Thu.Jun 04, 2020

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Working Anywhere Means Elite Cities Are Being Shorted.

The HR Capitalist

How's COVID going for you? I know, what a freaking mess. Nice post by Paul Hebert today over at Fistful of Talent , who's talking about the need for HR Pros to become polymaths, individuals whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. . Sounds a lot like what we need in an imploding world are great HR Generalists.

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If You Don't Give Raises This Year

Compensation Cafe

No pay increases--that is the reality that many of us are facing this year. It's going to be nothing like our usual numbers game. Instead, it is going to be emotional, significant and painful. Every employee is worried about finances right now. Combine that with the anxiety everyone is feeling because of the virus, and you've got a really tricky situation to handle.

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School’s Out for Summer: Are Employees Still Eligible for FFCRA School Closure Leave?

HRWatchdog

As the school year ends with a whimper, many parents are preparing for a summer with their kids at home at the same time businesses try to reopen and bring their employees back to work. Summer camps, day care and other summer activities have largely been canceled due to the pandemic. Employers are going to get questions about scheduling accommodations, including whether employees can take child care-related paid leave provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) once schools a

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30 AI-driven Tools to Optimize Your Talent Acquisition Process

Digital HR Tech

Talent Acquisition is a crucial function of Human Resource Management and recently it has witnessed many advancements thanks to technological developments, especially in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this article, we’ll give an overview of 30 AI-driven tools that can help you optimize the different stages of the talent acquisition process. Contents Glancing through the recruiting life cycle and AI use cases AI-driven Tools for Job Posting and Candidate Sourcing AI-driven Tools for Candi

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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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5 Tips for Recruiting Remote Workers

Achievers

The dominos are starting to fall as companies across the world are making the announcement : remote work is here to stay. With giants like Twitter, Square, Facebook, and Microsoft leading the way, distributed teams could be 100 percent virtual and (if it happens at all) it could take months for people to meet in person for the first time. With this change happening so fast, it’s time to consider how attracting and recruiting top talent changes, and what we can do about it.

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Reframe: Strategic Thinking When You Need It Most by Nick Noyes

Take It Personel-ly

Strategic thinking is always important; it’s a critical foundation skill for effective leaders. But in crucible leadership moments like the present, it has outsized importance. When rapid change is happening all around us, even the immediate future is wildly uncertain, and the potential range of outcomes is vast, this is when strategic thinking is most needed.

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my husband is my boss — and we’re getting divorced

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am asking for advice about how to handle my impending divorce at work. I work at a large nonprofit in a specialist capacity that is a recognized priority for the company, but organizationally belongs to one of five departments. I’ve worked here for 10 years. I was headhunted by the executive director, and have worked myself up to the specialist position I have now.

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Return to Work challenges after COVID

HR Morning

As states ease restrictions put in place by COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, employers are grappling with multi-faceted risk analysis and questions regarding the best way to recall employees to work: When should we reopen? Should all employees come back at once, or should we recall employees in waves? If we don’t call all employees back at the same time, who should we recall first?

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Sumser: 8 ways to reflect on your HR ethics

HRExecutive

Pandemic, massive racial and political unrest, economic disruption, men in space, generational conflict, cities burning. You could be forgiven if you think we’ve been transported back to the 1960s. For a long time, nothing much happened. Then, whammo. It’s all happening at once. The progress toward a society rooted in equality stalled some time ago.

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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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Employee relations: how to manage grievances remotely during Covid-19

HR Zone

People Managing employee grievances remotely.

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Future of Work: People

WorkHuman

Workhuman’s VP of Global HR Niamh Graham discusses Workhuman and our products, and how our organization was impacted by the pandemic. Listen to the interview on Newstalk. .

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How I’m Committing To Evolve

Reality-Based Leadership

I trust that if you’re one of my fans, you are heartbroken about the events of the past week. I know that I certainly am not only heartbroken for what has happened this week, but also for what my friends and colleagues have been enduring for a lifetime due to the racism in our country, in our communities, in our hearts, and even in their own lives.

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How to Maintain Employee Privacy in Video Interviews

SHRM Resources

Conducting video interviews offers flexibility and convenience for both employers and employees and has become a necessity during the COVID-19 crisis.

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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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Three Strategies To Build Leadership Endurance

Forbes Coaches Council

A strategic focus on leadership endurance, coupled with a strong leadership development-driven environment, tenacity and grit is needed from leaders today and into the future.

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11 Companies Where LGBTQ Equality Lasts Beyond Pride Month

The Muse

Want to work somewhere that’s truly LGBTQ inclusive? Check out these companies.

