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Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for a Natural Disaster

Precheck

Preparing the Healthcare Workforce for a Natural Disaster Oct. 24, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. This year has had its fair share of devastating storms and wildfires, highlighting the importance of preparedness for natural disasters. The need for being prepared goes double for healthcare organizations, which play a front-line role in helping people recover from disasters.

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You almost never go wrong when hiring pretty people!

The Tim Sackett Project

What do you think of, in regards to smarts, when I say: “Sexy Blond model type”? What about: “Strong Athletic Jock?” What about: “Scrawny nerdy band geek?” My guess is most people would answer: Dumb, Dumb, Smart – or something to that context. In HR we call this profiling and make no mistake, profiling is done by almost all of our hiring managers.

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Powerful Ways Technology Helps With Diversity Recruiting

ClearCompany HRM

Diversity hiring is beneficial to both your colleagues and your company. If you want to increase engagement, productivity ( inclusive teams outperform their peers by 80% ), and even profits ( 6% greater revenue ), diversity is the answer.

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Technology Can (And Should) Transform Your Relationships with Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

Thanks to advances in technology, organizations are beginning to understand their workforce on a deeper level than ever before. New human resources portals, artificial intelligence and cloud technologies help companies not only gather a wealth of insight from their employees, but also analyze and put that information to use in a more productive and inclusive way.

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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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It’s Time for a People Strategy Revolution

Visier

It goes without saying that great HR functions are strategic: they play a vocal role in critical business decisions and control a significant portion of a company’s expenses. Yet the most commonly monitored HR metrics do very little to deliver true insight into the workforce. In the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBR-AS) study, How CEOs and CHROs Can Connect People to Business Strategy , 67 percent of CEOs say they get at least a basic set of human capital metrics from HR – but only

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It’s Time for a People Strategy Revolution

Visier

It goes without saying that great HR functions are strategic: they play a vocal role in critical business decisions and control a significant portion of a company’s expenses. Yet the most commonly monitored HR metrics do very little to deliver true insight into the workforce. In the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBR-AS) study, How CEOs and CHROs Can Connect People to Business Strategy , 67 percent of CEOs say they get at least a basic set of human capital metrics from HR – but only

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New California Employment Laws

Don Phin

It’s been a very busy legislature. As I wrote a few weeks ago… when does it ever stop? AB 46 by Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) – Employers: wage discrimination. AB 55 by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) – Hazardous materials management: stationary sources. AB 168 by Assemblymember Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) Employers: salary information.

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How to Integrate Chronically Ill Workers

Hppy

Any organization is only as good as the people working for it. People are the blood that keeps it alive and makes it grow. But, what happens when a key employee is diagnosed with a chronical disease? In what way does this affect the organization? What can a company do to turn the gloomy situation in its favor? How can they support their people in a way that makes the person feel well cared for, and still an important part of the organization?

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Why it’s time for HR teams to stop focussing on HR

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Most employees don’t care about HR, at least not until they have an issue they need to resolve. It’s not that people feel strongly against human resources, it’s just that they don’t see how it contributes to their day-to-day job. That doesn’t mean HR is dead. People remain a business’ most valuable asset, and it is when HR spearheads the recruitment, nurturing and teamwork between these people that they perform at a high level and make the company profitable.

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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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Five Facts About Using A Recruitment Chatbot

TalentCulture

With today’s tighter labour market, candidate experience has become increasingly important to attract talent. Will the next wave of recruiting involve the use of a recruitment chatbot? Randstad found 82% of job seekers believe the ideal recruiter interaction is a mix between innovative technology and personal, human interaction. . Watch our video on how recruitment chatbots are changing the hiring process: Workopolis found 43% of candidates never hear back from a company after one touchpo

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End of Year Planning in 3 Easy, Obvious and Doable Steps

Workology

It’s the end of the year, and we know it. We see it creeping into our short-range plans, and we feel it when we nervously start contemplating the work that needs to be done between now and then. We feel it deep inside our tired HR souls when we think anxiously about what flipping the […] Source.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Focus on Workplace Intelligence

TalentCulture

Even if you are new to HR, you are probably dealing with an alphabet soup swirl of terms in your head, especially the ones involving “Q.” There’s IQ (intelligence), EQ (emotional intelligence), and LQ (leadership intelligence). None of those terms by themselves can capture the qualities that make a workplace functional, productive, and–dare we say it?

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How Men Can Be Better Allies to Women in the Workplace

DDI

It’s still a long road to gender equality, but here are four things men can do to become better allies to women in the workplace.

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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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Navigating Friendship In the Workplace As an HR Pro

Workology

Yikes, I’m sure that title scared a few HR Pros. Friendship is an essential part of life. Some people don’t have a family, but they do have friends. Friendship in the workplace has always been a delicate subject. When we allow people to cross that barrier we’ve created in all of those stacks of paperwork, we […] Source.

