Thu.Jul 25, 2019

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Support employment for people with disabilities: 5 inclusive hiring tips

Insperity

By ensuring your hiring practices encourage employment for people with disabilities, you can gain access to an often-untapped labor pool. In fact, making your company disability inclusive could help your business grow. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the unemployment rate for persons with a disability was 8 percent in 2018, more than twice the rate of those with no disability.

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“Conference” HR vs. Real-World HR

Robin Schooling

For many years now I’ve lived simultaneously in two separate and distinct HR worlds. I’ve been fortunate to be able to travel the world attending and/or speaking at events and conferences focused on HR, Recruiting, Technology and the Future of Work. I’ve also continued to meet and work with human resources professionals and businesses that, to put it mildly, operate much as they did circa 1993.

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Retaining Managers: New Data Reveals the Impact of People Analytics

Visier

Great managers are turbochargers for team and business performance. In fact, managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement , according to Gallup. So when good managers leave an organization, the impact is significant. There are many intangibles — like workplace disruption and the loss of critical knowledge — and direct costs to consider. .

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The Quick Guide to Recognition in the Healthcare Industry

Achievers

Are you eager to improve employee engagement in the healthcare industry? Lauren Brittingham , Director of Organizational Development at Bayhealth Medical Center, has some words of advice. In our recent webinar covering employee recognition best practices, Brittingham reveals how she was able to successfully drive recognition across Bayhealth Medical Center, with 85 percent of all employees receiving at least one recognition each month.

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Mid-Year Performance Review Checklist for HR and People Leaders

Ensure your mid-year performance reviews are focused, productive, and growth-oriented with this practical checklist from Mitratech Trakstar. Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and team leads, this guide walks you through the full review process—from pre-meeting prep and feedback collection to action planning and follow-up. It also includes tips for creating a comfortable and effective review experience, plus ways to leverage tools like self-evaluations, PIPs, and development plans.

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Best-Self Management Podcast, Episode 4: Present and Impactful Leadership

15Five

At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced what it feels like to be around someone who, for lack of better words, sucks the energy out of the room. Their negativity has an overpowering presence in even the best of environments. While this attitude can be hard to ignore, someone with magnetic positivity may be even harder to look past. Either way, our energy is what most affects the people around us, more so than the words we use.

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Increase Your WOTC Certifications with A Two-Step Process

Trusaic

The use of an online screening portal for federal Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) certifications is becoming more common. The process is fast and convenient. However, if organizations really want to maximize their WOTC certifications, they will want to incorporate a personalized screening experience for their candidates in addition to an online screening portal.

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Get a 360 View on Employee Sentiment with Onboarding, Engagement, and Exit Surveys

Reflektive

Many company leaders assume that high employee engagement and retention are due to mission-driven work or a strong work-life balance. However, there are many other variables that impact these crucial metrics. For instance, employees are 60 percent more likely to stay at an organization for more than three years when there is a structured onboarding program.

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do job titles matter?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small company of 25 employees. We still call ourselves a start-up (with all of the cultural elements that brings), but we’ve been around almost 10 years now. The founder/sole owner believes “titles don’t matter” and it’s more important to focus on the responsibilities each person has. So most people have their official title as basically the department they work for (business development, software engineering, etc), although the managem

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HR Software: How Beneficial it is for Your Organization

SutiHR

Do you find it difficult to search and identify the right candidates to hire? Then you are not alone. Many HR managers reveal hiring the best candidates tops the most challenging part of their work. But with today’s technological advancements, there are several tools available in the market to help streamline and solve the challenges. The post HR Software: How Beneficial it is for Your Organization appeared first on SutiHR.

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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Techniques to Help Accelerate Engagement Throughout the Recruiting Process

Engage2Excel

The data makes it clear that organizations that cultivate high levels of engagement also deliver exceptional performance regarding productivity, revenue, profitability, retention, customer service and other key metrics. Knowing this, you want new employees to reach high levels of engagement as quickly as possible. In fact, engagement starts before the hire, whether you're being intentional about it or not.

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talkative job candidates, baby showers at work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Talkative friend was advised to show interviewer he can be quiet. My friend “Alex” is applying for jobs as at breweries and bars. He had an interview today at a brewery and one of his other friends, “Charlie,” knows the head brewer and business partner. The interviewer spoke with Charlie afterwards and made a comment about Alex talking too much/oversharing.

