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How one construction company manages parental leave without relying on temps

HR Brew

Instead, she said teams approach coverage on a case-by-case basis, depending on their needs and projects at the time. When planning for these leaves, her team relies on a Google document the companys employee engagement team created that includes a checklist of items to consider at different points in time ahead of the leave.

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How a Google accommodations leader’s ‘disability journey’ led her to push corporate America to rethink disability inclusion

HR Brew

For Dannie Lynn Fountain, a benefits accommodations people consultant at Google, the journey to disability inclusion advocacy work in corporate America was a mix of the two. Whats the best change youve made at a place youve worked? At that time, the reason I was advocating for it was for myself.

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The past 25 years have been an uphill journey for the HR function

HR Brew

But its values have remained the same, said the VP of people at pool service software firm Skimmer and co-host of the Real Job Talk podcast for mid-career professionals. I dont remember us talking, as an HR team, about whats the culture here at our companyI dont remember corporate values early in my career or things like that.

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This graphic design platform has an apt visual representation for documenting skills—a passport.

HR Brew

Even if you think that analogy is a bit of a stretch, at graphic design platform Canva, employee skills are viewed and cherished like stamps on a passport. New ones are acquired on projects and revered the way globetrotters flip through old passports, ogling at their stamps with pride and joy. In recruiting.

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The Future of Onboarding: Key Trends Every HR Leader Needs to Know for 2025

As the workplace evolves at breakneck speed, it’s time to rethink how you onboard new talent. In Navigating the Future of HR Onboarding in 2025 , we explore key trends reshaping the HR world, including AI document fraud, the rise of independent contractors and dispersed teams, and the shifting landscape of compliance and regulations.

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Looking beyond the résumé: How talent pros can lean into skills-based hiring

HR Brew

People would just look at a résumé and say, ‘I don’t like the format. Mazzullo and Steve Knox, VP of global talent acquisition at HCM software company Dayforce, spoke with HR Brew about how focusing on skills, rather than résumés, can help recruiters tap top talent. I don’t like the font. It’s too wordy,’” she said. Interview facelift.

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Technically HR: Amazon’s Q for business is helping HR leaders improve employee productivity

HR Brew

Q, he contends, is helping to bridge the gap between “structured data” at work and unstructured information that’s available in company documents, in personal documents, or wikis, Confluence, or SharePoint. There’s a lot of companies that already have the data in AWS. They trust AWS.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

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.’ HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.