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Which interview questions are illegal?

Workable

This quiz consists of 10 questions – these are questions that might be asked by a recruiter or a hiring manager during an interview. For each one, you will determine whether it’s safe or risky for the interviewer to ask candidates that question, based on the possibility of legal risks that could be raised in asking. The consequences of non-compliance can be debilitating both in terms of budget and employer brand, so it’s best to ensure that everyone in your hiring team – and your company – is fu

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How Digital Transformation is Changing Employee Expectations

6Q

For employees, digital transformation is so much more than just another buzzword. Workflow automation and digitalised project management are just some of the recent technological innovations that are changing the very nature of work. Such tech is reshaping how both managers and employees see their roles in their companies. Most organisations are rushing to become more digital.

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The Employee Benefits Millennials Care About Most

WEX Inc.

What is a millennial? By now, the answer may seem like common knowledge - but the topic of millennials, especially when related to employee benefits, is still one that raises many questions. And as the largest group in today's workforce, cracking the code on millennials continues to be a key component of HR and benefits strategies.

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6 Ways Get the Most Out of Your Workday

Take It Personel-ly

Ambition gives us the motivation to be productive during our workday, without it, we lack productivity. What is ambition? Ambition is defined as one’s desire or will to accomplish or achieve goals through a process that expects hard work, passion and determination. Enthusiasm helps us achieve our goals either personal or career-wise. Here’s six ways […].

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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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Top 5 challenges in employee relations and how you can address them

TalenX

WHAT ARE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS? Employee Relations is not just a term, nor it only means relationships between employers and employees. It refers to an organization’s efforts to create and maintain a positive relationship with its employees. Companies that invest in employee engagement and retention plans are more likely to keep employees loyal and productive at work.

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What I Learned from Interviewing 100 Prominent Women

Thrive Global

As a sixteen-year-old girl, I find myself fascinated by successful women. When we hear about women in leadership positions, we automatically regard them as successful due to the title they hold. However, job titles, especially for women, obscure the adversity that they overcame to achieve success. We don’t see the sacrifices that she made. We are unaware of her journey.

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Implementing Smart Safety Strategies For Your Employees

New to HR

Trying to run a business without health and safety strategies is like trying to fly a plane with no fuel. You’re not going to get very far if you don’t take the time to look out for the people on. The post Implementing Smart Safety Strategies For Your Employees appeared first on New To HR.

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From DREAM to REALITY, you need no Prince Charming… you need but YOU…

Thrive Global

A dear friend of mine recently had introduced me to “The Princess Who Believed in Fairy Tales,” a lovely book written by Marcia Grad. The book starts like most fairy tale stories “Once upon a time” and goes on to describe what soon resembles a well lived notion to all of us damsels with broken hearts. The book begins by describing what one would think is a typical princess story, what I visualized as a naive princess living in a too big for anyone’s size castle, ove

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I wasn’t the first choice for my job, I took a counteroffer but now want to quit, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. I wasn’t the first choice for my job, and I think it shows. I’ve started a new position that is a really great opportunity for my career. However, I wasn’t the first choice candidate (their first hire didn’t show up) and it’s starting to show. This is giving me an incredible amount of anxiety and I’m not sure how to proceed working here.

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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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How Solo Travel Helped me With Depression and Anxiety

Thrive Global

As I write this in the first week of 2020, I can’t help and be proud of how far our collective effort to improve our mental health has come. A couple of short years ago, admitting you suffered from anxiety, depression, or any other mental health challenge would have been unthinkable. Today, as more and more celebrities and influencers talk about their own struggles , us ordinary Janes are also finally more at ease with speaking up about it.

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How to run a more efficient HR department

Recruiters Lineup

As any good HR professional knows, the HR department usually wears many hats and sometimes carries a heavy load. Outside of everyday administrative tasks, such as payroll management, processing sick days and vacation requests, and ensuring all paperwork is in order, the HR department is also entrusted with helping the business grow and achieving its goals — all while supporting the employees’ wellbeing and mental health.

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“Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life” — 5 Exquisite Tips You Need To Follow To See a Real Change In Yourself

Thrive Global

Unlocking the key to happiness and success lies in waking up early. Sounds weird? Well, I felt the same until I decided to explore reading one of the most amazing books by Robin Sharma. I am sure you must have heard about him and trust me, 5 AM Club has transformed my life in the best possible ways. Never in my dreams did I imagine that by simply shifting my waking patterns I could be revolutionising my life.

