Wed.Sep 02, 2020

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How To Make A Memorable First Impression During A Virtual Interview

Take It Personel-ly

Times are strange right now and full of adjustments, so the interview process isn’t what it once was. One of the main differences is how prevalent virtual interviews are becoming. As more and more companies switch to remote work, standard in-person interviews are slowly becoming obsolete. For some, this could be completely new territory. It […].

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Flexible, End-to-End COVID-19 Health Testing Program Built for Employers

Sterling Check

Across the US, the COVID-19 pandemic brought some businesses to a grinding halt, while at the same time essential services-based businesses grappled with unprecedented escalation of demand. Regardless of which industry your organization operates within, just like you, companies across US are working on a recovery and resiliency program that is integral to your business strategy and operations.

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8 Challenges Small Business HR Professionals Face in 2020

Zenefits

In a normal work year, HR professionals and small and medium-sized business owners who manage the HR function are pressed with challenges many larger organizations don’t typically face. In today’s uncertain climate, those challenges are amplified. Facing the incredible pressure presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, business owners are adapting nearly everything about their organizations.

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Flexible, End-to-End COVID-19 Health Testing Program Built for Employers

Sterling Check

Across the US, the COVID-19 pandemic brought some businesses to a grinding halt, while at the same time essential services-based businesses grappled with unprecedented escalation of demand. Regardless of which industry your organization operates within, just like you, companies across US are working on a recovery and resiliency program that is integral to your business strategy and operations.

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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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Incoming ETZ CEO Alan Pett to drive the next phase of evolution

Etz

Welcoming Alan Pett as new ETZ CEO. We are very pleased to announce that Alan Pett has joined ETZ as CEO. Alan has 30 years’ experience in the technology and professional services industries, gained in start-ups, as well as both the SME sector and large Enterprise marketplace. He brings together a range of skills and experience which emphasise his profile as an excellent leader to steer the company through the next stage of its continuing evolution.

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Building the Intentional Organisation

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Building the Intentional Organisation is the realization that we need an entirely new approach to the way we intend organizations and their design in a VUCA world.

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Want To Become A Better Manager? Create Self-Development Objectives

15Five

At 15Five , we believe that to build a world-class workplace, every employee must be able to bring their best self to work each day. But this doesn’t happen by chance. Most of the responsibility falls on managers to help employees develop and leverage their unique strengths. And just as managers aim to unlock the potential of their people, it’s important to unlock their own potential in order to become an effective coach.

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Why Now Is the Right Time To Invest in Career Site Engagement

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

While the end of the economic downturn is uncertain, some of the critical lessons learned during the Great Recession included the importance of having sufficient staff while employee engagement and morale. This seems like a tall order while you also need to manage the increasing cost of hiring and the lengthening time to fill.

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DEI Measurement, Analysis, & Implementation During COVID-19

Trusaic

7 minute read: COVID-19’s Assault on Equality. It is well-known that the global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities by race/ethnicity, gender, education level, and income. Here in Los Angeles , the mortality rate for the least affluent communities is four times larger than that in the most affluent communities. Black and Hispanic/Latinx death rates are more than twice the White death rate.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Healing the divide between furloughed and non-furloughed employees

HR Zone

Employees How to heal the divide caused by furlough.

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HR Carnival: An Inside Look At All Things Human Resources #HRCarnival

Workology

Workology is proud to host the September’s edition of the Carnival of HR. Our topic is An Inside Look At All Things Human Resources. Find posts on how these uncertain times are impacting. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How Far Back Should Your Resume Go? Here’s How to Decide

The Muse

How many years back should your resume go? Think about what’s relevant, where you are in your career, and how to avoid age discrimination.

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Gender equality: why the Covid-19 pandemic has created a careers crisis for women

HR Zone

Culture Is Covid-19 generating a career crisis for women?

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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 Budget for Employee Recognition and Rewards

Bonusly

Let me tell you a story. ??. (But if you’re not interested, jump straight to our explanation of rewards budgeting !). When we first launched Bonusly, we gave our customers a choice : they could use the platform to give recognition with or without rewards with monetary value. In the non-monetary version, users awarded each other points for doing something awesome and monitored performance with leaderboards.

