Mon.Oct 17, 2016

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6 Reasons to Hire Older, Out-of-Work Workers

TalentCulture

Age discrimination? Those of us in the staffing industry see our fair share. And although this bias is covert and unspoken, it is undeniable and certainly disconcerting. HR professionals, hiring managers, and the organizations they work for need to be more creative and thoughtful in utilizing talent of all ages to synergize the workplace. Ignoring or discarding the rich experience and wisdom of our aging work force may one day lead to large voids of expertise and skill across many industries and

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Transforming Your Talent Process: 7 Must Have Downloads

ClearCompany HRM

We write a lot about transforming your talent into A-Players, but that takes more than technology; it takes a commitment to doing the work day in and day out. To help you be the best talent management professional you can be, we’ve created a giant resource pack you can download and take with you.

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Infographic: Company Plans to Increase Hiring in Q4 2016

HR Daily Advisor

As the year winds down, hiring picks up at many companies, new research from staffing firm OfficeTeam shows. More than one-quarter (26%) of Human Resources (HR) managers interviewed said their organization typically increases hiring in the fourth quarter. Of those, 69% of respondents indicated they bring on staff at year-end to fill vacated positions, 62% address upticks in business, and 51% add new positions. “Holiday festivities and vacations may often be top of mind at the end of the ye

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How Technology Is Changing Fashion at Work

Cornerstone On Demand

Outfits at work are more than just a fashion statement — they're also a business statement. As it turns out, what your employees wear to work is probably impacting your business's bottom line.

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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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3 Types of Employees You Seriously Need to Keep

EmployeeConnect

With close to four out of five (78%) of business leaders ranking employee retention as important or urgent, it’s easy to understand why being able to identify who to keep is essential to nurturing and retaining the right employees in your organisation. There are certain types of employee profiles that are essential to any organisation wanting to thrive and grow.

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[Infographic] 12 Reasons Why Office Games Are Good For Morale

Hppy

Games tables are increasingly popular in today’s offices, with workplace managers and HR staff only recently becoming fully aware of the benefits they offer. From new city start-ups to global technology corporations like Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, savvy office managers are installing games tables for their employees to use. The benefits, as explained by Liberty Games in this comprehensive infographic, are obvious.

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Can HR Be Trusted to Lockdown Vulnerability and Secrets From the Employee Base?

The HR Capitalist

At the end of the day, employees have to trust any HR pro enough to come forward and share bad stuff with said HR pro. What type of bad stuff? What type of bad stuff do your employees have? Hate. Addiction. Family Dysfunction. Ambition. Concerns about others. Just to name a few. All these things and more are filed under topics that employees would love to talk to someone about.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Invest in Tools Your Team Really Needs

Hppy

Video conferencing is fast becoming the IT tool for a lot of teams. From content sharing features that allow for greater productivity among dispersed teams to HD clarity that makes it seem like you’re all in the same room, companies are starting to see the wonderful perks this technology brings to the table. And just like them, you want to make sure that your team knows how to use this tool as well.

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AIR Errors And Missing TINs: A Tip Sheet On Quick Fixes

ACA Times

The electronic system for information reporting under the Affordable Care Act is not without its glitches. We know this by now, and in the midst of 2015 information reporting this year, errors and mistakes have caused risk of exposure to some pretty hefty penalties. It’s not over yet since many employers have extended their filing until October. Here is a tip sheet of some facts and suggestions on how to handle potential errors for information reporting this year and beyond. · AIRTN500 Error Mes

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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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What We Learned at HR Tech 2016

Kazoo

It was a whirlwind week at HR Tech October 4-6 here in Chicago. We had the opportunity to attend sessions, hear about the trends affecting the HR space and connect with attendees. Here’s what we learned: Competition is Tight to be the Next Big Thing. The conference kicked off Tuesday afternoon with the “Next Great HR Tech Company” session featuring eight up-and-coming startups.

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The Gig Economy Impact on Talent Decisions

Lighthouse

I was somewhat nervous. See, a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to deliver my first ever Ignite-style presentation. In short, you get five minutes to explore a topic. The kicker? Your 20 slides auto-advance every 15 seconds, leaving you without any control. In the end the session went very well–one in the string of nine other people delivering these types of presentations at the HR Technology Conference Ideas and Innovators session.

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If You Really Want To Get A Job, Start By Doing This

Hoops

Looking for a new job? You’re not alone. There is an average of 118 applicants for every open position. Worse, only 23 percent of those applicants actually get an interview. To get in the door and past the resume review, you’re going to have to set yourself apart from the rest of the pack. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when looking for a new gig.

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Are You a Strategic Optimist?

Laurie Ruettimann

I’ve spent the past six months talking to HR and recruiting professionals about failure. Unfortunately, nobody cared about enterprise failure until I started talking about my life. My maternal grandmother was a strategic optimist. When she became accidentally pregnant at the age of 20, she married the guy and had four kids. When the guy was mean to her, she accepted it.

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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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If It Feels Good, Do It: Top 3 Upsides To Employee Referrals

TalentCulture

Love is a mystery, as is hiring. The former: we can talk about that complexity some other time. The latter: at least, given the rise of analytics and Big Data, is far more able to be quantified now that we can send in the Cloud and conjure up scopey benchmarks and juicy reports. But there’s no guarantee of success: will that brand new star on the 14 th floor, lured with chunky compensation and incentives, want to actually stay?

