Mon.Sep 11, 2017

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Do Recruiters Still Need to Make Phone Calls?

The Tim Sackett Project

I spoke at CareerBuilder’s Empower last week and in my presentation, I harped on the talent acquisition pros and leaders in the room on why 100% of us are not using texting as a primary first form of contact with candidates. The data is in. Texting works! It works better than email by a mile, but still, less than 50% in the room are texting candidates.

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3 Ways to Hire Innovators

Cornerstone On Demand

If you've never had the chance to gulp a bottle of Hint Water , you soon will. It's the flagship product of Hint, Inc., founded a dozen years ago in Silicon Valley by a tech executive, Kara Goldin , during a career hiatus while expecting her fourth child. She started making unsweetened, fruit-flavored water at home. It tasted good and satisfied her desire for a healthful beverage, but it wasn't convenient.

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5 Ways to Build a More Powerful Compensation Strategy

HRsoft

Every organization needs a compensation strategy. Its purpose is to help you decide how much to pay employees by aligning with your overall HR strategy. According to the Employer’s Resource Council , strategic compensation also tells employees where you stand on pay, which can be useful in creating a compelling employee value proposition for attracting and retaining talent.

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How High-Performing Companies Manage Employee Performance [New Research]

Lighthouse

Recently we wrapped up an amazing new project, the 2017 Lighthouse Research Performance Management, Engagement, and Business Results study. This provided some amazing insights and has given us a great picture of how employers can fight back in the ongoing battle to keep great talent while simultaneously keeping them highly engaged. See a Special Sneak Preview in an Upcoming Webinar.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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[Infographic] The Ultimate Guide to Commuting

Hppy

Unless you have the luxury of working at home, you probably have the dutiful 15 to 30-minute travel time from your house to your workplace that you see day after day. As it turns out, the more common commute times, methods, and carpooling vary across the country. How long you’re spending in the car and in traffic each day depends greatly on the place you live, with some of the more commute-heavy places in America averaging the better part of an hour.

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Blind Faith in Leaders Is a Bad Employee Engagement Strategy

TalentCulture

Most who measure employee engagement for a living can show you data that links the level of trust in the senior leaders of the organization to overall employee engagement. Most will go so far as to say that trust in senior leadership is a driver of engagement. This makes sense. As employees, we want stability and we hope our organization will succeed so we can reasonably assume better opportunities in the future.

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HR Issues: Common Problems Employees Have With HR

Paychex

HR is vital to business success, but what are the areas where this department is getting it right, and where are they falling short? We recently surveyed 1,000 employees and 90 HR professionals to better understand some top HR issues. Here's what we found.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Building Great Cultures

TalentCulture

What does it take for brands to build a great reputation? In part, building a great workplace culture where employees can flourish and take an organization to the next level. Culture is so much more than perks and benefits. Culture starts from the top down and requires a commitment from everyone in the organization. It’s about transparency, communication, trust, and engagement.

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Leaders must avoid bad thinking leading to bad leadership

HR Zone

Culture. Leaders: bad thinking leads to bad leadership.

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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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“Low Status” Men Avoid Negotiating In the Workplace

Workology

According to new research “low status” men who occupy position are less likely to negotiate for raises or promotions in the workplace. It’s become popular to argue that a big reason the pay gap persists is women’s reluctance to negotiate, with schools and and other organizations setting up negotiation workshops just for women, in hopes […] Source.

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SMBs and Design: How to Deal with Graphic Design on a Budget

Take It Personel-ly

Graphic design plays an incredibly important role in marketing. Whether a small or medium business wants to improve brand identity, get a new ad, cover or brochure, it has to leverage the power of custom graphic design. Needless to say, graphic design is also important when publishing new content on an official website or leveraging […].

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Payroll in Asia: managing people, process and policy in a diverse region

Ascender

Sign up and get our free guide to Payroll in Asia. The Asia Pacific region is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population and a mix of emerging and developed economies. An increasing number of international businesses have been establishing a presence in the region, but not without its challenges. While the region was found to have the lowest level of payroll complexity, Asia has the highest rating for the number of languages spoken and number of people being paid in non-local currencies and c

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"Organisations focus too much on performance being purely on what is in people’s goals."

HR Zone

People. Interview: Paul Corke, MBNA.

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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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6 Lessons From My Journey to a Transparent Culture

TLNT: The Business of HR

Fear has become, unfortunately, a regular emotion at work. How often do you feel afraid of sharing your thoughts because of what might happen to you? Have your colleagues stopped sharing their ideas after being censored over and over?

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Latest Updates to SutiHR

SutiHR

Here is a summary of the latest updates to SutiHR, our online HR management software solution: HR managers can send emails such as interview invitations, announcements, rejection and confirmation letters and more to multiple candidates concurrently. HR managers can create email templates with a default subject, and any email created in the application can be.

