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Why Investing in Your Employees Can Benefit Your Company 

Hppy

Your employees are your business, it is that simple. The people you bring on, train and put into strategic positions throughout the organization are what will make or break your success. From the bottom to the top of the hierarchy, your human capital is your most important capital. This is why it makes so much sense to invest in these people. From sending employees on a leadership career track to business school to simple online seminars or cross-training opportunities, professional development

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Why Screening Contingent Hires is Crucial

Cisive

A Gartner survey of more than 800 HR leaders showed that 32% of organizations are replacing full-time employees with contingent workers as a cost-saving measure. That number is likely to increase as the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues and more companies ramp up hiring for a post-pandemic marketplace, depending on how economic recovery plays out. The economic uncertainty of the pandemic caused record unemployment levels in early to mid-2020.

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Secrets to Recruiting & Retaining Great People in a Crazy Labor Market

DailyPay

Webinar. Secrets to Recruiting & Retaining Great People in a Crazy Labor Market: More About on Demand Pay. Webinar. Secrets to Recruiting & Retaining Great People in a Crazy Labor Market: More About On-Demand Pay. In this webinar you will learn: Why on-demand pay is a powerful weapon in the newest war for talent Why real-time pay is foundational to employee well-being and productivity Considerations for evaluating an on-demand pay provider.

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How Planning Regular Company Events Helps Employee Engagement 

Hppy

Much of the organizational psychological literature over the past year has touched on the noticeable drop in employee engagement and how to get it back. People want to feel engaged by what they are doing at work and those that do typically end up working much more productively. One way to help build this engagement that strengthens the organization in a variety of other ways is through planning and hosting regular company events. .

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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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These are the Learning Technology and L&D Skill Gaps that Exist [New Research]

Lighthouse

When situations change and people can’t change fast enough, everyone turns to the learning team for answers. But what if they have questions of their own? In the first of a series of reports from our newest research study, we found a number of surprising insights from the audience of 2,000+ learners and learning professionals/executive we reached.

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Job Seekers Are Gaining Control Over Hiring

SHRM Resources

The U.S. is facing an abnormal summer: Millions of open jobs and nowhere near enough applicants, a shift in power that has given job seekers the upper hand in recruiting and hiring.

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From “No Future” to a New Pivotal HR Role in Agile Organizations

SHRM

How to become the best people ally What’s cool with the 2021 role revamp of HR is that the hybrid constraint pushes practitioners and business decision-makers to put people first in the competitive war. Considering people are the best asset of modern management and top-notch companies, it offers a bright future to the HR role. What other functions can recruit, make all the people love their companies, grow and stay to such an extent?

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Fostering Workplace Inclusion in a Healthcare Setting

Precheck

Fostering Workplace Inclusion in a Healthcare Setting Jun. 29, 2021. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Many organizations commit to enhancing both diversity and inclusion, but most companies end up pushing diversity measures while falling short on improving inclusion. Diversity is easier to measure concretely through data collected from applicants and employees.

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Polaris, the self-driving PSA (Professional Services Automation) Now Available on Salesforce AppExchange, the World’s Leading Enterprise Cloud Marketplace

Replicon

Polaris PSA Aligns Sales, Delivery, Finance & HR teams in professional services Redwood City, Calif., June 29, 2021. – ?Polaris? PSA today announced it has launched ?Polaris? PSA Salesforce AppExchange. Polaris is one of the world’s first.

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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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MOTIVATION AT WORK: How to walk those extra miles as a manager?

HR Digest

Management is nothing more than motivating other people–American automobile executive, Lido Anthony “Lee” Iacocca. What is makes organizations like Apple, Google, Facebook rule the market? It is not just the innovative ideas and the services they offer but the brains behind those plans. Human resource is the most valuable asset to any institution, though often undermined.

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Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

Cloverleaf

When you receive disappointing feedback, does it feel like a personal attack or an opportunity to grow? Carol Dweck has spent decades researching fixed mindset vs growth mindset. In a fixed mindset, we view our abilities as innate, (aka, “just the way I am,”), making failure and constructive feedback feel personal and insurmountable. On the flip side, in a growth mindset, we are comfortable with improving over time, not fearing being wrong, and making failure or difficult feedback an opportunity

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10 Jobs That Are Great for Sociology Majors (Plus Expert Advice on How to Land One)

The Muse

Wondering what you can do with a sociology degree after graduation? A lot of things, actually. Here are 10 jobs that would be a great fit.

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Employers Face Hiring Challenge as Boomers Retire in Record Numbers

SHRM Resources

?The quit rate for U.S. workers is the highest in decades. Baby Boomers are leading the exodus. Employers already are facing the impact on the labor shortage in.

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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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Research Suggests 5 Crucial Factors for Peace Interventions

Pollack Peacebuilding

Summary of: Nelson, L. L. (2021). Identifying determinants of individual peacefulness: A psychological foundation for peace education. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27 (2), 109–119. [link]. Background & Theory: Understanding how personal factors and personality can contribute to individual peacefulness is key to creating larger scale programs that teach people how to lead more peaceful lives.

