Tue.Nov 08, 2016

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The State of the Recruitment Industry

China Gorman

I recently ran across this: Global Staffing Trends 2017: The State of the Recruitment Industry. This little report from LinkedIn would be easy to dismiss, but I encourage you to take a look. It’s written for search/staffing firms. Not for corporate or in-house talent acquisition folks. So unless you’re a third-party staffing firm, not so interesting, right?

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An Emerging Trend For HR’s Data: Analytics-as-a-Service

TLNT: The Business of HR

The current trend is for companies to build in-house departments staffed with data scientists to do advanced analytics. However, this is probably only an option for large, sophisticated firms. Luckily an option is emerging which we might call “analytics-as-a-service,” where vendors and consultants provide analytics horsepower on demand. Click To Tweet.

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HR Department of One – You DO Have Time to Source Candidates

Acacia HR Solutions

A few months ago I was asked by a CEO to come in and teach his HR Manager who ran an HR Department of One how to source candidates as well as staffing agencies. He was tired of spending so much money on candidates he wondered if the HR Manager could find herself. I had.

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Struggling with FLSA Conversations? Use These Tips

ClearCompany HRM

Recent updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have companies making some tough decisions regarding employee statuses within their organization.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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What Science Says About Designing Better HR Surveys

Cornerstone On Demand

Every year, human resource professionals distribute the dreaded employee satisfaction survey. Oftentimes, it's the same questionnaire emailed through SurveyMonkey, year after year. But HR workers should scrutinize their surveys, improving questions to make the ordeal worth everyone's while. Usually, employees worry that their tell-all responses will be read by the boss, so they share a sanitized version of the truth.

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Meet Mercer PeoplePro, Kari Zoolakis

Mercer

Mercer PeoplePro Talent Management. specialist, Kari Zoolakis, brings a broad background spanning the scope of HR including Fair Pay Analysis, specific to California. The post Meet Mercer PeoplePro, Kari Zoolakis appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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[Infographic] Top Skills Recruiters Must Have in 2017

Hppy

Over the past few years, Millennials have dictated the pace of the recruitment landscape: fast, and dynamic. This generation has completely vacated the classic recruiter-job seeker relationship. The advent of the Internet also amplified this change by introducing tools like job search sites and apps to easily put themselves in the job market through uploading their resumes online and building portfolios.

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How to Engage Your Managers?

EmployeeConnect

Any number of strategies can foster employee engagement, but the truth is that your company’s managers generate the greatest results because they occupy the hot-seat positions that affect day-to-day operations, company culture and staff performance. In fact Gallup research reveals managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units.

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3 Things We Learned at 2016 NeuroLeadership Summit

Reflektive

Last week, we attended the NeuroLeadership Summit in New York. The goal of the summit was to “rethink organizations” by bringing together influential leaders in neuroscience and business. The research-driven approach led to great conversations and connections among attendees in learning and development, human resources, the C-suite, and business coaches working with large organizations.

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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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Remembering Lincoln Via "Team of Rivals" on This Election Day.

The HR Capitalist

Election Day 2016. I offer up those quotes from Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin's unbelievably good book on Abraham Lincoln. I suspect they have more to do with how we'll need to come together as citizens than the potential of either candidate to lead in the way that Lincoln did: “This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with men who had previously opposed him; to repair injured

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Three Keys to Attracting & Retaining Millennial Employees

UrbanBound HR

Millennials are the most mobile generation in history. In their lifetimes, everything from phones to the internet have gone from rooted connections to roaming, unchained necessities in daily life. Their perspective towards a career has done the same, compared to previous generations. An early 2016 Gallup poll found that 60% of millennials were open to new job opportunities.

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How To Start Salary Negotiations Off On The Right Foot

Spark Hire

There’s a slight disagreement about whether or not employees are being paid fairly. A 2016 report from Payscale found that while 73 percent of employers feel they offer fair pay, only 36 percent of employees agreed. As a recruiter, you’re in a unique position to help close that gap because often you’re the first person to begin discussion about salary negotiations with candidates.

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New Instructions For Forms 1094-C and 1095-C: An Infographic

ACA Times

As the IRS released the final forms for 2016 Form 1094-C (Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns) and 2016 Form 1095-C (Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage) , changes were made, particularly to the aforementioned latter form. The instructions for filing with changes have also arrived.

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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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Learn Directly from Employee Engagement Expert @Kruse

The People Equation

A few years ago, I interviewed Kevin Kruse for his book Employee Engagement is for Everyone. Kevin is the author of several books, one of which hit the New York Times best seller list. Kevin writes a weekly leadership column for Forbes, and was an Inc. 500 entrepreneur. When we talked, I immediately liked Kevin’s humorous, pragmatic outlook on leadership and have followed his work ever since.

