Mon.Jul 30, 2018

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Do You Know Your Accrued PTO Liability?

nettime solutions

In the last decade, companies of all sizes have transitioned to PTO banks, which combine vacation days, personal days, and even holidays into one lump of time that employees can use for any reason. By integrating all these hours into one pool, employees can take days off at their discretion (with supervisor approval, of course) when they need them. PTO banks are easy to administer, and provide employees with flexibility and privacy, among other benefits.

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3 Ways Compensation Policies Can Cause Employee Turnover

Lighthouse

Did you realize that the way your company approaches compensation policy can actually create (or reduce) employee turnover? If keeping your people is a priority in today’s tight talent market, you need to look at whether your pay practices are competitive enough to keep workers from heading for greener pastures. What Causes Employees to Decide to Leave.

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3 Ways to Hire Top Talent — With or Without Open Roles

Spark Hire

At any moment, you could come across the perfect potential employee. Whether at a networking event, in the airport, or even at a family picnic, you can’t let top talent slip through your fingers. Unfortunately, these unexpected meetings often happen when there are no open fitting roles. But waiting until a position is open to bring that person into your talent pool is extremely dangerous.

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Michigan Recruiter’s Conference – November 1st – Detroit, MI! Registration is Now Open!

The Tim Sackett Project

The 4th Annual Michigan Recruiter’s Conference will take place on November 1st, 2018 onsite at the GM Headquarters RenCen in downtown Detroit, MI. Registration is now open for this event. There is limited seating because of space constraints. Only 250 registrations will be accepted! This event will SELL OUT, don’t wait! Okay – all that nonsense is out of the way!

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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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HR Passion Series #6: Featuring Jane Watson – Head of People & Operations at Actionable.co

Kazoo

This is week #6 of the HR Passion Series, where we’ve reached out to HR leaders, and they’ve graciously shared some of their experiences, advice, and insights. We’ve been asking each of these highly esteemed professionals carefully chosen questions that we find deeply riveting and engaging, including tips and tactics, personal experiences, and more.

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HR Passion Series #6: Featuring Jane Watson – Head of People & Operations at Actionable.co

Kazoo

This is week #6 of the HR Passion Series, where we’ve reached out to HR leaders, and they’ve graciously shared some of their experiences, advice, and insights. We’ve been asking each of these highly esteemed professionals carefully chosen questions that we find deeply riveting and engaging, including tips and tactics, personal experiences, and more.

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PHR/SPHR Course Update [Announcement]

UpstartHR

If you aren’t studying for the HR certification exam then feel free to ignore this or share it with someone that is studying. Thanks! :-). Earlier this summer I set a really big goal for myself and the team that’s working on the development of the new PHR/SPHR course. I wanted to have the new course fully up and running by August 1st to coincide with the new HRCI changes.

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DIY Office Organization Ideas to Boost Productivity

Hppy

Do you realize that your personal productivity level depends directly on the space in which you work? You should appreciate and use that fact! If you want to be more productive with your work, you have to organize your work environment. However, the well-organized work environment is much more than just visual appeal. As a desk officer, you can not only increase your productivity but also reduce stress and even get promoted if you keep your workspace organized.

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Using Job Titles Instead of Pay to Compensate Employees

UpstartHR

Writing a lot about compensation today! I also have a piece up about 3 ways compensation policies can cause employee turnover as well in case you want to check it out. . This past week I was talking with a friend and he explained that his job title had recently been changed from “XYZ specialist” to “XYZ manager.” He laughed and said that, of course, it didn’t come with a pay raise.

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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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Elle~ A Tribute to A Young Woman Making A Difference

Trish McFarlane

Last week, a very dear friend, Jason Seiden , experienced a tragedy no parent should endure. The loss of a child. At age 15, his beautiful, smart, strong daughter~ Elle ~lost her life after bravely battling a debilitating disease, CRPS. Elle meant the world to her mother, father, sister, grandparents, and many other relatives and friends. I fondly recall poetry and videos this beautiful soul made over the course of her life.

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Failing at Work: Overcoming the Stink of Bad Leadership

Workology

In my last HR leadership role, I was introduced to the concept of “stink” being attached to individuals who had fallen from grace with the CEO or certain members of Senior Management. Unlike in real. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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College Recruiting: Know Who Your Are and Where You Fit As a Company (Make Relative Deprivation Work for You).

The HR Capitalist

I had the pleasure of leading a roundtable discussion in Atlanta a few months ago on the topic of College Recruiting. I hadn't been in a position to really dig into this topic with big and small employers alike, and I can say this as a result of my experience. It was eyeopening. As a result of getting to talk to about 35 practitioners - some who were all in on college recruiting and some who were doing nothing - here's my observations on the current college recruiting scene and what you should

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Can Continuous Performance Management Position Your Organization for Success?

Bersin with Deloitte

Consistency is a key to achieving success, no matter what the activity. You would not work out just once or twice a year and expect to achieve your desired levels of physical fitness. Yet many organizations do something similar when trying to ensure optimal employee experience. These organizations utilize performance management systems in which employee-manager […].

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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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College Recruiting: Know Who You Are and Where You Fit As a Company (Make Relative Deprivation Work for You).

