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How the tech talent shortage requires creative thinking

HRExecutive

While American hiring is not back to normal yet, a recent report from the National Foundation for American Policy revealed that there are more than 1 million available job postings in the United States in technology-related fields—from system administrators to data scientists and security analysts. Since the onset of the global pandemic, NFAP also found that the need for talent in computer-related fields has risen by 11% across 10 of 13 occupational categories, with postings for computer and inf

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5 Steps to Create an HR Strategy

Tandem HR

Creating a strategy around your most valuable asset – your people – and aligning it with your business goals is crucial to business success. However, it does take a lot of planning, monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting along the way. Having a strong HR strategy will set you up for employment success and best of all, will help you achieve your business goals.

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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. Paul Breloff

Recruit CRM

CEO and Co-Founder of Shortlist Professionals , a talent matching and employability platform, Paul Breloff loves building great teams and helping young people find careers of meaning and purpose. Breloff's Shortlist is a talent matching & employability platform, connecting skilled professionals to great careers in East Africa & India (and 25+ countries globally).

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Building An Organizational Strategy That’ll Withstand The Change Ahead

15Five

If you’ve ever had to navigate a canoe down a winding, obstacle-heavy river, you know how important it is that the bow and the stern are synchronized. For a minute, I want you to close your eyes and imagine your business as a canoe and the river as the specific market or industry in which you operate. Think of the rower in the front of the boat (the bow) as your organization, providing power and forward motion to your business.

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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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Engaging Experiences: Onboarding Best Practices for Remote Employees

Engage2Excel

If you’ve hired anyone recently, I am sure the onboarding process is a bit different from prior to the pandemic. This might sound familiar – most paperwork was emailed ahead of time for the new employee to complete, introducing them to the team was probably done through an online meeting platform, and the building tour could have been a prerecorded video.

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Calls Increase for Race/Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting

Trusaic

Employers may already be aware of the pressure to disclose the gender pay gap in their organizations. What they may not know is that the pay gap issue is equally relevant with regard to all protected classes, not just in terms of gender. As a result, employers need to be prepared with pay equity solutions to address the race and ethnicity pay gap as well as the gender pay gap.

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Skills That Are Paramount For HR

Hppy

Having a clear-cut understanding of the required skills needed to manage human resources helps improve teamwork. Without the influence of a competent HR manager, the team wouldn’t function at its best. Causing setbacks to the long-term goals of the organization. There are a few skills that help to improve your role as HR personnel in the workspace.

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Company culture: The similarities between brand building and culture building

HR Zone

Culture Build your culture like you build a brand.

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How virtual onboarding is failing employees

HRExecutive

Employees today are experiencing a crisis of connection. According to Gartner research, only 40% of employees feel a sense of belonging at their organization. The problem is even worse for new employees; just 32% of employees hired in the past 12 months feel a sense of belonging to their organization. Remote work makes it harder to create connection.

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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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New Illinois Law Protects Workers with Criminal Records

SHRM Resources

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Employee Background Fairness Act into law March 23, prohibiting employers in the state from disqualifying job applicants with conviction records, with some exceptions. The law took effect immediately.

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Employee experience: why less is more when it comes to HR policy

HR Zone

People Why less is more with HR policy.

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Thank you! This will be my last post, forever. #ProjectEnd

The Tim Sackett Project

It comes with great pride and a bit of sorrow that I tell you that today will be the last time I’ll be posting on my blog. For the past decade, I’ve been posting each workday my thoughts and ideas about work, technology, and life. As I looked back on over three thousand posts, well over a million words written, I came to realize something – you a$$holes don’t pay me anything!

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if you lost your job recently, you’re eligible for 6 months of free health insurance

Ask a Manager

This post, if you lost your job recently, you’re eligible for 6 months of free health insurance , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. If you lost your job in the last 18 months, you can now remain on your employer-sponsored health insurance for free through September 30 , as part of the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law last month.

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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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Having a Strong Online Presence Can Help You Land a Dream Job—Here’s How to Get Yours Ready

The Muse

Before you apply for jobs, it’s important to make sure your online presence is in tip-top shape. Here’s how to get it done.

