Wed.Apr 26, 2017

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Why Hasn’t Employee Referral Automation Caught on? #SHRMTalent

The Tim Sackett Project

I spoke at SHRM Talent this week. One of the best corporate recruiting conferences around. Many people don’t believe me when I tell them, but the content, speakers, and audience are really engaging. TA Tech companies and vendors haven’t caught on yet to the new SHRM Talent. Most corporate TA pros I spoke to might not have million dollar budgets to spend, but every one of them had decisions making over tens and hundreds of thousands of TA budget dollars!

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A Business Curse Word For The Ages: Diversity

The Aristocracy of HR

010011000000 I’ve spent the better half of my career immersed in work environments that had to keep a watchful eye over things like diversity & inclusion. The work felt like something I should be proud of — seeing as though it is predicated upon providing equal opportunity to people who have often been outcast based […].

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When Numbers Fall: 4 Negative Effects of Employee Turnover

Hppy

The role played by employees in an organisation cannot be overemphasized; employees are the backbone of any business’s success. The quality of an organisation’s workforce determines the overall performance of such organisation; performance in the area of productivity, sales, quality of service delivery and the overall management of the organisation can all be traced to the quality of an organisation’s workforce.

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How Cascading Goals Impact Employee Performance

EmployeeConnect

It has been observed that employee performance appraisals are usually conducted without much thought for the business goals or needs. When goals are misaligned and not clear, it may limit both individual performances , as well as organisational performance thereby resulting in reduced engagement levels. Rarely do organisations cascade goals from the executive team down to its different departments and finally to its employees.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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Network Like A Pro With These 4 Simple Tips

Everwise

At best, networking can provide you with new professional contacts, job opportunities, and even friendships. At worst, it’s awkward and ineffective. But don’t worry. There are plenty of ways to ensure that your networking experience is a positive one. Whatever methods you choose to employ, remember above all what Charles Howell succinctly advises: “Be interested, not interesting!”.

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How to Attract and Retain Millennial Talent

TalentCulture

Millennials (members of Generation Y) are quickly becoming the majority of the workforce. Companies who want to stay relevant and competitive should adapt to this influx of new talent and new challenges. TalentCulture has previously addressed this topic in The Five Secrets to Retaining Millennial Talent and we want to continue that conversation. Our most recent survey of millennials in the US and Canada showed that career advancement opportunities, meaningful engaging tasks, and work culture/env

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The ethics and etiquette of employee poaching

Workable

Is employee poaching ethical? Yes. It is ethical, but it might not always be legal.* Here is why: * This post does not impart legal advice. It won’t help you cover your ass, but it could help you kick your competition’s. ‘Employee poaching’ is a misnomer. ‘Employee poaching’ sounds like an illicit animal hunt. The simple act of asking whether employee poaching is ethical reveals how deep into our psyches we let the animal metaphor creep.

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Some Thoughts on Recognition for Blue-Collar Workers.

The HR Capitalist

Recognition. We've been trained to believe that everyone needs it. Do they? I think so, but something that's lost in the recognition/engagement market is that for many blue collar workers, getting recognition in front of their peers actually makes them feel like a dork/brown-noser. Some notes from my life follow. My dad, Kent Dunn (RIP CKD), was a lifetime telephone/telecom lineman.

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Arianna Huffington Runs an HR Technology Company

Laurie Ruettimann

Did you know that Arianna Huffington runs an HR technology company? No? Neither did I until someone pointed out that she’s running a wellness company meant to reduce stress, eliminate burnout and improve work. Arianna wrote a book about burnout and her lack of sleep, and she made the rounds to a few HR events to talk about what it was like to be successful and exhausted.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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10 Business and Recruiting Reasons for Requesting Salary Information

TLNT: The Business of HR

The practice of firms either requesting or requiring applicants to provide their salary history is coming under tremendous pressure as part of the overall push for pay equity for women. As a result, there are many new and proposed laws about the salary history request, including outright bans.

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How Your Company Can Avoid Becoming the Next United Airlines

Evil HR Lady

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about United Airline’s decision to force a paying customer off a flight. The passenger refused to go, was dragged off by police, other people filmed the event and United lost hundreds of millions of dollars in value. This is a public relations nightmare. While you can’t control what will or will not go viral, you can take steps to help prevent a negative news story about your employees from circulating the web.

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A CFO Discusses Culture and Profits

TLNT: The Business of HR

Here’s something HR professionals don’t often hear: a CFO advocating for that company culture be measured as closely as financial performance.

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Culture – A Key Determinant Of Reputational Capital

Culture University

What is reputational capital? How important is an organization’s reputation? Why is it important? What is its value? What is a key determinant of an organization’s reputational capital? Let’s explore these questions. Caves and Porter, 1977, describe corporate reputational capital as both an intangible asset and a source of strategic competitive advantage that enhances a […].

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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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EEOC outlines 4 new approaches to fight workplace harassment

HR Morning

Workplace harassment is virtually an epidemic these days — the EEOC says a third of the nearly 100,000 charges it receives annually now include a harassment allegation. But the agency’s taking steps to help both workers and managers handle the problem. Part of the problem is employees have become more sensitive to harassing behavior. What the agency wants now.

