Wed.Oct 26, 2016

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can you say you’re looking for a new job because you want “a new challenge”?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: When being asked by a hiring manager “why are you looking to leave your job,” one of the common advised response is “I’m looking to take on a new challenge.” Do you think that answering with “I’m looking to take on a new challenge” can be interpreted as admitting that the candidate (me) is not qualified or lacks the experience?

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Top Hiring Process Trends to Fill a Position

Take It Personel-ly

As the market is booming, more and more companies are focusing on building good processes for employee acquisition. Hiring processes should be able to entice potential employees for a job position to be taken by the right candidate. Choosing the right person to take care of a certain position is all being taken care of … Continue reading Top Hiring Process Trends to Fill a Position.

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ICYMI: The Growing Tech Ecosystem at #LATechSummit

Cornerstone On Demand

LA continues to play host to one of the most diverse technology ecosystems in the nation, with technology embedded into every industry from entertainment to healthcare. Yesterday, the driving forces behind this flourishing ecosystem came together in Santa Monica for the fourth annual LA Tech Summit, hosted by Cornerstone, to inspire, learn and network with more than 900 other innovators and enterprisers from LA's world-changing tech community.

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For the Best Multinationals, It is a Small World After All

Great Place to Work

Top global companies treat employees equally regardless of what they do, where they’re based or how long they’ve been there. If you’ve been to Disneyland in California or one of its sister theme parks, you’ve probably visited It’s a Small World at least once - or a what may feel like a thousand times if you’ve got kids.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Why Social Media Is the New Resume

Cornerstone On Demand

Social media has changed nearly everything about how we work, and some high school educators are nixing traditional resumes altogether in favor of teaching students about building digital profiles.

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Use These 4 Question Types To Facilitate More Effective Meetings

15Five

People hate meetings… and for good reason. Leadership knows they are expensive , and take up time that could be better spent on producing actual outcomes. Managers can find it difficult to facilitate them without having a process in place. Employees can find them to be boring or a waste of time. But meetings don’t have to be that way. Managers and other company leaders can be more intentional about which meetingsto have and which ones to skip, and who really needs to be there.

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How to Build a Successful Leadership Pipeline

Hppy

If leadership skills are on your talent wishlist, you’re not alone. Almost half of the companies surveyed for Workplace Trends’ Global Workforce Leadership survey in February and March said that leadership is the hardest skill to find in employees. What’s more, among the 1,000 employees surveyed, only 36 percent said leadership is a strength in their organization.

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How to Increase Connection with Culture and Trust - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Culture could be described as the social operating system of the organization, the underlying environment that shapes social interaction and shapes the emotions involved in the company and its work toward a specific end. Simply put, it’s “the way we do things around here.” The culture of Apple is based on beauty and creating incredible experiences, while the culture at Google is built around personal autonomy and solving the world’s problems.

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Millennials in the Workplace: Myths, Facts, and Tips

ATD Human Capital

To clear up common misconceptions about Millennials, we worked with Ben Casnocha , Michael Parrish Dudell , Chris Yeh , and Chip Joyce to create a summary of myths and facts, and provide some tips that will be helpful to leaders and hiring managers hoping to better connect with Generation Y. Myth. Fact. Millennials are. entitled. Millennials want to be a part of something bigger than themselves and know that their contribution matters.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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The Difference Between Nirvana and Pearl Jam Was The Teams They Hired To Support Them.

The HR Capitalist

Sell the kids for food Weather changes moods Spring is here again Reproductive glands Hey - he's the one Who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means Don't know what it means, when I say. I recently got back from a anniversary trip with Mrs. Capitalist. We took advantage of some work travel I had and took 6 days to drive from Napa to Seattle, moving from the Russian River valley in NoCal up Highway 1 in California, to the

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Teaching My Daughter to Ride a Bike Was Disastrous—and I’m a Trainer

ATD Human Capital

At age 5, my daughter Ronee wanted to learn how to ride her bicycle with the other kids around our neighborhood cul-de-sac. “Okay, I’ll teach you!” I said. I didn’t want my daughter to be the only preschooler unable to ride her bike. “Get your bicycle from the garage, and meet me in the cul-de-sac.” Ronee, with a big smile, was confident her Mommy would do the job.

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Need Ideas for Our Holiday Book at Kinetix.

The HR Capitalist

The holidays are right around the corner and our gift wrapping supplies are set—all of this can only mean one thing: it’s time find ideas for our annual holiday book at my company - Kinetix. Annual Holiday Wha…? Our annual holiday book! If you’ve known us for a few years, you know what we’re talking about. If you’re new to the Kinetix flavor, let me fill you in.

