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How To Handle Salary Talk With A Tech Recruiter

HR Management

But letting the unnerving experience override your expectations of a dream compensation is the last thing you want to encounter. Knowing your market value is the key to securing a valuable compensation deal in any domain, and tech is no exception. Start by browsing salary comparison sites such as Payscale and Glassdoor.

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What Is Human Resources?

Analytics in HR

As a function, HR covers the processes, practices, and strategies to attract, develop, and retain employees who contribute to the company’s overall success. Managing Human Resources involves overseeing all aspects of HR, such as hiring, training, compensating, engaging, promoting, and retaining employees.

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Six Considerations When Evaluating Your Compensation Strategy

Tandem HR

While compensation is only one factor for recruiting and retaining talent, it is critical to your overall HR strategy. Whether initiating or updating your compensation strategy and philosophy, the following best practices may help guide your process and decisions. This essential business asset deserves a well-crafted strategy.

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7 Dos and Don’ts of Communicating Total Compensation Reports

Compensation Today

As a PayScaler and a people manager, one of my all-time favorite features of our PayScale Insight product is the (newly updated!) Employee Compensation Report , which enables managers to communicate with employees about their total compensation reports. DO: Share total compensation reports with your employees.

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How to Make Headway on Pay Transparency

Compensation Cafe

What I'm talking about is giving employees enough information to understand how compensation decisions are made in your culture. Employees gather statistics-lite data from sites like Payscale, Glassdoor and Quora and treat it as equivalent to any data you may offer. What is pay transparency anyway, and how do I know when I get there?

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14 Entry-Level HR Positions To Know (Plus How To Start in HR)

Analytics in HR

The field of HR includes a variety of focus areas, such as recruiting, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits , HR training, employment compliance, diversity, equity and inclusion , HRIS technology, and HR communications. If you are interested in a certain HR specialty (compensation, benefits, recruiting, employee relations , etc.),

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3 Practical Tips to Prepare for Salary Planning

HRsoft

Salary planning typically requires an extensive investment of time and effort for compensation professionals. According to an article in Employee Benefit News , companies can benefit from pulling data from a range of sources, such as crowd-sourced pay data from tools like PayScale as well as other outside surveys.