Mon.Aug 01, 2016

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3 Unique HR and Payroll Needs for Non-Profit Organizations

Paycor

Non-profit organizations face many of the same challenges as for-profit businesses, but usually with more limited resources. Over the past decade, the number of non-profits has increased by 30% : there is currently one non-profit for every 175 Americans. This means funding is more strained and uncertain than ever, and competition for talented non-profit leaders is even stronger.

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What 4 Great Leaders Have to Say About Treating Your Candidates Right

ClearCompany HRM

As a recruiter, tight deadlines and open seats produce all the pressure you need in an 8-hour day. There is a lot to be done and a great amount of it falls on you and the unpredictable candidates you interact with. Because of this, it can easily slip your mind that on the other side of that phone, email, text, etc. is a 3-dimensional human. Check out how these 4 leaders are keeping their candidate experience in check.

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ICYMI: Recruiting the Best Talent Requires New Tactics in 2016

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest in HR. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular stories every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for July's top stories!

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How to Analyze Source of Hire Data to Validate Recruiting Efforts

UpstartHR

If you’re interested in additional insights on measuring talent acquisition success, be sure to sign up here to get a free copy of the upcoming report I’m working on. What if you had a way to not only see what sources your candidates were coming from, but which ones delivered you the best people that you ended up hiring? This isn’t just possible–it should be a regular activity you perform as an HR/recruiting leader so that you can validate your hiring efforts and expendi

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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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FMLA time tracking is a breeze with Stratustime®

nettime solutions

New module makes it easy to monitor, schedule, and manage employee time off under FMLA. Okay, we admit it. We get a little excited when we find another time-tracking problem to solve. When we learned that FMLA tracking presented challenges for HR teams, we went to work. We talked to HR professionals, asked a lot of questions, and then listened. Here’s what we learned: Having multiple employees out on leave – at varying times – presented major scheduling challenges in many industries.

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Process Can Kill Growth and Innovation

Laurie Ruettimann

A friend of mine recommended a book called Traction. Have you heard of it? He thought that my consulting company and my software company could benefit from implementing The EOS Model™. What is the EOS Model™? Well, it’s a framework to help founders and CEOs understand everything from people to internal processes. Very simply, it’s just another way to run your business.

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Future Skills: What Will Be the 5 Most Sought After?

WorqIQ

It’s clear the world is continuing to change and, along with it, so are jobs and the criteria that determine the ideal candidate. What will the world look like in the future and what sort of employee it will demand? Read More» The post Future Skills: What Will Be the 5 Most Sought After? appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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How To Succeed At Real-Time Talent Alignment

TalentCulture

Everyone talks about employee turnover, but does anyone know the real size of the problem? According to a very comprehensive survey from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), nearly 50 percent of hires at a senior level from outside an organization leave within 18 months. That’s a spectacular failure rate, and one no organization can really afford to sustain, over and over again.

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Factors that influence employee engagement - your complete list

HR Zone

Employees. Factors that influence employee engagement.

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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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How Chatbots And Deep Learning Will Change The Future Of Organizations

TalentCulture

Don’t let the fun, casual name mislead you. Chatbots—software that you can “chat with”—have serious implications for the business world. Though many businesses have already considered their use for customer service purposes, a chatbot’s internal applications could be invaluable on a larger scale. For instance, chatbots could help employees break down siloes and provide targeted data to fuel every department.

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10 Critical Steps for Starting a Business and Protecting What You Build

Paychex

Starting a business is an exciting endeavor, and taking the right steps will help ensure that your business is protected and can thrive. Here are some steps to consider as you begin your journey.

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Don't Bring Me Back Again

NoExcusesHR

"If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world." - Mercedes Lackey Earlier this summer I had an opportunity to speak about my career to our team of interns (and other team members!) at Kinetix. They were kind and listened and smiled at me. As I was talking about the most important decisions in my professional life a theme emerged. Taking risks.

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17 Surefire Ways to Boost Employee Wellbeing

SnackNation

17 Surefire Ways to Boost Employee Wellbeing. Let’s face it – we spend the majority of our waking lives at work. For most us, our lives are made up mostly of work. Companies are learning that acknowledging – rather than denying – this fact is not just the right thing to do, but also a sound business decision. In a recent interview , Life is Good founder Bert Jacobs emphasized that focusing on things like employee wellbeing have an often under-acknowledged business benefit

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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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Why Your Onboarding Program Needs To Connect Emotionally

TLNT: The Business of HR

As employers continue to rethink hiring and retention strategies for our ever-evolving workforce, one resounding aspect keeps surfacing: the need for positive emotional connections in the workplace.