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our babysitter ghosted us and now works at my office, replacing a beloved employee who died, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, our babysitter ghosted us and now works at my office, replacing a beloved employee who died, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Executive’s daughter ghosted us on babysitting without being paid and now she works here. About a year ago, the wife of an executive in my company, upon hearing I had a young child, suggested my wife and I could hire her 25-year-old daughter for part-time babysitting

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HR Certifications: Which One is Best For You? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

According to a study from Payscale , 34.2 percent of all HR professionals had at least one HR credential in 2018. With all of the changes in workplace norms and compliance after this past year, HR professionals are being asked to do more than ever. Whether you’re just starting your HR career or are a seasoned professional, here are the most well-known HR certifications and who they’re best for.

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can I leave an unproductive meeting?

Ask a Manager

This post, can I leave an unproductive meeting? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work at an organization where we are very friendly and fairly informal. In our department, we have pairs of junior and senior staff working on the same portfolio, and everyone is supervised by the head of the department. I’m the junior in the pair, and my senior has known our boss for decades.

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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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HR Tech Conference 2021: How workforce tech needs to evolve

HRExecutive

When we began planning for the 2021 HR Technology Conference , it was clear that we had to showcase one of the most important workplace topics coming out of the pandemic, namely how work and workplaces must adapt and evolve to succeed in the future, or the “new normal.” In fact, this topic is so important to our community that for the first time we have designated an entire track of sessions we have called “Future Ready Workplace” and we have engaged with several HR and HR technology thought lea

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What is Human Capital Management?

Zoho People

As an HR professional, you have likely come across the phrase Human Capital Management, or HCM. This HR practice has risen in popularity lately with organizations crafting strong HCM strategies to bring out the best in their employees. In this article, we break down the basics of Human Capital Management and discuss how it can improve employee management.

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In Their Shoes: exaqueo Research Study Informs Gen Z Early Career Recruitment

exaqueo

NEW! exaqueo releases data & insights from latest study on Gen Z Early Career Recruitment, uncovering what is most important to these early careerists; how today’s world is influencing them, where they spend their time, who & what are driving their behaviors & attitudes toward work, & more!

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Why Multidimensional Self-Care Is Essential To Better Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

When leaders authentically role model multidimensional self-care, they're facilitating healthy, well workplaces where employees can truly thrive.

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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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Does PTO Accrue on Overtime? What Employers Need to Know

Patriot Software

Having employees comes with rules from the government. Federal and state laws both provide regulations regarding overtime. And, some states require employers to provide some form of paid time off (PTO). So, how do you calculate PTO, especially if an employee earns overtime? And, does PTO accrue on overtime? Keep reading to find out the […] READ MORE.

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Hiring Today: The Candidate Experience Matters [Infographic]

Prism HR

Hiring is harder than ever, and the candidate experience is an important part of achieving hiring success. This new infographic provides some key data points that can help employers understand and improve their own company’s candidate experience by focusing on the following: Why the candidate experience matters at all How good communication is a critical part of the candidate experience How background screening is an often overlooked component of a positive candidate experience.

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updates: disgusting boss touches and chews on everything on my desk, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, updates: disgusting boss touches and chews on everything on my desk, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager, where all month I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1.

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Clarifying 4 Common 2021 COBRA Subsidy Questions

Corporate Synergies

Who qualifies? What’s considered “involuntary termination”? The 2021 COBRA subsidy rules gave employers a lot to manage—and plenty of questions. Despite additional guidance from the IRS, COBRA subsidy compliance continues to be an area of stress and concern for many. Read More. The post Clarifying 4 Common 2021 COBRA Subsidy Questions appeared first on Corporate Synergies.

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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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What You Need to Know About HR Advocacy

Evil HR Lady

1 hour of Business HRCI (pending) credit and 1 hour of SHRM credit. Wednesday, June 30th at 2 pm CT. Description: Learn how HR advocacy impacts your workforce and the world of work. In this session HR professionals will learn best practices versus mandates and laws in order to become a strategic leader and advisor to your C-Suite. Key Topics: 1. Learn about the world of public policy and how it impacts your workforce. 2.

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How The LGBTQ+ Community Fairs In The Workplace: Harms, Obstacles, And Inequities

Wellable

In response to some public pressure along with a recognition of the economic and ethical reasons for creating more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces (see What Is Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion for an explication of these terms), organizations have been spending an increasing amount of effort on creating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

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Contact Tracing for Business Explained

Take It Personel-ly

The global pandemic has had a tremendous impact on businesses all over the world. A lot of companies, both big and small, were forced to close their doors for good because they couldn’t recover. Governments across the globe imposed strict restrictions and lockdowns for the people and businesses alike, so that they could try and […].

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