The Tim Sackett Project
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Everyone wants to know the secret to great recruiting. Candidates want to know how to get into companies. Recruiters want to know each other’s secrets to finding great talent. No one seems to be sharing their secrets, so I thought I might as well fill everyone in… Recruiting Secret #5. I haven’t read a cover letter to a resume since 1999.
HR Bartender
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Recently I was having a conversation with a group of new managers about feedback. It was enlightening because the discussion turned to the negative connotation of the word feedback. You know, that feeling when someone says, “I’d like to give you some feedback.” We’re just waiting for the bad news. Then when we want to deliver good feedback, we have a tendency to not even use the word feedback.
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Linkedin Talent Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 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 One Interview Question I Ask Every Potential Hire -- by Moira Forbes. 2. Text-Interviewing — The Next Big Thing In Recruiting?
Hppy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
How often do you think about if your employees are happy with their job? We’re not just talking about the paycheck and various perks they get (though those are important too), but how they genuinely feel about the work they do. There are many types of leaders, but only the best ones are able to grasp the importance of their workers coming to the office ready to actually make a difference.
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PeopleStrategy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
He reached up and touched the screen, but nothing happened. He touched elsewhere on the display and pressed firmly. Still nothing. He looked back at me with a puzzled expression, unsure of how to proceed. This scenario played out recently as I watched my toddler, and it reminded me of just how much technology has blended into our everyday lives. In this instance, my son expected the TV to be a touchscreen like every other electronic device he sees his parents use on a daily basis.
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TalentCulture
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
In the age of working social media, Twitter is the water cooler, FaceTime means smile at the phone, Instagram, Pinterest is for eye candy and the closest encounter your team may have is via a networked chat or a Google Hangout. No worries! If we follow the same set of rules for good relationships that have always existed, but translate them into our digital world, we’ll be fine.
HR Zone
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Employees. How to motivate employees, whatever their age.
TLNT: The Business of HR
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
One of the biggest lies we’ve been told in our professional lives is that once you’re successful, you’ll be happy. You work hard, get ahead, make more money and all that is supposed to lead to happiness…right? Wrong. In the last several years, research has shown emphatically that the formula is reversed – happiness leads to success rather than success leading to happiness.
TalentCulture
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Numerous studies have confirmed that employee satisfaction with company culture is positively correlated with business outcomes, such as customer satisfaction, productivity and performance. Executives tend to be overly optimistic about the state of their company culture and employee engagement. Therefore, to make the case for investing in culture, you have to help executives understand your company culture.
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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.
Paychex
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Workplace negativity may cost your business in terms of profits, employee turnover, and lost customers. Here are some ways to get your business back on track.
Evil HR Lady
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Lots of people stink at interviewing. They think it’s important to come up with “interesting” or “out of the box” questions for job candidates. Yeah, well, this is what happens. Here’s my favorite (least favorite?) of the bunch: If you were stuck in an elevator, with no way to get out, and every 30 seconds a 5th grader would fall through a ceiling tile of the elevator that would periodically open, and was programmed to kill you, how long would you last and how
HR Morning
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
In an ideal – if boring – world, employees would show up for work on time every day, exceed standards in their day-to-day duties, get along perfectly with their bosses and co-workers, and follow every company rule. Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world. And that’s where the concept of progressive discipline comes in. . On the surface, the concept of progressive discipline is simple: It’s a structured approach to dealing with workforce problems ranging from poor performance to unacceptable behav
Workology
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Welcome back to the Friday Five! Another week of big news in tech and politics — don’t worry, I’ve kept the election reads to a minimum, since I know we all need a break. This week I’ve largely focused on different kinds of sexism in the workplace, from invasive questions about health, to lack of representation, to unconscious bias.
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HR Zone
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Culture. Cultural fit & tackling racism in the workplace.
Ask a Manager
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Here are five updates from people who had their questions answered here recently. 1. Company wants to have tea with my family as part of an international interview. We did end up having coffee in Tivoli a couple hours after we landed. My kids were enthusiastic and a little overly-rambunctious despite my warnings, but they really enjoyed themselves and I think the “interviewer” enjoyed showing off his favorite things about the park.
Compensation Today
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Hi, my name is Ashley, and I’m an HR conference junkie. I love HR conferences, maybe a little too much. I love being around ‘my people’ nerding out on compensation and proudly letting my comp flag fly. Who doesn’t love getting a little weird on free wine with other like-minded nerds who get more impassioned about range penetration & compa-ratio’s with each glass of chardonnay?
Ask a Manager
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. I have a weird patchwork of responsibilities and feel unqualified for anything else. I don’t know what my job is. Or, more accurately, I don’t know what to tell prospective new employers what my current job is. I work for a nonprofit with almost 100 ‘field’ employees but a very small central office team, fewer than 10.
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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?
TLNT: The Business of HR
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Employment-based immigration isn’t just a recruitment option for U.S. employers. With the growing skills gap, it’s become a necessity to grow and keep operations afloat. And with diametrically opposed candidates campaigning for the White House, it’s apparent that U.S. immigration could change drastically depending on who takes office in January.
Ask a Manager
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
A reader writes: I have been at my current job for seven years now. About six years ago, I almost lost my job because I was making too many mistakes. I made them because I was too busy and didn’t have the time to give full effort to my work. Quite frankly, I was overworked. My boss would get furious with me and wouldn’t speak to me for weeks.
Jostle
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
New research via Deloitte reveals retention and engagement are key concerns for 86% of business leaders. And for good reason. The competition for talent is fierce and the replacement cost of lost skills and knowledge is high. Furthermore, employees are more demanding about lifestyle balance, more informed about compensation, and more discerning about aligning personal and workplace values.
HR Zone
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
People. A Day in the Life of: Kate Wadia.
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.
WeSpire
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
The opening lines of Deborah Frieze’s Tedx Talk, “ How I Became a Localist ” is quite provocative, especially for those of us who aspire to change the world for the better. . She states, “The way we are trying to change the world is not going to work and it’s never going to work.”. In her talk she offers, what she calls, a “radical” theory of change: “You can’t change big systems [meaning healthcare, education, business, government].
HR Zone
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Future. Politician analysis: Boris Johnson.
Ask a Manager
SEPTEMBER 16, 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 :).
Paychex
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Work/life balance is tough for everyone, but busy parents may find it especially challenging to meet the demands at the office and at home.
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.
HR Morning
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
To comply with the new OT regs, you may be considering converting salaried staffers to hourly employees. . The big question: Is there a simple formula that, when OT hours are factored in, will allow them to pay employees the same amount as they were getting before the classification switch? Employment attorney Bill Pokorny, writing on the Wage and Hour Insights blog , offers a painless two-step strategy to do just that.
HRGem
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
I came across this study a few days ago. Research into the impact on employability of being overweight on both men and women. Now as a former Big Girl this caught my interest.
HRExecutive
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Around the world, pay matters most to workers. But other factors that keep them loyal vary quite a lot, a new study finds. And they’re changing as the nature of work evolves. The results are part of the 2016 Global Talent Management and Rewards Survey by Willis Towers Watson. Every other year the company surveys workers around the globe to see what rewards and conditions keep them happy or attract them to new jobs.
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