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LaRocque: Why HR needs a strategy for evaluating tech startups, scaleups

HRExecutive

Sapient Insights reported in its latest HR Systems Survey that 2021 was up 57% over last year on the spending front. Survey: Help us find out What’s Keeping HR Up at Night? There has been a remarkable surge in both global spending and funding for HR technology in 2021. Global funding is even more jaw-dropping.

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Cafe Classic: Personal Pay Versus Salary Structures

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Confused by the different figures coming out of salary budget surveys every year? What current incumbent employees on a payroll receive normally changes at a faster pace than the external outside competitive market prices for jobs. New hires enter at lower rates.

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Walking Up a Descending Escalator & Other Crazy Pay Policies

Compensation Cafe

For example: if you increase your grade midpoints 3% every year while the average employee gets a 4% pay increase, the average worker's Compa-Ratio will only improve one percent per year. James (Jim) Brennan was Senior Associate of ERI Economic Research Institute , the premier publisher of interactive pay and living-cost surveys.

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The Case for Automating Human Resources

Corn on the Job

After surveying more than 10,000 business leaders and HR personnel, Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report determined that things are not only changing in human resources, but they are changing “at an accelerating rate.” Another way to automate HR deals with the hiring process. Image Credit: Pexels.

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Cafe Classic: Solving the Dilemma of Pay Progression Over Time

Compensation Cafe

Conventional practice is to hire most new people into their jobs at salary levels below their market midpoint or Market Reference Point (MRP) and to move grade structures maybe half as much as the anticipated general market movement each year. The issue is simple and clear.

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Compensation and Benefits

Analytics in HR

This amount is negotiated during the hiring process and agreed upon before the employment contract begins. According to research by Harvard Business Review , 88% of people surveyed said that private health insurance would be a factor when considering a job offer. It is typically an annual or monthly salary or an hourly rate.

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The Top 100 Applicant Tracking Systems in 2018

Ongig

” So, every year the Ongig team and I find the top ATS’s used by employers actively hiring…and we publish the details. Ongig can’t survey every employer on which ATS they use. Instead, we focus on the employers doing the most hiring as measured by number of open job descriptions. Google Hire.