Mon.Jan 23, 2017

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Analytics Is a Key Ingredient in HR’s Business Impact—But It's Not the Whole Recipe

Cornerstone On Demand

Picture this. It's a Friday morning, and five senior executives walk into a conference room to meet with the CEO: Operations, Sales, Finance, Marketing and Human Resources. The Operations VP starts with a dashboard clearly indicating improved operational efficiency, productivity gains and cost savings for the quarter, as well as projections for the remainder of the year.

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24 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

EmployeeConnect

How would you feel if you knew what the hiring manager is likely to ask you during your next upcoming interview? Well, we are certainly not mind readers but what we can do for you to try to list down the 24 common questions which are asked by recruiters. We are not trying to tell you that we are supplying you with a canned response for every probable interview question; however we would certainly recommend you spending some time with these suggested hints so that you are pretty comfortable whe

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10 Reasons Leaders Should Mentor Others

Everwise

In the process of writing Good to Great, Jim Collins’ team found that “great” companies have one thing in common: leaders who mentor others. This could be due to the benefits that mentorship has in terms of developing up-and-coming employees in the organization. However, while many senior managers will speak to the influence their mentors have had on their careers, many will also point to the role that mentoring others has played in their development.

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Celebrating HR Pros: Lisa Rosendahl

Trish McFarlane

Happy Tim Sackett Day! Unsure what I’m talking about? Well, it’s the one day each year that the HR blogging community takes time to select and recognize one unsung HR hero in our midst. The original selection was Tim Sackett. Since his recognition many years ago, he has continued to prove he has the HR chops and innovation and is someone to follow.

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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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News You Might Have Missed – January 24

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Yes, You Can Eliminate the Annual Review, Improve Engagement and Still Get Workforce Metrics. The good, the bad and the reality of performance reviews. 6 Reasons Why Business Leaders Should Implement Official Mentor Programs. Even Oprah had a mentor.

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Don’t Mess With Lisa Rosendahl!

What is Paul Thinking

HR is a tough job. And there are tough people who do this job. One of them is Lisa Rosendahl. Today is Tim Sackett Day – a day to recognize someone in HR who doesn’t usually get the props they deserve. Someone who makes the trains run and makes people happy. She’s a cross-fit enthusiast, mother, wife and knows how to shoot a gun. Yeah – Lisa is a veteran and knows 103 different ways to kill you with a zucchini (or so I’ve heard and I’m not one who wants to find out.).

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[Infographic] Top 10 Best Workplace Incentives

Hppy

Gourmet meals. Vacation bonuses. Game rooms. These are the latest and greatest perks companies are using to keep their employees happy. But are incentives like these actually worth it? The short answer is, yes! Here are three reasons employee perks are worthwhile: 1) Reduce turnover. Everyone has the occasional bad day. But when a bad day becomes months of work-induced stress, employees are more likely to seek happiness elsewhere—joining the 2.7 million people who quit their jobs each month.

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Rewire Your Workplace for the Digital World of Work

TalentCulture

Sometimes we forget how much the internet has changed our lives over the last 20 years. On a personal level, it’s enhanced the way we view the world and communicate with each other. But on a business level, it’s redefined the way we work and the tools we use to get work done. But even with advances in technology, many companies still struggle with information barriers and a limited understanding of organizational expertise.

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Tim Sackett Day Honors @lisarosendahl – Unsung HR Hero

The People Equation

Oh, boy, is she gonna hate this. There’s a reason some heroes are unsung: they hate the publicity. But I’m doing it anyway. My friend (and card-carrying introvert) Lisa Rosendahl is being honored as 2017’s Tim Sackett Day recipient. What is Tim Sackett Day, you ask? It’s a day selected by blogger and entrepreneur Laurie Ruettimann to honor the unsung heroes of the human resources world.

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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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#WorkTrends Preview: Benefits of Pets in the Workplace

TalentCulture

This week’s show is going to the dogs… specifically to dogs in the workplace. According to researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, it was discovered that pets in the workplace actually create a buffer between stressful situations, boost employee morale and increase productivity. This speaks fathoms about the value they bring not only to our personal lives, but to our professional ones, as well.

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LISA ROSENDAHL IS NEXT UP ON TIM SACKETT DAY! #TIMSACKETTDAY

The HR Capitalist

Today is Tim Sackett Day. It’s the day when HR bloggers honor someone who works in human resources and doesn’t get a ton of press. In the past, we’ve praised people like Kelly Dingee , Paul Hebert , Recruiting Animal and Victorio Milian. . It all started because my friend Tim Sackett was upset because he couldn't get on a list of the top HR Bloggers.

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Achieving gender balance is about men - not women

HR Zone

Culture. Achieving gender balance is about men - not women.

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How a CRM Can Help You Hire Faster and Better

TLNT: The Business of HR

Today’s labor market has become candidate-driven. With multiple job opportunities to choose from and easy access to information about companies and their employment brand, candidates act more and more like consumers.

