Tue.Oct 30, 2018

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The Missing Part of Your Employee Learning and Development Strategy: Strengths Discovery

15Five

Welcome back to Talk Nerdy To Me , 15Five’s academic blog series where we get nerdy, talk to the world’s best thinkers, and break down the latest academic research that you can apply to your workplace. According to Gallup , employees who use their strengths every day are 6x more likely to be engaged, 8% more productive, and 15% less likely to quit their jobs.

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Steps to building your own high-performance culture

AssessTEAM Performance Management

“Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield.” — Marcus Buckingham. When people talk about aspects that make a company a great place to work, the main factors that most of them take into account are compensation paid to employees and brand value of the company. Senior professionals and managers want to believe that brand and salary are the magnets that pull people to their organizations.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | HR Complaints

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. Where should employees turn when they have a complaint against HR? Our Evil HR Lady weighs in.

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Sirenum Adds Curt Hopkins to Board of Directors

Sirenum

Seasoned C-level tech executive joins board of London-headquartered workforce management platform to support corporate development, fund raising, and global expansion Sirenum, the leading provider of cloud-based workforce management to the temporary staffing industry, is proud to announce the addition of Curt Hopkins to its Board of Directors. With more than 25 years of executive experience.

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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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Cybersecurity Talent Shortage: Why HR Needs to Map Unconventional Career Paths

Visier

“Have you ever considered a career in hacking?”. This may be an unusual way to start a career coaching conversation in most workplaces, but it’s an important question to ask employees from non-technical fields–and women in particular. Increasingly, businesses of all types need more professionals–from ethical hackers to application security engineers–who can effectively ward off and respond to cyber attacks.

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A Total Talent Approach to Women in Tech

Allegis Global Solutions

Despite advancements in other areas of education and a record number of women attending college, fewer and fewer women graduate with degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Of course, large employers and global RPOs have been wringing their hands about this issue, which has come more to the forefront as diversity’s obvious impact on the bottom line becomes clearer the more it’s studied.

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Is your business ready for Gen Z employees?

PeopleStrategy

Young professionals are taking over today’s workforce. According to data from the Pew Research Center, Millennials make up more than one-third of American workers today. But Millennials are old news. Are you ready for the next generation of professionals? Post-millennials, sometimes called Generation Z, are already active in American companies, making up 9 percent of the U.S. workforce. “Post-millennial professionals account for 9 percent of the U.S. workforce.” It’s pivo

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heading off pregnancy talk at work, my office thinks the Christmas party is secular, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. How can I head off pregnancy talk at work? I’m a sales executive in a small department of about 20 people in a larger organization. My spouse is also in the same firm. We have recently found out I am pregnant and are very happy about it. A few of our friends and immediate superiors know. They have been wonderful and supportive.

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11 HR Influencers You Need to Follow

Namely

In the HR profession, it pays to keep good company. Whether you need to “phone a friend” about a workplace curveball or just want to exchange tips and tricks, maintaining a strong professional network can make all the difference in your career. Don’t know who to connect with first? We’ll help you get started. Below we’ve highlighted some of our favorite HR influencers, their areas of expertise, and where you can find them online.

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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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Tech interviews simplified with HackerEarth FaceCode

Hacker Earth

The all-new FaceCode is the result of extensive customer feedback and tons of engineering hours. This latest addition to our technical recruitment platform allows you to seamlessly conduct remote technical interviews. What is FaceCode? FaceCode is an online interviewing platform that lets you conduct remote video interviews to evaluate the programming skills of candidates without compromising on the interviewing experience.

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The First Step to Great Leadership is Self-Awareness

TLNT: The Business of HR

“While I was waiting for my interview in a reception area, a pizza delivery man, a young guy dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, carried in a heavy pack of pizza boxes and water bottles. He struggled with the door. I jumped up, but before I could help him, a receptionist let him through.

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Leadership vs. Authority: The Critical Difference

BambooHR

While crafting a welcome packet for our annual virtual convention, HR Virtual Summit, we realized we were missing an official description for one of the BambooHR company values, “Lead from Where You Are.” That came as a surprise, especially considering how critical we feel this value is to our growth, our culture of shared responsibility, […].

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Your Next Best Hire Could Be a Discovery-Driven Candidate

TLNT: The Business of HR

The discovery-driven approach to a career yields a resume that is unconventional and might be overlooked by HR personnel accustomed to looking for specific, albeit limited, markers of accomplishment and capacity, such as years of higher education or experience in consistent roles. But discovery-driven candidates have backgrounds that don’t always fall in line with a typical linear career path.

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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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How to Become SHRM Certified with SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP

Workology

Join us on 12/6/18 for a webinar on how to prepare for the SHRM certification exam. Click here to register. If you’re investigating how to become SHRM certified, you’ll want to know the different types of certifications, the cost and deadlines, as well as the best way to prepare yourself to take the certification exams. […] Source.