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2020 Will Be HR’s Year to Flip the Script

HRExecutive

We sure have flipped the script on HR, haven’t we? Suddenly, the whole world is going digital, everything is mobile, and the people you’re hiring and managing have better tech on their wrists than you used to find and onboard them. The entire HR-technology industry is talking about the future of work, the role of HR and next-generation technologies, AI (artificial intelligence) and IA (intelligent automation), and digital transformation.

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updates: the harsh email, the school supplies, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from people who had their letters answered here in the past. 1. My manager calls and just reads my emails back to me (#5 at the link). It turns out that there were a couple of issues that created the situation where my boss reads emails at me over the phone. The first issue was that he felt left out of the project. I started asking him for “help” in each message, and giving him something to do really helped.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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House Passes Fair Chance Act

SHRM Resources

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation prohibiting federal agencies and federal contractors from asking about job applicants’ criminal history until after making a conditional offer of employment.

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10 Things You Need to Know to Become an Effective Leader

6Q

There are many different attributes and topics you need to know to be an effective leader. Guest writer Sharon Hooper gives us her top ten topics that you need to know. Like all individuals and many employees, you want to do well at whatever you are asked to do. Sometimes, you will be asked to lead a team at work and this could be a daunting task if you do not have leadership skills.

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Five Surprising Phrases Successful People Never Use At Work

Forbes Coaches Council

How many of these career killers have you used recently?

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13 Best Jobs for Older Workers

Digital HR Tech

As an HR professional, have you ever wondered what would be the best jobs for older workers? If you haven’t, you may want to give this question some thought as it is something that will become increasingly important. . The aging workforce has been a reality for a while now. Since 2011, there have been 10 000 baby boomers turning 65 every day in the US alone.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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How To Land An Interview During Your Job Search

Forbes Coaches Council

Getting in front of someone so that you can let them know just how awesome you are can be tricky.

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Evolution of a company retreat: from product updates to breaking bread

Workable

Some people call it a corporate retreat. Others call it a company gathering. Still others call it an all-hands. Workable CEO Nikos Moraitakis calls his company’s own tradition of the company retreat simply as “the summit”. It was an idea that took form over time, he explains, and grew into something more. Something with energy and purpose of its own.

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Hard Decisions And Tough Moments: 10 Entrepreneurs Share What They Learned

Forbes YEC Women

Leadership involves choices, and not all of them are without risk. Here are a few moments or decisions that changed the course of businesses and careers.

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5 Ways Onboarding is a Better Approach Than Orientation

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Jason Richmond, Chief Culture Officer and Founder at Ideal Outcomes. Let’s say you’re doing a lot of things right when it comes to culture. However, whenever a new employee joins your company, the way they are welcomed may undermine all your efforts. If you’re like most employers, your onboarding processes may not reflect the culture you’re trying to build.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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Q&A with HR Tech Influencer Chris Havrilla

HRExecutive

Chris Havrilla. Vice President of HR Technology and Solution Provider Research. Bersin, Deloitte Consulting LLP. What area of the HR function will be most impacted by emerging technologies, and why? The reality is every single HR function will be impacted significantly by emerging technologies. One challenge with adopting these technologies will be for HR teams to think less about their silos and more about the convergence necessary to tackle the forces, disruptions, and demands that will contin

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Employers to Benefit from Plans to Modernize H-2A Visa Program

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is set to propose a number of reforms to the labor-certification process of the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural workers.

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How To Create More Time When It Doesn't Exist

Forbes Coaches Council

Stop and take stock of where you are and what you’re doing so you can use your time in more intelligent ways.

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What is the best advice for first-time managers?

HR Digest

People are put into a position to manage others as a reflection of their proven qualities in performance, work ethics, and their ability to help others in various ways to improve. In other words, the best advice for first-time managers should be a trust of having the ability to perform their managerial duties credibly. It’s normal to think of management as difficult as a first-timer since it requires a lot of skills to maintain or raise a given bar.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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Simple Steps To Help Reveal Your Life's Purpose

Forbes Coaches Council

There is more to a leader's soul than just existing and working to exist.

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Free 2019 Midyear Employment Law White Paper

HRWatchdog

Download this free white paper now. We are over halfway through 2019, and as always, you can count on the Golden State for interesting developments in employment law. Most of this year’s updates come from court rulings, agency actions and previous legislation’s delayed implementation. Regardless, be sure you’re compliant with new and updated hiring, wage and hour and leaves of absence requirements.

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Need An Executive Resume Writing Service? How To Decide Which Model Is Best For You

Forbes Coaches Council

There are thousands of firms with all different types of business models.

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