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Is it time to update your Employee Value Proposition?

Engage2Excel

The pandemic has caused many companies across all industries to stop and readjust. Everything from their business model to updating their customer value propositions. But what about the employees who are on the front lines of creating value for these customers? Properly aligning your employee value proposition (EVP) with what current and future workers want and need most is vital for attracting, motivating and retaining employees.

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clients don’t understand what I do, business casual for men, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, clients don’t understand what I do, business casual for men, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Does my team need in-person stuff for me to be a good manager? My office is switching to somewhat hybrid work for a trial period. Even when we are not on-site, other teams are meeting for lunches or happy hours to boost morale.

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Why You Should Consult An External Recruiter

HR Management

One of the hardest processes that a business has to exercise is the process of hiring new people. The time and money it takes to bring in someone, train them into a role and get them familiar with a role is often difficult to fit into the regular working day. Recruitment in-house can lead to some very expensive mistakes if your mind isn’t entirely on the ball, and if you don’t have an HR team, then the one thing you NEED to do is to consult an external recruiter.

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4 qualities recruiters should look for that aren’t always on resumes

PeopleStrategy

Employers should remember to include qualities aside from education, experience and job-specific skills when conducting a talent search. . The post 4 qualities recruiters should look for that aren’t always on resumes appeared first on PeopleStrategy.

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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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Why Managing Mental Health Matters in a Return-to-Work Plan

Pathways

As we emerge from the pandemic with promising vaccination rates, organizations are instituting return-to-work plans to get their employees back in the office. For human resource leaders, a return-to-work plan is essential to restoring aspects of company culture like collaboration and engagement.

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Intoo’s 2021 Workforce Trends Report Finds Companies’ Needs and Plans Are Not Aligned in Volatile Employment Market

Intoo USA

Intoo’s 2021 Workforce Trends Report found that employee productivity, satisfaction, and engagement overwhelmingly were maintained or increased during the pandemic, largely due to more flexibility in the workplace and additional employee-focused benefits. However, according to HR professionals surveyed across the U.S., most companies do not plan to maintain these conditions, even while talent retention, hiring, and engagement continue to be their biggest concerns for the months ahead.

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Skills today’s HR professionals need to stay relevant

PeopleStrategy

While some traditional HR skills are evergreen, professionals will still need to adopt new techniques as a new decade fast approaches. . The post Skills today’s HR professionals need to stay relevant appeared first on PeopleStrategy.

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INTOO’s 2021 Workforce Trends Report Finds Companies’ Needs and Plans Are Not Aligned in Volatile Employment Market

Intoo USA

INTOO’s 2021 Workforce Trends Report found that employee productivity, satisfaction, and engagement overwhelmingly were maintained or increased during the pandemic, largely due to more flexibility in the workplace and additional employee-focused benefits. However, according to HR professionals surveyed across the U.S., most companies do not plan to maintain these conditions, even while talent retention, hiring, and engagement continue to be their biggest concerns for the months ahead.

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HR Capitalist Chart - The Assessment Profile of a High Performing Recruiter.

The HR Capitalist

Hiring Recruiters is Hard - This Makes it Easier. When it comes to Talent Acquisition, there's one thing that can sneak up on TA and HR leaders - hiring recruiters for your own team. As good as you are at serving the needs of the businesses you support, having a strategy to land the best recruiting talent can be challenging. I've always used an assessment layer when we hire recruiters at our firm, so this Kinetix Labs paper, The Assessment Profile of a High-Performing Recruiter , outlines ever

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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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this is why you need a good cover letter

Ask a Manager

This post, this is why you need a good cover letter , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I wanted to offer some testimony on why cover letters are so important. I am currently reviewing applications for several positions with a government agency. Our online application system doesn’t require a cover letter, but applicants can add them if they want.

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How to Encourage Employees to Achieve Corporate Goals

6Q

On the road to career advancement, you’ve probably had to endure your boss’s discourse of lofty corporate goals. Optimising team meetings is the cornerstone of future success. Team members should not be bored at such events. On the contrary, you should infect them with personal enthusiasm. The annual meeting is behind us and what’s next?

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The Role of Financial Wellness in Your Workplace Retention Programs

Workology

Financial wellness programs have become an important employee benefit in recent years, and the emergence of COVID-19 has further increased demand for resources that can help employees handle their. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Welcoming Back Retired Employees

SHRM Resources

In a tight labor market, many employers are leaving no stone unturned when seeking to fill open positions—including hiring formerly retired employees.

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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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should I reach out to an employer who ghosted me?

