Tue.Jul 16, 2019

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5 reasons why employees don’t engage with wellbeing at work

HRGem

I’ve been out and about talking to people about wellbeing at work. Talking to employees about why they do or why they don’t engage with wellbeing initiatives, activities and programmes where they work.

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HR Departments Should Have Data Policies

HR Bartender

Human resources departments are filled with data. About applicants, candidates, employees, and alumni. This data includes addresses, health information, and social security numbers. HR has assessment data and information from drug/criminal/credit background screening. They have data about vendors – past, current, and future. HR has business intelligence data related to jobs, salaries, benefits, etc.

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What’s So Important about the Employee Experience?

Close HR Connections News & Insights

When was the last time your organization took scheduled time out of their day to check in with employees around the office? In other words, when’s the last time the company asked workers about their employee experience? The employee experience is what people encounter, feel or observe over the course of time with a company. This includes things such as the relationships employees make with coworkers, how management handles their concerns, how employees feel about their work, the perks of working

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3 Workforce Planning Tips for Project-Based Businesses

Workday

Working at 100 percent capacity might sound like the dream to some, but savvy business-service leaders know that being maxed out can actually stunt growth. When every team member is tapped and every resource stretched thin, new deals can’t get off the ground, projects get backed up, and customer satisfaction scores dip. That triple whammy can ding a company’s bottom line.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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How Organizations Are Using Social Media To Build Employer Brand

Allegis Global Solutions

Employer brand represents who an organization is and what they stand for. It sets the stage for interactions and expectations that current and future employees will have with the organization regarding what it is like to work there. Employer brand can offer a glimpse into company culture and values, and can reinforce employee experience. Today, social media is a key element in building the employer brand.

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How Holidays Could Improve Employee Performance

Take It Personel-ly

For many of us, an upcoming holiday and the thought of sipping cocktails in the sun helps us get through even the most difficult day at work. A holiday represents an opportunity to completely switch off from work and the demands of everyday life, but is it always ‘as you were’ upon return to normality? […].

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5 qualities of a good employee and candidate and how to evaluate them in an interview

Workable

There’s tons of advice on how to evaluate soft skills at each stage of the hiring process. But, let’s take a step back for a moment, from the ‘how’ to the ‘what’: out of the dozens of soft skills and personality traits in existence, which exactly are the qualities of a good employee and candidate you should always look for? Knowing these important qualities to look for in an employee means you have better chances of hiring the best people and avoiding the scary costs of making a bad hire.

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How to Deliver Retail Sales Training to Remote Employees

Kitaboo - Employee Training

Remote working has become one of the biggest trends in the workplace. While a couple of decades back it would have been an inconvenience to have employees working remotely, now it has been normalized to an extent where companies offer work from home options to employees upfront for better productivity. In fact, 3.9 million Americans work from home at least half the time!

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Onboarding: The First Day Matters Most! – Infographic

HR Morning

If your business relies on good employees, then you know successful onboarding is an essential first-step. This fun, simple and colorful infographic is a proven guide to getting it right. Share a copy with your staff, or share the link to other HR pros. WANT TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE INFOGRAPHIC? Get a 4-page PDF that you can print out and share. Click here.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Communication Strategies for Female Leaders Who Want to Stand Out #SHRM2019

Workology

I’m a recent college graduate with a degree in communications and journalism. Rather than dive right into corporate America, I chose the nontraditional freelance route and launched my own marketing. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Ethics in the workplace: what does an ethical business look like?

HR Zone

Business. What does an ethical business look like?

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Too Many Baby Boomers Are Financially Unprepared for Retirement

ADP

Baby boomers are in the home stretch to retirement – with hundreds of thousands retiring each year. However, PwC's Employee Financial Wellness Survey.

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Ep 26 – New Jobs Titles in HR: HRBP, CPO, & More

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Remote versus mobile working and why it affects diversity and inclusion

HR Zone

Retention. Remote versus mobile working.

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The Power of Community in Your Success

NoExcusesHR

I've been thinking a lot about the role "community" plays in my life. It's a term that gets thrown around so much that I wonder if anyone has internalized a definition for themselves and embraced it? The deeper I've gone into my own communities, the more I see the profound role they play in my life. In fact, I can quickly identify six distinct communities that I actively participate in on a daily basis.

