Fri.May 26, 2017

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A Look at College Graduate Starting Salaries

Compensation Force

For setting the pay rates/ranges of jobs where staffing hinges heavily on drawing new graduates, I find data on starting salaries for college grads in the relevant majors to be a helpful data point. Often - if your staffing practices are institution-specific, you can get that data on the college/university website or by calling the Career Placement office.

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Logic Is Not Always Linear – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. The company was named of the 2017 Best Workplaces for Giving Back by Fortune Magazine. Congrats to the Kronos team! Enjoy the post.). I like to think of myself as a logical person. One of the definitions of logical is “(of an action, development, decision, etc.) natural or sensible given the circumstances.

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Google Jobs: Disrupting The Recruiting Market?

Josh Bersin

Have you ever looked for a job? Of course you have. It’s a daunting process, and one which Google hopes to make easier than ever. The Bureau of Labor Statistics show that 20-24% of. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Get Leadership Tips on Thorny Topics with Our Free eBook

Justworks

It’s a story aspiring entrepreneurs hear often: employers highlight the success their company has found through a pinch of luck, a market need, and a clever strategy. But behind the glamour, the challenges of running a business can feel crushing — something entrepreneurs don’t always talk about in the spotlight. As Bob Parsons, the founder of GoDaddy put it, “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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Turns Out, Millennials Actually Don’t Want Your Feedback

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s conference season and I got a chance to see the ever-popular, Marcus Buckingham. Marcus has the great English accent, high energy and great leadership content to share. He’s strong every time I’ve seen him, going on way too many times at this point in my life!

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10 Ways to Celebrate Father’s Day in the Workplace

FingerCheck

When your employee shows up to work, you expect them to leave everything at the door, focus on work, and make the most of their time on-the-clock. What you probably don’t often see or discuss is the sacrifices they make by being a working father. Father’s Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize and thank the hard-working dads for putting in an honest day’s effort regardless of circumstances, sleep-deprived, bleary-eyed and all. .

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Future remains bright for gig consultants

Replicon

According to McKinsey, independent workers make up about 20-30 percent of the working age population in the US and EU — which is approximately 162 million people. This ever-growing gig economy boasts flexibility, innovation, and ownership, while also shouldering a significant amount of instability, and legal and financial uncertainty. When we think of the burgeoning […].

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The Case For Scrapping Your Long Term Incentives

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you’re like most companies, you provide stock options, restricted stock grants, and other long-term-incentives to your senior executives. But do you know why you provide those incentive packages? Are those packages working ?

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Employer mental health policy template

Workable

This Employee Mental Health policy template is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs and should be considered a starting point for setting up your employment policies. The post Employer mental health policy template appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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How Not To Be The Bad Manager That Everyone Hates

Engagedly

You know a major reason why employees decide to quit? Bad managers. The moment employees realise they are not able to work despite the bad manager, they know it’s time to call it quits. A bad manager is […].

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What to watch, read, listen and do for resilience

Limeade

We’ve all heard the expression: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It’s all about making the best of any situation and bouncing back. But how do you overcome adversity and live joyfully? By building resilience. Resilience can be defined as: “The ability to become strong, healthy or successful again after something bad happens.” It’s not just the ability to survive challenging times; it’s the ability to thrive in them.

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Agile talent management can be improved with contingent labor

Allegis Global Solutions

Developing an agile approach to talent management is key to business success and contingent hiring can help companies to achieve this.

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5 Things to Consider About the Gig Economy

Workology

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is what role HR will have in organizations that are increasingly reliant on contingent workers. HR itself is difficult to automate, like most. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Common Interview Questions: What are the Most Effective?

Paychex

The types of interview questions you ask can determine the success or failure of a job interview. Learn how to go beyond the more common interview questions, and get a stronger sense of whether the person seated across from your desk is the right fit for your business.

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The Key to NextGen Performance Management is Alignment

Silkroad

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Alexandra Levit of Inspiration at Work). At last week’s Connections conference, ITM President and.

