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How to Reduce 4 Kinds of Talent Acquisition Stress

Spark Hire

Recruiting stress for many is just a fact of life. In fact, a recent study showed HR won the dubious honor of being the most stressful profession. The 2020 UK Workplace Stress Survey conducted by Perkbox revealed 79% of HR respondents (professionals in employment) said the stress of their jobs negatively impacted them. . The negative impacts of stress on productivity, job performance, career satisfaction, and health and well-being are well understood.

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Why Soft Skills Matter and I Can’t Wait to Get My Hair Cut

Eightfold

I’m looking forward to getting back to my barber, Tina. Partly it’s that my hair is a Zoom embarrassment. And partly I go to Tina because, at $20 plus $5 tip, she’s reasonable, and close, two miles. Mostly, though, it’s because I know her at this point and am looking forward to asking about her and her kids and her business, and her asking about me.

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Employer Branding Will Supersede Traditional Advertising Strategies in 2020

Blu Ivy Group

Traditional advertising campaigns for products and services have come to a full stop. In a flash, society has learned that what matters most, above all else, is the people we care for, surround ourselves with, and support. Connecting with people. Helping people. Supporting our communities. These things are driving the business and branding decisions we make now.

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When Businesses Reopen, Be Ready to Hire Fast

SHRM Resources

Once the pandemic eases and the business world tries to create a new normal, many employers will need to ramp up staffing—quickly and prudently. How do you go from standstill to full throttle on the hiring track during and after a period of unease, uncertainty and semi-dormancy? HR professionals supply the following 10 tips.

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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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company wants us to suggest which coworkers to lay off, new boss won’t speak to me, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s seven answers to seven questions. Here we go…. 1. Company wants coworkers to suggest who should be laid off. My mother’s workplace is panicking over the pandemic, and they have apparently asked the entire staff to suggest coworkers who should be laid off. That’s not normal, right? Is it actually illegal, or is it just a cowardly attempt to avoid responsibility for layoffs?

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How to Manage Layoff Anxiety During the Coronavirus Crisis: Tips From a Career Coach

Intoo USA

Layoff anxiety affected nearly half of American workers even before the coronavirus came along. Now, those anxieties, for many people, have become reality. The coronavirus pandemic has already triggered a number of layoffs—and may workers who remain employed fear they may be next to lose their jobs. How can American workers adapt to these challenging times?

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Creating a remote work policy for COVID-19 and beyond

PeopleStrategy

Any debate over the value of having – or need for – a remote work policy was thrown out the window just last month. When the novel coronavirus (and the disease it causes, COVID-19) was classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 working from home became a literal matter of life and death for a vast majority of office-bound businesses, across countless industries.

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How to Manage Layoff Anxiety During the Coronavirus Crisis: Tips From a Career Coach

Intoo USA

Layoff anxiety affected nearly half of American workers even before the coronavirus came along. Now, those anxieties, for many people, have become reality. The coronavirus pandemic has already triggered a number of layoffs—and may workers who remain employed fear they may be next to lose their jobs. How can American workers adapt to these challenging times?

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Getting the most of out of your productivity tools with Reflektive

Reflektive

As remote work and virtual teams become the “new normal” for millions of Americans, staying connected and aligned is more important than ever. With rapidly changing market conditions and buying behavior, companies are turning to Reflektive to help their employees work smarter during this time. In this time of remote work, we’ve noticed two major trends: Employees are spending even more time in their productivity tools, such as Gmail and Slack HR teams are encouraging employees to stay more conne

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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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Update Your Workforce Strategy to Uncertain Times

Allegis Global Solutions

Since the outset of the COVID-19 crisis, many companies and their workers have learned even the most ironclad schedules and deadlines are negotiable. Some projects get put on hold. Consider company events, product launches, or facilities expansion, and relocations. Other initiatives may suddenly speed up, such as a technology implementation to support remote workers or communications projects to inform employees, customers, and partners.

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Employee trust: a valuable commodity in times of crisis

HR Zone

Employees Why trust is so valuable in times of crisis.

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Adjusting Your Strategic Workforce Strategy

Allegis Global Solutions

Since the outset of the COVID-19 crisis, many companies and their workers have learned even the most ironclad schedules and deadlines are negotiable. Some projects get put on hold. Consider company events, product launches, or facilities expansion, and relocations. Other initiatives may suddenly speed up, such as a technology implementation to support remote workers or communications projects to inform employees, customers, and partners.

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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

HRExecutive

What if COVID-19 is one of the most important things to ever happen to HR? What if it is a massive catalyst for the transformation of how talent is managed, in ways that HR has long advocated for but never been able to advance? My friends, this is our moment. The coronavirus crisis has elevated the HR function and its cohorts to unprecedented levels of visibility, importance and influence.