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6 Ways Leaders Can Excel at Engaging Employees

TalentCulture

Much has been written on how organizations can engage their employees more successfully and create a competitive advantage. The advice offered tends to be of a program nature: company-wide initiatives promulgated from above that all functions “down below” are expected to participate in. My thirty-three plus years of leadership experience suggests a different way of looking at how to “hook” every employee in the goals and strategy of the organization.

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How to Use Language to Support a Responsible Culture

Culture University

As people across the world watch the 2016 United States presidential campaign, they witness the division and ultimately a culture change evolving in our nation. We have more choices to express our opinions, but less tolerance for the opinions of others. We have more passion, but less compassion. We have more speed, but less self-control. […].

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Music as an HR resource for employee wellbeing

HR Zone

Future. Music as an HR resource for employee wellbeing.

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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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Why You Need to Pay More Attention to Your Conscious Bias

WorqIQ

We often hear about unconscious biases, why we need to be aware of them, how to discover them, and how to eliminate them. But what about conscious biases? How do we manage those? We focus on an unconscious bias because it sounds nicer than conscious bias. It’s not our fault; we’re not doing it on purpose. More interestingly, as a Skyline Group International colleague, Laura Taylor, put it: what about acknowledging you made your conscious bias unconscious because of denial or guilt?

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Making Performance Evaluations Work: It’s All in the Timing

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Traditional annual performance reviews have been facing a lot of resistance. Last September, a Harvard Business Review article detailed how companies including Cigna, GE, Deloitte, and Accenture announced plans to dump the annual review process. More than 50 large firms were following suit, the article noted. And 70% of companies were rethinking their performance management strategy.

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The hard-hitting data: Employees need real vacations

Ceridian

By Kelly Allder, VP of HR Programs, Ceridian. In early December three years ago, I was sitting in a hotel room in Mexico, on a conference call trying to convince a senior leader about an appropriate go-live date for a project I was leading. As the call moved into the second hour (after promising that it would only be 30 minutes), my spouse became irritated and left to go to the beach.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Workplace Benefits

TLNT: The Business of HR

There is a fine line to walk while balancing a company’s bottom line and attracting great talent. Because the employees who work for you are the most valuable asset that your company has at its disposal, making sure they are productive and healthy and happy both in and out of the office is a cause worth supporting and encouraging.

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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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I’m stuck in a job I hate

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I need your help. I absolutely hate my new job and I don’t see it getting better anytime soon. I work in IT for a regional company. The benefits are decent, the pay is good, and at a 30,000-foot view, I should love my job. But I don’t. The entire IT department is a huge mess, and my team (I use that term loosely) is the most dysfunctional group I’ve ever seen.

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Engaging a Dispersed Workforce: 3 Tips for Managers

SumTotal

Managing people comes with a special—but for me, worthwhile—set of challenges. And managing remote employees adds another layer of complexity. But through my experience leading staff spread across different locations, I’ve learned a few tips for keeping people engaged and connected that I wanted to share with you. 1. Make it about more than the job.

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How to Deal with Post-Traumatic-Job Disorder

BambooHR

Even the most passionate employee will have a bad day on the job now and then. But when workplace problems continue day in and day out, it starts to have lasting effects on workers, the companies they work for, and the workforce as a whole. Every year, millions of people worldwide struggle with post-traumatic-job disorder […]. The post How to Deal with Post-Traumatic-Job Disorder appeared first on.

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update: my company wants to sponsor me for a service dog, but I’m not sure I should accept

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer in May whose company wanted to sponsor her for a service dog but she wasn’t sure if it was okay to accept? I told her to go get her dog, and here’s the update. Of course I took the advice given! Just thinking about your advice, and the advice in the comments, makes me smile huge and goofy. Such an outpouring of love and support, it still makes me tear up thinking about it.

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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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You Should Never Hire an Over-Qualified Worker. Right? Wrong

Evil HR Lady

A recent study found that there are some serious advantages to hiring someone who is more than qualified for the position. Hiring someone who is overqualified person sometimes means that person has the knowledge, skill, and time to be creative. And being creative can often bring benefits to the whole business. To read all about it, click here: Should Employers Hire Over-Qualified Employees?

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my boss keeps inviting me to family events

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My boss (co-owner of the company) is someone who is good to me professionally, but for whom I have very little respect after watching her work for eight years. However, I am always polite and professional and work as hard as I can for her, her co-owner (who I like), and the company, and have done well. She has repeatedly drawn me into conference rooms to confide in me about her private dilemmas, frequently breaking into tears.

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How to Unleash the Power of Your Middle Managers

TLNT: The Business of HR

Miscast and disengaged employees are a problem wherever they’re found in an organization, but when middle managers join those ranks it’s especially troubling because of their broad sphere of influence on so many other employees.

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