Reflektive
AUGUST 24, 2018
Carol Dweck is a pioneer in the field of developmental psychology. Her work introduced the concept of fixed vs. growth mindsets. Essentially, a person with a fixed mindset believes that people are born with certain traits and abilities, while someone with a growth mindset believes that these abilities can be learned and mastered through hard work and deliberate practice.
Hppy
AUGUST 24, 2018
When you really break it down, we spend the majority of our time working, commuting to and from work, and thinking about work—even when we’re doing other things. If you want your employees to be productive, pleasant members of the team, it’s important to focus on creating a happy workplace. Everyone is in the building for around a third of each weekday, and finding ways to keep people feeling happy, healthy, and satisfied with their jobs has incredible benefits for everyone involved.
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Linkedin Talent Blog
AUGUST 24, 2018
In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you on a range of topics important for talent leaders. We took a look through some of the best articles published this past week for staffing and corporate recruiters and posted them below. The following articles focus on strategies you can use to boost recruitment, different HR trends in light of the #MeToo movement, how Salesforce is adding over 5,000 jobs, and more.
HR Bartender
AUGUST 24, 2018
At this year’s Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference , I had the chance to meet with the folks from Microsoft about digital transformation. Digital transformation is the idea that technology can help individuals solve their digital and non-digital problems. It’s about making processes more efficient and effective using technology.
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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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Kazoo
AUGUST 24, 2018
Are you looking to retain top talent, boost productivity or improve your employer brand? It may be time to implement an employee experience survey. The employee experience is critical to business success. Research by Jacob Morgan shows that companies that invest in their employee experience have more than 4 times the profit and twice the annual revenue of those that don’t.
Human Resources Today brings together the best content for HR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Justworks
AUGUST 24, 2018
On June 19, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule expanding access to Association Health Plans (AHPs). The action was widely expected and it follows an October 2017 Executive Order. Expanding access to AHPs has the potential to allow more small businesses and sole proprietors to access large group insurance plans. However, there are many factors to consider.
HR Zone
AUGUST 24, 2018
Acquisition. Why the UK needs more flexible working.
Ask a Manager
AUGUST 24, 2018
It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.
HR Morning
AUGUST 24, 2018
In this tight labor market, the war for talent wages on – and you may be feeling like your biggest adversaries are your own promising candidates. . More and more job applicants are disappearing during the interview process, ignoring your calls or simply not showing up after accepting offers – otherwise known as “ ghosting.”. Role reversal. Sound familiar?
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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.
Jason Lauritsen
AUGUST 24, 2018
A couple years ago, as my wife and I were returning home from an employee engagement conference where I had spoken, she said something to me that I didn’t fully understand at the time. I remember it sounding something like this. “The content here was good, but it was all focused on the happy, positive side of being human at work. Where’s the conversation about all of the hard, painful stuff that humans bring with them to work?
The HR Capitalist
AUGUST 24, 2018
It's been a tough couple of weeks for an iconic leader in America - Elon Musk. First, he tweeted/floated an idea for taking Tesla public and may face securities fraud charges as a result. Then he had a rapper over to the house that started live tweeting a bunch of stuff that was unflattering and the beef continues. But you know what's going well for Musk?
Ask a Manager
AUGUST 24, 2018
A reader writes: I work in a design field, and we work in teams of 4-5 people, which rotate by project. I am nine months in at a new firm, which recruited me based on a very strong recommendation from a client. I am the lead for our current project for that client, not only because that’s what my experience dictates but also at the client’s request.
TalentCulture
AUGUST 24, 2018
If you want to attract and keep a top-notch talent pool, employee benefits are more important than ever. But for company leaders and HR teams, benefits are also a huge headache. This week on #WorkTrends, we’re talking to Rachel Lyubovitzky, the CEO of EverythingBenefits. She calls benefits “the last frontier” in HR tech, and she thinks it’s high time we solve some of our biggest benefits headaches.
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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.
Entrepreneur
AUGUST 24, 2018
Retaining employees is about engagement and purpose, not perks.
HR Digest
AUGUST 24, 2018
Dealing with employee discipline is a lot easier if you are running a company that has very specific rules for managing employee discipline. They provide a preliminary guide on how to discipline employees effectively, but only if you know how to use them, anyway. We can accept that bigger companies are the most difficult to manage, but not in all aspects.