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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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Top 5 Ways to Prevent Data Leaks in Remote Teams

Hppy

Working on remote teams is a great way to increase productivity. However, the concern is how to stay safe online and prevent data leaks when sending attachments or sensitive data. Here are a few helpful ways to stay safe online whether workers are on Slack or Zoom. . 1. Use the Cloud and Set Up Security Features. About 90% of passwords can easily be hacked.

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Using HR tech to meet the challenges of COVID-19

HRExecutive

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series on coronavirus strategies and priorities for HR leaders—from HR’s top experts. *. As workforces around the world adjust to the changes being ushered in by the coronavirus pandemic, technology will likely be more important than ever. At IBM, the company’s investments in online learning and collaboration tools are paying off, says CHRO Diane Gherson.

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How to build a successful work-from-home program: 4 steps

Insperity

Say your best talent is out of commuting range. Or, a new parent wants to work from home for a couple of years. Or, maybe teleworking was thrust upon your company during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, more than ever before, it’s important for business leaders to understand how to setup a successful remote work program. It requires deliberation, planning and, likely, some investment in technology.

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Pensions, auto-enrolment and furloughing – an HR director’s guide

HR Zone

Business Pensions and furloughing – your questions answered.

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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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The Future Of Work Is Here: What The World Of Work May Look Like Tomorrow

Forbes Coaches Council

While we can't predict how our current situation will play out, we can predict what the future of work may look like as a result.

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10 Ways Marketers Are Using Digital Destinations to Drive Growth and Educate Customers During COVID-19

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s COVID-19 Resource Center was highlighted in as one of 10 ways marketers are using digital destinations to educate customers. Click to read more on Uberflip. .

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6 tips on how to become an irreplaceable leader

Hppy

Fortunately, leadership is not something inborn, you can learn it. There is no perfection and you need to learn constantly. Becoming a good leader means being open to new things, being able to listen to and accept the opinions of other people. At first, you have to follow great personalities and draw on their best practices. This is what will help you to become a person that others are ready to follow.

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7 HR Tips and Tricks to Help Inspire Employees

6Q

Do you feel that your workplace is lacking spark and ingenuity? Finding strategies to help inspire your employees to be high-performing and innovative will pay off in the long run. Emphatic Positive Reinforcement. From childhood to adulthood, positive reinforcement is the key to learning consistent work habits. It encourages good behaviour and is reaffirming for a strong work ethic.

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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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All About Others: Servant Leadership in the Modern Workplace

BizLibrary - HR

Instead of telling people what to do, the role of servant leaders is to make sure that their team’s needs are being met. The post All About Others: Servant Leadership in the Modern Workplace appeared first on BizLibrary.

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7 Must-Have Employee Benefits For Your Remote Workforce

Vantage Circle

The trend of remote working has grown massively amongst working professionals during the past decade. With the introduction of cloud-technology, one could do their work while staying away from their designated workplace. Or let’s just say they could make anyplace they deem fit their workplace. This sort of arrangement has come in very handy in the view of current circumstances where the whole world order is in mess due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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can we ask our roommate not to take a job, my boss says I can’t quit if she gets a federal loan, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Do I have a right to ask a roommate to NOT take a job right now? My husband and I moved about five hours from our hometown just over a year ago, and while we’re loving it, we’re really missing our friends and family. About nine weeks ago, a very close friend was laid off from her job, but then found a job in our city and asked if she could live with us for a bit while she got settled.

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Kindness is Not Just for Crisis

ADP

The world has changed quickly. None of us has experience going through a global pandemic. We are still grappling with all the change and things we don't.

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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 Take Care of Yourself (And Your Remote Team) During a Crisis

Quantum Workplace

As offices have closed their doors around the country, millions of employees are learning to navigate the new normal of remote work in the wake of COVID-19. For many, this looks like upended schedules, countless video conferences, and perhaps even some children (or pets) underfoot. While under normal circumstances, telecommuting and remote work can be a welcome advantage for many households (and businesses), the rapid transition to virtual environment has many employees stressed, overwhelmed, an

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Inclusion: Why transgender employee experience must not be neglected

HR Zone

People Moving towards a trans-inclusive workplace.

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Your Top 8 Questions on Form I-9 Remote Hiring Answered

Sterling Check

One of the greatest challenges employers face in managing the Form I-9 process is making sure their forms are compliant for remote employees. In the midst of a pandemic like we are facing, and the resulting attitudes toward remote work arrangements, the chance of compliance risk surrounding Form I-9 only increases. In a sudden change of events, more people are looking for jobs that offer remote positions out of sheer necessity.