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News From Washington: ACA Has To Tighten Up Pediatric Dental Care

ACA Times

When it comes to healthcare under the Affordable Care Act, many points of coverage can often be an afterthought. QHPs, or “qualified health plans,” are required to fulfill ten “essential benefits” under the ACA’s mandate. Among those ten is pediatric dental care. However, the QHP need not itself provide pediatric dental care. Instead, a plan does not lose “QHP” status if a stand-alone dental plan offering pediatric dental care is also offered.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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The Employee Development Honor Roll: Goldman Sachs

Kazoo

(In this blog series, we share the stories of companies that have taken the first steps toward their employee development transformation. You can read our first post about Patagonia’s transition to real-time employee development and our second post about Adobe’s check-in culture.). An employee development strategy that pulls triple duty. Goldman Sachs made headlines earlier this year when it announced that the company was revamping its employee review process for its 36,500 workers.

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A New Solution for Efficiently Recruiting Talent

Entrepreneur

Small and midsize businesses often find themselves in a pickle.

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Leadership Is About Personal Responsibility And Action

TalentCulture

Forgive me, I’m on a bit of a rant. Those who have followed me for some time know I get off on tangents, sometimes writing these articles to deal with frustration and sort out my own thinking. In this specific article, I also have to recognize, I will probably hurt the feelings of a well-intended follower–but frankly, I don’t really care. I am not targeting that individual.

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White House Announces PayScale Commitment to Largest-Ever Non-Compete Data Collection

Compensation Today

PayScale is thrilled to announce that we are launching a data collection effort, encouraged by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, in an effort to gain more understanding around the prevalence and impact of non-compete agreements in the U.S. labor market. In a recent fact sheet the White House detailed a few courses of action aimed at understanding what things add to or possibly prevent mobility of the American workforce.

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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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Do This, Not That. How to Nail Social Recruiting

TalentCulture

It’s not an exaggeration to say that in today’s fast-paced, connected, “always on” world, a social media recruiting strategy is a must have. If you don’t have one in place, you will, without question, quickly fall behind your competition. However, there are right ways of doing social recruiting, and there are wrong ways. And the ROI on doing it wrong is, well, pretty low.

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You Can't Ignore the Warning Signs

NoExcusesHR

"You have to understand, we're special here." "Our culture is different than other organizations." "Our values drive 100% of our decisions." "Innovation is one of our core strategies." "Our employees are our most valuable asset." For the love of all things good and holy, please stop saying these phrases. You don't back them up. You aren't going to back them up.

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Technology Is Essential to Employee Retention

Workology

Employee engagement and retention continue to be top challenges for business. In dealing with these issues, organizations need to recognize that the two issues are related. Organizations can’t engage employees who don’t stay and employees won’t stay if they’re not engaged. As HR professionals, we have to look for tools and solutions that will help us accomplish both.

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DisruptHR: “Stop seeing a disability, and start seeing a discoverability!”

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: In partnership with DisruptHR , TLNT presents some of the best Disrupt presentations from events across North America and now the world. Disrupt talks are modeled on the TEDx concept: Short, to the point talks on all things HR — talent, culture and technology.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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A Political Argument for Increased Business Morality

WorqIQ

I’ve always been cautious about mixing social morality and business morality. This is in part because I’m cautious about the ways powerful entities like commercially successful enterprises can too-easily force the leaders’ narrow personal values on their employees, community and customers. But this presidential election has me rethinking my caution.

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Changing Business Culture via the Performing Arts

Culture University

In 2011, a major oil and gas exploration company based in the UK set out on an extraordinary, arts-based leadership development programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, designed and led by Dr. Mark Powell, one of the authors of this article. The company’s senior project managers are responsible for multi-million-dollar exploration projects around the […].

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The reward of employee retention

Ceridian

By Kelly Allder, VP of HR Programs, Ceridian. You already know excessive employee turnover is a bad thing. But what you may not realize is just how much it can actually cost you. According to the National Federation of Independent Business, the cost of employee turnover can be anywhere from 150-200% of your employee’s salary. This hefty price tag can be attributed to a loss of engagement and productivity of those “left behind”, as well as the expenses associated with hiring and training a new em

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my employee was late to work on his first day

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have an employee who is now at least 40 minutes late for work on his first day. He at least called to let us know he overslept and is on the way, but likely won’t be here for another 20-30 minutes. He seemed mortified and was very apologetic, assuring us that it will not happen again. He said he was so excited to start his job that he couldn’t sleep and had to take a sleeping aid to help him sleep.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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The Easiest Way to Offer Childcare as a Benefit in your Small Business

Acacia HR Solutions

Anytime I can use a picture of my child in a blog post, I will do it. I mean, look at him. He takes his superheroes very seriously and has since he was two years old.

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Five Ways to Use Snapchat to Drive Employee Engagement

TLNT: The Business of HR

Snapchat embraces and champions the ephemeral nature of communication in a landscape that is saturated with it. Snap a pic or a vid, send it to a friend, and moments after being viewed it self-destructs into the ether forevermore. We’re talking about communication that both originates from and elicits an immediate emotional response, as opposed to a long and drawn-out intellectual consideration.

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5 interview questions HR leaders should be asking now

HR Morning

The best candidates have qualifications that are more than skills-deep. . Discovering these qualities in the interview process is difficult. But these five questions, from Amy Zimmerman and Jen Richard of the online financial tech company Kabbage can help you do just that. ——————————————————————-.