Fri.Apr 14, 2017

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The New Definition of “Passive Candidate”

The Tim Sackett Project

Okay, we get it, Mrs. Hiring Manager, you want passive candidates!!! We’ll get right no that… Passive candidates are the holy grail of candidates, right? Untouched, virgin, pure as the driven snow, fresh meat that has yet to be soiled by the dirty hands of another recruiter. If I could find a way to mainline passive candidates right into my system I’d be the best recruiting junkie on the planet!

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All Employee Development is Relevant – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. The Workforce Institute at Kronos reveals that more than half of the U.S. workforce has experienced a problem with their paychecks in their study “ Engaging Employees through Payroll ”. Enjoy the post!).

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Ouch, 50% Of New Hires Fail! 6 Ugly Numbers Revealing Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secret -- by Dr.

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Joy at Work: Q&A with Improv Asylum’s Chet Harding

WorkHuman

Be present. Listen. Don’t take yourself too seriously. These are just a few fun tips from Chet Harding, co-founder of Improv Asylum , on building a more human workplace through the power of improvisation. In our Q&A below, Harding gives a sneak preview of what to expect from his WorkHuman session with Improv Asylum’s co-founder Norm Laviolette titled, “Train Your Mind to Think on Its Feet!”.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Tips For Managing Difficult People.

EmployeeConnect

Had management been easy, it would not have earned such a high standard within a corporate environment. There will always be a mix of some people who are difficult to manage compared to others. Some may be talented but not collaborative, while some may be collaborative and not highly talented. With such a varied mix of individuals, how can you manage difficult people effectively ?

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How to Educate Employees on the Types of Insurance They Should Have

Hppy

Understanding insurance can be difficult for many people, but knowing what types of coverage are crucial can be incredibly important for many employees. As an HR professional, it is part of your job to ensure they have the information they need to be sufficiently covered. However, educating employees on insurance isn’t easy. Unfortunately, three out of five employees don’t fully understand their benefits.

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Employee Service Awards Programs Fails – And Fixes

Kazoo

Let’s talk about employee service award programs and how they can go wrong. Typically, I try to keep my feelings of schadenfreude in check, partly because I prefer the lift I feel when someone hits the heights over the wince that comes from watching them hit the skids. But also because, all too often, I find myself on the bad end of that particular stick: I have (occasionally) failed.

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Warning! Is Your Hiring Process Too Long?

Spark Hire

It never fails. A position opens up at your company and you start going through the standard steps of the hiring process. You finally come to a decision and make your offer to the most qualified candidate. You think the hiring process went smoothly until you take a look at your calendar; it took over two months to fill the role. “There’s got to be a better way,” you say to yourself.

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6 Ways to Wake Up and Help Retain Working Women

TalentCulture

We’ve got a crisis of competitiveness right under our noses, and heaven knows we’re not making enough progress to solve it. Period. I’m talking about our inability as a collective workforce to retain women as they rise up the ranks in corporate America (or more appropriately as they don’t rise up the ranks). Here are the sobering facts : only 14% of executive suites in America are occupied by a female.

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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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What HR Should Do In the Wake of United’s PR Debacle

TLNT: The Business of HR

By now, most of us have seen the shocking video where United Airlines had an unwilling 69-year-old passenger dragged off of one of their airplanes. Many are also aware that United also recently refused to let two teenage girls fly because they were wearing leggings that violated an ancient dress code rule. And almost instantly, these negative incidences that were spread across social media cost the airline millions.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Known: Build and Unleash Your Personal Brand

TalentCulture

Building a personal brand in the digital age can be a mystery to many people and companies. We all want what we want and we want it now, however creating a reputation of excellence take time and the right experience. On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 1pm ET, acclaimed marketing expert, Mark Schaefer and #WorkTrends host, Meghan M.Biro will be discussing the factors that Mark has identified in his latest book, KNOWN, as being what people really need to know when building and unleashing their person

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Two Ways You Can Attract and Retain Millennials

TLNT: The Business of HR

The world is millennial crazy. If you read this blog you know I think about 99% of the millennial stuff is pure B.S. — (We were all young once, it’s mostly great, but sometimes sucks, buy a helmet!) — but every once in a while I find something that really hits home.

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Leadership vs. Authority: The Critical Difference

BambooHR

In creating a welcome packet for our upcoming Elevate Summit, we realized we were missing an “official” description for one of the BambooHR company values, Lead from Where You Are. That came as a surprise, considering how critical we feel that value statement is to us as an organization; it’s one of the reasons we […]. The post Leadership vs. Authority: The Critical Difference appeared first on.

