Tue.Aug 08, 2017

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Over-Automated Recruitment Process May Be Turning Off Potential Talent

HR Daily Advisor

New research findings—released by Randstad US –offers a look at job seekers’ perceptions, attitudes, and expectations of the job search process. According to the findings, while most candidates find value in technology, they are frustrated when it supersedes the human aspect of the process. In fact, 82% of respondents agree they are often frustrated with an overly automated job search experience.

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Your Internal Job Postings May Need a Refresh

HR Bartender

One of the things I’ve noticed lately is the number of articles about external recruitment but not much about internal. External recruitment strategies include mobile and social , advertising, job fairs, etc. Even the employee referral program is an external sourcing strategy. The two methods of internal sourcing that come to mind are job postings and job bidding.

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Top 4 Areas Where Leaders Can Increase Employee Engagement

ATD Human Capital

I believe that leaders are responsible for creating the work environment that brings out the very best in people. The most effective leaders I work with (and have worked for in the past) strive to constantly inspire higher levels of performance from their teams. Simultaneously they make every effort to retain their most important employees over the long-term.

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Futureproof Your Organization with These 8 Manager Effectiveness Metrics

Visier

Editor’s note: The organization of the future will be more agile and flexible, requiring a new team structure to support these characteristics. As such, the role of manager will evolve into two distinct types: administrative and mission. Whether your organization is ready to adapt these new roles or wishes to coach current managers to be more effective, this updated article provides the key metrics you need to measure their success by. .

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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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Cartoon Coffee Break: Office Lunch

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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5 Growth Conversations to Engage and Retain Your Employees - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

One of the biggest reasons people leave jobs is to seek opportunities for growth. According to Glassdoor , job seekers ask about growth opportunities more than any other benefit. They also found that career growth was the top reason people leave their jobs. An employee’s perception of his or her own personal and professional growth is also one of the top predictors of engagement.

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5 Ways to Empower Employees to Do Their Best Work

Achievers

A business or team can only be as successful as the sum of its parts. There are several companies with effective leaders that struggle with employee turnover or poor performance. According to one Gallup poll , 24 percent of employees who aren’t in a leadership or management role feel disconnected from the company or team. This can decrease employee satisfaction, which significantly affects performance; if employees no longer care about their job, why would they care about doing it well?

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Find Out the Sweet Spot for Cognitive HR

Hppy

Many experts agree on the fact that workplace has changed but HR methods mostly remain the same. The reason is outdated policies and tools used HR professionals that don’t meet the needs of the personnel and don’t support effective workforce decision making. One solution for solving this critical problem is incorporating human-like intelligence in tools and apps used by HR.

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The DOL, HSAs and the New Fiduciary Rule

ACA Times

After numerous delays, the Department of Labor put its final fiduciary rule, which was issued on April 8, 2016, into partial effect on June 9 this year, but with enforcement full implementation on January 1, 2018. The Final Rule, which explicitly reiterates its scope to cover Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) , raises new potential issues for HSAs by the Final Rule’s expansion of “investment advice fiduciary” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

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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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Case Study: How One Healthcare Agency Uses Appreciation to Improve Business and Patient Outcomes (#greatness17)

Lighthouse

This week I had the distinct pleasure of seeing Dana Ullom-Vucelich , Chief HR and Ethics Officer with Ohio Living, speak about her company’s employee recognition program and how it has evolved over time. Additionally, she focused heavily on data that proves the ROI of the company’s investment in employee appreciation and recognition. (Full disclosure, the company uses O.C.

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News You Might Have Missed – August 8

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Analyze THIS: What HR Experts Shared in July. Looking for some HR advice? Follow Ben Eubanks on Twitter to get the career insights and answers you’re looking for. We’ve rounded up a few of our favorite blog posts that Ben wrote last month.

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Here’s Why Insurance Renewals Are Necessary For Your Company

Justworks

Whether you’ve done insurance renewals before or it’s your first time, there’s always something new to consider during this period. During renewals, health insurance providers assess your policy and determine the appropriate pricing plans for the following year. Health insurance companies renew plans annually. As an employer, you’ll receive new pricing plans and decide whether to auto-renew your current plan or to select new benefits.

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Science Has Discovered 8 Ways You're Blowing It When Interviewing Job Candidates

Entrepreneur

Looking for a job is nerve wracking. The person doing the hiring is just as stressed.

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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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The 3 Little Pigs: A Business Story

Trish McFarlane

Once upon a time, there were three little pigs. Characters. Building Materials. Action. Reaction. Confidence Level. Ability to Create Happy Ending. 1st Pig. Straw/ hay. Built a house. Freaked out when house was blown down. Low. Extremely low. 2nd Pig. Sticks. Built a house. Freaked out when house was blown down. Medium. Low. 3rd Pig. Bricks. Built a house.