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Work Travel Nightmares and How to Avoid Them

BambooHR

For thousands of organizations both big and small, travel is the best way to maintain contact with clients, satellite offices, and industry events. But for HR admins, just thinking about the issues that can arise while employees are on the road is enough to keep them up at night. In the interest of preserving your […]. The post Work Travel Nightmares and How to Avoid Them appeared first on.

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I’m too busy to hire. My mobile ATS is my only solace.

Workable

My professional success depends on hiring the right people at the right time. But I constantly feel like I have no time at all. This hiring-time-paradox plagued me throughout my career. Then I realized I could hire people on my phone using a mobile applicant tracking system ( ATS ) app. It’s been a total game changer for me. I’m still busy, but I have successfully hired 20 salespeople on my phone in the last 3 months.

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Top Trends Among the San Francisco Bay Area’s Best Workplaces

Great Place to Work

Silicon Valley workplaces are known for offering lavish employee perks like an in-house chef or free weekly massages. And that can be a challenge for great Bay Area companies that think they just don’t have the HR budget to compete. The good news is – our research shows perks don’t always make or break the employee experience. Great Place to Work’s findings from the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area demonstrate that a positive employee experience often comes down to simpler

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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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Pay the Friendly Way: United Airlines Ties Executive Compensation to Customer Satisfaction

Compensation Today

You’d have to live under a rock to be unaware of United Airlines’ recent PR challenges. From a passenger who was violently dragged from one of its planes to, most recently, the death of one of the world’s largest rabbits while aboard a United flight, obstacles abound. While they have done much to repair the damage, a recent development highlights how this is not only affecting their external customer satisfaction policies but their internal compensation policies as well.

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my intern told a horribly offensive joke at a meeting with other companies

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Every spring, the company I work for hires interns. This year I was assigned an intern to train and manage for the first time. Two days ago I had a project meeting at another site and my boss said I should bring my intern as it would be a good experience for him. Up until this point, my intern’s behavior had been nothing but professional.

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Rethinking employee engagement: 2 seldom-used tactics to lift morale

HR Morning

If you’re having trouble with employee engagement, you’re not alone. More than half of U.S. workers (63%) said they weren’t engaged at work, according to “Trends in Global Employee Engagement Study” by Aon Hewitt. Stats like these can keep HR pros up at night. And for good reason — many firms are spending a lot of time and resources on the whole employee engagement issue.

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my boss advertised my job without telling me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I started working part-time in communications for a small nonprofit startup (25 employees) six months ago. My boss, who is a very smart, talented woman in her late 20’s, started the nonprofit with her boyfriend and a couple of friends a few years ago, and it has been extremely successful. But she doesn’t have much experience managing employees who aren’t her personal friends.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Setting Priorities – THE POWER OF 3

Mercer

Setting priorities using the Power of “3” not only helps add value to your business but can help balance day-to-day employee needs. The post Setting Priorities – THE POWER OF 3 appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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The Beer Commercial Everyone Needs to See

Evil HR Lady

How divided are we as a world? It seems like we can no longer say “agree to disagree” and get on with life. We have to accuse people who disagree with us as being morally bankrupt , but usually with more offensive word choices. When we talk about diversity in hiring we talk about diversity in skin color and gender, but not about ideas. Now, I don’t actually drink alcohol, at all.

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New Employee Onboarding: Your Checklist

Namely

“Welcome! Please be sure to sign here, here, and last but not least, here.” There’s new hire orientation and then there’s employee onboarding—the former is a best practice, the latter is a compliance necessity. You’ll need employees to take time out of what is already a busy first day to sign documents proving who they are and how they’d like to be paid.

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Increased Cost-Sharing Makes Voluntary Benefits More Attractive

HR Daily Advisor

The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reports relatively modest average increases—3% (2016) and 4% (2015)—in the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums for family coverage. These limited premium hikes represent a significant slowdown in increase rates over the last decade or two. Are your employees dropping by to thank you? We didn’t think so.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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I got drunk and flipped out at a company dinner, talking about a weaknesses in a job interview, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I got drunk and flipped out at a company dinner. Friday night, we had my company’s annual dinner, which includes all management. My husband works for the same company and we are both at the same level. I drank entirely too much, and didn’t eat at all (food was terrible). I was fine during dinner, having fun and laughing, nothing out of control.

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10 Ways to Promote a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Zenefits

Now that it’s officially fall, you undoubtedly have been honing your carving skills. Carving jack o’ lanterns and carving turkeys are autumn standards, but have you thought about carving out personal time from your office life? “Work-life balance” is a hot buzzword amongst corporations these days, but acknowledging its importance and actually putting it into practice are two different things.

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5 Critical Steps to Take When You Quit a Job

45 Things

If a great opportunity comes along, you might jump at it. It could be because it offers more money, but it also might be because you feel it gives you a chance to do something you feel passionate about, or perhaps because you feel it's a more stable position. Whatever the reason, it's important that you make a stellar exit. Keep in mind that how you leave a position is often how you are remembered most by colleagues and your boss.

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