Fri.May 12, 2017

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Employees Value Benefits Differently – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Organizations work very hard to provide consistency. They want customers to have a consistent experience. And I believe they want employees to have a consistent experience as well. That’s one of the reason companies develop benefit packages. They want to offer employees consistency in their workplace. There’s one challenge with that though…employees place a different value on things.

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7 Tips for Embracing the 80/20 Rule With Employee Talent

ExactHire

I’m sure you’ve heard of the 80/20 Rule before, but have you ever thought seriously about its impact on your talent management initiatives? Whether you like it or not, the Pareto Principle (another name for the rule) is likely at work within your workforce. Therefore, as few as 20 percent of your employees are driving about 80 percent of your productivity and success.

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Great Office Design: 9 Ways to Create a Beautiful Space on a Budget

Justworks

There comes a time in every company’s lifespan where it’s time for a change to the office, especially as you grow. Some new paint, new furniture, or maybe even a new building and location altogether. If you budget isn’t sky high, don’t fret! There are still ways to design the office space of your dreams.or at least a space that makes you and your team happy and comfortable.

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Why You Need To Lead With Your Heart

TalentCulture

If you think your brain makes you a great leader, you better check your head. According to the Conference Board, job satisfaction in America has been on a steep and steady decline for an entire generation. The century-old research organization reported this summer that more than half of all US employees are unhappy in their jobs today–effectively an all-time low.

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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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The Pros and Cons of Hiring Contractors

Hppy

Hiring the right team is key for your business’s ongoing success, but you don’t always need to fill all positions permanently. Sometimes, it makes sense to hire short-term or even long-term contractors. Contractors are more common in some industries than in others, but they can be found in almost every sector of the workforce. As an HR professional, it can be difficult to know when you should hire an employee over a contractor, since each situation is unique.

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How Well Do You Know Today’s Jobseekers?

TLNT: The Business of HR

In this red-hot talent market, savvy recruiters are employing consumer marketing strategies to attract and engage top candidates. As any marketer will tell you, it’s important to know your target audience to craft the right strategy.

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VIDEO: How Sleazy Lawyers Trap HR Pros in Depositions.

The HR Capitalist

If there's one thing HR Pros hate, it's taking on unnecessary risk. After all, you're the one that thinks about legal things, and more often than not, you're the one left to answer for what happened when the lawyers come in. Could that by why there's so much CYA going on in our profession? One of the things I've never thought about in my years writing as an HR pro is how lawyers on the other side (i.e., the ones that are suing your company) approach a deposition.

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3 Steps to Building Better Relationships

TLNT: The Business of HR

“In the very near future, organizations will be held together by mechanisms of connection and commitment rooted in freedom of choice, rather than systems of coercion and control. The exercise of leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power; hence, the most productive relationships are, at their core, mutual partnerships,” says Jim Collins , in a chapter he wrote for Leading Beyond the Walls.

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Walking for women

HRGem

This one is a personal blog post. Not something that I do all that often. I hope you won’t mind too much. Last year, I agreed to take part in the 2017 Moonwalk with some awesome women.

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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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7 Workplace Sins That Could Land You In Court

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you think your organization is immune from workplace misconduct, think again. One in three women between the ages of 18-34 say they’ve been sexually harassed in the workplace. Moreover, many workers (40% to 60% in one study) say they’ve experienced racial or ethnic harassment. Last year alone, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received a whopping 92,000 charges of discrimination , nearly one-third of which included workplace harassment.

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Ruling the Roost – Leadership Lessons from the Chicken Coup

Newmeasures

A few weeks ago, I was in my barn when I heard our rooster outside making a raucous (yes, my family has a barn and chickens…). I ventured out to see what all the fuss was about. The first thing I noticed was the rooster, puffing his feathers and fluttering up and down. I looked for the rest of the flock and eventually found it hidden away in the pine tree behind the rooster.

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Self-manage vs. MSP: 4 common misconceptions in program management

Allegis Global Solutions

Technology is important in MSP programs, but technology won't succeed without the right people behind it.

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5 Ways to Think of the Economic Impact of AI and Automation

Workology

Thanks to a couple of new major studies we’ve been blessed this month with a lot of interesting reads on the possible impacts of AI and automation. New data is always great for new ideas! This week we’re considering: the positive, transformational impact of automation on young and old workers, the negative disruptive impact of […] Source.