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An Open Letter to You The Worker

TalentCulture

Dear Hard and Dedicated Worker, I am writing to you today as our data highlights that you have not been spending time taking care of yourself. While we acknowledge that you do good work, we also want you to remember that you need to rest and take time to treat yourself with tender loving care. In case you got too busy being an exceptional worker, we wanted to remind you that you need to make time for yourself every day to do what brings you joy.

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7 Tips to Increase Pay Transparency in Your Organization

Compensation Today

Pay transparency has increased in prevalence over the past few years, and with good reason. Transparent pay practices lead to higher satisfaction and lower intent to leave, according to a 2015 PayScale study. Transparency also improves performance, according to this study in a restaurant setting. With so many compensation data sources available to employees, they are increasingly coming to meetings and interviews equipped with data, expecting to have very open conversations about pay.

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Will Facebook One Day Monitor Your Employees’ Mood?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Journalist Kari Paul wrote an article in Vice about how creepy it was when Facebook’s analytics decided she was depressed and started feeding her ads on depression. Creepy yes, but if you’re interested in analytics you must have a little guilty curiosity as to whether similar analytics could be used to monitor employee mood.

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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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Unconscious bias in action: four of the most common bias-related issues in people decisions

HR Zone

Development. 4 common bias-related issues in people decisions.

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Boost Productivity With Fidget Spinners and These 4 Other Ideas

TLNT: The Business of HR

Are you looking to improve employee productivity in your organization? If so, you’ve probably done a lot of research and realized that this performance management consideration is a dynamic field.

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UW Study On $15 Minimum Wage Bad News For Liberals.

The HR Capitalist

If there's anything that will get a healthy dinner conversation going (or get people fighting), it's the idea of the $15 minimum wage. A better wage for core entry-level workers is hard to argue against as a reasonable person. I want it to be true as a moderate, but my business focus always makes me wonder - is it actually a good idea? This is the problem being a moderate.

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Do employers take hourly workers for granted? 3 ways to prevent engagement problems

HR Morning

The turnover rate among hourly workers is a whooping 49% on average, according to some research. When turnover is that high, it almost always means engagement is precipitously low. And in many cases, engagement among hourly workers is suffering because execs tend to focus their efforts on salaried staffers and, in particularly bad cases, actually look at hourly workers as a renewable resource that can always be replaced.

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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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Culture – Four Keys to Avoiding Failure

Culture University

When it comes to the complex topic of culture, all you can do is hope. In my experience with some of the largest companies in their respective industries, hope is the flawed strategy most commonly deployed. Sometimes the strategy of “hope for the best” is engaged on a conscious level and most of the time […]. The post Culture – Four Keys to Avoiding Failure appeared first on Culture University.

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5 practical pointers for managing uncommon workplace policies

Insperity

It seems offices everywhere are loosening up. Ping pong tables, in-office cocktail hours and bring-your-dog-to-work days are on the rise as businesses try to attract and retain top talent. But before you rush to rebuild the break room to add a free juice bar, stop. Uncommon workplace policies require as much careful consideration as any other office perk – and sometimes even more.

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my boss complains about me to my parents, my boss doesn’t want me to work while traveling, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss complains about me to my parents. I’m a young 23-year-old Australian. I’m employed in a cleaning-based role at a local school. My employer is having a few issues with my work ethic and what not (apparently), and has informed my parents about this, rather than bringing the issue up with me directly.

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Give Me Your Soul

NoExcusesHR

Loyal - "unswerving in allegiance" Then There was a time when employees were thankful to have a good job, working for a good company, one that would 'take care' of them for the duration of their career. It seems to me however, there was an imbalance between the organization and the employees who worked hard for those companies to grow and prosper. It's as if the popular mindset of employers as all-powerful beings that controlled one's entire future was real.

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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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What Are Your Employees’ Superpowers?

Workology

When he’s not firing me up, my ten old son often stops me cold. He brought me something the other day…a cape. “You deserve this, mom,” he said, “you’re my superhero.” After my heart was done swelling and my eyes quit leaking, I asked him how on earth I could possibly be such an extraordinary thing. He […] Source.

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4 Ways Your Performance Review Is Destroying Teamwork!

Engagedly

Employee performance review is one of the most popular practices for evaluating employee performance. We have written various articles on our blog that talk about the importance of employee performance reviews and can help you get familiar with […].

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Does Gamification Really Improve Employee Engagement?

Total Employee Recognition

Over the past few years, you’ve probably heard a lot about the power of gamification. High-profile articles by Entrepreneur, Forbes, and even The Guardian have all praised gamification’s ability to improve workforces around the globe. Still, a number of employers question whether this approach actually works when it comes to engaging employees. Today’s article addresses this very question.