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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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Hiring Students is a Win-Win-Win Scenario

Ceridian

By Gerry Hawkins, Mobile Development Manager, Ceridian. The value of Co-op and Internship programs go beyond just the benefits the students receive, their teams and the companies who hire them also win. Students gain work experience, earn some income, and learn; their team gets a boost to productivity, a shot of enthusiasm, and the benefit of a fresh perspective on the problems and challenges they face; while the company’s recruitment efforts and employer brand benefit from positive co-op terms.

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Stop Saying “No” and Show Them You Can Say “Yes”

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This is the first in a series of five articles from thought leader Jason Lauritsen that will post on Mondays through Feb. 20. Called the 2017 HR Hitlist, each article outlines one practice or behavior that HR needs to eliminate in 2017 and how to do it. The articles originally appeared on the Small Improvements blog.

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Honoring Lisa Rosendahl on Tim Sackett Day! #timsackettday

Laurie Ruettimann

Today is Tim Sackett Day. It’s the day when HR bloggers honor someone who works in human resources and doesn’t get a ton of press. In the past, we’ve praised people like Kelly Dingee , Paul Hebert , Recruiting Animal and Victorio Milian. Today we are honoring Lisa Rosendahl. Lisa was nominated for this honor by a colleague who said, “I’m voting for Lisa Rosendahl because she’s an original in the HR blogging world, but kinda off the radar now, just doing her th

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Show Them You Care By Asking This Question

TLNT: The Business of HR

Want to keep your top talent happily engaged and on board for the long term? Want to inspire your other employees to reach their full potential? It’s easy! All you have to do is show ’em that you care.

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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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Best practices for using employee engagement pulse surveys

CultureAmp

Gathering employee feedback is the first step towards making more informed decisions that affect your people. Employees can more easily contribute to the people operations process when there is an outlet for their thoughts and opinions, like an engagement survey. However, once organizations begin running engagement surveys, it can be alluring to survey continuously.

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How to Work with a Jerk

Workforce Software

Unpleasant coworkers can be difficult and affect your performance. Here are 5 steps you can take to regain your productivity and dignity as an employee.

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I'm Not Talking To You

NoExcusesHR

Time moves fast, right? We all seem to be hustling harder than ever, and the months and years keep pace as time literally roars past us. When I started blogging in 2010, I hoped I could avoid flaming out in several months and not completely embarrass myself in the process. Now, more than 700 posts later, I've finally figured something out. So much of what I focus on here at NoExcuses.and so much of what I say in real life.is often not intended for anyone but me.

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Second-round interview questions

Workable

Looking for second interview questions to ask candidates as part of the interview process? This template offers employers examples of good second interview questions. Make sure that you are interviewing the best candidates. Sign up for Workable’s 15-day free trial to hire better, faster. What questions to ask candidates in a second interview. The hiring process usually includes a few stages: After an initial candidate screening , the second round of interviews takes place.

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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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Employee Engagement Impacts All Aspects of Businesses – from Top to Bottom Line

Total Employee Recognition

Employees want to feel appreciated. They want to feel that they are recognized for their work. They want to feel that they are engaged in the company that they work for. That sounds like a lot of feelings. But how does that help when it comes to dollars and cents? How does engagement add up to profits?

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On the balance between data and people

Steve Boese

Quick shot for a busy Monday. If your organization is one of the many that has or has implemented or has at least considered implementing a more data intensive and analytical approach to the HR and talent management, then I recommend taking a quick look at the comments from a young leader in another discipline where data and analytics have completely changed talent management - the world of professional soccer.

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Employee Engagement Is Easier Than You Think

Vibecatch

Still think you don’t need an employee engagement plan? Think about this: Unengaged employees cost US businesses over $500 billion per year in lost revenue. Even just one unhappy employee can put a wrench in all of your best efforts to improve office culture. While it may seem like a lot of effort, an effective employee engagement plan is really just about opening the lines of communication and creating an operational mission that reflects this.

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should you send job interview thank-you notes through email or postal mail?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have an interview next week for a position at a small company in the middle of relocating. The owner already moved to the area where I’m located and will be the one conducting the interview, and we’re meeting up at a coffee shop as they haven’t picked a location for the new office yet. I’ve been told that a hand-written thank you note is the way to go after the interview, thanking them for their time, but obviously I can’t go asking after his home

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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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Employee Engagement Is Easier Than You Think

Vibecatch

Still think you don’t need an employee engagement plan? Think about this: Unengaged employees cost US businesses over $500 billion per year in lost revenue. Even just one unhappy employee can put a wrench in all of your best efforts to improve office culture. While it may seem like a lot of effort, an effective … Continue reading Employee Engagement Is Easier Than You Think.

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What Is Micro-Clanning at Work?

Workology

You may have noticed a trend that has been developing over the last couple of years: people are banding together in small groups of common interests. The anxiety that many people are feeling in today’s world have them seeking comfort zones and groups to lesson this anxiety. This is a trend that Faith Popcorn, futurist […] Source.

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The Modern Application Process

Lumesse

The Modern Application Process Published date: January 23, 2017 Home. Meet our Bloggers. About Us. Contact Us. email facebook linkedin twitter google+ Image is everything when it comes to companies attracting a Millennial crowd, and applications are no exception. With a younger generation of incoming employees, bars must be set to new heights. The Millennial employee is both concerned with the job we’re doing and who we’re doing it for.