Mon.Jan 21, 2019

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The Talent Fix Book Club Starts this Week!#RecruiterDevelopment

The Tim Sackett Project

If you are a regular reader of this blog than you clearly know I wrote a book, The Talent Fix, that was launched in April 2018. I have been overwhelmed by the awesome response and I would like to give back to the community that has given me so much. Beginning January 23, 2019 , I’ll hold a monthly book club webinar, for free, where I’ll be going over each chapter of the book in detail, from a discussion point of view.

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The Best New Books on Employee Engagement

Reflektive

The world of HR is constantly evolving, so it is absolutely critical for leaders and HR professionals to stay on top of emerging trends and innovative approaches to address classic conundrums, like employee engagement. . While podcasts and online presentations, like TED Talk recordings , are great options for learning on the go, nothing is quite as effective as a good read to obtain in-depth knowledge.

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The IRS is Issuing Penalties for Not Providing 1095-C Forms by IRS Deadlines [UPDATE]

ACA Times

2 minute read: The IRS has started to issue a new round of ACA penalties that focus on failure to distribute 1095-C forms to employees and to file 1094-C and 1095-C forms with the federal tax agency by required deadlines. These are penalties in addition to penalties for not offering the required healthcare coverage. In the final days of 2018, the agency started assessing penalties to organizations that failed to file forms 1094-C and 1095-C with the IRS or furnish 1095-C forms to employees under

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5 Reasons You Need an Employee Survey

Reflektive

If you haven’t conducted an employee survey before, getting started can be rife with questions: What should it encompass? How do we avoid bias and get the most out of a survey? Will people actually participate and share their experience? Plus, the most pressing question of all: Why even do an employee survey ? It’s helpful to understand what an employee survey does before diving into the why behind conducting it.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Daily Pay: Discount it at Your Own Peril As an HR Leader.

The HR Capitalist

Most readers of this blog are blessed in many ways, including financially. As HR and recruiting pros, many of us live our lives and really don't consider things from our workforce's point of view often enough. Case in point: The concept of Daily Pay as a tool for retention. Daily pay is something that doesn't feel natural to HR pros. After all we've long since settled into our 2 week cycles for payroll.

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5 Reasons to Invest in Team-Building Activities in 2019

Workology

Being an HR professional means being able to handle challenges with grace. You need to be creative in finding ways to work with people who may not always be easy to work with. That is why, sometimes, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Why the Annual Engagement Survey Isn’t Enough

Reflektive

“Let your voice be heard” is the yearly call in our inboxes, gently urging us to fill out an employee engagement survey. Most professionals have each had their experience with this activity, whether it means doggedly working through a tedious, multi-hour chore, or encountering a set of genuine questions that make one stop and reflect. Surveying for engagement is a staple of corporate life and will continue to be in a time when the subject is on every leader’s mind.

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How Can You Help an Employee Who Has Burned Out?

Hppy

Sometimes, you will notice that your star employees are late for work and irritable. This is most common at the end of the year. Productivity drops and enthusiasm wanes. As a manager, you will naturally feel irritable and frustrated with the situation, and sometimes your reactions will make things worse. Well, you need to consider that the issue is not with your employee but with their work.

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From 98% men to 55% women: 5 tips for gender diversity in tech sales

Workable

Rachel Bates knows a lot about diversity in tech sales – or lack thereof – in Boston’s thriving tech sector. Her wake-up moment was noticing a glaring lack of gender diversity in the tech industry when interviewing for new opportunities in late 2016. “My experience up until that point in sales and in tech sales was that it’s been a heavy imbalance of males to females.

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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 Can You Help an Employee Who Has Burned Out? Copy

Hppy

Sometimes, you will notice that your star employees are late for work and irritable. This is most common at the end of the year. Productivity drops and enthusiasm wanes. As a manager, you will naturally feel irritable and frustrated with the situation, and sometimes your reactions will make things worse. Well, you need to consider that the issue is not with your employee but with their work.

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5 Employee Engagement Best Practices to Keep in Mind

Digital HR Tech

It’s time for the annual employee engagement survey again. Conducting a survey sounds easier than it actually is. What are the best practices you need to keep in mind? In this article, we will discuss the 5 must-know employee engagement best practices. Measuring employee engagement can be a very powerful tool to improve employee wellbeing and increase the revenue for the organization.

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How To Care For Your Employees

Hppy

One of the most important responsibilities taken on by those working in Human Resources is frequently dealing with people who aren’t exactly fulfilled during their time at work. You’ll have to help identify and resolve the issues which may lead them to leave their position. The factors that might determine who hands in their notice might include the following: An insufficient manager.

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How AI is Transforming the Employee Experience in 2019

Remesh

“To use AI or not to use AI, that is the question” -- something Shakespeare might have pondered if he was Head of HR in today’s tech-savvy world. In recent years, many industries are looking into AI solutions for their businesses. In particular, there is no better meeting place for human and machine-based intelligence than the human resources industry, where the incorporation of AI frees up the hands of HR and People Operations personnel to focus on what they do best -- the human side of things.

