Linkedin Talent Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

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. The 50 Best Places to Work in 2017, According to Employees -- by Rachel Gillett. 2. 4 Things Successful Leaders Need To Know About Their Own LinkedIn Profile -- by David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom. 3.

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HR Bartender

DECEMBER 9, 2016

We’ve written before about the shift to a candidate’s job market. Recruiting the best talent continues to be tough. But just because recruiting is a challenge doesn’t mean that organizations should be lax in their hiring practices. In fact, one could argue it’s a case for strengthening them. Case in point: According to the 2016 HireRight Employment Screening Benchmark Report , eighty-eight percent (88%) of companies surveyed uncovered a lie or misrepresentation on a resume that they wouldn’t hav

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EmployeeConnect

DECEMBER 9, 2016

In this modern world, anyone would know that in order to get from A to B you’ll need a set of clearly defined goals. Why? Because goals are basically a list of “what to do’s” to get you to where you want to be. Goals are generally easy to write because people know exactly what they want and they know it’ll only involve doing one or two things to get it.

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Hppy

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I am not a fan of benchmarking. The practice of picking “best in class” and trying to copy what they do (a “best practice”) in hopes that whatever benefits they realize will fall to you is a risky business. Here are a few questions I have for those who choose to “follow the leader” Who decides who is best in class?

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Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Businesses pursuing the best and brightest will have to ditch the old-school hiring playbook. Today's tech stars are all about experiential learning -- and they expect companies to keep up.

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Laurie Ruettimann

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I’m picky about my music, and every song has a shelf-life with me. While there are a few songs that will always remain listenable, most music expires after I hear it more than a couple of dozen times. My feelings apply to my favorite genres: new wave, punk, and industrial. It also applies to Christmas music. I don’t want a lot for Christmas.

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TalentCulture

DECEMBER 9, 2016

High turnover is an ongoing concern for companies around the world. The expense can be particularly worrisome for SMEs, though regardless of business size, the negative effects of turnover stretch far further than recruitment costs. Turnover rates can impact employee engagement, workplace morale, overall performance, and company-wide productivity. With this knowledge, it is pertinent that employers make the right decisions when it comes to recruitment.

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Ceridian

DECEMBER 9, 2016

By Jay Greaves, VP of Sales Effectiveness, Ceridian. “Congratulations on your promotion!” “We’ve decided to expand your region and give you a bigger team.” “Welcome to the board!” Those are all great things that I’ve heard in my professional career and community work. I’m sure you can quickly think of some great messages of your own. Those are words we all like to hear.

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TalentCulture

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Most of us try to live well but fall short of our goals. A recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found less than three percent of us have a “healthy lifestyle”—despite the fact that a vast majority of us are on a quest for personal wellness. But wellness takes a lifestyle change, and time spent at work can either help or hinder. As more companies realize that a happy and healthy employee is better for business, they’re looking for ways to develop a workplace culture of health.

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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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TLNT: The Business of HR

DECEMBER 9, 2016

What’s the condition of your organization’s culture? Every organization has one. From a small business to a multi-national, it’s got a culture. From a team to a department to a division to a region to a country, it’s got a culture.

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HR Morning

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Recent research into individuals’ financial resolutions for 2017 can tell you whether your financial wellness initiatives are giving employees what they want. It can also tell you whether to expect employees to increase their retirement contributions next year. . Personal finance company LendEDU recently asked 1,001 Americans about their financial goals for 2017, as well as what their biggest concerns are.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Change is never easy. Change and transition is a bumpy process. But why is change so hard? Change is hard because it is an emotional experience for most. An emotional experience, particularly an experience one often has little choice in being part of, creates resistance. Resistance is a natural emotion, though an emotion that can make change even harder.

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HR Zone

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Employees. Feedback: the gift that keeps on giving.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Editor's Note: Being a lemming is never the way to career success in rewards (or any field, I suspect), but it can be particularly perilous when it comes to programs and practices outside the U.S. Jacque Vilet schools us, in this Classic post. Benefits outside the U.S. are the most complicated thing an international HR person has to learn. Each country has its own mandated, or government required, social plans healthcare, "death" benefits, retirement, etc.

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HR Zone

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Culture. Bad hires, emotional culture and payroll pet hates.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2016

A reader writes: I’ve recently gotten a job at a nice company and everything’s great, except this upcoming Christmas there’s a holiday party and, well, truthfully I don’t want to attend. It’s not because I dislike any of the people there. I’m just not really a social animal and I don’t really enjoy those sorts of events.

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Jostle

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Toxicity at work can stem from many sources, including bullying managers, cliquey colleagues or company protocol. It leads to employee unhappiness, low morale, and poor productivity. In this week's Five for Friday we look at how to spot a toxic influence at work and ways to prevent or overcome it.

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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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TLNT: The Business of HR

DECEMBER 9, 2016

With Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn now complete, hints of what the future holds for the business networking site are beginning to emerge.

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HR Morning

DECEMBER 9, 2016

It starts out as a simple challenge: Companies need a way to track employee attendance. . From there, employees need a clear set of rules that outline their obligations. But strict attendance policies often run headlong into the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Latest example: The EEOC charged Illinois-based packing company Pactiv LLC with disability discrimination following an investigation that revealed the company, following its policy, charged workers with “attendance points” for med

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HR Zone

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Culture. Why businesses need lessons in love.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2016

A housekeeping note: The comment section on this site has worked really well for a long time, but as the readership has grown, the light-touch moderation approach I’ve used in the past isn’t working as well now. The rules are still what they’ve always been — assume good will even when people’s opinions differ from yours, don’t nitpick other people’s wording, don’t take threads way off-topic in ways that aren’t constructive for the letter-writ

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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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HR Daily Advisor

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Did you know that the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has initiated a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)? If you’re not already in the know about this, it may seem like an unlikely event, given that the two organizations are typically on the same side in matters related to employee rights. Let’s take a look at what led up to this lawsuit.

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Advos

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Happy Friday. Each week, with the help of HRmarketer Insight software , our researchers compile a sampling of mergers & acquisition, funding and partnership announcements from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. Sign-up for our weekly What’s Hot in HR newsletter to get these weekly updates via email. M&A.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Remember the letter-writer last year who had racked up $20,000 in personal charges on his company credit card and was in a horrible cycle of using the card to take Paypal cash advances to pay it off each month, thus moving it to the next month, along with interest charges? He updated once a few months later, and here’s the latest update. Hi all, just thought I’d give you an update a year later… I have repaid Amex in full and with the habit of saving firmly established, I have

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In Full Bloom HR

DECEMBER 9, 2016

[ Chapter I , Chapter II, and Chapter III in case you missed them.]. It certainly felt like several hours had passed, but in fact it was only twenty minutes before DCI Fritz of the Peterborough CID arrived, followed shortly by his forensics, coroner and crime scene crew (collectively referred to as SOC). After asking Zelda if she would bear with him for a while before he interviewed her, if she’d like a cup of tea and perhaps to wait in the cafeteria, and accepting her thanks for the tea

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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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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2016

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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Compensation Today

DECEMBER 9, 2016

HR professionals nationwide are still reeling from the recent injunction against the Department of Labor’s overtime rule, which had it gone through, would have required companies to compensate all salaried exempt workers a minimum of $47,476 by December 1 st. While the news has been dominated by the implications of the injunction, let’s not forget about legislative changes to minimum wage that are happening at the state and local level.

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Paychex

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Get a short primer on payroll taxes, including employer responsibilities and what employees must pay.

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