Fri.Apr 20, 2018

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GDPR: how HR can embrace it as a catalyst for positive change

HR Zone

Change. Embrace GDPR as a catalyst for positive change.

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“I had morning sickness,” said the man. Crazazy excuses for being late to work!

The Employer Handbook

chris ? [ GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons I can always count on CareerBuilder to help lighten the mood around here with some good fodder for a Friday post. Last month, CareerBuilder released the survey results from “This Year’s Most Bizarre Excuses for Being Late to Work.” Before I make with the ‘haha,’ allow me to share some survey results that will have you shaking your damn head: 1 in 4 of workers polled admitted that they come to work late at leas

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NFL Cheerleaders: Minimum Wage for a Job Where You Don’t Even Get to Pick Your Own Hair Color

Evil HR Lady

Can you imagine a job where you have strict rules on what you can wear , what your hair color is, how much you weigh, and with whom you can speak? And with that job comes a minimum wage paycheck? And that women work very hard to get this job? That would describe an NFL Cheerleader, according to an interview at The Daily with Former New Orleans Saints’ “Saintsation” cheerleader, Bailey Davis.

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What Does Being a “Partner” Mean in Business?

The Tim Sackett Project

I work in a world where most of the time I’m working for free. I run a staffing firm. By its nature, staffing is working for free until someone thinks you have something valuable enough to pay for (a great candidate). The trick to being really good at staffing is to try and work for free as little as possible. I also write and speak in the TA and HR space.

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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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Employees Should Test Limits – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Remember the old MC Hammer song, “U Can’t Touch This”? I realize I might be dating myself since some of you might know him better as the spokesperson for 3M Brand Command Strips. The reason I’m thinking about MC Hammer these days is because Mr. Bartender and I are in the process of moving. And the realtor helping us sell our home keeps coming in, rearranging our house, and telling us “don’t move this!

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Tips for Communicating Company Culture with Employees

Reflektive

You can define your company culture, you can write out core values and articulate your vision for the company, but your employees are the ones living it every day. Their daily interactions and energy in the office help to shape your culture, but your culture can also help to shape these interactions. You need to show employees what it means to embody your company values—it’s an organized, organic process—because the last thing you want to do is have one culture on paper and another culture in re

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How to Keep HR and Finance in Sync on Workforce Planning

Visier

In the NFL, skilled wide receivers are often the star players on their teams. Mention Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, or Terrell Owens, and there’s a good chance that even people who don’t normally follow football will recognize their names. Wide receivers are known for their speed – with 40-yard-dash times that compare well to track athletes. By definition, their role is to catch the football when the quarterback throws it.

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[Infographic] How To Start And End Your Workday

Hppy

How do you start and end your busy workday? As a busy professional, it’s easy to get wrapped up in your calendar of back-to-back meetings and a long list of to do’s or requests. However, making small changes to the first and last minutes of your day can help you regain control of your time and schedule. These simple tweaks will help you reflect back on your day with fulfillment and look forward to the next day with ease.

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Ready to Choose a PEO? Ask These 5 Questions

Justworks

As a small business in need of an HR solution, your options can be overwhelming. But if you’ve narrowed your search and are ready to choose a PEO, you’re off to a great start. As you’ve probably learned, the acronym PEO stands for Professional Employer Organization. PEOs work with small businesses to help them manage payroll-related taxes, certain human resources functions, access to benefits, and other employer-related administrative functions necessary to running a business.

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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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Need Employee Reward Ideas? Don’t Miss Bersin’s Latest Research

Kazoo

The latest from Bersin’s High-Impact Rewards research is out, and organizations building strategic employee rewards programs or seeking employee reward ideas should take note. As reported by Business Insider , the latest findings prove that the right employee reward ideas can help you attract, retain, and motivate your top talent. Rethinking employee reward ideas.

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Ask a Recruiter: What is recruitment marketing and why should it be part of your recruiting strategy?

Workable

Recruitment marketing is how your company tells its culture story through content and messaging to reach top talent. It can include blogs, video messages, social media, images—any public-facing content that builds your brand among candidates. In marketing, if you try to be all things to all people and you don’t know who your ideal customer is, you risk creating messaging that doesn’t resonate with anyone.

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Three Keys to Getting Global Mobility Right

TalentCulture

The future of work is all about movement: moving operations to the digital sphere, moving certain functions to automated systems […]. The post Three Keys to Getting Global Mobility Right appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High

TLNT: The Business of HR

Rock Star employees make a huge positive impact and help to increase the valuation of the business. That’s why finding a Rock Star is the goal of every hiring manager.

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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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GDPR: 12 things HR leaders can do right now

Sage HRMS

GDPR is one of the biggest shakeups ever seen affecting how personal data should be handled. In a world where people’s data is captured and used in ways, they may not even realize, the new rules on how personal data is processed will become much more stringent. As gatekeepers and processors of personal data, HR […]. The post GDPR: 12 things HR leaders can do right now appeared first on Sage Advice US.

