Thu.Sep 27, 2018

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5 Tools That Can Help You Plan Better

HR Bartender

I admit that I’m a planner. But more important than admitting that I plan everything is that I really like to plan. I believe it’s because I invest in planning tools. Tools to help you plan do not have to be expensive. They do need to work. For you. Someone else’s planning tools may or may not be the best for you. In addition, while it would be awesome to have one planning tool that does everything, I haven’t found that to be the case.

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25 Teambuilding Activities That Actually Interest Workers

HR Daily Advisor

The term “teambuilding” often elicits groans and eye rolls from employees. Many workers see them as unwelcome interruptions in already packed workdays, thinking that these feel-good activities have little value and serve no real purpose. While you can’t help that people may have these perceptions, you can help show them that their thoughts on teambuilding may be misguided.

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Sterling Sponsors 2018 SIA’s 40 Under 40 Leaders List

Sterling Check

The temporary or contractor worker sector (or the gig economy) is growing at a rapid rate and will continue to influence the US economy for many decades to come. It has transformed how organizations are sourcing for their talent and how the definition of a “worker” has evolved. Nearly 35% of the U.S. Workforce is part of the gig economy.

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Key Takeaways from Saba Insight 2018 (#sabainsight18)

Lighthouse

2018 is the year that learning and performance are finally intersecting. I’m talking with a variety of vendors that are tackling this, and one of them that is poised to do it well is Saba. The company is on positive track more than a year after its latest acquisition, and the roadmap shared at the event promises continued development around mobile capabilities, user experience, and more.

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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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Corporate Goal Setting – How it Impacts the Success of Your Business

EDSI

Would you choose to take steps to strengthen your business and enhance its reputation if it meant improving your organization’s ultimate performance? The goal (no pun intended!) of this blog is to lay out the process you’ll need to do just that. Goal setting is important because it helps outline the specific path that an organization must take to achieve desirable outcomes.

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Recruiter vs hiring manager: Who is really responsible for hiring?

Workable

When a new hire turns out to be a star employee, both the recruiter and the hiring manager can pat themselves on the back for their brilliant choice. Conversely, a bad hire raises questions: who was responsible for selecting that candidate? Put differently – because hiring shouldn’t become a blame game – who needs to improve their recruiting tactics next time?

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coworker asked me to pose topless, how do I stop people from offering condolences, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker asked me to pose topless for an “anatomy textbook” I work part-time in a small sales office of about 10 people. About a month ago, one of my coworkers approached me about doing a project for his graduate program at a local university. It was for some sort of anatomy textbook or similar: it would be a photo of my breasts with my face not in the photo for the textbook.

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How to handle an interview no show

Workable

Out of all the minor nuisances in our personal lives, getting stood up is probably the most unpleasant. Unfortunately, this also happens in professional settings, such as when you’re ready to interview a candidate and they don’t show up. Your first reaction may be to ignore this candidate or even scold them for their lack of professionalism. But these reactions, though justifiable, can have adverse results.

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21 diversity and inclusion influencers you should know

CultureAmp

On my first day as the Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Jo Cranford, our Director of Engineering sent me a message: “What are we going to do about the t-shirts?” I had no idea what she was talking about - I thought our unisex t-shirts fit great! Jo let me know that was not the case and that many women at Culture Amp were uncomfortable wearing them.

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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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Being a Talent Magnet Takes Work

TalentCulture

The tide has turned. What once was an employer’s market is now a job seeker’s delight. The unemployment rate is hovering around 4% which is something we haven’t seen in the U.S. since the 1960’s. This is great news for people seeking employment and has opened more options for them. Conversely, companies are adding jobs at a rapid rate with many positions remaining open for long periods of time due to a lack of (qualified) […].

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Attention Recruiters and HR: You’re In the Relationship Business

Workology

I always have potential companies ask me, “Why should we go with you over another agency?” In my opinion, it’s not about the tools or the sources. It’s about the relationships. Finding the talent can be easy. It’s the getting them to work with you over another recruiter that can be challenging. This relationship is […] Source.

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Autonomy is Key to Building an Entrepreneurial Culture in a Large Enterprise

TLNT: The Business of HR

The great paradox of success is that as enterprises get bigger and more established, they have a natural tendency to lose the very entrepreneurial edge that made them successful in the first place. It’s a tendency that leaders in large companies must fight hard against if we want to keep delivering innovation and growth. The best weapon in our arsenal?

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How Keeping Employees Happy Leads to Happier Customers

HR Daily Advisor

Most business leaders would put increased customer satisfaction at the top of their priority list as the best driver of repeat business and sustainable growth. Each new development will be finely scrutinized to see what the effect is likely to be on customers. How will this affect their experience? How will this make their lives easier? At the same time, businesses are concerned about retaining their skilled employees.