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Reduce Revenue Leakage and Drive Efficiency in Professional Services

Replicon

Imagine traveling in a boat that has a small hole at the bottom. The boat is slowly filling with water, and unless you do something to fix that hole, it will eventually sink, taking you with it. Similarly, if left unchecked, revenue leakages can cause your.

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What is a PEO?

Helpside

This blog was written by Dave Ashby, Senior Business Consultant at Helpside. With over 20 years of experience, Dave has positively impacted hundreds of small businesses in our community by finding unique solutions to the benefits, payroll, human resources, and risk management challenges that companies in Utah and Wyoming face. As a business leader, you may have heard the term “PEO” before, but you may not know what they are or how they can help.

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Here’s What You Need to Know (and Ask) if Your Company’s Considering a Hybrid Work Setup

The Muse

What hybrid work is, what different hybrid work models look like, and what questions employees should ask.

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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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What is the Value of Investment for Your Wellness Program?

BackStitch

Wellness programs promote healthy behaviors to boost employees’ overall health and create a more positive working environment. These employer programs provide employees with tools to support them on their wellbeing journey.

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TREND NOTE: Resume NFTs, the Blockchain Trend Disrupting the HR Technology Market

WorkTech

It was just a matter of time. If anything in HR should be “non-fungible,” it’s the resume. Employers want to know that they are in receipt of the original resume […]. The post TREND NOTE: Resume NFTs, the Blockchain Trend Disrupting the HR Technology Market appeared first on WorkTech by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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10 Signs A Job Offer Is Not Worth Accepting

Forbes Coaches Council

When you’ve been looking for a job or working toward a promotion for a while, and one is offered to you, accepting it is a no-brainer. Or is it? What if the job isn’t right for you?

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How to Create a Compensation Strategy: A Complete Guide

Decusoft

What is Executive Compensation? . Executive compensation programs are influenced by a variety of factors today. As a compensation manager, your primary concern should be the alignment of pay and performance. Standard wage arrangements for hourly workers or salaried administrators and clinicians vary greatly from executive pay packages. The incentives for real performance and results are heavily weighted in executive pay.

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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 to Find a New Benefits Administration Partner

WEX Inc.

How to find a trustworthy benefits administration partner. Can you confidently say you have the best benefits administration partner in the business? Someone who is always "looking around the corners" for you? A partner who helps you build a great reputation for your department, with easy enrollment and immediate responsiveness to not only your needs, but your participants'?

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the plastic-wrapped office, the fake brownies, and other pranks at work

Ask a Manager

This post, the plastic-wrapped office, the fake brownies, and other pranks at work , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Let’s talk about pranks at work, given the date. I’ve learned from writing this column that pranks at work are far more controversial than I realized! Some people really hate them or think they’re inherently mean-spirited.

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Fond of Work: Jenny Dearborn, Chief People Officer at Klaviyo

Fond

This time for Fond of Work, we spoke with Jenny Dearborn, Chief People Officer at Klaviyo. Jenny is a global executive and entrepreneurial leader, driving talent transformation aligned to strategic disruption and company vision. She is an award-winning thought leader, speaker and author on human capital management, corporate culture, global workforce and data analytics.

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Court rules its ok for a winery worker to wear “Cellar Lives Matter” apparel.

The Employer Handbook

Ivan Radic , CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a non-union widget factory in which widget makers want to unionize. As part of the unionizing campaign, one of the widget makers decides to wear a vest on which he writes “Widget Lives Matter.” Management is concerned that this vest is racially insensitive, will foster employee dissension, and potentially become a PR nightmare.

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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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A Note on Requiring COVID-19 Vaccines

Namely

With COVID-19 vaccinations underway and widespread availability in sight, many employers want to know whether they can require their employees to get the vaccine.

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Initial Jobless Claims Rise Again

SHRM Resources

States reported that 719,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Mar. 27, an increase of 61,000 after last week's pandemic-era low. The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell slightly to 3.8 million. The recent overall improvement in claims data is consistent with accelerating labor market momentum as the economy reopens.

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Amazon Care Could Change U.S. Healthcare—Here’s How | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

In mid-March 2021, Amazon announced the nationwide launch of Amazon Care , a healthcare service that is expected to debut in the summer of 2021. Find out more about this new program, how it works, and how it could shift the industry now and in the future.