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FRIDAY HR COMMS: Stay Off the Weed, People.

The HR Capitalist

Let's face it, HR could lead your company in being authentic, approachable and hell - just fun. One opportunity you have is in your HR communications platform. Let's say you're sending out emails on a regular basis - maybe you even do a newsletter.You know what would make people read your stuff? If you had some fun along the way. Lucky for you, I've found a perfect clip to have some fun with.

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5 of the Most Innovative Office Environments You've Ever Seen

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written by Pete Jaradeh. Associate Product Marketing Manager, Oracle HCM Cloud. For many, your office is practically a second home, so it should come as no surprise that companies looking to attract and retain top talent are doing everything imaginable to make their work environments part of the attraction. Repetitive employee turnover can be expensive and, while human resources often does their best, making a few office modifications can make a big difference for retention and morale.

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How to Write A Job Description

Workology

Writing a job description sounds simple, doesn’t it? You just list off the qualifications and duties for a particular position in your organization. There, you’ve described the job! But. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Introverted? Ask Yourself This in Your Next Meeting!

Birkman International

Whether you tend to be less assertive in communication or your preference is to work alone, it can be challenging to share your thoughts in meetings with extroverted, vocal team members. However, contributing in meetings is an important part in. making your voice heard and gaining respect in an organization. That being said, there are situations where it is beneficial to step up and share your thoughts with your group, and other times when you may want to hold off on sharing.

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Arizona Employers Face Tougher Requirements on Data Breaches

HR Daily Advisor

A new law taking effect this summer means Arizona employers will face more stringent requirements in the event of a breach of personal information (PI) of customers or employees. Rawpixel Ltd / iStock / Getty Images Plu. Governor Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2154 into law on April 11, and it will take effect 90 days after the current legislative session comes to an end.

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CHART OF THE DAY: Mount Stupid

Steve Boese

Really quick shot for the end of a busy week, where despite it being nearly May, it is still snowing as I write this. Today's CHART OF THE DAY does not cover one of the normal themes I usually like to hit with these posts - employment, the labor force, the aging population, how terrible the Knicks have been, etc. No, today's chart, courtesy of SMBC Comics , is meant to elicit a chuckle and perhaps make you think, even just a little, before you feel the urge to chime in on a topic, issue, person,

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The CRAZIEST Thing I did to Earn Capital for my Business

A Slice of HR

Last year, I was launching my HR Consulting company, A Slice of HR. While advisory services typically have fairly low-start up costs, I needed cash for things like marketing materials, business cards and website design. My family was already making sacrifices with my forgone salary. I pondered what on earth I could do to make a few thousand dollars fairly quickly - that didn't take a lot of my time and effort that was focused on running the business (and a family).

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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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$550K Verdict in New Hampshire Trade Secret Theft Case Sends Powerful Message

HR Daily Advisor

Recently, the New Hampshire Supreme Court emphatically reminded employers of the risks of engaging in unethical behavior when hiring employees to obtain a competitor’s secrets. In Halifax-American Energy Company, LLC v. Provider Power, LLC (Feb. 9, 2018), the court upheld a jury verdict of more than $550,000—plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees—against three companies and their owners after they hired an employee who was simultaneously employed by a competitor.

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Best Buddies at the i4cp 2018 Conference

i4cp

Watch David Quilleon & Champ Pederson present at the i4cp 2018 Conference: Next Practices Now. Sign up for the i4cp 2019 Conference (March 11 – 14).

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12 Effective Tools & Strategies to Improve Teamwork in the Workplace

SnackNation

12 Effective Tools & Strategies to Improve Teamwork in the Workplace. What is teamwork? According to Merriam-Webster, it’s: Work done by several associates with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole. Now for some more difficult questions: How do you promote teamwork in the workplace? How do you inspire people to table their personal goals and glory for the benefit of the team?

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open thread – April 20-21, 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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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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Internal hiring process policy

Workable

This internal hiring process policy template is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs. Add or delete parts according to your own internal hiring strategies and modify the tone and language to match your company’s voice. The post Internal hiring process policy appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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3 Benefits Reminders to Send Your Employees in May

Jellyvision

#1. Adjust your W-4s. Now that tax time has finally passed it’s time to…think a little more about taxes! Sorry. But the tax law that passed last December might make your employees’ existing W-4s less accurate, meaning if they don’t update their withholding amount now, they might be surprised by a smaller refund, a balance due, or even a penalty in 2019.

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People analytics in the world of small to medium-sized organizations

Newmeasures

“Big data” is hot right now. The terms used to describe this trend are many: people analytics, data science, data-driven organizations, predictive modeling, machine learning. and the list goes on. I find myself wondering how these concepts fit together. Are these terms different lingo for the same general idea? Which concepts should my organization be pursuing?