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10 Years After

Dave's Weekly Thought

Today marks my 10th year in the human capital management industry. I was prepared to write a post about all the things done well and the opportunities missed, but you've read 500 such posts on this blog. What does it really mean for a man nearing his mid 40's to have 2 decades of work experience? I've never taken anything for granted. I've always appreciated my employer's willingness to write me a check every other week.

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Here’s How to Evaluate Manager Effectiveness

TLNT: The Business of HR

As global markets push businesses to become more agile and responsive, it’s tempting to predict that management roles will virtually disappear from progressive companies.

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Finding Yourself Through Failure

Talent Anarchy

Mistakes. I’ve made a few. In fact, I’ve made a whole bunch over the course of my life. Turns out, I’m pretty good at it. I’ve started and failed a couple businesses. My first marriage lasted 20 months before ending in divorce. I totaled my very first car, which my parents had given me for my 16th birthday, four months after I got it.

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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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New Feature Updates to SutiHR

SutiHR

Recently, we have unveiled the most recent version of SutiHR, version 7.6.5. Some of the key features which have been added to the software are listed below. HR managers can now send offer letters to multiple approvers. Offer letters can be sent to candidates only when they are approved by all approvers. The solution now. The post New Feature Updates to SutiHR appeared first on SutiHR.

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3 Proven Productivity Boosters for Your Mid-Day Slump

Take It Personel-ly

The dreaded mid-day slump is a real problem for many office workers, and the top three reasons include: warm work environment, not getting enough sleep the night before and large workloads, as reported by DailyMail. What’s the first thing you do when you feel it coming on? Head to the break room for a large […].

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If necessary, the ADA allows a company to make an employee see a doctor before returning to work.

The Employer Handbook

No, it won’t violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. One of your employees is displaying erratic behavior at work. While you’re no medical expert, you feel as if the employee may become a threat to herself or others, if she isn’t already. So you place the employee on leave and require that she undergo an independent medical exam as a condition of returning to work.

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Why a Total Rewards Program Makes Sense for the Future of Work

Ceridian

Many people think about the term “compensation” as the pay or salary they receive for the work they do for an organization. As part of our employee experience, we use the term “total rewards”, because our approach is to consider all the things an individual receives as part of the rewards infrastructure for their role. This includes not only monetary compensation, but also benefits, perks and career development initiatives, to name a few.

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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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can I ask my boss to deny my vacation request so I don’t have to go home for Christmas?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently graduated from college and moved out of a fairly precarious home situation into an awesome apartment in a neighboring state and a perfect first job. The holidays are approaching and I have Monday and Tuesday of Christmas week off but not the rest of the week. I’ll go home for that long weekend, but my parents expect me to request the rest of the week off (I have a very good PTO package so I’ll have the days available).

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Tips for retaining top accounting talent: 5 employer branding best practices

Sage HRMS

As an accounting firm, the “product” you sell is your employees’ expertise and time. Your employees are experts who provide the value clients recognize in your organization. As the old saying goes, “your greatest assets walk out the door every night.” Your firm’s growth, success, and profitability depend on you being able to attract and […]. The post Tips for retaining top accounting talent: 5 employer branding best practices appeared first on Sage Advice.

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here’s me talking about the ghosting ex

Ask a Manager

I went on the Pop Tea podcast to talk about the ghosting ex , the guy who pooped in the potted plant , phone anxiety, and much more. It’s episode 10 here. My segment starts at 46:35 and lasts for about 40 minutes. (The hosts of this are really funny!). I also discussed the ghosting ex on the Why Oh Why podcast, which talks about romance and relationships in the digital age (Vulture called the host “a genius of the cringe,” which is a title I covet).

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HR Tech Spotlights Smarter Technology for Human Resources

Sterling Check

HR Tech was held in Las Vegas just a few weeks ago, but the ideas that were shared at the conference will spur changes to the human resources industry for many years to come. The Sterling Talent Solutions team was in full force at the conference demonstrating the simplicity of our background screening, onboarding platform and API on-demand solution.

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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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#HotInHR: Millennial Mentors Wanted, Employer Addresses Applicant’s Major Pain Point, Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s Code

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. A big employer is finally addressing a major pain point for job applicants – Quartz. Johnson & Johnson, the medical supply giant, is trying something that may hold even greater appeal for anyone who’s ever sent a resume into the proverbial black hole before: It’s giving job applican

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 299 - Dan Heath and The Power of Moments

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 299 - Dan Heath and The Power of Moments. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. Guest: Dan Heath. Listen to the show HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, we welcome Dan Heath, co-author of the new book The Power of Moments , as well as previous best-sellers Switch, and Made to Stick. On the show, Dan talked about how moments - those memorable, life-changing, and elevating moments in our work, social, and personal lives are so meaningful and memorable, and how HR and organizat

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Training – It’s Not Always the Solution

developUs

I consider every client I work with a job, so I’ve had lots of jobs over the course of my adult life. In one of my former full-time roles, before formally launching develop Us, I was responsible for identifying training opportunities for leaders across the organization. It was a $5.5B organization, so when I called training providers to say I was evaluating their course for use, they often comped me a seat.