Thu.May 11, 2017

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Talent Acquisition Strategy: The 3 Tactics Your Organization Needs

HR Bartender

I listened in on a panel discussion during this year’s SHRM Talent Management Conference when I hear a recruiter say, “My job is to fill openings.” And I thought to myself, “Hmm…no. A recruiter’s job is to fill the company’s talent pipeline.”. Now you might be saying to yourself, “Same thing.” But I’m not sure it is. Hear me out. From a process perspective, organizations hire employees from their talent pipeline.

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What is a PEO? The solution to making your company great!

EmployeeConnect

A Professional Employer Organization , or PEO, allows businesses to outsource their administrative needs to a third party that specializes in these duties. This can include (but is not limited to) managing human resources, taking care of payroll, overseeing workers’ compensation issues, and offering employee benefits. The relationship is beneficial for both the owner and employees of a business: the boss is able to focus on the bottom line without being bogged down by details or red tape, and wo

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Mya Systems raises $11.4 million for its AI recruiter chatbot. Crew, a San Francisco, CA-based communication platform for mobile workers, raised $15m in a second funding round.

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The Real Secret to Surviving (and Thriving) as a Full-Desk Recruiter

Linkedin Talent Blog

It’s very common to see the staffing industry explode during a period of low unemployment. In particular, the increased number of full-desk recruiters (i.e. someone who is responsible for sourcing both the employers and the candidates they hire). Having worked in the Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, I saw first-hand the incredible opportunity a talented recruiter had to build their reputation (and, bank account!

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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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If You Want to Be an Inspiring Leader, Try Empathy First

Cornerstone On Demand

There are many leadership styles: the authoritative leader who imposes their will, the transactional leader who trades reward for result and the consultative leader who listens and involves direct reports in decisions (to name a few). But the most effective leadership approach, according to Claudio Feser , a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, is inspirational leadership.

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4 Tips: How to Cultivate Mindfulness at Work

Achievers

Mindfulness by definition is, “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis.” Seems simple enough, right? However, achieving a state of mindfulness as defined above, while balancing the busy schedule of a working professional seems like another impossible task on the grand to-do list.

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6 Creative Ways to Boost Employee Morale

Hppy

It’s Wednesday morning and your team looks like they’ve just had their brain cells electrocuted. What will you do to stir them back to life? Employee morale is one of the key elements that can make or break a brand’s success, which is why all managers should invest active effort and a part of the brand budget in maintaining it on an optimal level. Unfortunately, modern employees are much pickier than their parents when it comes to favourite morale boosters, and 21st-century HR experts therefore

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Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust at Total Rewards

WorkHuman

Is it possible to boil down everything we know about building culture into a few key ingredients? Possibly. One of my favorite quotes from WorldatWork’s Total Rewards conference this week in Washington, D.C., came from Colleen Burgess, director of compensation and performance at Qlik. Speaking on a panel with three other Globoforce customers titled, “Slicing Up the Total Rewards Pie to Deliver Stronger ROI,” Burgess told the audience that the key to building a great culture comes down to, “Faith

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Do Worry…Then be Happy

CONCERN: EAP

Experts have linked positive mood and emotions to improved physical and emotional health for years. Now, new research indicates that negative moods may also be beneficial to our wellbeing, serving a specific function in employees’ lives by helping them to learn from experience and adapt their behavior. A study at the University of New South Wales, Australia demonstrated that periods of low mood can increase attention, boost short-term memory and enhance communication skills.

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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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Building an Award-Winning Company Culture with Pamela Walshe

Everwise

Earlier this year, Everwise hosted a popular webinar on “Building an Award-Winning Company Culture” delivered by Pamela Walshe. A foremost culture consultant and award-winning leader, Walshe specializes in building great company culture and managing organizations through change. She has also been an Everwise mentor for over two years, and offered to share her expertise with our community.

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Do Worry…Then be Happy

CONCERN: EAP

Experts have linked positive mood and emotions to improved physical and emotional health for years. Now, new research indicates that negative moods may also be beneficial to our wellbeing, serving a specific function in employees’ lives by helping them to learn from experience and adapt their behavior. A study at the University of New South Wales, Australia demonstrated that periods of low mood can increase attention, boost short-term memory and enhance communication skills.

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Six Tips to Harness Data and Keep Your Talent

TalentCulture

Why do employees leave a job? Do they leave because they have issues with their managers, or are they unhappy with the benefits their employer offers? Or is it a disconnect between their values and the corporate culture? It’s important to understand the reasons people are leaving because, as you know, whenever you need to replace an employee, it costs your business money—and time.

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4 Time Management Tips for Busy Hiring Professionals

Spark Hire

Hiring professionals are well aware of the importance of keeping the interview process moving along. One way to do this is by practicing proper time management consistently throughout the workday. A hiring manager who focuses on using their time effectively is able to oversee a hiring process that is airtight, while directing their attention to the key parts of the talent acquisition process.

