Wed.Nov 11, 2020

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How to Improve Low Employee Morale When Working from Home

TinyPulse

When COVID-19 first became an issue, all sorts of businesses started to allow employees to work from home. It was a refreshing change from the typical daily grind. People appreciated working in their pajamas, taking coffee breaks in their living room, and communicating through text or voice.

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Veterans Day Reflection: 6 Best Practices for Serving Job-seeking Veterans in Workforce Development

EDSI

In celebration of Veterans Day, this blog is dedicated to all U.S. servicemen and women, as well as the workforce professionals who have the privilege of helping to guide Veterans’ career choices in civilian life.

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How to Increase Engagement with Trust and Vulnerability

Achievers

How long does it take to build trust and vulnerability with your team? It doesn’t take long to build trust and vulnerability with your team if you make an effort, but the secret is continuing to work on it. When you know someone well and they’re vulnerable with you, honor that trust. Just because you know how to push someone else’s buttons, it doesn’t mean you need to look for opportunities to do it.

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5 Ways HR Can Reduce Bias in Hiring

Intoo USA

With millions of Americans newly unemployed amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the available pool of qualified talent has grown significantly. While companies who are positioned to hire will surely benefit from this availability as they build out their organizations, the current climate also provides an important opportunity to review hiring processes to identify and prevent any potential for risk of bias. .

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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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Prop 22 has Significant Implications on ACA Healthcare Benefits

ACA Times

2 minute read: With everyone’s attention focused on the results of the presidential election, folks may not realize that California Prop 22 will pass. As of November 6, the status is 76% reporting with 58.4% of the vote, according to the Associated Press. Prop 22 has significant implications for gig economy drivers. Not least among these implications are healthcare benefits for app-based drivers. .

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How Do I Attract More Job Seekers?

ExactHire

There’s no question that the quest to find enough, qualified applicants is frequently a priority for employers–particularly those with positions that traditionally have high turnover. Are you interested in a “chicken or egg” debate? In HR that question is always, would we rather have a large quantity of applicants or a batch of high quality applicants.

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7 Ways to Engage & Retain Front-Line Workers

Reflektive

Your company’s front-line workers are the heroes of 2020. Whether they’re treating patients, stocking groceries, or greeting guests, employees in public spaces are taking on health risks to perform their jobs. These members of your workforce deserve to feel happy and engaged at work. Retaining them helps your company too — per Gallup , the conservative estimate for replacing an employee is one-half to two times the employee’s annual salary.

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my company wants us to meditate and do yoga and alternative healing

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a growing company (think of the products you’d find in Whole Foods beauty aisle) that is doing great things and genuinely has good intentions and smart people behind it. They don’t just greenwash, they are really careful about sourcing, branding, social justice, and diversity. Sometimes they try to do things so differently from other companies that they seem to not notice where they err or enter into unethical territory.

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Hiring Manager Interview Performance is the Key to Recruiting Experience

Survale HR

Your recruiting experience is only as good as your hiring managers. No matter what you do to make sure candidates are well informed with regular communication. No matter how much recruiters treat candidates with respect, just one bad interview experience can wipe it all out. Are you measuring interview performance? Are you using candidate feedback to understand what’s working and what’s not with your recruiting experience?

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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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3 Tips for Working From Home During COVID-19

Best Money Moves

3 tips for working from home during COVID-19. These are three best practices for organizations with employees working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. This is just the beginning of the work from home world if employees have any say in the matter. Seventy percent of full-time employees are working from home during COVID-19 and 75 percent of them say they’re equally or more productive now than they were at the office, according to research by Owl Labs.

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Ways to Create Excellent Content for Your Small Business

Take It Personel-ly

There are a number of great tips for making excellent online content for your business, that will help you improve your business and the amount of revenue it is able to generate. The good news is that there is information about making sure that your online content is of the highest quality that is available […].

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Should You Ask for a Raise During the Pandemic? Here’s What to Consider and How to Do It

The Muse

It’s never easy to ask for a raise, but it’s even harder during an economic downturn. Should you ask? And if so, how?

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The Benefits of HR Certifications

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s VP of Global HR Niamh Graham discusses the benefits of HR certifications and Workhuman Certified in particular. Read Niamh’s full article on HR Zone. .

