Fri.Jul 07, 2017

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Your Employees Are the Company’s Secret Weapon – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

I know sometimes it sounds like a broken record to talk about employee engagement. Truth is, for all of the conversation, it doesn’t appear that organizations are moving the needle. Gallup has been tracking employee engagement since 2000 and, for the most part, the numbers have stayed pretty consistent. Less than one-third of employees are engaged in their work.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Looking for a New Job but Don't Want Your Boss to Find Out? LinkedIn's Got a Secret Feature for That -- by Melanie Curtin. 2.

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Ageism in the Workplace is Real. Let’s Talk About It

Justworks

Age can be a sensitive subject, no matter where (or if) it’s broached. At Justworks, we believe that the most vibrant workplaces are cultivated through inclusion of people across many generations. That’s why we've created DECADES, a new series to facilitate open and honest dialogue about ageism in the workplace. Our inaugural event takes place on July 25th, with the theme of investing.

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5 Smart Best Practices to Engage Customers

Hppy

If you want to swiftly boost the success of your business, you should create best practices for your employees to follow. When companies put best practices into place that ensure the customer is always the center focus, they soon see their businesses start to grow. People will continue to come back when you treat them well. Here are five smart best practices to put into place to engage customers and grow your business. 1.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Social Media 2017: Are the Rules Changing?

TalentCulture

Social media rules change fast—there’s no doubt about that. As platforms evolve, technology improves, and all industries embrace the possibilities, there’s no ignoring the fact that today’s working professionals must learn to leverage social media best practices. Between the many examples of social media fails on the corporate side, and the fact that customers and clients now use social to engage with companies 24/7, organizations that succeed in 2017 will surely need to know how to navigate so

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How Job Management Software Helps Create a Culture of Workplace Efficiency and Productivity

TalentCulture

There’s no question that using a job management software creates benefits , but what specific benefits does it bring when it comes to workplace efficiency and productivity? How does it create a positive culture that benefit a business? Sticking to Deadlines. What’s great about using job management or scheduling software is it creates a sense of urgency for everyone to start and finish tasks as they are scheduled.

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5 ways AI is changing the hiring sector

Allegis Global Solutions

AI and automation is sure to affect hiring managers’ jobs in a number of ways, from making it easier to acknowledge applications to helping with onboarding.

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The Subjectivity of Objective Performance Ratings

TLNT: The Business of HR

Numerical methods of rating and tracking performance have been an integral part of performance management for a long time. They are used to judge individual performance, they are utilized during stack ranking, and they are a key element of 360-degree evaluation processes.

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Remote Work: Fleeting Fad or Enduring Evolution?

Compensation Today

Tori Fica , BambooHR. The late ’90s and early 2000s brought an armada of trends we’d like to just as soon forget—frosted tips in the hair, ultra-baggy jeans, Furby, walkmans. Let’s not continue. However, it also introduced cellphones, social media and other “trends” that never phased out. I distinctly remember my father complaining about our cellphone bill, insisting that he wouldn’t pay for texting because it was “just a fad.

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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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Interview feedback to candidates email

Workable

Candidates who have interviewed for a role at your company might want feedback after being rejected. Sending an interview feedback email to reject candidates will help you end things on a positive note and build relationships for future job openings. Recruiters could choose to send interview feedback to candidates who reached the final stages of the hiring process.

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Why Start-Ups Need an Employer Branding Strategy (and Easy Ways to Get a Good One!)

Blu Ivy Group

Whether you have 10 or 1000 employees, it is crucial to your organization’s success that you carefully think through your employer brand. Start-ups can grow quickly, and it’s important to have a strong brand to project who you are, and attract the right talent, from the onset. Start-ups often need to scale up quickly. However, most do not have recruitment teams spending quality time sourcing candidates.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 288 - Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: Mr. Mom

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 288 - Workplace Movie Hall of Fame - Mr. Mom. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. Listen to the shoe HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve and Trish debut a new series on the show: The Workplace Movie Hall of Fame and in the first installment, break down the 1983 classic Mr. Mom. Mr. Mom starring Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, and Martin Mull, made about $100M combined in Box Office sales and rentals.

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Engaging Millennials to Baby Boomers with a Single Philosophy

WeSpire

When it comes to employee engagement, businesses are grappling with the challenge of how to best engage Millennials, the largest generation in the U.S. labor force , in purposeful and rewarding work. A study by Holleran Consulting finds that baby boomers are the most engaged generation (53%), while Millennials are the least engaged generation (41%).