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The Importance of Employee Personas, Part 2

WeSpire

We’re hearing more HR leaders talk about the importance of employee personas. To help you develop your organization’s own personas, we’ve put together this simple 3-step plan. Every company’s workforce is different, so I can’t tell you what your company’s employee personas are. However, here are three steps that you can take to begin to develop your company’s employee personas.

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Who Doesn’t Love Cash?

Terryberry

We all love cash, don’t we? Cash is king. It’s the lube for our lives. We support ourselves with it and cover our primary human needs with it. We use it for shelter, we feed and clothe ourselves with it, we donate it, we save it, we spend it. We raise kids with it, we have fun with it, and we save for retirement with it. We need it. No argument here.

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Don’t Wait Until the Exit Interview

HR Daily Advisor

With employees remaining at an organization for approximately 4.6 years, you are going to be forking out a lot because of turnover costs. Waiting for an employee to leave to see whether he or she had concerns with the organization is too late. Try the stay interview instead. By Erin Pappo, Client Services Director, Camden Consulting Group. Most companies and HR professionals are familiar with the concept of an exit interview , which is used to gather feedback on why individuals are leaving and h

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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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Vacation wrap-up: What I did wrong, did right, and what I'd do differently next time

Steve Boese

I am just back from a super week of vacation/holiday spent in the wonderful state of South Carolina (Note to self: If I ever get my feet back in South Carolina I am going to nail them to the ground), and wanted to take a few minutes before diving in to my hopelessly full email inbox to reflect on the break with respect to how I did or didn't handle 'work' and 'work/life' issues during the week.

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saying you have to talk over a job offer with your spouse, ordered to appear “enthusiastic and upbeat,” and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Saying that you have to talk over a job offer with your spouse. What are your thoughts on telling a potential employer, “I will need to talk this over with my husband/wife” when considering a job offer? Does it sound too dependent or is it just honest? It’s pretty common to say “I’d like a few days to think it over and talk with my spouse.”.

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The History of Talent Acquisition… and How it Can Help in Modern HR

Quantum Workplace

Talent acquisition is nothing new. As far back as the days of Ancient Rome , historians can identify examples of job recruiting, employee offers, even competitive brand building.

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Hiring Wisdom: How to Hire For Talent

TLNT: The Business of HR

Used to be every employer preferred hiring for skills and/or experience; the thinking was one or both of these traits would help the new hire seamlessly fit into the new job. Today, however, in the wake of ceaseless technological change, it’s all about hiring for talent.

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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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Top 10 Must have Technological Skills for every HR profession

Effortless HR

HR professionals are required to multi-task and possess the ability to handle many requirements from different employees, managers, and several other higher authorities in an organization. Whether it is getting a non-performing employee fired, tracking the attendance report of a project team, dealing with the personal issues of an employee, discussing a retention possibility with a talented employee on a notice period, and more, they do it all!

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5 things that will send your resume straight to the rejection pile

Ask a Manager

Your resume is the very first impression that an employer will have of you, and it’s usually the determining factor in whether you move forward to an interview or get rejected on the spot. That means that it’s crucial to get it right – and yet lots of people put more energy into picking out an interview suit than they do into writing an awesome resume.

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How to Create Brilliant HR Surveys Your Employees Won’t Be Able to Ignore

Workforce Software

HR Surveys deliver the knowledge necessary to engage employees. But first, you have to compel people to consistently fill them out… here’s how to do that.

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employer told me to write 15-20 short essays before they’ll even interview me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I applied for a job on a company’s website a few weeks ago. I received an email from HR at 3:30PM on Friday afternoon acknowledging my application and asking me to respond to a set of pre-screening questions. The email asked that I provide my responses within 48 hours. Does this mean they were due on Sunday afternoon, or Tuesday afternoon?

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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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3 Ways Bosses Can Boost Productivity of a Team

45 Things

Companies that don't boot bad bosses to the curb or at least re-train them to be better bosses might want to pay attention to new research that shows good bosses -- unlike bad bosses -- boost productivity. Kathryn Shaw of the Stanford Graduate School of Business found in a study of technology-based workers that that bosses have a "big effect" on productivity and the good ones keep workers more engaged and productive.

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should I tell a low-performing employee that she needs to arrive at work earlier?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a direct report who has been with my nonprofit organization for a little over six months. She is earnest and committed to our mission, but seriously lacking in areas related to technical skills, attention to detail, and any sort of analytical thinking. She is junior, but this isn’t her first job, so I am surprised by how many very basic skills she is lacking.

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The Future of Harassment Reduction is Training

Workology

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued a report that talked about the state of harassment, of all kinds, in the workplace today. There are a dozen risk factors they talk about in this report that have led to an increase in harassment claims over the last several years. These risk factors are a combination of age of employees and changing workplace structure.