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Nine Ways to Catch Up on Your 2016 Goals Before the End of the Year

WorqIQ

Nine YEC members share how you can catch up on the 2016 goals you set at the start of this year if you've fallen behind on them. Read More» The post Nine Ways to Catch Up on Your 2016 Goals Before the End of the Year appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Engage your team from anywhere: Tips from #CeridianXOXO Award Winner Heritage Golf Group

Ceridian

By Jennifer Preston , Payroll and HR Administrator at Heritage Golf Group, Inc. In this age of technology, more companies are offering remote working options. According to Global Workforce Analytics, since 2005, the number of people who regularly work from home has increased by 103 percent. Today, it isn’t uncommon for managers to oversee a team of employees whom they don’t actually see in-person very often, if at all.

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3 Types of Job Hunters Who Can’t Find Work

Workology

You’re kicking off a new job hunt, and you’ve sent out a fresh resume. And…radio silence. Did something go wrong? Unfortunately, you may have overlooked one detail. There are three types of job seekers whose resumes are more likely to tank even if they’ve put the best skills on their resume for that job. And you may be one of them without knowing it.

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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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Defining Your Brand

NoExcusesHR

Work is hard. Successful work is even harder. For those that have moved up the ranks, or aspire to one day, there is a new requirement that must be addressed. That "requirement" is staring back at you in the mirror every morning as you contemplate your jam packed day ahead. ( The same day that you say is so busy you don't have time to work on the requirement.but that's none of my business. ) You Have A Story My story really kicked into gear when I googled myself a number of years ago.

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Effective Onboarding: How to Introduce New Leadership to a Team

Workology

Depending on the circumstances, introducing new leadership to your team is both exciting and challenging. Your new hire is highly qualified, motivated, and will likely be managing employees who may have been with your company for years prior to their arrival. They’re also highly paid and brought on to make a big impact. The risk associated with this type of hire is much higher and missteps can be devastating to your business and your morale.

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Spooky Performance? Giving Feedback to the Sanderson Sisters in Your Organization

Reviewsnap

The Sanderson Sisters are coming out to play this Halloween, and as a manager or department lead, you can’t let them put their spell on you. If you’re finding your performance is flying out the window on a broom, here’s how to work your own magic to keep your performance management in line during this … Continue reading Spooky Performance? Giving Feedback to the Sanderson Sisters in Your Organization.

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how to tell if you’re managing your career well … or not

Ask a Manager

The way you manage your career has an enormous impact on your day-to-day quality of life, your earning potential, and your overall happiness when it comes to work. But how can you know if you’re managing your career effectively? At U.S. News & World Report today, I talk about the signs that will help you figure it out. (For example: If you were laid off tomorrow, do you know who you’d call to talk about a job?

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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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4 Ways You’re Leaving Money On the Table By Not Using a Retirement Plan

Paychex

It's easy to forget about retirement as you're running a business, but as an owner, don’t neglect investing in your future self. Look at four ways you may be leaving money on the table instead of investing it into a retirement plan.

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There May Be 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, but Only Seven Ways to Quit Your Job

Evil HR Lady

You’ve quit a job, right? How did you do it? Did you provide two weeks’ notice or did you slink away or did you throw a screaming fit? These are just three of the seven ways you can leave a job. I’m sure you’re more creative than the researchers, though, so tell me how you’ve seen people quit jobs (or how you’ve quit a job yourself).

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Getting Back To FMLA Basics: Don’t mess with the pay of an employee on leave

The Employer Handbook

With all those notice requirements and certifications and such, it’s easy to get bogged down in the minutia associated with an employee’s request for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. But, a recent case is a good reminder not to overlook a basic FMLA tenet: an employee returning from leave should be restored to the same position (or an equivalent position with equivalent benefits, pay, and other terms and conditions of employment).

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HR Market Watch Podcast: Meet The Next Great HR Technology

WorkTech

Meet The Next Great HR Technology. Here is #HRWINS founder and Principal Analyst, George LaRocque, and the start of his contribution to the HR Happy Hour Podcast Newtwork: HR Market Watch. In this episode get George’s 5 top take-aways from the HR Technology Conference and Exhibition and meet Jamie True, CEO of Lifeworks. Lifeworks was selected by the audience at HR Tech as “The Next Great HR Technology” Learn about Lifeworks and the new “employee wellbeing” trend th

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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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Just How Bad Are We at Engagement?

HRExecutive

Engagement was certainly on the minds of speakers and attendees at the recent HR Tech Conference in Chicago. ( Here’s a link to the conference site , FYI, which already has information about next year’s event.). From this session covered by Mark McGraw, Engaging the Talent of Tomorrow , to this one covered by David Shadovitz, What’s Driving Engagement , there seemed to be a lot of buzz about what’s working at some companies (especially in McGraw’s post), what needs

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It's not too early to start planning next year's vacation

Steve Boese

Even though it is only mid-October, I found myself spending a decent amount of time this past weekend thinking about 2017 vacation plans. It could be that I am still a little tired from coming off the recently concluded HR Technology Conference , which is for me the busiest week of my year and am still in needing of some R&R. Or it just could be, and now that I think about it I am sure it is this, that if I don't take some active and purposeful steps pretty soon to lock in some vacation plan

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Leadership Takes A Plan

TLNT: The Business of HR

“What does the mentor get out of a mentoring relationship?” This question came up during a workshop I delivered to a group of senior leaders. One of the leaders in the room said simply, “I get to give something back.”.

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