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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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Honor the Service of Diverse Veterans by Hiring Them (i4cp login required)

i4cp

On this Veteran’s Day, the National Native American Veterans Memorial will officially (albeit virtually due to COVID-19) open. The memorial has been in the works since 2013, when Congress authorized its creation for the purpose of providing an educational opportunity for the public to learn about the tradition of service of Native Americans in the U.S.

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is it OK to fire someone over email, resigning over an ethical conflict, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Is it OK to fire someone over email? Is firing someone over email acceptable? Someone I know was recently fired via email. They are not a remote employee. Their manager tested positive for covid about a week ago (mild symptoms) and is still in isolation per CDC guidelines. This person sent an email to their manager today with some work questions, and their manager replied to that email letting the person know that their last day would be tomor

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How to Write a Position Description That Works

6Q

There are certain employees who get to work on time month after month and still fail to perform as expected because they just don’t know what they are supposed to do at work. According to one study, only about 50% of workers knew what was expected of them. One way to get an employee to deliver on their tasks is to write a position description. A position description is an internal document that details the responsibilities of an employee, how they will be evaluated and rewarded.

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The October Jobs Report: Why You Need A Focused Approach to Hiring Talent 

Hireology

October’s Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report showed once again that we are slowly but surely on the rebound from the first wave of COVID-19. With a national unemployment rate of 6.9%, we continue to inch closer to pre-pandemic levels of employment, and have made it back to the level of unemployment that we saw two to three years after the 2008 recession. 638,000 jobs were added in October, many of which were in the restaurant and retail industries in preparation for the holiday season.

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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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Colorado Becomes First State to Pass Paid Family Leave by Ballot Initiative

ClaimVantage

By Angie Brown, Absence Practice Leader. November 11th , 2020. If you know me, you know how excited I was to learn that Colorado voters have passed a Paid Family Leave program! After six long years of failing in the legislature, Colorado has become the first state to pass a Paid Family leave with the citizen majority vote! Eight other states have passed Paid Family Leaves over the last two decades starting with California, albeit all were passed through the legislature.

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OHSA: COVID-19 Workplace Ventilation Guidance

HR Workplace Services

Click here to view OSHA’s COVID-19 guidance on ventilation in the workplace … The post OHSA: COVID-19 Workplace Ventilation Guidance appeared first on HRWS.

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Three Strategies For Leaders Addicted To Both Success And Fear Of Failure

Forbes Coaches Council

By investing in strategies to empower mental acuity and resilience, leaders will become more prepared to make the impact that they desire via their leadership endeavors.

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I’m not getting interviews because employers think they can’t afford me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Like many people, I am now unemployed due to the economic impact COVID-19 had on my previous sector. I have been working in this industry for almost eight years in project management/engineering-related positions, and the industry tends to be very well-paying. I live in a part of the U.S. where the industry is well-known, and most people work in or adjacent to 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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Lost Out On A Promotion? Here Are 13 Ways To Move Forward

Forbes Coaches Council

Don't let being passed over for a promotion hurt your confidence or drive. Flip the script and use the experience to your advantage with these 13 insightful tips from members of Forbes Coaches Council.

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10 Amazing Tips & Tricks For Using A Drill Press

Ving!

The drill press is an integrated woodworking machine that can be used for many tasks. These tips or tricks can ensure the full advantage of this machine. Finding the perfect drill press for your daily activities can be quite troublesome. There are many fake reviewers out there. Finding an honest review and using it to make sure you get your best drills are crucial.

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How To Cope In Times Of Uncertainty

Forbes Coaches Council

Uncertainty is inevitable. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, uncertainty levels are much higher than before, but we are not powerless to its effects.

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Top Trends to Inspire Your Workforce Management Strategy in 2021

Workforce Software

Learn how Newell Brands is using WorkForce Software to quickly adapt, get back to work, optimize operations, and comply with rapidly emerging workforce health and safety guidelines.

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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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7 Tips for Moving Long Distance

Take It Personel-ly

When someone is preparing to make a move across the country, they need to plan for the trip and figure out what should be done to make everything go as smoothly as possible. There is a big difference between moving across town and moving to a new state, and the one preparing for a long […].

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How much does group health insurance cost?

PeopleKeep

As employers research health insurance coverage options, it is common for them to evaluate different strategies and their associated costs.

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The Brain Burden Of Constant Tech

Forbes Coaches Council

Being more mindful of how effectively you are using your devices and more thoughtful about how you focus your time can be game-changing for your well-being.