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Holiday Hiring Best Practices

SHRM Resources

?As the holiday season rapidly approaches, employers need to ensure that they have adequate bench strength to cover demand and provide excellent service—and that they're adhering to all applicable laws and requirements governing seasonal employees. UPS announced that it expects to hire 100,000 workers for the peak holiday season this year, mostly nonpermanent but some full time, and all with access to health care and retirement benefits.

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What Happens with Federal Pay Data Reporting May Prompt State Action

Trusaic

The preparation of the 2019 EEO-1 Report is over for the employers who have acted diligently to meet the September 30 deadline to submit their Component 2 EEO-1 report filings with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) for the 2017 and 2018 tax years. Whether Component 2 data will be reported for future years has yet to be determined.

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Super Effective Methods for Improving Employee Retention

6Q

Acquiring the best talent for your company is all well and good, but if your company is unable to retain those talented individuals for the long run, all your recruitment efforts will be for naught. Millennials now surpass Generation X as the largest workforce, and unfortunately, millennials are more than willing to leave a job that doesn’t align with their personal values and goals.

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6 Steps to Make Your HR Department Completely Paperless

HR Partner

The rapid advancement in digital technology has made it easy for small businesses to go paperless and get rid of piles of HR-related paperwork. So now, the real struggle is not to reduce paper usage, as that has already been done. Instead, the daunting challenge is about how to eliminate paper completely, especially in the HR division, for the simple reason this department is always engaged in activities that demand a lot of paper usage.

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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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Addressing AI Bias: Diversity-by-Design

Analytics in HR

Out of the many themes in HR, diversity frequently gets the spotlight. Yet seeing advanced analytics or AI solutions applied to diversity is rare, especially when compared to themes like turnover and absenteeism. Of course, putting numbers on gender, ethnicity, etc. is tricky: the very insights to counter discrimination might also be used to discriminate.

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is it okay to write my partner’s cover letters, I don’t want to sign a petition about bathrooms, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Is it okay for me to write my partner’s cover letters and apply to jobs on his behalf? My partner and I both have MAs in English Literature, but decided not to pursue doctorates/specialization because 1) not a lot of jobs 2) we wanted to do more community service work than ivory tower. Unfortunately, it feels like we’re starting over completely and like every application is a Hail Mary.

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4 Good Reasons Why Businesses Should Offer Employee Benefits

New to HR

Many small to medium-sized businesses do not prefer to offer employee benefits in order to keep their costs low and to avoid administration headaches. But when your company has more than 50 full-time employees, it becomes a requirement to offer. The post 4 Good Reasons Why Businesses Should Offer Employee Benefits appeared first on New To HR.

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Coaching vs. Therapy – Referring Coaching Clients with Mental Illness

Workplace Psychology

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Executive Coach or Therapist? It’s Getting Harder to Tell the Difference” (Bindley, 2019) again renews the debate about the blurred line between where coaching ends and where therapy begins. But why are personal issues coming up when coaches are hired by companies to do executive coaching (performance improvement or development)?

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6 Smart Ways To Improve Your Recruitment Process With Social Media

HR C-Suite

These days, recruitment has become more complex than it used to be in the past. Companies of every size are trying to hire top talent, and competition is fierce. If you want to get the best people on your team, you need to up your hiring game and deploy effective hiring strategies that get you the […].

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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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It’s Geaux Time !!

Everyday People

This past weekend has been spectacular !! My wife and I traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for the Greater Baton Rouge SHRM Fall Conference. I was fortunate enough to be the closing keynote speaker. Any time I get a chance to interact with my HR peers in person is a joy for me. It fills my bucket because I want to genuinely meet them, encourage them, and laugh with them.

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Is Your Employer Taking Your Safety Seriously?

New to HR

Having a safe office environment isn’t simply a wish: it’s a must. Whether you’re a long-serving manager or a recent graduate in an entry-level role, you need to feel safe, secure and looked after to be able to work to. The post Is Your Employer Taking Your Safety Seriously? appeared first on New To HR.

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HR Magazine Different Slant: Modern Organisation Models

Strategic HCM

It was great being recognised as one of HR Magazine's Movers and Shakers last month (and being included on the cover this month - can you spot me? - and how many other influencers can you name???). However, it's even more brilliant to have my thoughts on modern, people-centric organisation models included this month too. These summarise some of my insights from chapters 6 and 7 of ' The Social Organization ', as well as providing a few slight updates on platform and blockchain based organisation

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This Common Mistake Makes Leaders Look Like Bad Decision-Makers

Forbes Leadership Strategy

No matter how smart leaders' decisions turn out to be, there's one mistake that drastically undermines their credibility and makes them look like bad decision-makers.

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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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IntranetNow: Insights from Strategic Organisation Design

Strategic HCM

I presented at Intranet Now on Friday. It was my first time at this event and I thought Wedge and Lisa did an amazing job - not only was the event as social as you'd expect a community generated conference to be, it was also more professionally organised than many professional ones. Well done both, and to all the helpers too. In my own presentation, I wanted to make the same sorts of points I talked about at Digital Workplace Experience last year that the intranet / digital workplace needs to be

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Who Will Address The Issue Of Mass Atrocities In North Korea?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

With the lack of follow-up action on the U.N. Commission of Inquiry report which found crimes against humanity in North Korea, it is hoped that the new Inquiry may bring some fresh air to the topic.

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5 Strategies To Beat The Sunday Night Blues

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Do you experience that anxiety on Sunday night when thinking about the coming workweek? Here are 5 ways to beat the blues and actually look forward to your job.

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Manage Your Ego Or It’ll Manage You!

Forbes Leadership Strategy

As an executive coach, I hear lots of stories when working on growing our clients’ organizations and engaging their cultures. “I’m not worthy” is a favorite story of the ego. It keeps us in pain and distracted, constantly looking for people, objects, experiences to make us feel whole, worthy.

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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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Trying to Reach Full Productivity When You Are Being Held Back

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Most productivity advice for the workplace tells you how to produce more and more, without helping you examine how much you really want to produce, and what external forces might be preventing that from happening.

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Trump Bars Immigrants Without Health Insurance: What It Means

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Barring immigrants without health insurance forces immigrants to overcome a restriction on legal immigration Congress never authorized.

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Ten Ways To Handle A Brand Crisis

Forbes Leadership Strategy

When a brand has a problem, it can become a crisis as the incident can be captured on camera or reported by anyone interested in sharing their views.

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Right Person, Wrong Job

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Great individual contributors don’t always make great managers. Be thoughtful when making internal promotions decisions, and put the right person in the right job.

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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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This Is The Best Way To Clarify Complex Ideas

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Comparing the familiar with the unfamiliar is a leadership communication and storytelling tool that helps clarify the complex, giving audiences a way to quickly get the gist.

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Understanding Impeachment (Part 1)

Forbes Leadership Strategy

If both President Trump and Vice-President Pence are impeached and convicted, Nancy Pelosi will become President.

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Why Accountability Is Vital To Your Company

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Good behaviors can be hard to enforce — but if you avoid accountability, everything else will become a lot harder, too.

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Here’s What To Do When DACI Decision-Making Falls Short

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The DACI decision-making framework sounds good in theory but rarely meets expectations in practice. Here’s why that is and what to do about it.

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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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Are You Ready For Your Customers To Hear Thunder?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Emergencies telegraph preparedness which signals to customers how much you care. It takes planning, discipline and review after the fact.

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Understanding Impeachment (Part 2): Election Finance Law

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Prosecuting election finance fraud is not as easy as it seems

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