Mon.Jul 20, 2020

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Not Every Organization Needs to Reflect the Community

Evil HR Lady

A few days ago, Anthony Tommasini wrote an Op-Ed at the New York Times titled “To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions.” Blind auditions vastly increased the number of females in orchestras, but it hasn’t increased the number of minority players–well, it hasn’t increased the number of Black and Hispanic players.

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COVID-19 Contact Tracing Best Practices for a Safe Workplace

Cisive

As businesses reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, contact tracing to track viral exposure in the workplace will become a critical part of helping to slow the spread of the virus and protect workers. So what do employers need to know before implementing contact tracing? Contact tracing helps protect health and safety, but workers could be hesitant to share personal information.

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Finally Reopening? Legal Guidance a Must for Small-Business Owners

SHRM

After a more than three-month forced hiatus, small businesses are more than ready to open their doors. But for many of them, getting back to business brings a host of legal vulnerabilities and concerns they may have never faced and may not be prepared to handle on their own. Even before the global health crisis turned the economy on its side, the demand for external legal advice had grown exponentially.

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no one is communicating with me during my furlough, interview assignments, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Who was in the wrong on this interview assignment? I recently had an experience with an interview assignment that left me confused about whether I was in the wrong or not. Last week I had a screening call with an HR person and then a phone interview with the hiring manager for a role that sounded interesting.

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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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Benefits of Partnering With a Dallas Temp Agency

Professional Alternatives

Finding a job in the current Texas business market can be especially challenging for candidates who are just starting out in their careers or in a transition period. It’s also difficult for those that are older and are trying to change careers. Whatever your situation, you may want to consider working with an award-winning Dallas temp agency. As one of these agencies, we work to locate and deliver workers for companies that need staff to fill in for sick leave, special projects, and other

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Solving the Millennial Puzzle: How to Engage Your Millennial Employees

EDSI

Business leaders regularly complain to me about millennials. It seems those darn millennials aren’t very loyal, don’t want to work hard, and don’t want to pay their dues before assuming a leadership role. Well, these perceptions may seem true to many business leaders, but to others, they couldn’t be further from the truth.

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How Serious are EEOC Age Discrimination Charges? Very.

Trusaic

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a government agency charged with enforcing federal civil rights laws, such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). The ADEA protects applicants and employees 40 years of age and older from discrimination on the basis of age in hiring, promotion, discharge, compensation, or terms, conditions or privileges of employment.

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Bersin: Communication is more important than ever. Here’s how to handle it

HRExecutive

Employees need a lot right now—and one of the most urgent things is information. What are the changes to our sick-leave policy? When should I anticipate coming back to the workplace? Will we still receive performance bonuses? Among all of the imperatives we face in the COVID pandemic, communication is the most important of all. In the Josh Bersin Academy’s Big Reset initiative, nearly all participating HR leaders recounted how they have ramped up the frequency, transparency and types of communic

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Increasing the Level of Productivity and Engagement For Your Team

Workology

TravelTech for HR. How to increase the level of productivity and engagement for your team without leaving the workplace. One of the new HR-trend is an online-team-building. This is a virtual tour in. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Good Call Center Jobs Teach You a Lot - But We Might Wonder Why You Didn't Get Promoted.

The HR Capitalist

I love what jobs early in our careers teach and say about us. There's literally 8 million stories in the naked city, and this is just one of those stories. But in its own little way, it matters - a lot. This story is about what happens when a new graduate takes a customer service job at a big company. You know the person, the company and the type of job I'm talking about.

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Situational Judgement Question Guide for SHRM-SCP and SHRM-CP Exams

Workology

The Ace the HR Exam course(s) provide support and resources to help HR pros ace their exams including those situational judgement questions. You can also sign up for our SHRM Certification Prep. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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COVID-19 Contact Tracing Best Practices for a Safe Workplace

Precheck

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Best Practices for a Safe Workplace Jul. 21, 2020. Shannon Shoemaker Vice President, Solutions, Marketing and Partnerships. As businesses reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, contact tracing to track viral exposure in the workplace will become a critical part of helping to slow the spread of the virus and protect workers.

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The HR Life Cycle in 13 Steps

Digital HR Tech

The HR life cycle encompasses all activities as done by HR. In this article, we will explain what the HR life cycle is and we’ll go over each of the thirteen steps in this cycle. Here goes! Contents What is the HR life cycle? The thirteen steps in the HR life cycle Recap FAQ. What is the HR life cycle? The HR life cycle, or HR cycle, is the continuous process of integrated HR activities.

