Tue.Aug 25, 2020

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Viable Strategies for Managing the Talent Gap in Healthcare Staffing

Workology

Globally, talent shortages top the list of the most compelling risks that all business organizations are facing. This is particularly true in the healthcare industry, where shortages of. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Onboarding Tools and Tips for an Adaptable Onboarding Process

ClearCompany HRM

Studies have shown that organizations with strong onboarding processes see retention rates increase by 82% , yet only 12% of employees believe their company does an adequate job of onboarding new hires. With companies at various stages in returning to work, recruiters need to have an adaptable onboarding process that fits all employees' needs. What works best for an in-person onboarding experience might not translate well for a remote experience.

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The New Employee Benefits Equation = More Value for All

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

A recent MetLife survey revealed that 74% of employees were concerned about at least one aspect of their wellbeing as a result of COVID-19. It’s human nature for people to worry about their own wellbeing, and it’s in the nature of successful organizations to keep employees’ worries and needs top of mind when structuring their benefits programs.

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How Networking Works in the Real World

Evil HR Lady

This morning I went for a cup of tea (ginger lemon) with someone I met on LinkedIn. A true networking meeting. And it was a networking meeting. We discussed careers and what we could do to better ourselves. She asked how I diversified my client list, and I shared a story. She said, “Have you ever written that story?” and I don’t believe I have, so I shall share it.

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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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our library staff have all been reassigned to do childcare for county workers

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work at a public-facing youth services employee in a public library managed by county government in the United States. Due to impacts from COVID-19, employees in some other county departments are taking an abundance of leave time or resigning in order to provide childcare to their children doing virtual learning at home. The solution that county government has found for this is to make the public library system into a “virtual learning camp” for county employees

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Is it Time to Say Goodbye to the Open Office Plan?

Justworks

In recent years, the “open plan” office became the organizational model of choice for hip and forward-thinking employers. In the early days of its growing popularity, the open office was believed by many to be a guaranteed way to improve employee communication and collaboration, and to nurture a general feeling of egalitarianism in the workplace. Plus, removing cubicles from the workplace allowed early adopters of the open office plan to save significant amounts of money on construction.

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Not in the same boat: Career progression in the pandemic

Qualtrics HR

New study from Qualtrics and theBoardlist finds working during the pandemic disproportionately affects careers of women, parents, and people of color. COVID-19 has forced everyone to adjust to a new way of life and a new way of working. But the career effects of the global pandemic haven’t been equitable for all workers, according to a new study of more than 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by Qualtrics and theBoardlist.

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WORST BOSS EVER: Just Watch How They Treat Others When Off Camera.

The HR Capitalist

It's a line as old as time itself. The wisest person in your family gave you the following advice when it comes to the true test of any individual: "If you really want to know who someone is, watch how they treat others when they think no one is watching". Without question, you've heard that saying or a variant of it. And it's 100% true. . This wisdom was on full display last week on a virtual Senate hearing.

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Sending My Kids Back to School Broke Me

Jason Lauritsen

I thought I was doing pretty well. When our lives (and my business) got turned upside down in March, I hunkered down. I’ve been through some tough times before, so I knew that I could survive whatever was to come. My wife and I figured out the “school from home” mess and made the best of it. And I went to work on pivoting my business for this new world.

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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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5 Tips to Help You Keep Remote Employees Engaged

Tandem HR

Try These 5 Unique Ways to Keep Remote Employees Engaged. More companies than ever have teams working from home. In some cases, employees may have a difficult time connecting and engaging on the same levels they did in a traditional office setting. But this isn’t cause for alarm. Not only is this a normal reaction, it’s fixable. Consider the following five tips when working to keep remote employees engaged. 5 Tips to Keep Remote Employees Engaged. 1| Mix Up Virtual Meetings.

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5 Critical Areas For Managing Conflict in the Remote Workplace

Quantum Workplace

Managing conflict in the workplace is never easy. But when your team is working remotely it can be even more challenging. You can’t sit your employees across from each other and talk it out in a conference room. Plus, conflict on a remote team may not be as obvious, which can leave resentment to fester and escalate over time. Conflict on any team—in-house or remote—can disrupt workflow, performance, morale, and employee engagement, so it’s crucial that remote managers are prepared.

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Reach The Next Executive Level With These 14 Career-Advancing Tips

Forbes Coaches Council

By assessing their strengths and weaknesses, managers looking to advance their career will have a much better idea of what they want in their next role.

