Wed.Sep 04, 2019

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10 Tips for Successful Flexible Working

HRGem

I talk about flexible working a lot – but normally I’m being asked to deliver training or write policies.

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Robots Aren't Going to Replace Us, But They Will Make Us Change How We Work

Forbes Leadership Strategy

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10 Reasons Humans are Terrible at Hiring (and How AI Can Help)

Lighthouse

Last year, Amazon shuttered an algorithm the team was developing because it realized it was biased. The algorithm was developed by the company’s engineers to look at high-performing employee profiles and then select the right candidates from the firm’s resume database. The problem? The algorithm favored men in its selection process. When this story hit the news, it became a rallying cry for those that do not believe in the value of AI for recruiting and hiring.

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Ask the Attorney: Dress codes, mental health issues and file retention

Business Management Daily

In this edition of Ask the Attorney, our expert employment lawyer tackles readers questions about dress codes, file retention and mental health issues. Are we creating a problem by giving a temp a pass on our dress code? Q: “We have an employee hired through a temporary agency who wore a shirt to work that said “Caliente.” I know this means hot. I think it’s inappropriate for her to wear this shirt in a business setting and if she were an employee, I would probably tell her that.

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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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Your Guide to the HR Organizational Chart and Department Structures

Workology

For a blog post series on Workology to help HR leaders and teams create better job descriptions, we covered the basics of what a job description is and what it’s used for, and put together a set of. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Your Guide to the HR Organizational Chart and Department Structures

Workology

For a blog post series on Workology to help HR leaders and teams create better job descriptions, we covered the basics of what a job description is and what it’s used for, and put together a set of. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How a 401(k) Can Help You Retire Early

Justworks

Retirement can feel like a far-off goal, especially if you’re just beginning your career, balancing student loans, and budgeting day-to-day expenses for the first time. But saving early can mean the difference between living your dream retirement and still dreaming about your retirement when the time finally comes. No matter your age, the subject of retirement often comes up whenever you join an employer who offers a 401(k) plan, which is a tax-advantaged retirement savings plan provided to.

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How the LEGO Group is leading the way in people analytics

Qualtrics HR

Before SAAS was even a thing, Melissa Kantor was working with Silicon Valley startups to implement advanced HR tech platforms. And after a jump across the pond to the UK, she enjoyed stints at some of the world’s largest firms – PWC, BNY Mellon and IBM – delivering huge HR infrastructure projects. In 2015, she moved to financial services firm Prudential Plc to set up their first advanced people analytics function, covering talent management and succession planning as well.

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For Younger Workers, Old-School Pay and Perks Are Not Enough

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Emily He, SVP Product Marketing, HCM Cloud. Millennial and Gen-Z employees want to do well by doing good. When it came to job hunting, people of my parents’ generation—as well as a good chunk of those my own age—saw a competitive salary and medical benefits as the ultimate career package. What else could you possibly want? But for today’s younger job applicants, the mindset is shifting dramatically.

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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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Ignite a Sense of Belonging with Company Traditions Unique to Your Culture

Bob

Starting a new job is a transition that most people prefer to avoid. Welcoming a new hire into your workplace is just as important as making them feel at home for the long haul. Otherwise, they’ll move along and continue to search for a company where they feel free to be themselves and serve a purpose that makes them feel good about their contribution to business success.

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How to handle underperforming employees?

HR Digest

Every manager, at some point in their career, will have to learn to handle underperforming employees. The way you choose to deal with underperforming employees , be it in the form of an employee performance review or a difficult conversation at work, can set the level of team morale and affect the bottom line of your goals. In this post, we’ve listed proven methods to effectively deal with underperforming employees.

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Lunch Break Laws By State

Paycor

Lunch Breaks Aren’t a Requirement for Employers. Most employers provide their employees with a paid or unpaid lunch break and some provide additional rest break periods. But did you know that breaks aren’t required by law? Federal law, anyway. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) , the law that governs wages and hours, does not mandate that employers provide meal or rest breaks to employees.

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How a Conversation with a Monk Got Me Thinking Differently About Business

A Slice of HR

"Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation.” ~ Amadeus Wolfe Have you ever heard that analogy that you should be so clear in your business branding that you would be able to explain it to an alien that suddenly landed here from another planet? I found myself in that situation last weekend. Okay, so no, I didn’t meet an actual alien, or even Thor traveling from another dimension (sadly).Without meaning to sound offensive by using the term “alien,” I did have an extraordinary e

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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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Why Qualtrics – Jason Ong – Enterprise Sales Rep – Singapore

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Jason’s “Why Qualtrics” story. I love to help solve problems for people around me – family, friends, colleagues, customers, partners…even strangers I meet on the street. Nothing beats bringing about a smile on the face of someone in need by offering help.

