Wed.Mar 28, 2018

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Every Bias Is Not Necessarily a Bad Bias

HR Bartender

That was my takeaway from David Rock’s presentation on The Neuroscience of Breaking Bias from last year’s Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference. All biases are not bad. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address them. Here’s why: Think of bias as our tendency to generalize or group people or information. Each of us gets our biases from a different place, so we can’t treat all biases the same.

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3 L&D Best Practices to Better Engage Leaders and Learners

Cornerstone On Demand

Remember the old days of training and development (T&D)? I do: The T&D department at my company published an annual calendar of courses offered for managers and employees. The catalog was first distributed on paper, then on the intranet and eventually via learning management systems (LMS) —the distribution evolved as new technology emerged, but the concept didn't.

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3 ways to take charge of your HR career

PeopleStrategy

Think you’re deserving of a promotion or raise this year? Don’t wait for someone to come to you; be your #1 advocate and take charge of your HR career! Here are three actions you can take to get started: 1. Seek out new experiences . We all know how easy it is to fall into the same comfortable daily routine. But that probably won’t get you noticed.

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Will Your Employee Promotion Strategy Improve Or Harm Your Work Culture?

15Five

When you think of workplace culture , what comes to mind? You may think of how your team interacts in a meeting, if employees hang out with one another after hours, or if there’s a table tennis tournament lighting up your office. But culture goes beyond that , and is created by the sum of your—and everyone else’s—behaviors and actions. One important element that defines and reinforces work culture is employee promotions.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Learn How Top Recruiters Overcome Market Challenges

Engage2Excel

Record low unemployment, a positive economic outlook and a proliferation of recruitment channels make recruiting more challenging today than ever before. To find out what’s working and what isn’t, we interviewed five senior talent advisors, each with a decade or more of experience and a track record of success in several different industry sectors. Download our latest Trendicators report, 5 Recruiting Experts Share Strategies for Success , for ideas you can use to compete more effectively in tod

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File ACA 1094-C/1095-C Information with IRS On Time to Avoid Penalties

ACA Times

2 minute read: . With the deadline for providing Affordable Care Act (ACA) information filings to the IRS fast approaching, don’t forget about the late filing penalties under IRS Section 6721. Every year Applicable Large Employers ( ALE s) – organizations with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees – must file IRS forms 1094-C and 1095-C with the IRS.

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How HR Companies Can Save Money Through Outsourcing

Hppy

Those who work in the HR sector are well acquainted with the benefits that outsourcing can bring. After all, if it wasn’t for big businesses increasingly choosing to outsource HR functions, the sector would not be thriving the way that it is today. Those who understand the outsourcing model, however, are well aware that this is not just a case of salesmanship or spin – outsourcing is a win/win for both sides.

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‘Entry-Level, Experience Required’: Seriously?

TLNT: The Business of HR

For recent college graduates, nothing is more frustrating than applying for entry-level jobs that require experience. With degrees in hand, an eagerness to perform and a willingness to learn on the job, these prospective hires could be making a significant impact in the workforce. Even with unemployment near historic lows,and six million jobs remain open, the “underemployment rate” among recent college graduates—those aged 22-27 who are either unemployed or in jobs that don’t require their degre

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8 insane excuses for being late, including ‘My fake eyelashes got stuck together!’

HR Morning

Whether it’s traffic or an alarm not going off, tardy employees always have an excuse. But sometimes, their reasons for being late are far more ridiculous. . A recent CareerBuilder survey was all about punctuality, highlighting crazy and common excuses for being late, who the biggest offenders are and how companies handle tardiness. Ridiculous reasons.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How to Interview Recent Graduates: 6 Must-Know Rules

TalentLyft

How to interview recent graduates? Because of their lack of experience, you can’t rely on their job skills, job history or recommendations. This blog post presents 6 must-know rules for interviewing recent graduates that will help you see their potential. Read More.

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Should workers have a 'Right to disconnect?'

Steve Boese

Quick shot for a busy, 'It's almost Spring Break but not quite' Wednesday - another dispatch from the front lines of technology-driven employee burnout, (and potential governmental overreach). First spotted from a piece on Fast Company with the headline 'New York workers may soon get the right to stop answering work email after hours' we find that there is some proposed legislation before the New York City Council titled "A Local Law to amend the New York city charter and the administrative code

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Inspired Performance Organizations

HRWest

The 4 capabilities necessary to create a high performing organization in today’s disruptive and dynamic environment. By Sandy Spataro, co-founder and Chief Excellence Officer of InspireCorps The Story of Change History has taught us that the only thing we can rely on is the consistency of change. In recent years, the pace of change is accelerating […].

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Paycor President Stacey Browning Named a Top Career Woman by YWCA

Paycor

Stacey Browning has pretty much done it all in her 26-year+ Paycor career. Beginning her career in sales as Paycor’s 11th employee, Stacey has held top roles in marketing, service operations, strategy, product management and IT, and even keeper of company culture. Under her leadership, Paycor has expanded its footprint across the country, employing more than 1,500 people and serving over 34,000 organizations.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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do I like bad bosses?

