Tue.Jun 02, 2020

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10 Rules for Using Social Media to Get a Job

GetFive

You probably use social media often in your personal life, but it’s valuable for advancing your professional life as well. The majority of recruiters and hiring managers use social media in some manner to find and evaluate candidates. This means it’s an incredibly useful tool for job seekers, but it must be used correctly. Here are 10 ways to improve your social media presence and use each platform to get noticed by recruiters and companies alike.

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Direct Selling Best Practices: Preparing for Field Engagement Post COVID-19

Rallyware for Human Resources

What we’ve seen through all of the uncertainty and panic over the past couple of months is that the direct selling industry has emerged, more so than ever before, as a formidable player in a marketplace that has undoubtedly changed for good. Even prior to the pandemic, direct selling was on a steady upward trajectory as far as being among the most attractive entrepreneurial endeavors in the country.

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3 Tips on Avoiding Unintentional Discrimination

Pinsight

Often, employment practices involving selection decisions appear EEOC-neutral, but they actually have a discriminatory effect on protected classes. Unintentional discrimination—commonly known as disparate or adverse impact—affects many employment practices involving candidate selection. Identifying and selecting high-potential employees requires companies to engage in candidate selection, and if they need to be intentional about evaluating their criteria and procedures for selection, in order to

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The Role of Managers in Supporting Employee Mental Health

Professional Alternatives

As time goes on, more and more businesses are realizing the benefits from supporting employee mental health. Mental health is a serious workplace issue and neglecting it can result in a costly impact to companies as a result of reduced productivity, as well as absent employees. If employees’ mental health is prioritized, they are not just more likely to be satisfied, their productivity rate also can increase.

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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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Organizations are Focused on Using People Analytics As a Competitive Advantage

HR Bartender

As organizations spend more time trying to recover from the business impact of COVID-19 , they will turn to data to help them. It makes total sense. Organizations have been using data to help them grow their businesses for years. This will be no different. What may be different is the type of data that organizations collect and how they analyze and make decisions from the data.

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Employee Retention - The Real Cost of Losing an Employee

PeopleKeep

For businesses to thrive in today’s economy, finding and retaining the best employees is important. This is especially true for small businesses and nonprofits competing with larger businesses, and larger budgets, for top talent. Benefits play a large role in employee retention, and employees want benefits personalized to their needs. Learn how to calculate retention rates.

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COVID-19 Guidelines Employers Need to Know Before Returning to Work

Justworks

For the last two months, the various lockdown orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have created unprecedented logistical and financial challenges for businesses across the US. Now, slowly but surely, many businesses will prioritize orchestrating the return to work as quickly — and safely — as possible. Employers who are thinking about initiating (or who have already begun) the return to work process should only do so after they have devised a thorough strategy for maintaining a.

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Recruitment: how to mitigate the risk of background screening delays during Covid-19

HR Zone

Acquisition Mitigating the risks of hiring during Covid-19.

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Can We Finally Say Goodbye to the Work Martyr?

WorkHuman

Workhuman VP of Brand Marketing Dr. Patti Fletcher discusses the opportunity had by business and HR leaders to set their teams up for success by rewarding for impact, not hours worked. Read the article on Entrepreneur. .

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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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10 strategies to improve employee mental health

HRExecutive

A focus on mental health always makes good business sense. But in the time of coronavirus, as well as the protests taking place nationwide, the practice is becoming more vital than ever. Employees are experiencing higher rates of mental health issues and struggling with feelings of isolation, loneliness and stress—and many are looking to their employer for help.

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Everything You Need to Know About Building and Sustaining Company Culture in Remote Companies

6Q

It’s no secret that a well-defined and carefully curated work culture is a fundamental part of the long-term sustenance and success of any organisation. In fact, several research studies endorse that positive company culture improves productivity, business profitability, and enhances the overall experience of employees. What Is Company Culture? The highly subjective and specific nature of what culture means to various organisations makes it tricky to generalise and define.

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Video: It?s time to start thinking about long-term skills development

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Video production: Andrew Kennedy Lewis. COVID-19 has changed the way we learn. Take a long-range view at skills development and the way you bring them into the company, says Nicholas Wyman, CEO of Institute for Workplace Skills & Innovation. This may look different across each industry, but there are tools and resources in place to help your company along the way.

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Teamwork Challenges You Might Face Due To Performance Reviews

Engagedly

Employee performance review is one of the most popular practices in today’s world for evaluating employee performance. At a glance you might feel that with performance reviews, everything seems to be advantageous to the organization; but there another […].

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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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Telemedicine: What It Is and How to Encourage Remote Workers to Use It

Fond

Every day there are new findings on the novel coronavirus , and it can get challenging for businesses to keep up on the latest news. Even aspects like company healthcare benefits are changing: companies now have to adjust to the new normal by developing new ways for employees to take care of their health without having an in-person office visit. . As uncertainty continues to rise, feelings of anxiety, panic, and fear can seriously affect the health and wellbeing of your workers.

