't have a new job.

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The Future of HR: 10 Strategies for Every Human Resources Team

HR Bartender

I ran across an INC article titled “ What Does the Future of Human Resources Look Like? ” I thought it was an interesting read, in particular the last paragraph where the author talks about job title changes. Their takeaway is that moving from job titles like chief human resources officer to chief experience officer signal a change in the profession.

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Impress Your CEO With These Strategic Business Impact Recruiting Metrics

Visier

In my companion article entitled “ Influence Your CEO With WOW And OW! Talent Data ” I explained how you can impress your CEO by converting your Talent Acquisition results into dollars. It’s also important to understand that you can’t impress a CEO with a large volume of tactical recruiting metrics. Instead, you must focus on metrics that demonstrate a direct impact on what CEO’s really care about, the firm’s strategic goals.

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The 26th Annual HR Systems Survey

The 26th Annual HR Systems Survey, conducted by Sapient Insights Group, is now open for participation through July 1, 2023. Your voice is the future of HR technology! This survey is valuable for anyone supporting their organization's HR systems and practices, interested in sharing their vendor experiences, and giving back to the HR community. All responses are confidential and only used in aggregate results.

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33% of HR Hiring Managers Have Turned Down a Candidate for Being ‘Too Pushy’ After an Interview

HR Daily Advisor

Workers may be thinking “new year, new job,” according to a survey from staffing firm Accountemps. Approximately three in 10 (29%) professionals plan to look for a new position in the next 12 months. And of the 27 markets surveyed, Los Angeles, California (40%); Austin, Texas (38%); and Dallas, Texas (37%) topped the list of U.S. cities with the most workers planning to find new opportunities. .

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TED Talk Tuesday: Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

Cornerstone On Demand

This is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. Author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek believes leaders should be more than just authority figures—to earn the trust, respect and cooperation of their teams, leaders should first make selfless sacrifices and put the needs of the people around them ahead of their own.

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How to Plan Time For Self Learning

HR Bartender

I came across this article from Harvard Business Review titled, “ 6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It ”. I’d recommend bookmarking it and carving out time to read it. But that’s also the challenge. There are lots of great articles about how to “ own your career ” or “ the best leadership books to read ”.

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Which HR Certification is Better? An Analysis of the SHRM-CP and PHR

UpstartHR

Last week I received an interesting question that echoed what I’ve seen from dozens of people around the new year: I came across this discussion while trying to formulate an argument supporting the value and credibility of the SHRM-CP credential. I have years years of HR experience and about five years ago, I started looking at HRCI and the PHR certification.

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Ace Your I-9 Compliance: How HR Can Navigate the End of I-9 Virtual Review

Speaker: David Secunda, Co-Founder and CEO of WorkBright

Did your company inspect I-9 documents virtually? Hot off the press from ICE, you have until August 30th, 2023 to document a physical inspection of those documents! If you’re not sure what exactly this means for your organization or are struggling to physically review I-9 documents with remote employees, join WorkBright for a 60 minute deep-dive and Q&A on the end of I-9 virtual review.

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How to Evaluate Your Manager’s Performance (Without Guesswork)

15Five

A surprise resignation here; a rumor of resentment there… these are indications that there are problems within your management team. If this is happening, the time to take action is now. Great managers build trust , inspire individuals, and motivate teams. Bad managers breed resentment and make people want to quit. Problem is, you may not realize what’s happening until smaller managerial issues have spiraled into much bigger problems.

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Integrating the Robots into a More Human Workplace

RecognizeThis!

By Lynette Silva. Recognize This! – AI can help us realize our humanity more fully in the workplace. It’s that time of year – the World Economic Forum at Davos. This year’s theme is “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World,” which covers a lot of ground. Most interesting to me is seeing the proliferation of discussions around the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and creating more human work environments.

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Why Do Employees Leave An Organization in 2018 [POLL]

HR Bartender

I came across an article from Harvard Business Review titled “ Why People Really Quit Their Jobs ”. It’s an interesting read worth checking out. It reminded me of a Glassdoor survey I saw recently that said voluntary quits are at an all-time high. We’ve been talking about the shift to a candidate-driven market for quite some time. That’s not a surprise.

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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. A Glimpse Into The Future Of Recruiting -- by Lars Schmidt. 2. When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise — Including for Men -- by Amanda Weinstein. 3.

