Thu.Mar 09, 2017

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How Your Company Can Leverage the Gig Economy

Hppy

It might be time to move “remote work opportunities” from your company’s Perks and Benefits column into Survival Strategies. America’s economic history has depended on mobility of workers and opportunities. People have followed jobs out west across the country, from the farms and countryside into the cities, and even from city to city. But in recent years, even the job-dense cities are no safe bet; in the majority of metro areas today, more businesses are closing than new ones are opening.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Dialogue, Health and Wellness Provider, Raises $4M in Funding. Warburg Pincus provides $115 mln to Alignment Healthcare.

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San José’s New Scheduling Ordinance Effective March 13, 2017

HRWatchdog

On November 8, 2016, San José voters passed the Opportunity to Work Ordinance. Under the ordinance, employers with 36 or more employees are required to offer additional work hours to existing, qualified part-time employees before hiring new employees, including subcontractors or the use of temporary staffing services. Covered employers must offer additional hours to qualified part-time employees before hiring new employees.

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How To Help Leaders Effectively Manage Today’s Human Capital

ClearCompany HRM

What are today’s key human capital management challenges, and how will they be addressed in the future? To answer these questions, ClearCompany partnered with HR.com to conduct a survey of nearly 400 Human Resource professionals.

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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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March is Women’s History Month

HR Bartender

In the U.S., March is recognized as Women’s History Month. The theme this year is women in labor and business, so I wanted to share a few interesting statistics I found, courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau. As of July 2014, women outnumber men in the U.S. – 162M to 157M. The percentage of social scientists who are women is 63 percent. Of the firms in the U.S., women own 35.8 percent of them.

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Learn How the PEO Model Works in 96 Seconds [Video]

Justworks

If you run a small- or medium-sized business, you’ve likely heard the term “PEO” floated around before. But what is a PEO? And how can it help your business? We created this 96-second video to explain the concept of the PEO model, as well as give an example of how it has worked for other people who run their own businesses. What is a PEO? This video covers: [0:00-0:15] What a PEO, or Professional Employer Organization, does [0:15 - 0:23] How PEOs give access to enterprise-level.

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COATS Attends 2017 TempNet Conference

COATS Staffing Software

COATS Staffing Software was happy to send our representative, Jessie Sierra, to Phoenix, Ariz. for the Annual TempNet Conference. Jessie, in addition to being readily available to explain our new product, COATS Visual , was also able to participate in some of the great seminars and community service activities that the conference provided. “Dave Mitchell, the author of ‘ The Power of Understanding People ’ was our keynote speaker,” said Jessie.

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Securing Buy-In For Your Own Ideas

Everwise

Knowing how to secure buy-in for your ideas at work is an incredibly useful skill. You can establish yourself as a go-getter, connect with stakeholders across the company, and collaborate on interesting, challenging projects. So, how do you get started? When asked how to get organizational buy-in for your ideas, here’s what our community had to say: Establish trust and credibility first.

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COATS Attends 2017 TempNet Conference

COATS Staffing Software

COATS Staffing Software was happy to send our representative, Jessie Sierra, to Phoenix, Ariz. for the Annual TempNet Conference. Jessie, in addition to being readily available to explain our new product, COATS Visual , was also able to participate in some of the great seminars and community service activities that the conference provided. “Dave Mitchell, the author of ‘ The Power of Understanding People ’ was our keynote speaker,” said Jessie.

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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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Are Medicaid Recipients Always Below The Federal Poverty Line? The Short Answer Is No.

ACA Times

When it comes to Medicaid , there is a lot of confusion as to what it means to be eligible on a state by state basis. The assumption may be that Medicaid recipients are eligible if their income falls under 100% of the federal poverty line (FPL).This is incorrect. What does the FPL mean? This is an annually adjusted chart that identifies the FPL levels based on household income and size.

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COATS Attends 2017 TempNet Conference

COATS Staffing Software

COATS Staffing Software was happy to send our representative, Jessie Sierra, to Phoenix, Ariz. for the Annual TempNet Conference. Jessie, in addition to being readily available to explain our new product, COATS Visual , was also able to participate in some of the great seminars and community service activities that the conference provided. “Dave Mitchell, the author of ‘ The Power of Understanding People ’ was our keynote speaker,” said Jessie.

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Coaching: The Secret to Retaining Top Talent

TalentCulture

Figuring out how to retain the best employees remains a top priority for every business owner. This shouldn’t be a surprise: according to a study by the Center for American Progress , the typical cost of turnover is 21 percent of an employee’s annual salary. Retention has become even more of a hot-button issue as Americans’ attitudes toward changing jobs begin to shift.

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COATS Attends 2017 TempNet Conference

COATS Staffing Software

COATS Staffing Software was happy to send our representative, Jessie Sierra, to Phoenix, Ariz. for the Annual TempNet Conference. Jessie, in addition to being readily available to explain our new product, COATS Visual , was also able to participate in some of the great seminars and community service activities that the conference provided. “Dave Mitchell, the author of ‘ The Power of Understanding People ’ was our keynote speaker,” said Jessie.