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Onboarding for Remote Employees During COVID-19

Quantum Workplace

As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on and stay-at-home orders remain in place across the country, many companies are operating with a fully or partially-remote workforce. Transitioning office workers to a work-from-home setup can be a challenge, especially during such turbulent conditions. Even more so when you add new hires to the mix. Managers and HR leaders are scrambling to rework onboarding and training processes for new hires who are joining their teams remotely.

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I was difficult at my last job, and it?s standing in my way now

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently quit a job which I excelled at technically, but professionally I struggled. The best way to put it is that I was incompatible with my newly appointed manager. My frustration with that manager led to many inappropriate comments that I made in front of him and a couple of other senior leaders. To be clear, I never cursed at them or called them names or raised my voice, but I did make (multiple) comments about their ignorance of projects or lack of experience in this spe

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15 Times It's OK To Say 'No' At Work

Forbes Coaches Council

While it may seem counterintuitive, saying "no" to some opportunities does mean saying "yes" to the opportunities that fit in with your goals.

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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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How to Give Constructive Feedback to Your Colleagues

TinyPulse

Let’s face it: Giving and receiving constructive feedback is hard. Even the best managers struggle to give constructive feedback. As for employees? It’s almost even harder to hear it.

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How Actress Richa Moorjani Prioritizing Her Mental Wellbeing

Thrive Global

One of the aspects I love most about my culture is the collectivistic nature of it and how much of a strongly connected community we are. Therefore, it really confuses and disturbs me that despite this fact, something as common, prevalent and important as mental health, is still such a taboo and often completely off-limits subject among the South Asian community.

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5 Pay Predictions Post-COVID

Compensation Cafe

Like many people, I have not been impressed by the old normal and therefore I am not looking forward to the new normal. If normal worked so well pay would not be a constant thorn in the side of companies and their employees. If normal was so great, wouldn’t compensation philosophies state that they were designed to support hiring average talent to deliver average results?

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A Message From Our CEO

Goodhire

On behalf of the employees at GoodHire, I want to express my sadness and outrage at the recent killing of George Floyd. The event, in isolation, was horrific. But, even more profoundly, it shines a spotlight on the fear and injustice our African American neighbors, friends, and colleagues face because of the color of their skin. And, unfortunately, it reflects the systemic racism that is so deeply ingrained in American society.

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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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5 things to know about HR Tech

HRExecutive

As employers around the country look to reopen and begin the recovery process, many are turning to HR technology to help guide that process. From people-management tools that focus on remote workers to contact-tracing solutions, the market for HR technology has never been hotter—nor has the recognition that smart technology choices will be a major differentiator among companies that succeed and those that falter in today’s economic slowdown.

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Some of My Employees Don?t Want to Return to Work

Evil HR Lady

We’ve been given the go-ahead from the government to re-open our business. The only problem is that the employees don’t want to come back. The hourly staff is making more on unemployment than they do working, and the exempt staff has been working from home and aren’t thrilled about returning to the office. Is there anything I can do to get our staff to come back?

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8 Simple Strategies for Employee Recognition and Rewards at Workplace

Engagedly

According to a recent study, 69% of employees would work harder if they felt their efforts were better appreciated. Employee Recognition and rewards program is one of the main drivers of employee engagement and retention in any company. […].

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Counting Employees: One Plus One Doesn?t Always Equal Two

FLEX

Many employee benefit laws only apply to employers who have a certain number of employees. The challenging part is that each law has its own definition and rules on how to count the number of employees when determining if a law applies to an employer.

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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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How to take training virtual

HRExecutive

Last year, Guild Mortgage converted its classroom training for new sales hires to virtual training. The catalyst was its $200,000 annual travel costs, says Emily Zachariasen, regional sales training manager at the organization, which specializes in residential home loans. “We were flying people to training centers around the country, paying for their hotel and food,” she says, adding that the company’s 4,500 employees at 460 U.S. offices includes 1,800 sales professionals.

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will asking for a huge raise make it more likely you?ll get the lower number you really want?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My friend and I were discussing raises and what’s appropriate to ask for when negotiating. I pointed her to your website for more input, but we couldn’t find an answer to our specific conundrum so I’m hoping you can advise. Let’s say my friend currently makes $40k a year. When her next review/raise comes up, she’d like to ask for a $10k raise so she would then be making $50k.

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Five books about starting a startup

Typelane

Founding a company is a unique roller coaster a lucky few of us get to experience. It is something that will help you develop a unique set of skills and challenge you in ways you never been challenged before. When starting your first company very few founders have a true understanding of what they actually are getting themselves into. Most of us read TechCrunch or our local version, sites that are packed with articles focusing on the successes, neglecting the hard work, and a constant stream of