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Reinventing HR: 5 Ways Chief People Officers Must Evolve

Forbes Leadership Strategy

According to a report by the Society of Human Resource Management and financial services company Willis Towers Watson, just 35% of senior business leaders believe that CPOs are prepared to tackle the challenges their companies will face in the future.

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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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What Makes You Stand Out in a Crowded World: Personal Branding Congruency

Thrive Global

What exactly is congruency and what makes a person congruent? Congruency in both online and offline is an environment when all different parts of a thing and/or person come together to form a state of agreement and harmony. Being congruent is to be in total sync with one’s non-verbal and verbal communication. In this case, it is the coming together of an individual’s various parts involving what they say (verbal communication) with how they behave (non-verbal communication) and how others form a

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Why ‘Alpha Dogs’ Make Poor Leaders In Startups

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Some people see the alpha as the paradigm of the good leader: hard-charging, decisive and highly competitive, but alphas—male or female—don’t make effective entrepreneurial leaders.

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Here’s why you should care less what other people think and more about your own happiness and success.

Thrive Global

I want to ask you a serious question: What matters more to you, what other people think or your own success and happiness? On the surface it seems like a stupid question. When asked, I suspect the vast majority of us would feel perfectly justified in putting our own opinions about our own life higher in the pecking order than other people’s. Yet when it comes down to it, the reality can be very different.

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Leadership in the Age of Personalization is About Creating Healthy Environments So People Can Thrive

Forbes Leadership Strategy

If your people are feeling stifled, not activated to their fullest potential, or bogged down by physical, emotional or financial health issues, none of that other stuff will make a difference.

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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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So, How’s That New Year’s Resolution Going?

Thrive Global

So, How’s That New Year’s Resolution Going? Every January is a time of endings and beginnings as we close one year and begin a fresh new year. Many of us are still thinking about new year’s resolutions which typically involves trying to get more, be more or have more, rather than ways to actually embrace the life we already have right here and now.

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What To Do When Your Toxic Boss Returns

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Away employees allege that Korey used the instant messaging app Slack as a way to intimidate employees.

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5 Sure-Fire Ways You Must Follow To Triumph over ‘Inner Conflict’

Thrive Global

In this world, no one is free from conflicts; it may be external or internal. Managing external conflict is a much easier task than the inner one. You can easily ignore the person who is bothering you or force to do something. But, when it comes to fighting with yourself, then it becomes severe. Those who do not have an idea what is inner conflict, then let us explain it first.

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5 Healthy Ways To Deal With Criticism At Work

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Criticism at work can be a blessing. Here are five ways to make the most of 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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10 Ways to Become More Productive

Thrive Global

Do you want to stop experience laziness, tiredness and procrastination that you feel when you are faced with tasks? Do you want to be that person who not only has stuff done but also finishes their job on time? It is not something you will learn overnight but it is still doable and when you get the gist of it, you will find yourself doing more. To help you become productive and enjoy life more, I am going to show you ten ways you can achieve that milestone. 1.

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How To Build—And Keep—Your A-Team

Forbes Leadership Strategy

If you take these four steps, you will lead a group you'll be proud of.

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My Leadership Beginnings

Thrive Global

One of the most frequent questions I get asked is “what was it that made you take such an interest in and get involved in Leadership, what was the moment that triggered your interest. Now it might seem hard to believe, but my very first leadership experience and what I believe to be one of my most defining experiences, happened when I was only 10 years old.

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Transform The Customer Experience

Forbes Leadership Strategy

While the concept of Wow may seem daunting, it’s not really about the Wow.

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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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Top Ten Quotes from MLK which Resonate Today

Thrive Global

America will once again pause on Monday to honor the monumental life and legacy of civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK pictured above in front row, second from left). The annual MLK Day national holiday is an opportune time to ponder some of. Dr. King’s timeless words of wisdom and their immense influence on the. nation and world more than half a century later.

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Suddenly, Working Less Doesn’t Seem Like Such A Bad Idea

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The idea’s been around for a long time: in a world where technology now makes increasingly high levels of productivity possible and where automation systematically destroys more jobs than it creates, working fewer hours doesn’t seem like a bad idea.

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The Only Habit I’ll Ever Need

Thrive Global

I used to think of habits as either good or bad. In other words, I thought of them as things that are good for me, or things that are bad for me. Getting up at 6:00am sharp for a jog, eating my “five-a-day,” and passionately reciting positive affirmations in the bathroom mirror – those are all good habits, right? On the other hand, staying up late, having a cold beer and a greasy pizza for dinner, and watching hours of Netflix – those must be bad habits, surely.

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