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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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The Rush to the Cloud Is Putting HR In Charge of its Tech

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s a good time to be in the HR technology industry. Last year over $1.96 billion was invested in HR tech startups across 13 categories, including recruitment, career development and automation. There’s also a dizzying number of mergers & acquisitions taking place, with analytics poised as the next big category.

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Continuous Improvement in Recruiting: Trends to Watch for in 2017

Allegis Global Solutions

What will be the biggest influencing factors behind continuous improvement in recruiting in 2017?

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#WorkTrends Recap: High Velocity Recruiting Is Lean Hiring

TalentCulture

In today’s very competitive hiring environment, brands need to have a solid strategy for talent acquisition with forethought to the retention of desired talent. Speed and accuracy of culture fit are essentials parts of the strategy, but what happens when companies take too much time to assess their candidates? On this week’s #WorkTrends show, host Meghan M.

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Deloitte Report: Technology Is Changing All the Rules

TLNT: The Business of HR

Deloitte’s annual human capital report was just published. I look forward to this one every year because it’s backed by a massive amount of data collection and analysis, it’s easy to read, it always throws at least one curve ball, and there’s a TON of useful information.

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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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Peer-to-Peer Recognition and It’s Effect on Employee Motivation

WorqIQ

Employee motivation is hard to quantify, but our company never shies away from a challenge. As a global business network dedicated to happiness at work, Happy Melly is backed by an 11-person team focused on helping people increase job satisfaction. We live and breathe experimentation, so we take ideas and test drive them on each other. And so in the spirit of our culture of adventure and analysis, a few months ago our founder Jurgen Appelo suggested we see if we could draw any tangible data from

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WHITE COLLAR CANDIDATES: You Hate Behavioral Interviewing, Here's How To Win.

The HR Capitalist

Got a call yesterday for interview prep advice. Great candidate, looking to take the next step with another company. My friend was in the best position he could be in related to the interview - he has direct experience working with the technology required and he was a external referral of the PERSON BEING PROMOTED OUT OF THE ROLE. There's just this one little problem.

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What Uber Has to Teach Us About Company Culture

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s been a challenging few weeks for Uber to say the least. Uber is receiving criticism and close internal and public scrutiny after a former engineer, Susan Fowler, recounted her negative experience working at Uber. To make matters worse, just last week an Uber driver released a dashcam video of a hostile exchange with Uber’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, and a senior exec left the company after it was discovered that he did not disclose a prior sexual harassment claim against him.

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The Perks of Dogs in the Workplace

Criteria Corp

More and more companies are becoming dog-friendly, and with good reason! According to a survey of over 1,000 employees at dog-friendly offices, 88% agreed that having dogs at work improved employee morale. The majority also agreed that the dogs improved their sense of well-being, reduced stress, created a greater work life balance, increased productivity, and made them feel more loyal to the company.

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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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Vice President (VP) of Marketing job description

Workable

This Vice President (VP) of Marketing job description template is optimized with essential skills and qualifications to help you attract experienced candidates. Feel free to add specific job duties to meet your company’s needs. Vice President (VP) of Marketing Responsibilities include: Developing and implementing a cohesive marketing plan to increase brand awareness.

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Attract & Retain: How to Become an Employer of Choice with Benefits

Benefitfocus

When it comes to talent management, there’s no question a war is going on, and it’s only intensifying. Achieving status as an “employer of choice” is the holy grail for employers. But what does it take?

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Tailoring Benefits to Different Generations of Workers

Workology

If you’re like most employers these days, your workforce is comprised of four distinct generations whose ages are separated by as many as 50 years. On the plus side, that diversity provides a wealth of expertise and talent to enrich the organization. But it also poses management challenges, high among them the need to ensure […].

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Compensation Linked To Performance, Feedback, and Engagement

WorkTech

Compensation Practices Driving Cultural Shifts In Performance Management Explored In New #HRWins eBook. Free eBook Download. A lot has been said about the shift from annual performance reviews and employee engagement measurement to more frequent surveys. I’ve even come across some employers considering completely throwing away these processes. “Nobody likes performance appraisals or long surveys.

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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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SEO Manager job description

Workable

This SEO Manager job description template is optimized for posting to online job boards or careers pages and easy to customize for your company. Similar job titles include SEO Analyst , Strategist , Specialist and Consultant. SEO Manager Responsibilities. Include: Developing and implementing effective search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. Coordinating content, design, social media, pay-per-click (PPC) marketing and other activities.

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What to Include in Your Startup Checklist

Paychex

While most businesses have a unique selling point, all startups should follow a similar checklist to help ensure that they are ready to open for business and positioned for success. Read about some starting points for your checklist.

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On Being an Adult Student

Laurie Ruettimann

There are two types of people in this world: 1. People who like to learn new things. 2. People who don’t. I fall into the second category. It’s hard for me to learn new things. I’m not a good student , and I don’t have the attention span or the desire to sit through a lesson and admit that I’m a beginner. So, keeping that in mind, I’m enrolled in a bunch of new courses.