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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5 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About HR

HR Daily Advisor

In the past century, Human Resources has evolved from “Welfare Officer” and “Labor Manager” to the modern HR role, often known as “Chief People Officer” or “VP of People.” Even for HR leaders who hold on to the 1980s and 1990s title of “Human Resource Management,” the reality is that today HR leaders are no longer responsible for managing humans as resources, but, instead responsible for providing resources for humans.

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Marijuana Use By Workers Continues to Rise

TLNT: The Business of HR

Just over 1 in 25 American workers tested positive for drugs last year. It’s the highest rate in a dozen years, says Quest Diagnostics.

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Managing What is Mandated: Workers’ Compensation Insurance

Paychex

Keeping your employees safe at all times is a non-negotiable, but accidents can and do happen. That’s why workers’ compensation insurance is important, since it protects both you and your employees in the case of a workplace injury. Learn some workers' comp basics now.

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Can a LinkedIn invitation to connect violate an agreement not to solicit?

The Employer Handbook

Your former employee, the one whom you paid an extra boat load of money to sign a non-solicitation agreement, just sent a bunch of LinkedIn invites to connect with some of your current employees. Has he violated his non-solicitation agreement? That was the precise issue in a case decided late last month in Illinois. [cue music ]. In Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v.

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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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The Key to Managing People You Don’t Like

Evil HR Lady

When you get promoted to a managerial position, you don’t automatically gain managerial skills that allow you to easily treat people fairly. You’re still the same person you were the day before, and let’s face that—that probably means you don’t like everyone equally. In fact, you may have direct reports that you really can’t stand.

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Open Enrollment in 5 Easy Steps

Mercer

Open enrollment season is nearly here. Time to share how your company makes a difference in the lives of employees and their families, beyond a paycheck. The post Open Enrollment in 5 Easy Steps appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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New technology & an aging workforce mark period of transition for services firms

Replicon

Last year, the number of partners over the age of 50 in America’s CPA firms declined from the previous year for the first time ever. According to 2016’s Rosenberg Survey — a sort of annual industry report card — each size range of firms “experienced a decrease in partner ranks that ranged from 2% to […]. The post New technology & an aging workforce mark period of transition for services firms appeared first on Replicon.

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5 New Skills Communicators Need to Thrive

SocialChorus

Top Pain Points Felt by Today’s Communicators Source: 2017 Survey by SocialChorus & And Then Communications. Communications is getting more and more challenging by the day. As technology drives changes to the work environment, reaching all employees at once has become a major “pain point.” CEOs are increasingly relying on their communications teams to smooth the transition — 87% say that fostering employee alignment with strategic change is key, and 84% say increasing employee engageme

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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HR/Corporate Communications 101 – Tesla Edition

The Tim Sackett Project

You might have seen this pop up on your radar this past week, but there’s a good chance you didn’t because it was put to bed as soon as it came up! Some news agencies tried to rake up a story on Tesla having a sexual harassment issue in their California plant. Since the major issue at Uber, and big brand is now a media target for these types of stories.

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3 Things the Best Companies Know About Candidate Experience

The Muse

The way you treat candidates can make or break your business. We chatted with two experts about how to build an excellent candidate experience.

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Sears: How Not to Save A Sinking Ship

Workology

Sears Canada is in court this week trying to get approval to suspend benefits for retirees. They’ve already eliminated severance packages for full time works and drastically slashed all kinds. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How to find Caregivers with Boolean search strings

Workable

When recruiting Caregivers , expand your search of profiles and resumes by using Boolean search on Google. Modify our search strings examples to build your own commands around the skills and experience you’re looking for. Recruiting Caregivers with Boolean strings. Build search according to your needs: -job -jobs -sample -examples, to avoid irrelevant results. intitle: or inurl: operator, to include the word “resume” or “CV” in the page title or page url respectively.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Yes, a Reporter Got Kicked Out of Congress for a Sleeveless Shirt. Can We Stop the Whining?

Evil HR Lady

CBS News reports that a “young female reporter” was not allowed into the speaker’s lobby, which is outside the House Chamber in the Capitol because her shirt was sleeveless. “Apparently, the coverage of women’s toes and shoulders is important business for the current House leader,” whined Jezebel writer Stassa Edwards.

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Keeping candidates warm email

Workable

Building a transparent hiring process helps recruiters form trusting relationships with potential hires. Touch base with candidates to let them know: When you’ve received their application/assignment and are reviewing it. When you and your hiring manager are moving onto the next hiring stage. If there’s a delay in the hiring process. Emails keeping candidates warm should be brief and prompt candidates to follow up with any questions they may have.

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HR analytics: how London boroughs shared data and saved money

HR Zone

Business. HR analytics: sharing data and saving money.