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What Are Talent Analytics, and How Can You Use Them?

HR Daily Advisor

Do you use data and have metrics related to sourcing talent? For example, do you know which of your recruiting pipelines generates the highest percentage of hires? Do you continue to use data to assess employee productivity, engagement, and retention? What about using and analyzing data to ensure the right staffing levels or to know in advance when to hire new employees?

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Last Week in Talent - Tuesday, June 20th

Entelo

Hello friends! This is Last Week in Talent, where yours truly runs down all the most interesting, important and intriguing talent and recruiting-related information from the last week in recruiting and hiring. In case you missed it, Entelo (yes, us!) announced our Series C round last week (ps, we're hiring ) , Amazon announced they are buying Whole Foods (for the estimated equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of Kumbucha ) , Careerbuilder just got bought , Wordpress is closing their super nice SF (

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The Eight Step Model for Purposeful HR Analytics

Visier

Jonathan Ferrar is a respected consultant, speaker, and author in HR strategy, workforce analytics, and the Future of Work. This article is adapted from his newly released book, The Power of People: Learn How Successful Organisations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business Performance, and originally appeared on his LinkedIn Pulse. During our research [for The Power of People: Learn How Successful Organisations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business Performance ] we found numerous examp

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How an Applicant Tracking System Transformed Boston College's Recruiting for the Better

Cornerstone On Demand

For many, landing a job at Boston College—a private-Jesuit Catholic institution located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts—is a dream come true. Having earned a reputation in higher education as an excellent place to work thanks to their tuition remission for employees and their families and generous retirement contributions, they receive 150-175 applications per job opening, says John Bogdon, director of employment at the college.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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The Woodstock For HR

China Gorman

The competitive world of HR Conferences may be changing forever. And that’s not a bad thing, in my opinion. Innovation is happening in this space – from stronger SHRM state conference offerings, to an additional HR technology-related conference ( HR Tech World ) being introduced in the U.S,, to other new entries – all designed to disrupt the usual HR conference offerings and deliver greater value to attendees.

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How to Kill Happiness at Work – Part 2

WorkHuman

One of our most popular blog posts last year was titled, “How to Kill Happiness at Work.” Either HR people are really cruel or they’re genuinely concerned about the happiness of their employees (we’re guessing it’s the latter). In that post, I shared some interesting research from Woohoo Inc. on the causes of bad days at work. A global survey of more than 700 workers showed the top five causes of bad days are: Bad bosses (lack of help and support) – 40%.

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Increasing Employee Engagement Through Technology

EmployeeConnect

Employee engagement is a crucial part of today’s business scenario. According to Gallup in 2015, only 30% of employees said that they are engaged in their job. 50% of employees opined that they were not engaged and around 20% of employees were of the opinion that they were actively disengaged. This indicates a serious workplace challenge. However, the situation is not all that grim.

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Ignore Your Company Values and They Will Go Away

Kazoo

Ideally the values of any organization should influence everything that happens inside its doors — from employee interactions with one another, to customer partnerships, to how managers manage, to goals set by the C-Suite. When an organization declares its values through a mission statement, employees are clear on what’s important to the company.

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How to Promote Change in Your Organization

ATD Human Capital

Change means giving up something. What are you willing to give up to move forward? Stop resisting change, even if it hurts. The way you look at a changing situation, or even a person who is changing, determines your reaction. Think about the times you have changed in your personal life without the support of your friends or family. It hurt, right? But with or without them, you made the change happen.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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Ignore Your Company Values and They Will Go Away

Kazoo

Ideally the values of any organization should influence everything that happens inside its doors — from employee interactions with one another, to customer partnerships, to how managers manage, to goals set by the C-Suite. When an organization declares its values through a mission statement, employees are clear on what’s important to the company.

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How Do I Choose a 401(k) Provider for My Company?

Justworks

Shopping for a 401(k) provider can feel overwhelming — and doing so for a small business can be an ever bigger challenge. About 50% of small businesses don’t offer 401(k) benefits to their employees, due to cash flow or the prohibitive costs of buying for a small group. However, offering 401(k) accounts to your team can make a big difference to the lifeblood of your company.

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Purpose Drives Productivity: 5 Steps to Optimize Communication for Your Workforce

TalentCulture

The pointless 9-to-5 grind is dead. Today, people need a purpose in their work. They want to be part of something, and our corporate communication needs to reflect this — to actually reach the people. Unfortunately, our communication skills have yet to catch up with the times, and present-day organizations simply do not communicate effectively. Just 17 percent of workers strongly agree that all levels of their companies practice open communication.