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Employer Guide: End of I-9 Virtual Review

Attention employers! If you virtually inspected I-9 work authorization documents during the COVID pandemic, you are required to physically inspect those documents before August 30th, 2023! WorkBright has consolidated all the information you need to properly manage this unprecedented scenario in an end of I-9 Virtual Review guide. They've got you covered on: Understanding whether this applies to your organization Deadlines for virtual review and physical inspections Overview of the reconciliation

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Providing Constructive Feedback When an Employee Isn’t Meeting Expectations

Reflektive

Providing constructive criticism is one of the most difficult, but most important, parts of being a manager, especially when an employee isn’t performing at a high level. But a survey by the Harvard Business Review found a majority of employees actually prefer constructive criticism to positive feedback, believing criticism is more beneficial to their overall growth and job performance.

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Onboarding Tips: Integrating New Hires Into Your Company Culture

CultureIQ

A few months ago we put out a call for YOUR company culture questions and received many amazing questions — about everything from leadership to L&D. Our community submitted so many questions, in fact, that our experts weren’t able to … The post Onboarding Tips: Integrating New Hires Into Your Company Culture appeared first on CultureIQ.

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A 3-Part Outline to Michael Bungay’s Guide to Greatness 

Kazoo

Recently at WorkTango, we had Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit do an amazing Webinar entitled: “The Five Question Leader” His insights are deep, and they’ll make you think. Here are 3 points outlining 1) the challenges we face, 2) the inspirations we can reach for, and 3) the five questions to get us there. I. The 3 Vicious Circles that these 5 Questions will Help You Escape From.

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5 Reasons Your Retention Rate Is So Low

Hppy

With the unemployment rate hovering at an historic low of 4.1% and the department of labor reporting average job tenure declining, retaining the employees you have is much more important now than it was a few years ago. If your employee retention rate is low and employee turnover is high, meaning that employees are jumping ship faster than you can hire new ones to replace them, there might be a reason.

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The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing HR Operations: How to Select Your New HR Software

Speaker: Patrick Sayers, President of Newcastle Research

Are you tired of struggling with outdated HR software? Are you interested in unlocking your organization’s productivity potential? It’s no secret that with tech-dependent remote work on the rise, it's more important than ever to successfully implement an HR platform that can provide actionable insights to help you hit all your key workforce KPIs. But with so much variation, how can you find the most optimal HR software platform for your team?

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How to Manage Successful Change

Reflektive

This timeless quote from Heraclitus, a p re- Socratic Greek philosopher , says it all in simple terms. “The only constant in life is change.” In our HR world, the complexity and rate of change is compounded every year with significant disruptions across industries and business functions. A few drivers include new customer and employee expectations, technological advances, fierce competition from anywhere, and increasing skills-gaps in our organizations.

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What’s Next? The #MeToo Movement and HR

WorkHuman

By Laurie Ruettimann, Guest Blogger. How many of you have heard that HR doesn’t care about employees? It’s kind of insulting, isn’t it? One of the themes to emerge from the #MeToo movement is that HR practitioners can’t possibly care about workplace harassment because they’re not employee advocates. When in doubt, employees should avoid speaking to them because they’ll just side with the company, anyway.

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A 3-Part Outline to Michael Bungay’s Guide to Greatness 

Kazoo

Recently at WorkTango, we had Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit do an amazing Webinar entitled: “The Five Question Leader” His insights are deep, and they’ll make you think. Here are 3 points outlining 1) the challenges we face, 2) the inspirations we can reach for, and 3) the five questions to get us there. I. The 3 Vicious Circles that these 5 Questions will Help You Escape From.

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[Infographic] Making Mindfulness A Way Of Life (And Work)

Hppy

In an ever-evolving modern world, finding the right work-life balance can be tricky. Whether we’re being stretched at work or at home, it can be hard to avoid stress. Many people practice different ways to relieve their stress, from deep breathing through to meditation or exercise. However, there’s a new approach that’s gathering momentum – mindfulness.

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Report: Insights on Global Fertility at Work

Fertility is not only a global healthcare concern, but also an important workplace issue. To better understand how fertility impacts the workplace, Carrot Fertility surveyed 5,000 people across the U.S., UK, Canada, India, and Mexico. Carrot asked questions to get a sense of how people around the world feel about fertility topics at work and how they want to be supported in their fertility and family-forming journeys.