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Comp Strategy for Small Businesses: 2017 Compensation Best Practices

Compensation Today

Only 29 percent of small businesses have a compensation strategy, according to data collected for PayScale’s Compensation Best Practices Report , compared with 37 percent of all organizations — despite the fact that small businesses must compete with larger orgs for talent, generally with smaller compensation budgets. That doesn’t mean that SMBs aren’t paying more for competitive jobs.

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Shared Leadership Can Boost Team Performance

IO At Work

Every member of a team has unique skills and expertise. How can teams capitalize on everyone’s strengths in an effective way? New research shows that promoting shared leadership is a great start.

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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 ketchup on a hot dog can teach employers about at-will employment

The Employer Handbook

Either way, it doesn’t belong on a hot dog. Ever. Heck, if it were up to me, I’d fire anyone who put ketchup on a hot dog. It seems that would be consistent with the at-will employment doctrine. Under the at-will employment doctrine, if the employee doesn’t have a contract of employment for a specific term, that employee can be fired without just cause or warning.

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What to Expect from Millennial Leaders in the Workplace

Select International

Last weekend, I attended my “baby” sister’s college graduation. As I sat there looking at the sea of graduates in their early 20s with all the possibilities that lie ahead of them, I began to think about the changes most of them will experience as they start full-time, professional jobs. It’s likely that a lot of these Generation Z graduates will be entering a job with a Millennial for a manager, as the time when Millennials' are the youngest generation in the workforce is coming to an end.

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How User Information Improves ROI in Incentives Programs

Workstride

Setting up your Incentive Program. You’re decided to invest in a c hannel sales incentives program. You’ve done the research and have purchased in a solution, but now that you’re in the process of setting up, you’re not sure of all the steps such as what kind of information you should gather from your users when they sign up for the program. Did you know the information about your users is incredibly valuable?

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How to find Nurses with Boolean search strings

Workable

If you’re looking to find a Nurse , use Boolean logic on Google to find resumes and profiles. Our search strings examples provide a basis to build your own commands around the skills you want candidates to have. Generic search string to find Nurses. Build search according to your needs: -job -jobs -sample -examples, to avoid irrelevant results. (intitle:resume OR intitle:cv), to discover candidates’ online resumes or CVs.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Does the ADA Protect a Nondisabled Employee Who Requests an Accommodation?

HR Daily Advisor

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination in employment based on disability and requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to their employees’ disabilities. The ADA also prohibits retaliation against those who seek reasonable accommodations or protection under the Act. But does the ADA protect an employee without a disability who requests an accommodation?

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open thread – May 26-27, 2017

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue :).

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Cafe Classic: You're Not Treating Me Fairly! (Is This Another Compression Headache Coming On?)

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In today’s classic, Margaret O’Hanlon serves up a fundamental challenge to the way we think about salaries. Research from the Hay Group helps us realize that employees have stronger feelings about pay “fairness” in relation to other employees than about external competitiveness. It’s a great follow up to Stephanie Thomas’ recent article on research that indicates, among other things, that executives care less about absolute earnings than they do about how they are paid relative t

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Outsourcing series: How to measure quality of service

Allegis Global Solutions

Are you confident of the quality of your current workforce management solution?

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Workable integrates with HireSelect® Pro from CriteriaCorp

Workable

Today we announce our integration with HireSelect® Pro from Criteria Corp , a leading provider of pre-employment testing services. Offering aptitude, personality, and skills tests, Criteria Corp is used by more than 2500 companies and organizations. If you already have an account with Criteria Corp, activating the HireSelect® Pro integration is simple.

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5 Reasons to Consider an EAP

Mercer

If your goal is to attract and retain talent, an EAP can offer some of the best value and return on investment of any benefit program. We offer 5 reasons to consider. The post 5 Reasons to Consider an EAP appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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How to find Bookkeepers with Boolean search strings

Workable

If you’re looking for Bookkeepers , use Boolean search on Google to find resumes and profiles that match your criteria. Modify our examples to build your own search strings. Generic search string to find Bookkeepers. Build a generic bookkeeper search string around terms like: -job -jobs -sample -examples, to exclude irrelevant results. (intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) to discover online resumes and CVs.