The HR Capitalist

I had the pleasure of leading a roundtable discussion in Atlanta a few months ago on the topic of College Recruiting. I hadn't been in a position to really dig into this topic with big and small employers alike, and I can say this as a result of my experience. It was eyeopening. As a result of getting to talk to about 35 practitioners - some who were all in on college recruiting and some who were doing nothing - here's my observations on the current college recruiting scene and what you should

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Managing Individuals: Why Different Employees Need Different Things

Quantum Workplace

People are constellations of multiple identities: personal identities like age, height, weight, gender, race, country of origin, religious affiliation, familial status, level of education.organizational identities like the industry they work in, the size of their organization, and their own tenure, department, or position level. These barely scratch the surface of how many individual differences a person may have or express at any given time, and that’s not even taking into account things like p

Course 80
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Healthcare HR’s Role in Building Employer Brand

Precheck

Healthcare HR’s Role in Building Employer Brand Jul. 31, 2018. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Attracting quality talent, increasing retention, and reducing cost-per-hire are just some of the reasons why developing a successful employer brand is crucial to an organization’s long-term success. In fact, recent reports reveal that companies who prioritize employer branding typically see a 50 percent increase in qualified candidates; a 28 percent decrease in turnover; and a

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How to crack the code of employee disengagement

PI Worldwide

Employee Engagement. It’s all the rage. Why? Let’s start with the cold hard fact that 13 percent of global workers are engaged , according to Gallup. Basically, this means that the vast majority of people in the world are going to work, sleepwalking though their day, giving companies little to no discretionary effort, and doing what they have to do to get by.

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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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It’s time to get rid of reverse mentoring

HR Zone

Change. It’s time to get rid of reverse mentoring.

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Canada Ready to Roll: Marijuana Becomes Legal in October

HR Daily Advisor

Canada’s Cannabis Act—making recreational marijuana legal—will take effect on October 17, 2018. The country’s federal parliament passed the measure on June 19, 2018, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly announced the new law’s effective date. Medically prescribed marijuana had previously been legalized. Source: eskymaks / iStock / Getty. Federal Law Allows Up to Four Plants Per Household.

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Latest HR Tech Trends You Need To Watch

SutiHR

In this competitive world, we depend on technology in every aspect of our personal and professional lives. The advancing technology has a huge impact on the world of HR and recruitment too. Human resource management software may once have been stagnant, but it has undergone a lot of change in recent times. Advanced HR tools. The post Latest HR Tech Trends You Need To Watch appeared first on SutiHR.

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Get a Customized HR Software, Say No to One-Size-Fits-All Option!

Empxtrack

A one-size-fits-all HR software is designed and developed to meet the basic needs of any business. However, organizations require unique solutions to cater to specific problems and needs of their people and business. Thus, there is a growing requirement for cloud based customized HR software that can be personalized and map to the existing processes of an organization.

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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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my boss chastised me about my menstrual cramps, job-searching with four vacations already booked, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss chastised me for being in pain from menstrual cramps. I just had something happen at work that I’m fairly insulted by: I got my period this morning and my cramps are extra bad. I thought I threw my painkillers in my purse on the way out the door, but apparently I must have missed because they weren’t there when I got to work.

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Serving People Without Homes: Interview With Rev. Violet Little, The Welcome Church

Business Management Daily

Rev. Violet Little is Pastor and Founder of The Welcome Church, which serves impoverished people on the streets of Philadelphia. Read my interview with her… The post Serving People Without Homes: Interview With Rev. Violet Little, The Welcome Church appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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A Refresher Course on FMLA Return-to-Work

HR Daily Advisor

In my opinion, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) remains one of the most (if not the most) difficult employment laws to administer. The federal regulations are lengthy and detail-oriented, setting forth various compliance deadlines, rules, and (of course) exceptions. Source: Stas_V / iStock / Getty. The FMLA’s return-to-work rules are particularly complex.

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5 Tips About How You Can Improve Your Career Development

6Q

We all know people with a successful career. They are entrusted with the most interesting tasks, they are given powers that are not available to colleagues, and they are the first to be promoted to the top positions. There is no accidental coincidence. Luck appears when opportunities correspond to readiness. Most likely, a person with an enviable career is actively working to move in the right direction.

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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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In Case You Forgot: Your Employees Are Job-Hunting

HR Daily Advisor

New research shows that most of your employees are probably on the prowl for a better job. Specialty recruitment firms Accounting Principals and Ajilon today released the results of a new joint survey exploring job search trends among more than 1,000 US full-time workers in sales, office and management/professional occupations. The survey found that one fourth of respondents (25.7 percent) are actively seeking new job opportunities and over half of respondents (55.5 percent) are passively open t

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I suck at my job but am otherwise a delightful person

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Short version: I truly suck at, and therefore hate, my job, but I’m otherwise a delightful person and employee — so says pretty much anyone who works with me (they don’t say “delightful,” but they use complimentary terms!). But I love my company and want to stay. Is that just a pipe dream? Long version: I started my job about a year and a half ago.

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Leading Innovation: Creating an Environment Where Creativity, Invention, and Change Can Flourish

HR Daily Advisor

The difference between stagnant organizations and dynamic ones is clear: In dynamic organizations, ideas are readily surfaced, developed, and implemented—and leadership makes all the difference. allanswart / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Innovation is a hot topic these days; however, before we explore the practices of leaders who excel at this critically important competency, we must dispel one myth: the myth of the lone genius.