Fri.Jan 26, 2018

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Someone Is Banking on You Being Lazy!

The Tim Sackett Project

I work in an industry where I’ve been told for a decade technology is going to take my job. The staffing industry is a half a trillion dollar industry worldwide. The entire industry is built on us banking on the fact that someone in corporate TA is going to be lazy. Ouch! That should sting a little! So, I don’t really bank on you being lazy at my company.

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HR Pros Need to Build Freelancer Networks [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Being a consultant or freelancer really wasn’t cool back when I became one. If you went to a professional association meeting and said you were a consultant, people immediately made the incorrect assumption that you were going to start a sales pitch. Sadly, it may have been because it happened all too often. Thankfully, today’s consulting world is different.

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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. How to Profit From the Ultra-Tight Job Market Right Now -- by Geoff Colvin. 2. Roundup: 4 News-bites That Will Make You The Brainiest Recruiter in Town -- by Annalena Morris. 3.

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How Do Business Owners Get Paid? Meet The Owner's Draw

Justworks

In many businesses, employees are paid wages or a salary, and that compensation is subject to income tax withholding and employer taxes. But sole proprietors, partners in a partnership, and the members of a limited liability company are not paid wages because they are considered to be self-employed. So how do such individuals take money out of the business?

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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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[Infographic] How To Build A Happy Remote Team

Hppy

Managing your team’s happiness and engagement levels can be a challenge even when they all sit within a few feet of your desk, so how easy can it be to do when they can be on different continents, working in different time zones and are never available for a face to face discussion? This is the task facing more and more employers and managers as the internet makes it easier and more popular for workers to operate from anywhere in the world.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Unleashing the Power of Your People

TalentCulture

What’s going on in HR tech around the world? What are global leaders doing to unleash the full potential of […]. The post #WorkTrends Recap: Unleashing the Power of Your People appeared first on TalentCulture.

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7 Keys to Building a World Class Onboarding Experience.

TLNT: The Business of HR

Your CEO probably doesn’t wake up in a cold sweat thinking about your organization’s onboarding program, but maybe (s)he should. It shocks me that onboarding doesn’t have a more elevated importance in many organizations and isn’t more carefully created to support an organization’s culture. Often, the connection between onboarding and strategy isn’t clear, and details about what makes that organization unique aren’t discussed in detail, if at all, and onboarding is deemed ‘just’ training … a nece

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The Darwinian Nature of Candidates Seeking Remote Work.

The HR Capitalist

We've noticed something interesting on the recruiting trail at Kinetix. We're a recruiting company and from time to time, we seek to fill remote-based positions, both for ourselves and our clients. That's not unusual, because I'm sure a lot of you have remote-based roles you have to fill. What's interesting is the way people talk about the expectations of a remote-based role when they're interviewing. .

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Get the perfect candidate: 4 ways to write more effective job descriptions

HR Morning

When it comes to job postings, the search process can be a little overwhelming. And when candidates are overwhelmed, it winds up hurting the hiring companies. . Applicants today are faced with creative, wordy descriptions of companies looking for motivated individuals who can “hit the ground running” in an “exciting and fast-paced environment.” The problem is, job-seekers don’t know what that means.

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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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Soft skills interview questions

Workable

Beyond job knowledge and technical skills, good candidates should demonstrate a set of soft skills, like communication, adaptability and collaboration, to thrive in the workplace. The following interview questions will help you assess these skills during interviews. Why you should evaluate candidates’ soft skills. Imagine you want to hire an account manager.

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How to Utilize Data to Retain Top Talent

SutiHR

Data is a valuable asset – it helps employers make objective, data-backed decisions that are highly accurate. HR data can provide HR teams a number of useful insights to base talent decisions on. Real-time HR data makes hiring decisions, appraisal and promotion decisions, training and development inputs, and succession planning, more evidence-based and objective.

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Did You Ask These Questions Before Designing Your Online Training Module

Workology

Online trainers tend to spend many sleepless nights creating and perfecting the contents of their training modules. From wrestling with the design to incorporating appealing images, they do it all. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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The Benefits of Using a Personality Assessment in the Hiring Process

Birkman International

Resumes, references, and interviews are the standard selection pieces for the hiring process. Resumes give you a summary of a candidate's work history, references give you an idea of a candidate’s work ethic, and an interview gives you a sense of a candidate’s communication style. But how can you gauge what is going to motivate a candidate to perform at their best or how well they will fit into your organization?

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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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Here’s Why Dealerships Need to Focus on Fixed Ops Now More Than Ever

Hireology

Following several years of ever-increasing growth, in 2017, experts predicted new vehicle sales have plateaued, and will likely decline in the coming years. Decreased sales, coupled with diminishing profit margins, mean dealers need to look beyond vehicle sales alone to maintain profitability in today’s competitive retail automotive market. So how can your dealership set itself up success given the expected new vehicle sales decline?