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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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The Trouble with Lists

Laurie Ruettimann

I’m on a lot of lists in real life, not just in my head. Most important lady in HR. Most influential human being in human resources. The top best greatest HR blog in the history of blogging. Top people who make stuff happen. I made it! Me! I’m number one! If there was ever any doubt that I should be on influence lists, let it be put to rest by John Sumser who said that I should be at the top of all lists everywhere.

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Senior Web Developer interview questions

Workable

Use these sample Senior Web Developer interview questions to help you assess candidates’ programming skills as part of your hiring process. The post Senior Web Developer interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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How a Card Game Can Unify Your Office

Evil HR Lady

One of the reasons people don’t get along at work is because they don’t really know each other as human beings. They see each other as functions, and by golly, Finance is always thwarting HR’s plans to make employees happy , so if you work in finance, I’m going to dislike you. (Just kidding, I like everyone.) If you can get people talking, you can help avoid some of the conflict that comes just from daily work life.

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Refer a friend for a job email

Workable

Send this email to encourage employees to refer their friends for open roles. Be clear about the information you seek, like skill set, professional experience and knowledge of job-related software. If your company offers an employee referral bonus program , include details about the incentives in your email. If you want referrals for one specific role, customize this “Refer a friend for a job” email template to include job requirements.

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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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Boost Employee Productivity and Engagement

Payactiv

Watch this 2 minute video to learn how Payactiv works Lost Employee Productivity Due to Financial Stress Workplace is greatly affected by employees who are experiencing financial stress. Research suggests that employee financial stress costs American employers billions of dollars in lost employee productivity every year. A 2009 study by Dr. Ronald Loeppke and colleagues of absenteeism and presenteeism among 50,000 workers at 10 employers showed that lost productivity costs are 2.3 times higher t

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when’s the best time of day to quit your job?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I expect to get a job offer soon and will need to give notice to my current job. But my boss is in the office kind of sporadically, so I never know how long he is going to stay. Is it a bad idea to talk to him as soon as he comes in (and then having to work there for the rest of the day) or should I wait until towards the end of the day?

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Ready for your HIPAA Audits?

Mercer

Federal regulators have released the next round of HIPAA audits, including their priorities for privacy and security guidance. Learn what you’ll need to do in order to comply. The post Ready for your HIPAA Audits? appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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Will Millennial Leadership Change the Way We Work?

DDI

Is Millennials' leadership style really that different than older generations, and will it need to evolve as they become CEOs?

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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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HRE Column: HR Tech Conference Preview #1

Steve Boese

Once again, I offer my semi-frequent reminder and pointer for blog readers that I also write a monthly column at Human Resource Executive Online called Inside HR Tech that can be found here. This month, as I have been wrapping up the program development for the upcoming HR Technology Conference that will be held at in October, I take a look at some of the more interesting trends and themes in HR tech that have emerged from reviewing about 450 proposals and talking with dozens of HR leaders and t

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Contract Administrator interview questions

Workable

Ask these sample Contract Administrator interview questions during your hiring process to evaluate and select qualified candidates for your open roles. The post Contract Administrator interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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5 Ways to Get the Most Value from Your Workday Investment

Workday

If you are a Workday customer, it’s likely there are a number of people within your organization who are considered Workday experts. Yet there could be some unexplored opportunities for your company’s Workday administrators and power users to get the most value out of your company’s investment. Here are five conversation starters to consider: 1. Are we taking full advantage of Workday Community?

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Assistant Director interview questions

Workable

These sample Assistant Director interview questions can help you evaluate candidates’ skills to hire the most qualified professionals for your open roles. The post Assistant Director interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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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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Sneaky pitfalls that can turn your FSA plan into a compliance nightmare

HR Morning

What happens when a seemingly harmless change to your company’s easy-to-administer FSA plan — a plan that had met the ACA’s “excepted benefits” requirements — suddenly winds up becoming subject to a series of onerous regs? That’s a subject Kate Saracene, an employment attorney for Nixon Peabody LLP , covered during a recent presentation at the 2017 Mid-Sized Retirement & Healthcare Plan Management Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Collection Specialist interview questions

Workable

During your hiring process, use these sample Collection Specialist interview questions to assess candidates’ skills. Similar job titles include Accounts Receivable Clerk. The post Collection Specialist interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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How to Rock Employee Retention

POPinNow

In today’s competitive business arena, top talent is something that is in high demand. If the top employees in your company are unhappy, another organization will definitely come along and lure them away. If a company waits for an exit interview to learn about why the employee decided to quit, they have missed an opportunity to keep a productive team member.

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