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How AI Is Improving Recruiting and Hiring

TLNT: The Business of HR

The HR technology landscape has been transformed in just a few short years. From advances in ATS software to the emergence of cloud-based systems and gamification-influenced platforms, hiring is one of the most explosive spaces for innovation. Artificial intelligence is the most recent trend to appear in HR tech – and one of the most promising.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Strike the Balance Between HR Strategy and Compliance

Paychex

It’s important to balance your company's broader HR and growth objectives with today's demanding compliance environment. Discover ways to stay aligned with your company's most important goals while minimizing compliance-related risk.

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Google For Jobs Launches: Are You Going to Nap On This For the Next Year?

The HR Capitalist

It's go time for Google for Jobs. . Earlier this year at Google I/O, the search giant announced a new initiative named Google for Jobs. The goal is simple: leverage Google’s skills at organizing information to make finding jobs easier. Today, one of the first steps in this project goes live, with the launch of an improved job search feature rolling out on mobile and desktop.

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HR Department of One: Managing the Impossible

Paychex

When the demands of HR fall on the shoulders of one person, what can be done to help lighten the burden? Get the details from Amanda Haddaway’s SHRM session The Top Five Secrets to Managing an HR Department of One.

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5 Areas of Focus to Avoid an Uber Culture Catastrophe

TLNT: The Business of HR

Is this the end of Uber’s bro culture? An investigation into Uber’s corporate culture , led by former U.S. attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., has resulted in Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick taking a leave of absence for an undisclosed amount of time.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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The Class of 2017: Our next generation of data scientists

Allegis Global Solutions

The growth of big data and rising importance of analytics will mean recruiters need to adapt to a changing business landscape in the years ahead.

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Disciplining employees: How to avoid mistakes that get you into trouble

Insperity

It’s one of life’s unfortunate realities: If you’re a manager, you’re going to have to discipline an employee at some point. As a steward of the company, it is your responsibility to address employee transgressions – be they small, recurring or huge. Here are four steps you can take to make your employee discipline actions foolproof. 1. Change your inner voice.

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11 essential traits of great managers: A modern approach to performance reviews 

CultureAmp

Finding, keeping and developing great people isn’t easy, but finding, keeping and developing great managers is even harder. It’s hard in my own organization – a technology start-up set to double in size over the next 12 months – and I’m sure it’s hard in yours too.

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Compliant Time Tracking: Getting It Right with Time Clocks

ConnecTeam

In a time when machines are learning and data is big, you need to finally trade in the pen-and-paper timesheet for a smart time tracking software solution. Actually, many businesses, just like yours, are making the shift, and where there is demand there is usually supply. Ranging from mobile apps to portable biometric systems with payroll system integration, there is no shortage in time tracking technology.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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6 Employee Benefit Trends in 2017 #SHRM17

Workology

In this war for talent, it’s more than just employee perks that can drive candidate conversions and retention. Companies are growing and shifting their benefit offerings. The Affordable Care. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Negative Feedback: Turning a Negative into a Positive [Infographic]

WorqIQ

With summer come thoughts of sunny beaches and lazy days filled with sunscreen and exotic, tiny-umbrella-adorned drinks. At least, that’s where our thoughts are. First we have to deal with Mid-Year Performance Reviews. Although reviews are becoming a thing of the past, replaced by more frequent, regular feedback, they remain in widespread use. They also remain a significant source of stress for managers and employees alike.

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The 50 Most Annoying Office Jargon Phrases

Evil HR Lady

Expecting all your coworkers to understand your jargon is just blue-sky thinking. Maybe we should brainstorm or action a project so that going forward we can think outside of the box and make sure we are all singing from the same hymn-sheet. If not, we can circle back and not have to re-invent the wheel to understand each other. These are just a few of the phrases that London Offices collected in a survey of jargon we can’t stand.

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Three Books Every KM Professional Should Read

Conversation Matters

Much of the very helpful research and theory that under lies our field of KM is produced in the related disciplines of Organization Behavior, Organization Learning, Group Dynamics, Computer Science, and Organizational Psychology. Following are summaries of three such, highly acclaimed, books that have recently been published. They are: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy , 2012, by Amy Edmondson, a Harvard Professor of Organizational Learning.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Would They Hold the Elevator for You?

TLNT: The Business of HR

“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his employees, not his equals.

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my employee insinuated I was having an affair … with my husband

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My husband and I work for the same mid-size government agency as senior level managers. We are in different departments, our job duties and direct colleagues/reports do not intersect, and our offices are not near each other. We have worked in the same building, and in fact on the same teams, several times throughout our marriage. Our supervisors are all aware we are married and were made so during the application processes.

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A Snapshot of HR Today

Paychex

A recent Paychex survey examined today’s HR landscape, and revealed that this demanding, dynamic profession is essential to a company’s success. Keep reading to learn more findings about HR today.

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