Mon.Oct 02, 2017

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Don’t Forget One Key Component in Talent Acquisition — The Talent

Spark Hire

“When candidates are left out of the loop, they move on, plain and simple.”. Tyson Spring , founder, and VP of recruiting with Élever Professional, LP doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to recruiting top talent. Employees expect more from staffing and recruiting professionals, and they aren’t afraid to move on if those expectations aren’t met.

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Are You Hiring Raw Talent?

The Tim Sackett Project

Last week I got invited down to Rock Ventures (Dan Gilbert – the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans – yeah that Rock Ventures) to do the closing keynote for their HR and Talent Summit across the family of companies in Downtown Detroit! Fun, fast-moving culture. Seemingly every CEO of the 130 Rock Venture companies looked to be 30-ish!

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Artificial Intelligence Jobs: Keep Hiring Humans or Start Recruiting Robots?

ADP

Will artificial intelligence jobs mean the rise of robot employees, or are humans still the best staffing investment?

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ICYMI: There's a Hidden Talent Pool of Immigrants and Refugees in America

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest HR trends and stories. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular articles every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for September's top stories! What Should Your PTO Policy Look Like? While there isn't a perfect solution for all businesses, there are some guidelines to create the best PTO policy for your business.

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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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And You Wonder Why Companies Want to Leave California

Don Phin

I just received a recent California update of legislation waiting for signature by Governor Jerry Brown. Some bills would do the following Limit inquiries about salary history and provide applicants with this pay scale of the desired position. Protect women from discipline related to reproductive health including the use of any drug, device or medical.

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Why Your Marketing Team Should Be Journalists

Entrepreneur

Your brand needs content that has a strong voice, is well-researched, and tells your story. Who can write content like that? Journalists.

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You Have More Star Employees Than You Realize

Reflektive

It’s easy to identify your top performers. They simply perform – day after day, week after week, quarter after quarter. But performance – like the modern workforce, like your workforce – isn’t always straightforward. If you’re like most companies, you have a deep, untapped well of employees who could become top performers – star performers, even – if they were coached and managed the right way.

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The Two C’s of Open Enrollment Season: Communication and Compliance

ACA Times

The Affordable Care Act raised the ante on providing health insurance to Americans for U. S. businesses. It mandated that applicable large employers (those with 50 or more full-time employees and equivalent employees) must make offers of minimal essential coverage to 95% of their full-time employees. For some businesses that can be a challenge. As open enrollment season nears, the best course of action for employers to achieve a grade of 95% involves the two C’s: communication and compliance.

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Analyze THIS: What HR Experts Shared in September

Kazoo

We’ve featured Meghan M. Biro’s work on Talent Culture previously in this series (in April and in August ) and for this month’s post we’re digging a bit deeper. The blog brings together HR practitioners through forums, groups and blog posts to present ideas to improve strategies for recruiting, employee engagement and performance management. What makes the blog unique is that contributors are neither boring nor using shock value to drive up views; they are thoughtful but don’t shy away from cont

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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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Plug and Pray

Allegis Global Solutions

Long, long ago, back when job boards ruled the Earth, primitive recruiters and sourcers used to rely on an archaic tactic known as “post and pray.” By simply posting job descriptions on pretty much every career site in existence (and there were many, many of them BLI – that is, before LinkedIn).

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How Recruiters Can Stop Unconscious Bias During Resume Screening [Video]

TalentCulture

Research confirms unconscious bias in recruiting is still a major problem. A recent study found unconscious bias occurs during resume screening. Asian applicants were 75% more likely to get a callback for an interview when they used a “whitened” version of their name (e.g., Luke instead Lei). Black applicants were 160% more likely to get a callback for an interview when they used a “whitened” version of their name (e.g., L.

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Advantages of 401(k) Plans for Employers

Paychex

Many employers know that offering a 401(k) plan to their employees is a good idea, but they tend to be unclear on what the benefits of these plans actually are. Here are some benefits employers can enjoy by offering a 401(k).

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The Similarities Between Gen Z and Millennials—Are You Prepared?

HR Daily Advisor

Just when you thought you had figured out the Millennials in your organization, a new generation is knocking at your door. Generation Z is the post-Millennial generation and is loosely defined as those born after 1998. . Source: Rawpixel / iStock / Getty Images Plus. While there are many differences between Generation Z and Millennials, you can rest assured that there are many similarities as well.