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Three Steps For Building Creative-Evolutionary Cultures

Forbes Coaches Council

Creative-evolutionary cultures set the stage for staying relevant, bringing out the best in your team and building stronger customer relationships.

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I have no motivation to do my job

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am absolutely done with my current job. I’ve been here for just over six years now and, honestly, I probably stayed here longer than I should have (I was starting to get bored around two years ago). However, my coworkers are lovely, my boss is super supportive, the benefits are amazing (I will have 35 days of PTO this year plus sick time on top of that!

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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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Working at a Marketing Agency vs In-House

marenated HR

By Eric Foutch: If you’re someone that enjoys being creative, taking data and turning it into actionable results, or enjoys discovering new ways to market a product or solution, you’re going to love the marketing field. The marketing field is a vast industry that is almost always in a constant state of change, but if you’re cut out to be a marketer , you can have one of the most fulfilling and rewarding careers of your life.

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Social Media Metrics that Matter

Advanced Learning Institute

FACEBOOK + INSTAGRAM | METRICS THAT MATTER. Odds are your social media team can rattle off the number of likes, shares and other basics off the top of their noggins. Here’s the real question—what do those metrics mean? Also, how do you go beyond the basics and make those numbers work for you? Big business brain Peter Drucker says of performance, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

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personalized rejection letters are crushing my spirit

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently graduated from college and am trying to find that first full-time job in an increasingly shrinking industry: book publishing. I’ve volunteered at small presses, had three six-month long internships, and have a great network of publishing professionals. If I send out my resume, I’m getting responses and doing really good interviews but find myself repeatedly getting rejections.

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How Personal Brands Can Help You Learn About Prospective Employees

SHRM

Traditionally viewed as a marketing tactic for companies and products, brands have moved into career planning and job searches. Many jobseekers now consciously develop and enhance their “personal brand,” or the unique combination of skills, experience and personality that defines an individual. As branding takes on increased importance for job seekers and prospective employers alike, a better understanding of the concept may help.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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How to Build a Thriving Culture on a Global Scale

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Jason Richmond, Chief Culture Officer and Founder at Ideal Outcomes. The world is shrinking and change has gone from fast to super-fast. International markets are opening up, and it’s easier than ever for a company to expand beyond its own borders. Technology has helped level the playing field for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) , allowing them to successfully compete against huge multi-national corporations.

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my employee is overly budget-conscious and freaks out when we spend money

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a low-level employee who has always volunteered in nonprofits and worked in academia, and I’d love some tips on helping him change his budget awareness. He is very used to saving every penny of the organization’s money, at the expense of significant amounts of time, which makes sense if the money is scarce and the time is volunteered, but makes absolutely no sense if the money is adequate and the time is paid for.

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13 Summertime Steps Every Student Should Take To Be Prepared For A Fall Internship

Forbes Coaches Council

Whether you've already landed the dream internship or you're still searching, make sure you're ready for any challenge they throw at you with these tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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Climbing Mountains

Symantec

What do we do with the opportunities that have been given to us? Mario C. shares stories of how his grandparents’ and parents’ lives in Mexico provided the opportunity for him to succeed in America.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Top 10 Feminine-Biased Words Used in Job Descriptions

Ongig

Masculine vs. feminine job descriptions remains a hot topic these days. Last week I shared The Top 10 Masculine Biased Words Used in Job Descriptions. If you’re trying to gender-neutralize your job ads, eliminating those top 10 masculine-biased words is a good start. Some of you then asked: “What about feminine words — which words in job postings are biased towards attracting women.” I used Ongig’s Text Analyzer software (the tool for gender bias in job descriptions

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3 Reasons Your Onboarding Might Be Boring

New to HR

There is a reason why your newly hired employees talk about going back home as soon as switch on their systems. They are bored. What should have been their most exciting days of “starting a new job”, have turned into. The post 3 Reasons Your Onboarding Might Be Boring appeared first on New To HR.

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Winners Certainly Do Quit. Here's Why

Forbes Coaches Council

Every one of the limited moments you spend doing something miserable or tedious just to not quit is a moment you tacitly choose to throw away.

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