TLNT: The Business of HR
AUGUST 24, 2018
One in five Americans has a disability. According to the U.S. Department of Labor , just 20.2% of people with disabilities participate in the labor force, compared to 69.1% of people without disabilities. That’s a huge untapped pool of talent – and there’s ample evidence that companies benefit from including people with disabilities in their workforce.
Poppulo
AUGUST 24, 2018
Inspiring employees to act is one of the most important roles of an internal communicator – the ability to turn policies and strategies into action. Yet, in practice, it can also be one of the toughest parts of the job. This is where behavioral science comes in. Behavioral science can provide internal communicators with the insights as well as simple techniques to motivate employees to act.
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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?
Compensation Cafe
AUGUST 24, 2018
Editor's Note: Do you design incentive plans to undermine your organization's business strategy? Probably not on purpose, but it happens and it usually happens at the hands of those with good intentions. Cautionary tale follows. Not long ago, I stumbled upon a helpful set of shorthand for talking about reward plan effectiveness. Nothing profound by a long shot, but I have found it to be particularly useful in getting the attention of leaders.
C. A. Short Company
AUGUST 24, 2018
Introduction. What Is Employee Engagement? The State of Employee Engagement. The Benefits of Employee Engagement. Measuring Employee Engagement. The Fundamental Elements of Employee Engagement. The Building Blocks of Employee Engagement. 11 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement at Your Company. Next Steps.
Workable
AUGUST 24, 2018
Use this Machine Learning Engineer job description template to attract software engineers who specialize in machine learning. Feel free to modify the template based on your needs. Machine Learning Engineer responsibilities include: Designing and developing machine learning and deep learning systems. Running machine learning tests and experiments. Implementing appropriate ML algorithms.
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.
Namely
AUGUST 24, 2018
At Namely’s recent summer celebration, employees from all over the country came together to volunteer and celebrate the year’s achievements. As part of the festivities, employees were asked to nominate colleagues who live our core values and shape the Namely community. Our company values center around the simple idea that drives everything we do— BE HUMAN : B e Yourself E xpect Excellence H elp Each Other U nite Around Our Mission M ake Our Clients Heroes A ct As An Owner N amely Cares With
Employee Communications Council
AUGUST 24, 2018
Information is key to the success of your business. It keeps your customers, partnerships, vendors, employees, and everyone else involved in your bottom line informed of events and happening within your company. The way you deliver your information will determine how it is perceived and received. Your company thrives on delivering information, and you want to ensure it is distributed in an effective manner that garners results.
HR Daily Advisor
AUGUST 24, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s guidance for locating missing participants in the event of a plan termination has become more widely accepted for finding such participants in a variety of scenarios. But the guidance does not clearly state at what point the retirement plan fiduciary has met its obligation to track down missing participants who are due a benefit.
Jostle
AUGUST 24, 2018
August 24, 2018—Vancouver, Canada—We’re excited to announce that Jostle Corporation has been recognized for the second year in a row as one of the fastest growing companies in British Columbia, placing second on Business in Vancouver’s list of the Fastest-Growing Companies in BC for 2018.
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.
General Information Services
AUGUST 24, 2018
According to recent HireRight benchmarking reports , 50% of companies are running Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) background checks on their employees. Seems like a high number, right? On closer inspection, maybe it’s not high enough. As mentioned in this article by Business Matters , around 71.3% of companies use company cars. While industries that deal with trucking and other highly regulated vehicular needs are most assuredly performing DOT MVR searches, what about the executive assistant who use
TLNT: The Business of HR
AUGUST 24, 2018
Let’s say you were tasked with learning how to weave a hammock. Which way would you prefer to learn? An in-person classroom setting, a podcast that explains weaving steps, an instructional video so you can see what’s happening, or a self-led approach (just let me try it and see what happens)? The subject and the goal are the same, but the nature of our brains determines how we absorb this new information.
Workable
AUGUST 24, 2018
Use this Natural Language Processing Engineer job description template to attract software engineers who specialize in natural language processing (NLP). Feel free to modify the template based on your needs. Natural Language Processing Engineer responsibilities include: Designing and developing NLP applications. Using effective text representation techniques and classification algorithms.
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