Ask a Manager

This week on the Ask a Manager podcast, I talk with a caller who has found that she responds differently to her managers than most of her peers do – and she’s wondering what that might mean about her. You can listen to our discussion on Apple Podcasts , Google Play , Spotify , or Anchor (or here’s the direct RSS feed ). Starting this week, the Ask A Manager podcast is also available on the Volumes audiobook app, where you can listen to all the AAM podcast episodes, and get free audio sa

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Infographic: Clean Workplaces Are More Productive

HR Daily Advisor

How does the cleanliness of a work space affect workers? That’s a question that Cleaning Services Group recently tackled. The following infographic explores a correlation between cleaner offices and productivity. The post Infographic: Clean Workplaces Are More Productive appeared first on HR Daily Advisor.

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I want to go to the office today….yes, really, I do

HR Zone

People. I want to go to the office today….yes, really!

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HCM World 2018 Recap, Part 2: Tools and Strategies for the Future of HR

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

With customers, partners, and HR luminaries coming from all over the globe to congregate and strategize, it's no wonder that last week's HCM World conference was such an enlightening event. The perfect weather in Dallas provided an appropriate backdrop to a series of thought-provoking sessions that spanned new product functionality, emerging trends, and everything in between.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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employee can’t afford our team lunches, a frequently pregnant senior leadership team, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My employee says he can’t afford team lunches. I have a small team, two staff plus me, and we’re all approximately the same age and salary (~$90-100k). Occasionally we’ll do team lunches or social lunches, sometimes with partnering areas. This is a government position and we don’t get reimbursed for these lunches.

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Career Confessions from GenZ: Are You Recruiting Me on YouTube?

The Tim Sackett Project

In the past few years, I have developed a new obsession: gymnastics. I have gone full on gymnastics crazy. I watch all of the meets I can and often will go the Michigan Women’s gymnastics meets alone because I don’t want the distraction of having to entertain a friend! Although I don’t exactly know the root of my obsession, I know what has been aiding it: YouTube.

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my boss keeps doing my job, and I’m worried I’m the problem

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a mid-life career change professional in the accounting world. I’ve been in my current position as a staff accountant for almost a year at a small regional retail company. This is my first accounting job after my career switch, after my post-BA certification and returning to work after raising a child. My boss is super smart.

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Risk management is not just about threats, it's about innovation too

HR Zone

Strategy. Risk management is not just about threats.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Lessons I’ve Learned Working in Benefits

Winston Benefits

Meredith Beam, vice president of employee solutions at Winston Benefits, was honored last year by Employee Benefit Adviser as one of the most influential women in benefit advising. Her development efforts and keen insights have helped clients fully automate their enrollment and administrative processes while serving their bottom-line strategies. Here are some lessons she’s learned in her career in benefits.

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is it more effective to introduce myself to a company with a cold email rather than apply for a specific opening?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am working with a career counseling service that is giving me all kinds of resume and job seeking advice. I told them the kind of job/company I want to work for, and there are two main employers that fit the criteria in my area. Both employers have recently posted the exact job I’m looking for, but the listings were only up for a few days each time and I missed the window because this career counseling service and I are still fixing my resume.

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Rudeness is more than upsetting, it's contagious

Jostle

When someone is sick at work, we ask them to go home. Keep those germs contained! Maybe if they’re in a foul mood, we should do the same.

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SilkRoad Connections 2018 Agenda Spotlight: Talent Acquisition

Silkroad

We’re excited to highlight some of the amazing talent acquisition-focused sessions at this year’s SilkRoad Connections user conference. Here are some best practice sessions presented by the SilkRoad team, analysts, and industry leaders. The Future of Onboarding is Now – PricewaterhouseCoopers – Monday, April 30. With over 60,000 new joiners entering the largest professional services firm in the world annually, PwC needs to get it right.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Federal Court Rejects Interns’ FLSA Claim Against Hearst

HR Daily Advisor

Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it was rescinding a guidance document on paying interns it issued in 2010. The former guidance suggested that employers need to apply a six-factor test to determine whether an intern must be paid. However, the test has been rejected by several appellate courts throughout the country, causing the DOL to rethink its approach.

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Learning Experience, Microlearning… Learning Tech Ecosystem Part II

Training Orchestra

In our previous article, we saw the motivations and trends driving the emergrence of new learning technologies ( Microlearning, Learning Experience Platform, Training Resource Management System… ) Read below to dive in the characteristics and players of the ecosystem itself, and understand the Training Resource Management Positioning within it.

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Recent 7th Circuit Case Highlights Best Practices for Accommodating Disabilities

HR Daily Advisor

Reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can be a difficult area for employers to navigate. A recent case from the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin—provides a helpful example of how you should clearly spell out job requirements and qualifications so you can better respond to potential issues. designer491 / iStock / Getty Images Plus.