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How to Keep Your Cool in a Hot Talent Market: Q&A With Visier’s Ian Cook

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Five minutes. That’s how long it takes most hiring professionals to make a decision about a candidate during an interview, according to SHRM. But this kind of go-with-your-gut approach can lead to a host of problems, like inequity or favoring style over substance. Taking a more analytical path to hiring without slowing down the process is tricky, but it’s something every manager needs to think about these days.

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With U.S. Paid Leave Laws in Limbo, Employers Fill the Gap

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Recently, Susan Van Klink shared her personal story about being a caregiver for her terminally-ill dad and the challenges involved in the role. A week after putting her story out there, the post went viral : she received 1,325 comments and more than 26,000 reactions. Her message—one of acknowledgement and support for caregivers—had clearly found a commisterate audience.

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A Brief Timeline of People at Work [Infographic]

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Here were are in December 2021, almost two years since the first whispers of a positive coronavirus case in Washington, U.S.A. started spreading through the country. The initial scramble to keep people safe by sending them home “for a couple weeks while we deep clean the office,” has turned into years— years! —and, during this time, work has changed drastically.

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The People Analytics Best Practices to Add to Your Talent Management Strategy

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From May to July 2021 Visier surveyed its customers to gauge how well they’d advanced their people analytics practice and see what guidance they could provide to organizations newer to people analytics. The Age of People Analytics 2021: Practices Leading to Value from People Analytics Maturity also compares some of the trends and changes from when the last survey was conducted in 2018.

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How Employers Keep AI Reliable in an Unpredictable World

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AI is increasingly helping employers with the more strategic aspects of managing people, enabling leaders to anticipate what will happen next. The tech can produce a risk of exit score, identify an individual’s propensity for promotion, or even estimate how much time will be needed to meet DEI goals. At first, it seems like magic. But a peek behind the scenes reveals that a lot of human effort goes into maintaining robust AI.

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5 Tips for Getting Started With Skills Data

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Getting started with skills data can be intimidating. What data do you have already, where is it, and how do you make it useful? Before long, quantifying the skills of everyone in your organization begins to seem like an impossible task. But you don’t need to attempt an organization-wide inventory just yet. The key to a realistic skills strategy that generates value is targeting—identify the skills tied to your most important business goals, and start there.

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The C Sheet December 3: Boomerang Employees, Stay Interviews, and Disproportionate Feedback

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1. Boomerang Employees. In a tough labor market, there are many strategies companies can try to hire talent. An emerging strategy is to hire boomerang employees—those who left on good terms—in hopes that they would be willing to rejoin since they’re already familiar with the company. Boomerang Employees Could Be The Key To Attracting Qualified Candidates In A Hot Job Market (Forbes) . 2.

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