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Five Steps To Network Your Way To A New Job

Forbes Coaches Council

Informational interviews are advantageous to your job search because you can receive an internal referral, an introduction to a hiring manager and information that can be leveraged when interviewing or negotiating your salary.

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GAIN Capital: ‘Coronavirus has waved goodbye to micro-managers. This needs to be an era of trust’

Sage HRMS

In our ‘Your Story’ series, we speak to business leaders about the challenges they are facing and the steps they’re taking to overcome them. In this interview, Global head of HR at GAIN Capital Holdings, Christine Sheedy, shares how she is shaping the culture of her company’s virtual office. For human resources leaders, the element […]. The post GAIN Capital: ‘Coronavirus has waved goodbye to micro-managers.

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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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RedThread Report: The Five Pillars of Business-Aligned People Analytics – For COVID-19 and Beyond

Perceptyx

When asked what skills are needed to create a successful People Analytics team, many HR professionals might list statistical analysis, data visualization, or experience using statistical software packages. In reality, the most important skill for a successful People Analytics team isn’t analytical ability. As Stacia Garr and the team at RedThread Research point out in this terrific piece ( View the article here ), the most influential People Analytics teams prioritize other skills, such as under

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Pandemic Poses Recruiting, Hiring Challenges

SHRM Resources

What is your biggest concern as we enter the next chapter and prepare to return to our workplaces? That was the questions posed in a recent #NextChat discussion. The following is a compilation of responses from LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Conduct an Informed Performance Discussion

Engagedly

Conducting a performance review discussion need not feel like rocket science. Every time it looms large, performance reviews tend to have a similar effect on all employees: shooting up their level of stress. Why do you think it’s […].

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“Exercise a little extra empathy towards others right now.” With Mitch Russo & Khabeer Rockley

Thrive Global

Many people around us right now will be feeling remorse, grief, and despair. Although people and businesses may do things that can frustrate us, take a second to breathe, and reflect on what they may be going through to make them act in a certain way. It’s critical for us all to exercise a little extra empathy towards others right now. As a part of my series about how to be great at closing sales without seeming pushy, obnoxious, or salesy, I had the pleasure of interviewingKhabeer Rockley.

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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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Leaving Consulting for Full-Time Employment, a Client Success Story

GetFive

For some people, consulting is an ideal fit for their lifestyle. For others, it’s something they do temporarily in hopes of scoring a permanent position at a company. Peter Lantry was of the latter mindset. He worked hard through two different consulting stints in hopes of finding full-time employment. Like many other consultants facing the end of a contract, he was told circumstances prevented a permanent hire. “I was engaged in two consecutive consulting (right-to-hire) engagements

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Episode 229 – The Value Of Friendships At Work

Workology

We often spend more time with colleagues than we do with family and close friends, which is why so many of our friendships are with coworkers. They share our experiences and can be a source of. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. We often spend more time with colleagues than we do with family and close friends, which is why so many of our friendships are with coworkers.

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my coworker throws?tantrums?and women have to soothe him, questions to ask an external recruiter, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Telling friends at work I don’t want to talk about dieting. Personally, I think diets belong in the list of things you shouldn’t discuss at work. I have a history of disordered eating and, while my relationship with food and exercise is mostly healthy now, this topic of conversation makes me wildly uncomfortable still.

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Why Employee Experience After COVID-19 Is Vital For Businesses

SnapComms

Employees have had a rough ride this year. The COVID-19 crisis has turned their world upside down, both at work and at home. Where we work, the way we work, even if we work, have all changed dramatically.

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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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What You Need To Know About Yourself To Lead In A Crisis

Forbes Coaches Council

Every interaction matters more during a crisis, so it's important to take a moment to assess your own emotions and recognize those feelings of unrest and uneasiness.

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5 Steps to Create a Talent Strategy for Future Success

SHRM

Even with COVID-19 reshaping the talent marketplace, companies are still challenged to make sure the right talent is in place for long-term objectives. Talent strategy is just as crucial as financial, marketing, or operational strategies in driving future success. The ability to develop, recruit and retain the right people—at high velocity—to fill talent gaps created by the evolving business strategy is a DEFCON 1-level priority.

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Celebrating the Juneteenth Holiday: Ways Your Business Can Support Juneteenth

Zenefits

Juneteenth Emancipation Day Celebration, June 19, 1900, Texas. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. . For most businesses, June 19 may seem like another workday. But if you check your iPhone, you’ll find June 19 is a holiday, Juneteenth. It’s a day of celebration — the oldest known holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States.