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Q&A with HR Tech Influencer: Brian Sommer

HRExecutive

The role of HR leaders has never been more important, as organizations struggle to keep up with near-daily changes to the world of work ushered in by the coronavirus pandemic and other global challenges. With such a tall order for HR leaders, it’s beneficial to look to industry experts for their experience and guidance. Earlier this year, HRE and the HR Tech Conference unveiled the second edition of the Top 100 HR Tech Influencers , comprised of HR, business and technology leaders whose

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Development Plan or Development Planning? There is a Difference

Julie Winkle Giulioni

If your organization is like most, you’re likely seeing less attention paid to development planning. It’s understandable. Leaders face time challenges like never before. Teams are increasingly distributed across geographies, making connections complex. The general sentiment that employees should own their own development frequently leads managers to a sensibility that’s too hands-off.

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New Unemployment Claims Drop Below 1 Million

SHRM Resources

States reported that 881,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Aug. 29, the first full month after the $600 per week enhancement for unemployment expired. The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell to 13.2 million last week after peaking at nearly 25 million in early May, indicating a slowly improving labor market.

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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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Corporate Alumni Programs for The New Normal

SHRM

If you are like most people in today’s labor market, it’s unlikely that you are currently working at your first company. Like a lot of my friends and colleagues, my curriculum vitae lists a number of former employers. If you represent an organization and don’t expect to have future interactions with departing employees, you wouldn’t be alone. Yet, we’re discovering now that maintaining lifelong relationships after employment ends has significant benefits for both employers and departing empl

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9 Ideas to Improve a Toxic Work Environment

Vantage Circle

A toxic work environment contributes to the increasing stress in your day to day working life. Everybody often has a bad day or even a month at work. Managers giving pressure to work on specific projects, the communication gap between employees and the management, etc. several challenges are the sign of a toxic workplace. A hostile workplace is facing all these challenges daily without any pause.

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12 Reliable Marketing Channels That Help Entrepreneurs Reach Their Target Audiences

Forbes Coaches Council

Keeping your current customers happy while gaining new ones is key to sustained growth. To help you connect with your target audience, 12 Forbes Coaches Council members share the most effective marketing channels they use.

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Lessons To Learn From Common Hiring Challenges

McQuiag

There are many moving pieces to consider anytime you need to hire. Whether you're doing it in person or online, it isn't always a quick or easy process and sometimes you may run into common hiring problems. How you handle those problems can be the difference between a good hiring process and a great one. When you lose a candidate, for example, do you shrug your shoulders and move on?

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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It's Not Just About What You Are Doing

Forbes Coaches Council

Relying on our neural networks and our muscle memory replaces our full presence in the moment.

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birthdays with food restrictions, quitting right before your boss goes on leave, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. A birthday in an office that’s weird about food restrictions. My office has a tradition for celebrating birthdays where you bring a dessert (usually a cake) for the person whose birthday is after yours on the calendar. If someone wants to opt out, they just tell the person who would bring the dessert for their birthday and there is no mention of it.

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Incentive Programs 101: What is a Sales Incentive Program?

The Incentive Solutions News blog

What is a sales incentive program? A sales incentive program is a plan or strategy used to improve sales performance by motivating salespeople to surpass company- determined performance metrics. Sales incentive programs make use of both non-cash rewards as well as cash-based SPIFFs as part of an additional (yet separate) motivational tool to a standard sales compensation plan.

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my employee is holding me hostage over a raise

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m new to management this year, and I’ve run into a problem with a direct report. “Sara” has been in her position for two years with no promotion or significant pay raise. My boss and I were going to start the process for a promotion, but Sara then had major issues with tardiness and skipping out on required activities (a diversity and inclusion seminar, not “forced fun”), which set us back in our plans.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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benefitexpress Announces New Regional Sales Executive, Southern Territory

WEX Inc.

Schaumburg, Ill. September 1, 2020— benefitexpress™ the leading provider of enrollment technology and services for employee benefits administration, announced today that Mary Beth Rock has joined its sales team as regional sales executive for the southern territory. In this role, Mary Beth will develop strategic, consultative relationships with benefits administration leaders at mid-market employers, health insurance brokers at leading insurance firms, and benefits technology sourcing advisors t

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How Can You Assess the Productivity of Remote Workers?

Tandem HR

Measuring the Productivity of Remote Workers. Are your remote employees working hard or hardly working? Cliches aside, it’s important to know what your remote team is accomplishing in a day…and if progress is beginning to slow down. But how do you measure the productivity of remote workers? Because evaluating remote workers isn’t the same as measuring a team’s productivity in the office, we have several tips that may help.

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Getting Ready for the New Wave of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Work

Human Workplaces

In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a lot going on in this country right now, and that includes the huge spike in attention to racism and ongoing efforts to dismantle it. With that spike in attention, I’m also seeing at least an increase (if not an equally sharp spike) in organizations who want to work on “diversity,” though the term of choice these days is “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” or DEI.