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PrismHR Announces Partnership with Crimcheck to Provide Integrated Background Screening Solutions to its HR Service Providers and their Small Business Clients

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

New Integration Through PrismHR Marketplace Offers PrismHR Service Providers a Streamlined Process for Conducting Employment Background Checks Hopkinton, Mass. – August 25, 2020 – PrismHR, the leading HR technology software powering payroll, benefits and HR for small- and medium-sized businesses across the U.S., today announced that Crimcheck’s award-winning employment screening solutions have been integrated with the PrismHR platform, enabling PrismHR partners and their customers to seamlessl

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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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Updated: 30 States Now Approved for Federal Lost Wage Assistance

HR Workplace Services

(Updated from last week). As of today, 30 States have requested and been approved for Federal Lost Wage Assistance (LWA). The approved states are as follows: Alabama – Alaska – California – Colorado – Connecticut – Georgia – Idaho – Indiana – Iowa – Kentucky – Louisiana – Maryland – Massachusetts – Michigan – Missouri – Montana – New Hampshire – New Mexico – New York – North Carolina

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Four DE&I Training Courses Added to Comply Advice & Action

Namely

More and more, small businesses are recognizing the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), but many still need help figuring out where and how to begin. This week, we’ve added four DE&I training courses to Comply Advice & Action , powered by ThinkHR.

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Seven characteristics of an effective mentor

Sage HRMS

Mentorship is a good way to bring more youth into your industry, attract and retain employees, and advance individual careers and businesses. But, what makes a good mentor? To answer that question, I turned to the experts.* Here’s what they list as the top qualities of effective mentors: 1. Active listener Good mentors are genuinely […]. The post Seven characteristics of an effective mentor appeared first on Sage Advice United States of America.

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What Is a Marketing Specialist and Should You Become One?

The Muse

How do you decide whether to pursue a general marketing role or specialize in one particular area? Here’s what you need to know.

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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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Work, culture and COVID-19

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

COVID-19 has forced unique challenges on American managers tasked with leading multicultural work teams: Its impact on how we do work, where we do work and how we define work gets deeper every week. The very real and immediate need to address the technological requirements of forced online work options grabs the attention, but finding IT solutions without addressing the cultural and emotional impact of COVID-19 on your employees is, at best, a half-baked quick fix.

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The top career-related subreddits you should be following

cipHR

Do you want to find out how you can progress in your career, or become the best leader possible? Here are the subreddits you need to follow. Since its launch in 2005, Reddit has become one of the world’s most popular internet forums. According to Alexa , Reddit is the sixth most popular website in the United States, and the 18th worldwide. In May 2020, over 1.5 billion visits were measured to the online forum – bringing people together to share news, content, views and ideas.

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AccuSchedule: Benefits of Single Sign-On for Your Employees

Accu-time

AccuSchedule: Benefits of Single Sign-On for Your Employees. AccuSchedule integrates tightly with Workday, which provides companies with a variety of benefits. Having a single sign-on to both AccuSchedule and Workday is one aspect of this integration. Yet its advantages are easily overlooked.

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Great Leaders Show Emotional Balance

Forbes Coaches Council

The world’s most successful leaders go beyond having knowledge, business savvy and vision — they also have the ability to identify and monitor their own emotions and that of others.

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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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How to be an employer of choice – even in uncertain times

Insperity

Getting excellent employees to work for your organization instead of your competitors has never been easy. Add in the disruption of a worldwide pandemic, and the challenge to recruit and retain top talent demands new, refocused energy. What can you do to stand out during unpredictable times and show that you’re an employer of choice – and will continue to be one, come what may?

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Inspiring Innovation: 10 Tips for Your Organization

Emergenetics International

As so much in our lives has shifted over the past several months – and continues to do so – I know many people who may be feeling a bit tapped out on change. I even wrote a blog post about how to support adaptability in the face of constant transformation! Still, we know that […]. The post Inspiring Innovation: 10 Tips for Your Organization appeared first on Emergenetics International Blog.

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an overly Photoshopped job candidate, do I have to put dates on my resume, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Company’s phishing test made me my coworker think she was being fired. I have a question about my company’s IT practices. We’re in education and we have a lot of employees who don’t use technology too often, so they’re not the most sophisticated at spotting phishing. I guess because of this, IT likes to send out fake phishing emails to us as a sort of pop quiz on spotting them, and if you fall for it, you’re sent

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CRM: Strategies and Techniques for Client Retention

SutiHR

Today, many companies are beginning to leverage a customer relationship management (CRM) software to further their business interests. Utilizing it to its full potential is important in fulfilling objectives. Acquiring new clients is crucial, but it could cost you up to five times more to obtain those new clients rather than to keeping an existing one.

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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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9 tips to engage your team of introverts

Jostle

We’ve come to notice that society rewards those with extroverted tendencies. Qualities like being social and externally stimulated are regarded as ideal indications of engagement and involvement. And that’s why it’s increasingly easier for introverts to be overlooked and become out of touch in the workplace.

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Virtual town halls: the extreme makeover edition

Davis & Company

You are here Home RSS feed. Virtual town halls: the extreme makeover edition. Thursday, September 24, 2020 | 11:00am Alison. Davis. CEO. Alison sets the strategic direction for Davis & Company and leads the development of new products and services. LinkedIn Twitter alison.davis@davisandco.com Breana. Van Rye. Senior Project Director. LinkedIn breana.vanrye@davisandco.com Caroline.

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Building An Authentic Brand Is About Building Human Connections Online

Forbes Coaches Council

If we look at neuroscience, and specifically at Triune Brain Theory, we can gain a deeper understanding of the impact brands can have on human connection.