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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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Broadbanding in the Age of Analytics

Compensation Cafe

It is interesting to watch concepts that came into play and popularity during an earlier era be "rediscovered" (and sometimes even "repurposed") by the profession. Ah, the arc of history. Case in point today: broadbands. . WorldatWork , in its glossary of reward terms, provides us with an appropriately succinct definition. Broadbanding: A pay structure that consolidates a large number of pay grades and salary ranges into much fewer broad bands with relatively wide salary ranges, typically wi

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4 Steps HR Can Take to Protect Employee Medical Records

TLNT: The Business of HR

In April 2014, as electronic medical records became standard, the FBI issued a “private industry notification” warning health care organizations of an increased number of cyber intrusions targeting medical records due to, among other things, the higher payout for these records on the black market. Three years on, this prediction sadly appears to have proven true; in 2016 the medical/healthcare industry reported the second highest number of data breaches caused by hacking or phishing , and the mo

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#WorkTrends Preview: Known: Build and Unleash Your Personal Brand

TalentCulture

Building a personal brand in the digital age can be a mystery to many people and companies. We all want what we want and we want it now, however creating a reputation of excellence take time and the right experience. On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 1pm ET, acclaimed marketing expert, Mark Schaefer and #WorkTrends host, Meghan M.Biro will be discussing the factors that Mark has identified in his latest book, KNOWN, as being what people really need to know when building and unleashing their person

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Come join the Trust Mindset Dance Party!

Great Place to Work

Success in business and in leadership is rooted in how deeply and broadly we trust our people. It is far too common for many of us to become very skeptical and limit the circle of people we trust deeply. Now you have a chance to hone your trust-building skills at this year’s Great Place to Work For All Conference ! Ed Frauenheim, Julian Lute and Paul Thallner of Great Place to Work will lead a workshop called Working it Out: The Trust Mindset™, Giftwork™ and You to help attende

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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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6 Ways to Wake Up and Help Retain Working Women

TalentCulture

We’ve got a crisis of competitiveness right under our noses, and heaven knows we’re not making enough progress to solve it. Period. I’m talking about our inability as a collective workforce to retain women as they rise up the ranks in corporate America (or more appropriately as they don’t rise up the ranks). Here are the sobering facts : only 14% of executive suites in America are occupied by a female.

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The firing checklist every HR pro should use

HR Morning

Firing staff members is stressful – which is why so many HR pros sometimes hurry the process along to get it over with. But that’s a big mistake. . If you don’t cross your t’s and dot your i’s before, during and after a termination, you’re setting yourself up for major problems down the line — including potential litigation from the worker you just let go.

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Knowledge Management That Makes a Difference

Conversation Matters

I’ve been looking over a list of past clients to see what work I’ve enjoyed the most. To my surprise, I came up with three events that are all remarkably similar. In each one I am bringing people together in a way that allows them to solve their own problem. Through this reflection I've discovered that what I love doing is creating the design that make knowledge creation and sharing possible!

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Google Is Testing a New Jobs Service

TLNT: The Business of HR

Without any public announcement, Google has begun testing a new jobs product it’s calling Google Hire.

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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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The DOs and DON'Ts of investing in an MSP solution

Allegis Global Solutions

What are the dos and don'ts when buying your new MSP contingent workforce solution?

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Succession Planning Isn’t Just for CEOs

Pingboard

A Succession Plan Matters For The Entire Organization. If you asked your CEO what would happen if he or she left the company, you would likely be told of the succession plan in place. As critical as the CEO is to the company, there are plenty below whose absence would have ripple effects throughout the organization. Is there a plan as to who would immediately fill the hole left behind?

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HR Advice — Harassment Headaches from Dear Gabby

Mercer

From time to time every HR professional needs some HR advice. Welcome to Dear Gabby — today we discuss sexual harassment, see what advice Gabby has to offer. The post HR Advice — Harassment Headaches from Dear Gabby appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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5 Employee On-boarding Best Practices That You Need

Engagedly

On-boarding is one of most vital things for any employee who joins an organization. Imagine being a part of an organization which is totally unprepared for your arrival. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it? Though it doesn’t seem like much […].

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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 do world-class organizations plan and manage their projects?

Replicon

Without a doubt, how services/product organizations plan and execute their projects is a major factor in how well they grow. Though it sounds simple, making project plans, prioritizing specific projects, ensuring you have adequate resources, and managing a portfolio in real-time requires a lot of oversight across the organization. We spoke with some of our […].

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three updates from letter-writers

Ask a Manager

Here are updates from three people who had their letters answered here. 1. Answering a painful question from new coworker s (#2 at the link). I’m the person who wrote in asking how to handle it when co-workers at my new job ask about children after losing one of my children. First I’d like to say thank you for publishing my letter and to everyone who offered supportive words and especially to those who shared their own losses.

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5 Lessons From the March Jobs Report to Remember All Year

Workology

On Friday April 7 the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its March jobs report. At 98,000 jobs added and steep downward revisions to January and February, the report was a disappointment to market watchers and other analysts. It failed to really it as a political disappointment though, with so much other news dominating headlines. Now […] Source.

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