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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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Organizational Leadership Degrees Open Doors to Careers in HR

Take It Personel-ly

You are looking to sharpen your skills in management and leadership, so you can effectively impact a company, but you already have or do not want to have a degree in just general business. You want a degree that lets your management skills shine brightly, helping you to better impact a company. There is a […].

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Workplaces Falling Behind Today’s On Demand Culture: User-friendly Technology a Top Priority for 2019

Empower Software

An overwhelming majority of employees surveyed worldwide by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated wish their workplace technology was as easy and powerful as their personal technology.

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ATS ROI - All About Time To Fill?

Select Software Reviews

A lot of people think the fees third party headhunters make are insanely high. Until this morning, I was definitely one of those people. Then I had a realization. 20-30% of first year’s salary, just for find the right person, seems like borderline extortion. But, it actually “makes sense” for companies to pay this rate, assuming they can’t do the same job as quickly as these recruiters can.

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The breakable laws of HR

101 Half Connected Things

A few months ago I was asked to speak at the graduation ceremony for a group of Civil Service Fast Stream folk. It got me thinking as to what things I believe about HR. One of them is about the importance of context – so I call these things breakable laws. In the same way that you can break a speed limit to save a life, I think the below are useful guiding thoughts – and what I’d stick to most of the time.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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an entry-level candidate with no job history wants more money for their “experience”

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a question for you as to whether or not this is a red flag for a potential new hire. I am hiring someone for an entry-level position. It is meant for someone straight out of college and new to the field who is interested in learning a lot, meeting loads of highly connected people, and launching a potentially awesome career. I’ve set the salary to be a little above what other orgs our size do for this position to make it more competitive and retain staff.

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How To Market Your Job as a Product

ApplicantPro

If you've read my other blogs, or watched any of my videos, you know that I have a firm belief that hiring should be looked at very similarly to marketing. So if we look at hiring as marketing, then we should be looking at your job as your product, and the job seeker as your customer. Today I want to dive in a little deeper to that middle piece that is your job (or your job ad) as your product.

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open offices are terrible for employees

Ask a Manager

Of all the workplace trends that inspire grumbling among workers, perhaps none generates as much vitriol as “open offices,” those wide open workspaces with no private offices or cubicles. For many people, the noise, distractions, inability to focus, and lack of privacy make open offices a modern torture device. And yet open floor plans continue to gain popularity among employers.

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Why internal communications needs to be at the centre of digital transformation

SocialChorus

MarketingTech | January 21, 2019. The post Why internal communications needs to be at the centre of digital transformation appeared first on SocialChorus.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership, Education, and Belief in a Cause

BizLibrary - HR

Today marks MLK day, a day that we reflect on the important contributions provided the iconic civil and human rights advocate. The post Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership, Education, and Belief in a Cause appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Managing Employee Absenteeism the Best Way

Evil HR Lady

Managing employee attendance is easy enough when you have responsible people that only take time off when needed. And you want to encourage people to call in sick when they are unwell so that no one else catches whatever bug is going around. You need a rock-solid absenteeism policy, and here is what to put in it. Sufficient Paid Time Off. Wait! Aren’t we trying to maximize the time people are at work?

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There’s So Much Work Yet to be Done – #BlackBlogsMatter

Robin Schooling

There was an alarming, sickening and, sadly, not surprising story that hit the news last week ; a lawsuit has been filed against General Motors (GM) in which 8 workers outline allegations of racist behavior, threats and intimidation in the workplace. This ongoing behavior, over a lengthy span of time, included a workplace where bathrooms were declared for “whites only,” black supervisors were called “boy” and other words, nooses were hung, white employees had conversations about bringing guns to

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 354 - Sharing Kindness Inside and Outside the Workplace

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 354 - Sharing Kindness Inside and Outside the Workplace. Host: Steve Boese. Guest: Anne Donovan, US People Experience Leader, PwC. Listen to the show HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve was joined by Anne Donovan, US People Experience Leader at PwC to talk about their 'Share Kindness' initiative, a global program to help people share acts of kindness inside and outside the workplace.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Thoughts on Discrimination

HR Examiner

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here is the Diversity series we did this in year’s past. The key to diversity is to put down your fear and assumptions long enough to get curious. It’s way harder than it sounds. It requires courage to be vulnerable and wrong. But I can promise that on the other side are amazing human beings. And some that will still think you’re a jerk.

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#AI in #Learning: 8 Learning Content Recommendation Signals for Personalized Experiences

The SHRM Blog

AI is penetrating into every aspect of HCM, including learning and development. In many briefings with technology providers I’m hearing the same thing over and over again: we designed this experience to be like the Netflix of learning content. That’s a nice sentiment, but Netflix is an entertainment streaming service with highly personalized experiences for users.

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#AI in #Learning: 8 Learning Content Recommendation Signals for Personalized Experiences

SHRM

AI is penetrating into every aspect of HCM, including learning and development. In many briefings with technology providers I’m hearing the same thing over and over again: we designed this experience to be like the Netflix of learning content. That’s a nice sentiment, but Netflix is an entertainment streaming service with highly personalized experiences for users.