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What to Look for In a Talent Assessment Solution that Predicts Business Performance

TLNT: The Business of HR

Over the past 30+ years, businesses have spent heavily on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates. Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if) a predictive talent acquisition strategy can include the use of pre-hire assessments? As costs of failed new hires continue to rise, recruiters and hiring managers are looking for any kind of pre-hire information to increase the probability of making a great hire.

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Work experience isn't one size fits all

HRSG

Career paths are no longer as straightforward, and as such the way we look at experience needs to change. Focusing on different types of experience can help you take the next step in your career.

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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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Does an Exempt Employee Need Permission to Leave the Office?

Evil HR Lady

Recently my dept hired a new manager, my first interaction with her happened when I broke a tooth and had to go to the dentist on an emergency work in basis. I sent an email to my new manager letting her know that I would be leaving for the emergency appointment and giving full details; then coming back after. I also explained that my calendar was free for the afternoon with no pending obligations and notified my coworkers of my whereabouts.

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Checklist: The 16 Survey Questions Employees Want to Answer About Management

Quantum Workplace

You’ve heard the adage: People leave managers not companies. While many factors play a role in preventing employee turnover and improving employee engagement, management plays a critical role. To better understand how this plays out in your organization, your employee survey needs to incorporate questions about managers. Below we’ve compiled 16 management-oriented questions to cover in your employee engagement survey.

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Three Tips to Make Employee Engagement Programs More Effective

Bonfyre

This article was originally published on HR Tech Outlook under the title “ 3 Tips to Make Micro-Recognition More Effective In Employee Engagement Programs ”. Employee performance is, and always has been, rooted in social interaction and the primal human desire for belonging. With the introduction of digital communication tools (and more recently social communication tools), recognition and employee engagement programs are increasing their impact by focusing on smaller, spontaneous and interperso

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How to Handle and Reduce Staff Turnover

Evil HR Lady

Restaurants are known for having a high staff turnover rate. However, there are certain ways to limit this so your restaurant can run smoothly. With a little effort, you can reduce your restaurant’s turnover and retain quality employees. Here are some tips to help guide you. Treat Your Employees Well. The best way to handle turnover is to reduce it, and there are a number of things you can do to make everyone happy.

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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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The Future of Work: Intelligent Training That Adapts to Employee Performance

Rallyware for Human Resources

The rapidly changing nature of work today has ushered in a new, data-driven era in human resource (HR) management and development – fueling the need for intelligent training informed by the power of people analytics. Google is meeting this need for its own workforce with its use of people analytics , which now informs almost all of the company’s human resources (HR) practices including development.

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Developing a Compensation Plan, Step 3: Select Data Sources

Compensation Today

This is a lesson from PayScale’s Modern Compensation Planning ecourse. Want access to all seven lessons? Sign up for the course! Now that you’ve spent some time thinking about the different parts of your workforce and where you compete for talent in each segment, you can apply that strategy when seeking out your data sources. Select Compensation Market Data Sources.

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#HotInHR: 100 Hottest HR and TA Technologies, DACA Effects on Employers, Working 9 to 5 for Losers?

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers – NYT. Silicon Valley prides itself on “thinking different.” So maybe it makes sense that just as a lot of industries have begun paying more attention to work-life balance, Silicon Valley is taking the opposite approach — and branding work

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HR’s Top HIPAA Compliance Misconceptions Dispelled

HR Daily Advisor

HIPAA has become synonymous with medical records privacy, for good reason. Enacted more than 20 years ago, it gives individuals the power to decide who has access to their health records and has forced major changes in the way health care providers, health plans and businesses handle records. More formally called the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the law has had ripple effects outside of the medical providers it is intended to regulate—including inside countless HR departm

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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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The Price of Turnover

POPinNow

We here at POPin know the value of a stable and energized team – we love ours ! POPin has grown so much since our inception in 2013, and we have our incredible employees to thank. They work tirelessly to drive us ahead and consistently improve; we know that their feedback is critical to staying ahead in this age of innovation at lightning speed.

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How to Attract the Best Job Candidates at Career Fairs

Birkman International

People on the job hunt aren't the only ones who need to prepare well if they want to get the most out of a job fair. These events are a talent selection hot spot for your HR or recruiting team, but to attract the best candidates, it's important to develop a game plan. If you prepare well you can: Save money on advertising for job openings. Have in-person access to a large pool of qualified candidates.

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Sketchnote Selfie

QAspire

I have never been a big fan of taking traditional selfies, unless I have no other option. But when folks attending International Sketchnote Camp in Hamburg posted their sketchnote selfies (or #sketchfie, as they also call it), I was inspired to create one. So, here’s my selfie in a sketchnote form. Also Read: SketchBlog with all visual posts and insights More about Sketchnote Project.