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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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5 Proofs That Our Paid Paid Vacation Policy Works

BambooHR

You probably already knew that humble people don’t say that they’re humble. But did you know that humble companies say they’re humble? It’s true. Watch: BambooHR is humble. See? I can say it because this inborn humility doesn’t come from people like me; it comes from the founders of BambooHR and the countless examples of […]. The post 5 Proofs That Our Paid Paid Vacation Policy Works appeared first on.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Employee Engagement

TalentCulture

Employee Engagement. This is a workplace topic that is steady and strong, but why do so many brands fail at this all important relationship? Research has shown time and time again, the myriad benefits of employee engagement to both employers and employees. According to the Wharton School of Business, they found that brands are three and a half times more profitable when employees are engaged versus brands with average engagement levels.

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How to Set Goals the SMART Way

TLNT: The Business of HR

Goal setting is an undeniably important step on the road to achievement, be it personal, or in the workplace. Goals serve four basic functions : providing guidance and direction, facilitating planning, motivating and inspiring employees, and helping evaluate and control performance. As a manager, it’s vital to set goals for your team or make sure they have their own goals to strive towards.

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Help us uncover the future of Talent Acquisition. Participate in our survey today!

Bersin with Deloitte

Is your TA function keeping up with rapid pace of change and disruption? If yes, know that you are not alone! I am excited to announce the launch of the Bersin by Deloitte High-Impact Talent Acquisition survey! It is through this study that we aim to: Better understand how organizations can get the right people in the […].

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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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Company cyber security policy template

Workable

This Company cyber security policy template is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs and should be considered a starting point for setting up your employment policies. The post Company cyber security policy template appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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The Empathy Index: Is It a Meaningful Measure?

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you’ve heard me speak on “Humanity Means Business,” you know I pay a lot of attention to the intersection of corporate culture, business performance, and people. And I mention several organizations that measure and/or rank employers on scales of relevant cultural attributes.

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11 HR Professionals Share Their Favorite Interview Questions

Namely

Despite the recent debate over the effectiveness of job interviews , it doesn’t seem that the standard interview process is going away anytime soon. So how do you ask the right questions that reveal a candidate’s true potential? We took that question straight to the experts. Here are the top interview questions eleven HR professionals always make sure to ask. 1.

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ask the readers: weirdly dramatic responses to mundane office changes

Ask a Manager

There’s something about work that can make people have weirdly strong reactions to relatively mundane changes in office policies or practices — like the guy who throws a loud temper tantrum when I.T. makes him change the password he’s used for the last three years, or the angsty drama greeting an announcement that people can’t bring in their own plants anymore because of bugs.

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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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Power and Effort at Work

Laurie Ruettimann

The problem with a lot of people in the workforce is that they confuse doing things for having power. Don’t make that mistake. Power has very little to do with effort. In fact, it’s one of those weird circumstances in life that powerful people don’t work very hard. If you’re working on a super-interesting project at the office, it may be all encompassing and critical to your professional growth.

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how to turn a request for free help into paid consulting

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I has a pretty specific niche job. Most people who do what I do have PhDs, and finding a job like mine is rare and coveted. I was recently at a conference describing my position, and a leader from another organization came up to me to ask me how he could find someone like me to work for him. I emailed him some information about the graduate school I attended, where there are many students who would dream to work for such an organization.

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Mail Clerk job description

Workable

This Mail Clerk job description template is optimized for posting to online job boards or careers pages and easy to customize for your company. Mail Clerk Responsibilities. Include: Sorting incoming mail by department, location and category. Keeping records of sent and received mail. Preparing envelopes and packages. The post Mail Clerk job description appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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6 Ways to Foster Employee Engagement in the Gig Economy

Quantum Workplace

It's the gig economy, and more and more professionals are operating as freelance, contract or independent workers. While companies have always struggled to manage employee engagement with remote workers, this significant shift in the make-up of the workforce means that growing and emerging companies need new strategies to support company culture – both within and beyond the office walls, to develop personal and professional relationships among colleagues, and to foster greater employee engagemen

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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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8 surefire steps to handle employee attendance issues

Insperity

Maybe you’re the kind of business leader who prefers to create a work culture free from the corporate grind of time clocks, rules and rigid schedules. Or you don’t want to be that person at your company, the one who knows exactly what time everyone gets into the office. Whatever the reason, few business leaders relish calling out employees for being tardy or missing work.

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The Do’s And Don’ts Of Giving Negative Performance Reviews

Engagedly

“Caroline, you have failed to meet the deadlines way too many times this quarter, We expect more dedication from you this quarter.” How many of us are ready to face negative reviews about our work like this? Not […].

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4 Honest Answers About Diversity And Inclusion In The Workplace

Goodhire

Accusations of. “extreme” pay discrimination. at Google grabbed headlines recently. Claims that Facebook rejects more code from female engineers than from their male counterparts followed not long after.