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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 Get the Most Out of Performance Management

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s SVP of Strategy and Consulting Derek Irvine writes about how ongoing performance management is the perfect framework for supporting employees during these difficult times and shares his advice on how leaders can most effectively use the tools. Read the full post on HR Zone. .

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Will You Have Your Kids Return to School this Fall?

The Tim Sackett Project

I’ve talked a lot about return to work, but what about return to school. The reality is, this one decision will have a ton of impact on your workforce. This is playing out across the nation right now and parents are stressed to the max about what’s going to happen. First, I think both educators and parents believe the best place for kids to learn is in the classroom.

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Your New Job Search Secret Weapon: A Resume Outline

The Muse

Use a resume outline to organize your information and create a resume that will get you the job.

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Vacations, Travel Quarantines and COVID-19: High Risk States

SHRM

When the pandemic first hit hard in the United States—a lifetime ago, early March—we focused on travel from China, then South Korea, then Italy and so on. Our focus was on the quarantine of employees who had engaged in international travel. International travel is now a beautiful part of what feels like ancient history and among our hopes for the future.

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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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Why You Need To Market More In A Recession

Forbes Coaches Council

When a recession hits and money is tight, businesses tend to look for ways to cut costs until the economy improves – and marketing is often first on the chopping block.

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Beware the culture trap: what HR gets wrong about corporate culture

HR Zone

Culture Beware the culture trap.

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How to Juggle a Full-time Job, Side Hustle, and Personal Life

Take It Personel-ly

I’m reaching for the whisky bottle — Johnnie Walker Red Label — on my nightstand. It’s always on my nightstand. My mind won’t stop racing, and I can’t fall asleep. I know that if I drink, it usually helps calm my nerves. Earlier this same evening I had a call with my parents, and they asked […].

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Choose the Right Font for Your Resume

SHRM Resources

?The first impressions that interviewers form about you are created by the information in your resume and the ease with which they can access that knowledge; this depends partly on a logical flow of information within the document.

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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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How Can AI Streamline the Talent Acquisition Process?

RChilli

In today’s highly competitive world, simplifying the talent acquisition process is one of the most challenging aspects of today’s workforce, especially given the current pandemic. One of the most significant innovations in this field is artificial intelligence (AI), which enables computer programs to think and learn in a human sense. Previously, the effectiveness of AI has been demonstrated in several case studies.

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is it possible to apply for a job too quickly?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I see a lot of questions about when it could be too late to apply, but very little about it being too early. I’m curious about your thoughts on applications that come in the same day the job was posted, sometimes even within one to two hours. For true entry-level positions, this has never seemed weird to me. But right now we are hiring a co-executive director at a nonprofit (I’m the other Co) and we got 13 applications in after four hours!

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Malaysia Labor Law Changes

Global People Strategist

Over the past decade, the Malaysian government has introduced a number of legislative measures and Acts to strengthen the labor market in the country further. The Personal Data Protection Act, the Minimum Wage Act 2018, and the Minimum retirement age act have all brought additional stability. In this article, we look at Malaysian labor law changes in 2020.

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The 2021 Guide for Employee Service Awards

Semos Cloud

Category. All, Best Practices. The 2021 Guide for Employee Service Awards . Use this Guide for Employee Service Awards to create a great experience for your employees’ years of service celebrations. July 20, 2020. By Sara Ana Cemazar. Employee service awards are a great way to express appreciation to your employees. In the world where people change jobs more than ever, it is important to celebrate your employees’ loyalty to your company. .

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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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5 Testing Workplace Scenarios Approved by the CDC | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Workplaces continue to reopen during coronavirus. Now, employers are tasked not only with resuming normal operations but also with keeping employees safe from potential COVID-19 outbreaks. To help organizations around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently weighed in on the appropriate use of testing with five different scenarios for non-healthcare workplaces.

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3 key considerations when building a global DAM

Papirfly

Keeping on top of marketing campaign assets can be a mighty task at the best of times, but managing them across global teams is an even greater challenge. As the capacity for organisations to reach consumers across the globe expands ever further, and the number of channels available to engage them continues to grow, the problem of effectively managing digital assets has become more prevalent than ever before.

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How a healthcare company is uniting employees during the pandemic

ThoughtFarmer

One of the great strength’s of an intranet is the ability to unite employees and centralize communication during uncertain times. . This month we bring you an interesting new case study from VHA Home HealthCare. Similar to many organizations around the world, VHA needed a central way to consolidate critical and time sensitive information. For a healthcare provider, this information was particularly critical.