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Employee Engagement, Work-Life Balance Key to Reducing Healthcare Burnout

Total Employee Recognition

If you’re human, chances are you’ve suffered from burnout at least once in your professional career. But, the good news is it probably never put anyone’s life in jeopardy. However, the same can’t be said for workers in the healthcare industry. At any moment, their decisions can make the difference between life and death. Unfortunately, burnout rates in the medical industry are among the highest on Earth.

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3 essential elements of a powerful talent strategy

Papirfly

Are your efforts to bring on board the brightest and best talent falling short? Chances are, your strategy is missing something. To help you fill in the gaps, here are three essential elements to give your talent acquisition strategy the boost it needs….

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5 Benefits of Regular Performance Reviews

Criteria Corp

Typically, performance reviews are thought of as once-a-year meetings to discuss an employee’s performance, objectives, and career plan over the last year. However, a new trend in employee review techniques is starting to gain traction in the form of continuous performance check ins. Continuous performance check ins are regularly scheduled meetings, often weekly or monthly, that provide a time for managers and their employees to discuss any questions, concerns, or ideas they have.

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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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Kitchen Manager job description

Workable

Use this Kitchen Manager job description template to hire qualified candidates for your restaurant. Feel free to customize job duties and requirements based on your needs. Kitchen Manager responsibilities include: Manage kitchen staff and coordinate food orders. Supervising food prep and cooking. Checking food plating and temperature. The post Kitchen Manager job description appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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HR to Vietnamese job applicant, ‘If you no speak English, I will send you home’

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Pixabay.com. Filed under: WTH HR. I don’t have a SHRM-CP or a SHRM-SCP. Heck, I don’t have any HR certifications whatsoever. All I have is my Juris Doctorate. Googles “Juris Doctorate” Yes, that’s what I have. And I specialize in employment law to boot. At least that’s what it says in my email signature.

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What Pay Range Data Can and Can’t Tell You

TLNT: The Business of HR

Many pay surveys routinely collect and report salary range minimums, midpoints and maximums. This data can provide helpful context, but it is also at risk for being misapplied by practitioners who haven’t the training or experience to correctly interpret the information.

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open thread – January 26-27, 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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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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Medical marijuana in prescription drug plans: Is it inevitable?

HR Morning

According to some experts in the healthcare industry, it’s not a question of if medical marijuana will be reimbursed through employer prescription drug plans, it’s a question of when.

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5 Core HR Functions That Benefit from Automation

Unicorn HRO

Business has long divided their operations between revenue generating centers and cost centers as a way to measure performance in the different departments. Revenue centers generate sales by providing goods or services while expense centers are responsible for support functions. Sales and marketing are the most common of revenue generating activity while administration and facilities management are considered cost centers.

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FREE Webinar: What You Need to Know About the 2017 EEO-1 Report. Prepare for March 31 Deadline!

Berkshire Associates

Duration: 15 minutes Cost: Free Recorded: January 2018 Presenter: Cindy Karrow, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Senior Consultant, Berkshire Associates. Listen to Cindy Karrow, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, a Senior HR Consultant at Berkshire Associates, with over 27 years of industry experience, give an overview of what employers need to know about the EEO-1 Report. View this webinar in preparation for the March 31, 2018 filing deadline.

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Cafe Classic: Competition Is Good, Except When It’s Not - The Difference between Incentives and Recognition

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Incentives and Recognition are key elements of a total reward portfolio, but they work in different ways and are better suited to different purposes. Who better to illuminate the differences between them with clear information and examples than our own Derek Irvine? I’m often asked, “What’s the difference between incentives and recognition?

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A Seat At The Table: HR's Vital Role In Modern Businesses

HR leaders play a pivotal role in shaping the success of modern businesses. But to truly become a vital, thriving part of the business, the most successful HR departments adopt the strategic mindset and approach of “future-ready” companies. This guide will explore four strategic tactics for your people strategy to help secure HR’s place as a critical part of the business.

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Is a Leave Ever a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Dear Littler : One of our key employees was injured in a serious car accident. She qualified for, and took, a full 12 weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to recover. She was supposed to return to work on Monday but now says she’ll need to take at least another month off for physical therapy as a “reasonable accommodation.” Must we grant her this leave?

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Should Employee Activity Outside of Work Affect Their Employment?

ADP

When it comes to applying the employee discipline policy to off-duty actitivies, HR professionals must be informed and focused on prevention to avoid risk.

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Minnesota Tip-Sharing Decision Sets Table for More Wrongful Discharge Claims

HR Daily Advisor

Recently, a divided Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a restaurant worker who was fired for refusing to share tips with his coworkers can sue for wrongful discharge even though the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act (MFLSA) doesn’t expressly authorize such claims. . Fair or Not Fair, Employee Won’t Share. Minnesota’s tip-sharing law bars employers from requiring an employee to share a gratuity he received with other employees or contribute to a tip-sharing pool.