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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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Training Management System and Learning Management System differences

Training Orchestra

TMS and LMS, or Training Management System and Learning Management System. If you have no idea what the difference between these two things is, well… no one can really blame you. After all, they do sound awfully similar. And while it’s ok for the casual viewer to confuse the two, the mix-up can be pretty unforgiving if you end up purchasing one mistaking it for the other.

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How Giving Employees a Say In Their Work Schedule Can Make a Difference

TLNT: The Business of HR

A talented workforce is the number one differentiator that can set you apart from your competitors. Whether you’re a retailer trying to deliver a great in-store experience or a hospital aiming to provide the best patient care, your workforce is your biggest differentiator for success.

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New to HR? Starting From the Bottom

Workology

You did it, you officially got your first job in human resources. Maybe it’s everything you wanted, maybe it’s just to get your foot in the door. No matter what, it’s an opportunity. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Succession Planning Best Practices to Bring Your Company into the Future

Paychex

Consider the benefits of implementing these succession planning best practices throughout your company to help employees grow into their full potential.

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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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Why Potential Rewards Matter More at Work than Fear of Punishment

Compensation Cafe

What motivates employees best? The potential of rewards? The fear of punishment? Or perhaps how employees feel about their work? Two articles that appeared in the Harvard Business Review blog in the last few months tackle this question, relaying interesting research and an intriguing idea. First, published last week, research summarized in “What Motivates Employees More: Rewards or Punishments?

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my boss spends all his time on the internet, I’m in the middle of a coworker’s crush, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My new boss spends all his time on the internet. I have a new manager at work (about two months into the job). The thing is, increasingly, he spends pretty much all his time browsing the internet, clearly on non-work-related sites (easily 90% of the time, except when something work-related actually demands his attention).

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Rethinking Benefits Packages to Attract and Retain Healthcare Talent

Precheck

Rethinking Benefits Packages to Attract and Retain Healthcare Talent Oct. 3, 2017. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. The healthcare industry faces many challenges for sustaining an active workforce. Ongoing talent shortages, lower retention rates compared to other industries, and shifting workforce dynamics all contribute to the issues affecting healthcare HR professionals.

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Do you have leadership potential?

HRSG

Not every great leader started out that way. They had to start at the bottom and prove themselves in lower level positions, as ‘followers’, before moving into a leadership role.

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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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How I Hire: Pro Back Office co-founders on finding top-notch freelance talent

Sage HRMS

In addition to seeking out full-time jobs that satisfy top priorities like culture, benefits and values, today’s finance job seekers are finding self-employment appealing. They’re interested in more flexibility, an opportunity put their expertise to work and a chance to strike a better work/life balance. “We come across quite a few people who aren’t interested […].

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all your questions about negotiating salary, answered

Ask a Manager

Negotiating salary for a new job can be complicated and stressful. How do you know how much to ask for? What if you ask for too much and the employer pulls the offer? When do you even bring it up and what do you say? At U.S. News & World Report today, I answer all these questions and more. You can read it here. You may also like: my friend was horrified that I asked an interviewer what the job pays I guessed at a salary range for a job, overshot, and got rejected how can I have accomplishmen

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It’s Not a Cliff; It’s an Elevator

developUs

After ten years of consulting while working full time, I was debating on whether I should make a move to launch the business that is now develop Us. The part-time gig was growing, and the full-time gig wasn’t satisfying me anymore. I was running through all of the clichés that felt like they applied to my situation-things like: Take a leap of faith.

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how do employers know if you’re answering “have you ever been fired” honestly?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve always wondered how employers check if you’ve ever been fired. I know this is a common pre-screening question. It’s shown up on several job applications I’ve filled out (thankfully I’ve always been able to say no). It seems like this question is only going to catch honest people who may have had some bad luck, or made a mistake.

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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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The Little Lies We Tell and the Consequences They Have

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you ask, most people will tell you they are generally an honest person. We all tell the odd little white lie from time to time, but these small untruths are usually no cause for concern.

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4 Ways to Avoid Working With Jerks

45 Things

The good news is that as the job market improves, more workers are able to leave jobs -- or bosses -- that make them miserable. The bad news is that some are taking jobs that are going to make them just as miserable in a very short amount of time. What happens is that many people believe that once they leave a jerk behind in their old workplace, things will be great.

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Optimizing Instructor-Led Training with a Training Resource Management System

Training Orchestra

Managing training can be a daunting task. There’s a want for more – more sessions delivered, more registered participants, more sales, more certifications renewed. But of course, there’s the urgency to use less: less resources, less budget, less time. A Training Resource Management System (or Training Management System ) is specifically designed to address this burden: by integrating and optimizing all the back-office training processes, a Training Resource Management System is the best too