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Four Diversity And Inclusion Disruptors In The Future Of Work

Forbes Coaches Council

The future of work presents challenges unlike we’ve ever seen, and it requires more collective intention and varied inputs to ensure the future is better than the past.

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Brené Brown on Daring Leadership in the Workplace

Rise

In “ Dare to Lead ,” Brené Brown presents a playbook for daring greatly and rising strong at work. The social psychologist, known for her viral TED talk on “The Power of Vulnerability” and her research on vulnerability and courage, synthesizes her work towards redefining leadership and organizational management in the workplace through a philosophy of daring leadership.

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HR 101: Losing the War For Talent? Try This Strategy

TLNT: The Business of HR

We’re living a whole new world. One where there is more accessibility and awareness than we’ve ever seen before. And while this may seem to be positive (and in many cases it is), this increase of information isn’t always good. There isn’t so much a war for talent as there is a struggle for information. Real, all-encompassing information.

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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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how much grooming do I really need to do?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes; I am a 30-year-old feminist raised by hippies. I’m in a reasonably mainstream field that is fairly male-dominated. With lots of work over many years, I am now competent at basic hygiene and professional dress, mostly. I can do business clothes of any level. I shave my pits and any leg anyone might see. But I am about to graduate grad school and started to read your awesome blog and now realize I am so lost on some of the finer details when it comes to necessary grooming fo

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SamSam: Targeted Ransomware Attacks Continue

Symantec

Ransomware group remains highly active in 2018, focussing mainly on organizations in the U.S.

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Butler job description

Workable

Use this Butler job description template to advertise your job openings and attract qualified candidates for your organization. Butler responsibilities include: Providing personalized service to guests. Having a deep knowledge of all hotel amenities for guests. Working with all departments (housekeeping, food services, etc.) to meet guests’ needs. The post Butler job description appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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Three Corporate Career Site Examples with Feedback

Survale HR

Looking for corporate career site examples that utilize candidate feedback? You’re in the right place. The corporate career site is often the most underperforming asset a recruiting organization possesses. I’ve written before that only 1% or so of candidates who visit the corporate career site ever apply for a job. Yet, you have the other 99% researching your company, searching for jobs, and experiencing your employer brand.

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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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Dilemma of the Month: Negative Feedback From Direct Reports

Evil HR Lady

I am a new manager with four direct reports. I have always had great performance reviews and am in good standing at my company. Recently, my boss held a meeting with my direct reports where they filled out a survey about my performance as their manager. The results were not anonymous, and when my boss shared them with me, he disclosed that “someone” mentioned I wasn’t allowing my team to learn, but rather I was micromanaging them.

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Solving HR’s Problems with a Chatbot

HRExecutive

With today’s intelligent tools, the smaller the problem, the better the answer. To the extent that you can define, describe and contain the thing you want to apply “intelligence” to, the more likely it is a solution that is feasible. This is particularly true with chatbots. They work best when tackling small, simple problems. There are two primary flavors of chatbot: scripted and unscripted.

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10 productivity myths you shouldn’t believe

Fast Company The Future of Work

The most productive people are early risers. You should learn to eliminate procrastination. Stress is terrible for productivity. You’ve probably come across many of these statements in productivity articles ( some of which were probably in  Fast Company ). But as psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and time management expert Laura Vanderkam told the audience at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, some of the most commonly cited productivity principles are not always correct.

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Are You Unconsciously Sabotaging Your Employee Wellness Programs?

ADP

Your workers want employee wellness programs, but are you unintentionally undermining their effectiveness? Here's how to regain healthy balance.

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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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Survival Guide: Politics and Work

HR Examiner

If the Super Bowl costs US companies a billion dollars in lost productivity, imagine what the tab is for politics. Trying to keep work and politics separate is about as easy as balancing work and life. There’s a lot going on and it won’t calm down for awhile. The current issues touch people deeply. Political issues are affecting organizations as companies scramble to to makes sense of what is happening, both internally and for their customers.

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Tory Burch is on a mission to take the stigma out of ambition

Fast Company The Future of Work

Tory Burch is a woman you would probably describe as ambitious. But for years, even well after starting her eponymous brand, the fashion entrepreneur steered clear of the word. “The first article that was written on our company was written by the New York Times ,” she said during a session at the Fast Company Innovation Festival last week.

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Senior Leadership Changes Can Interrupt Organizational Culture

SHRM

Talent development continues to be an organizational focus. Organizations are asking their managers the question, “What are you doing to develop talent? And specifically, your replacement?”. The primary role of a manager is to hire and train their replacement. It goes without saying that a big interrupter can occur in company culture when there’s a change in management.