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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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Worst interview questions ever: 10 to avoid at all costs

Insperity

Believe it or not, some of the worst interview questions are the ones hiring managers ask without even realizing they shouldn’t. For instance, if you find out someone attended the same high school you attended, what’s wrong with asking them what year they graduated? Everything. This seemingly innocent mistake, along with countless others, can put you in legal hot water.

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What Shows Up On a Background Check? | GoodHire

Goodhire

A quick scan of the background check landscape reveals that there are many different types of background checks , each of which uncovers somewhat different personal background information. It’s important for both employers and job candidates to understand what kind of information is included in each type of background check, and how that information can be used.

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What Makes a Great Talent Acquisition Conference? #SourceCon

The Tim Sackett Project

Hey gang! I’m back from attending and speaking at my first ever SourceCon conference. Can I be real for a second? I never attended SourceCon in the past because I was intimidated. For real! Let me explain. I’m not a Sourcing Nerd! I’m not going to sit down on my laptop and go deep diving into the national archives to find names of whatever or build search strings that are 5,000 characters long, so I thought, yeah, this just isn’t for me.

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Finance Manager

eni

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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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Standing Ovation: Recognizing Exceptional Employees | Alyssa Newswanger

WEX Inc.

A Standing Ovation is a special reward program at benefitexpress that honors employees who have gone above and beyond in fulfilling our Community Pillars. Each quarter, nominations are tallied, read, and carefully considered before being awarded to two employees. We announce this recognition at our company “Town Hall” all-staff meetings where the final nominations are read aloud to highlight just how much the winners have done to deserve the award.

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do internal candidates have a better chance at the job?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am currently in the running for a fantastic job at a dream company. I was approached about the job by a recruiter. The feedback from the first face-to-face interview was that I was the strongest candidate and the company decided not to proceed with any of the other external applicants and, instead, wanted to interview further external people for a pool of choice.

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Your Hourly Workers May Be Stealing From You

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every day, thousands of hourly employees are stealing from their company. They are not literally stealing money, but getting compensated for work they didn’t actually do.

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let’s talk about functional workplaces

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I was hoping you would ask the readers to describe what their functional workplace is like and examples of how it functioned in a good way. For examples, what happened at these functioning workplaces when… A supervisor was treating people badly. A coworker was causing problems. Someone was under-performing. Someone in leadership didn’t communicate well. etc.

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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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Employee engagement: decoding social media for the workplace

HR Zone

Business. Harnessing social media at work.

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Five Tips to Building a Solid Company Culture

HR Daily Advisor

In the small business industry—particularly in the restaurant industry—it’s easy to let company culture take a back seat when hungry diners need to be fed and kitchens need to be cleaned, especially in today’s society, as larger issues are occurring in the kitchen as a result of the high stresses that come along with the territory. Source: JazzIRT / E+ / Getty.

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Court: In-N-Out Doesn’t Have the Right to Control Employee Uniforms

Evil HR Lady

Employers have the right to require employees to wear uniforms , but they don’t have the right to completely control everything on the uniform , the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals told In-N-Out. Employees at an Austin, Texas location wore “Fight for $15” campaign buttons, and management told them to remove them, citing their dress code which required nine different parts: “white pants, a white shirt, white socks, black shoes, a black belt, a red apron, a gold apron pin,

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benefitexpress Releases Best Practices for an Effective Open Enrollment Communication Strategy

WEX Inc.

benefitexpress , the leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions and services for employee benefits administration, releases best practices for an effective enrollment communication strategy ahead of open enrollment planning season. As featured in benefitexpress’ Annual Enrollment Survival Guide , these practical ideas and tips are designed to assist benefits professionals in human resources roles with a successful open enrollment season.

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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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my office contacts me all weekend long

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m in the middle of the hierarchy at a very small company. Two people report to me, and I report to two people, but they trust me and I have a lot of autonomy and decision-making power. My two reports and I work a pretty standard schedule, with a few weekends and trips thrown in, but my two bosses have a more flexible schedule.

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Uber Drivers Lose Class Action Effort as Court Upholds Arbitration Requirement

TLNT: The Business of HR

It was just a matter of time. After the Supreme Court cleared the way for businesses to use class waivers with their employees and contractors with the Epic Systems ruling this past May, many observers expected that the decision would come back to haunt a class of Uber drivers who wanted to litigate a class action misclassification case against the ride-sharing company in court.

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How be a great employer to work for

Typelane

These days, the idea of a loyal employee who will stay with you more than two years may seem seems blue sky thinking, especially in the millennial mindset that has caused huge shifts in the working world. And in this age, you want to be seen more than just a good employer. You want to be seen as a great employer! Yet the Glassdoors of this world make it extremely easy for each employee to share every interaction with your company and in the process deter future prospective employees.