Ask a Manager

This post, should I reach out to an employer who ghosted me? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m writing in hopes that you can help me make sense of an experience I had during my recent job search. Several months ago, I applied for a position at a prestigious organization in my field. That same day, I received an email from Jim to set up a 30-minute phone screening about my qualifications for the role.

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BLS: July Job Gains Exceed Expectations

SHRM Resources

U.S. employers added 943,000 new jobs in July, with hiring in hospitality and education leading the way, according to the latest employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 percent from 5.9 percent in June. Economists had forecast that employers added about 845,000 new jobs last month.

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“Hire Fast! No, Faster! Fire Fast!” The New Recruiting Axiom!

The Tim Sackett Project

Traditionally, talent acquisition pros would say it’s “Hire Slow, Fire Fast” I always thought that was stupid because the reality was for most corporations it was “Hire Slow, most likely Never Fire someone unless they kill another employee in front of you…” Or something like that! Okay, “It was Hire Slow, Fire Fast”, but we all know that never really worked.

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Building a Diverse Workforce Through Upskilling

Caliper

In today’s business environment, it can be challenging to build out a diverse and inclusive workforce. Many employers make the mistake of looking in the same place for all of their candidates, leading to a lack of diversified candidates in their talent pools. However, as we’ve seen over the past year, the need for diversity and inclusion within businesses is increasing.

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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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Moving your business to another state: 5 HR questions to ask

Insperity

When moving a business to another state, business leaders must consider issues beyond choosing a moving company. The most obvious concerns stem from the legal issues surrounding your current state’s laws and how different the laws are in your new location. However, there are other considerations that drive business leaders to decide on relocation, such as: Costs of operations and living Access to the talent pool in another location Competitive advantages of moving to another market.

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Clearing Confusion About Current COVID-19 Workplace Safety Rules

HRWatchdog

With COVID-19 cases back on the rise and mitigation strategies, like face covering mandates, back, it feels like we have jumped into a time machine to go back to the past. The issue now is that California is becoming a patchwork of different rules that is largely dependent upon where a business’ work is performed, which is causing quite a bit of confusion.

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how do I adjust to working 8 hours a day?

Ask a Manager

This post, how do I adjust to working 8 hours a day? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I’m currently a college student interning with a firm for the summer and doing office work for the first time in my life. I am a good student, entering my third year this fall, but I’m really struggling with work.

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How can HR take a more proactive role in social justice and inclusion?

HR Zone

Change HR's role in social justice and inclusion.

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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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4 reasons hybrid offices won’t work

Fast Company The Future of Work

The CEO of Neighbor insists that “as a result of one major unfortunate disaster, we have rashly set aside centuries of collective learnings about collaboration and teamwork.

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Face-to-Face Interviews: 8 Tips and Best Practices to Land Top Talent

BerniePortal

One of the final stages of the recruitment process is a face-to-face interview between a candidate and the hiring manager for a given role. While this step is almost always a given, many organizations fail to properly prepare interviewers, leading to subpar discussions that make hiring decisions more difficult than necessary. Yet by implementing a standardized process, HR professionals can ensure this doesn’t happen.

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4 reasons hybrid offices won’t work

Fast Company The Future of Work

The CEO of Neighbor insists that “as a result of one major unfortunate disaster, we have rashly set aside centuries of collective learnings about collaboration and teamwork.

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10 Tips For Supporting Yourself And Your Team | HR Cloud

HR Cloud

The pandemic that hit the whole world caught everyone off-guard. Many businesses were severely affected financially, which caused them to put some employees on unpaid leave or even have to let them go. Other companies needed to make drastic changes, such as cutting workdays or cutting down on operations. As an employee, whether you are reporting on-site or working remotely, the rapid changes that happened may have caused anxieties and stress.

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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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4 reasons hybrid offices won’t work

Fast Company The Future of Work

The CEO of Neighbor insists that “as a result of one major unfortunate disaster, we have rashly set aside centuries of collective learnings about collaboration and teamwork.

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Genetic Testing Benefits | The Source: Nick Bellanca

PlanSource

Return to resources. Demo Video: Genetic Testing Benefits | The Source: Nick Bellanca. On The Source, we caught up with Nick Bellanca, EVP of Group Benefits. Genomic Life has unique benefits offerings, researches genetic testing and raises awareness of genetic mutations like cancer. Their team is comprised of oncologists, geneticists, actuaries and professionals with backgrounds in benefits.

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4 reasons hybrid offices won’t work

Fast Company The Future of Work

The CEO of Neighbor insists that “as a result of one major unfortunate disaster, we have rashly set aside centuries of collective learnings about collaboration and teamwork.