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Coaching Defined And Transition Tools Coaches Use

Forbes Coaches Council

Ask your coach about the tools and techniques they are trained in and using and which ones they might try with you. You’ll be making a choice to focus on improving your future.

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Nine Successful Female Entrepreneurs Explain How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome

Forbes YEC Women

Even today's top leaders have doubted their abilities at some point. These Young Entrepreneur Council experts share steps for overcoming that doubt.

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Workplace Realities: Recruiting When Your Staff Turnover Exceeds 100%

Robin Schooling

I’ve lived, worked and managed HR in industries where turnover for certain positions and/or departments exceeded 100%. It’s not fun. I recently read this article (“Panera losing nearly all workers in fast-food turnover crisis”) about the increasing challenges in the restaurant industry related to turnover and, I must admit, it induced numerous stress-inducing flashbacks.

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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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What Good is Your Candidate Experience Net Promoter Score®?

Survale HR

If you’re like most companies the answer is not much good. Sorry to be the one to break the news, because I really applaud recruiting leaders for going as far as to obtain and monitor their candidate experience Net Promoter Score (NPS). To illustrate I’d like to ask “what IS your Net Promoter score?” I mean, I know what an NPS is. And you may have a number.

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pranking coworkers by repeatedly falling down, is it bad to ask questions about an assignment, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Friend is pranking coworkers by repeatedly falling down. I was having a chat with my friend the other day, and they told me that they were having fun at work by pretending to fall down in front of coworkers and dropping all their papers as a prank. They seemed to think it was all in good fun because they never let their coworkers in on the fact that it was a prank (although they did actually hurt their wrist doing this).

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Today we Celebrate Recruiters! Happy Global TA Day! #Sept4 #RecruitersRock

The Tim Sackett Project

Global TA Day was started in 2018 by the Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals (ATAP Global) and so today we celebrate the 2nd annual Global TA Day! The idea is that we (recruiters of all types – corporate, agency, RPO, vendors) all need at least one day a year where our hard work and effort is recognized. Today is our day to celebrate the greatest profession in the world!

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my employee is needy and gossipy

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small company that’s very fast-paced. I have two reports in admin roles, Amelia and Molly. They were hired at the same time about five months ago and work in the same office (literally one room — we’re looking for a bigger space) in a different state from me and our main office. They’ve hated each other from week one. Amelia is standoffish and quiet.

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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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Back to School Concerns for Employers

HR Counselor's Corner

by Laura Pokrzywa, HR Consultant, East Coast Risk Management. Now that schools are back in session around the nation, parents and legal guardians may be requesting time off to attend school functions and teacher conferences. If one of your employees is a parent or legal guardian of a school-aged child and they are requesting time off to attend a meeting or event related to that child’s school, ask yourself two questions: 1.

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Ban the Box

Goodhire

Most HR professionals are familiar with the term ban the box, as it’s an issue that’s made national headlines. Less familiar, however, are the complexities of the associated fair chance laws. As the ban-the-box movement gains traction, more and more states are adopting laws that apply to both public and private employers. As a result, compliance is increasingly more challenging, especially for multi-state employers.

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The Key To Carrying Out A Productive And Effective Job Search

Forbes Coaches Council

For starters, don’t waste your time applying to positions that don't actually fit your qualifications and credentials.

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What are Ban the Box Laws? | GoodHire

Goodhire

Most HR professionals are familiar with the term ban the box, as it’s an issue that’s made national headlines. Less familiar, however, are the complexities of the associated fair chance laws. As the ban-the-box movement gains traction, more and more states are adopting laws that apply to both public and private employers.

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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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What “Best Place to Work” Awards Mean to Job Hunters

GetFive

You’re job hunting by the book and doing your due diligence. You explore a potential employer’s website and read every career page on it. You’re intrigued. You continue to the awards and accolades page to learn the company has received a “best places to work” award. Excellent. You decide to apply and hope to experience what all the fuss is about.

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U.K.-based Arctic Shores Raises USD $5.5 Million for Gamified Psychometric Assessments

WorkTech

Looks like the market will have a new neuroscience-driven psychometric assessment to compare to Pymetrics. U.K.-based Arctic Shores’ raised USD $5.5 Million for its gamified psychometric tests for recruitment. Gamification does improve the assessment experience, however, most of the batteries of games still amount to a costly and time consuming endeavor that is normally reserved […].

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Positiveness

DISC Assessments

In today’s minute-to-minute, online social media driven society it’s easy to become trapped in reactive or negative thinking. This week, Dr. Tony Alessandra reveals the HOW behind imbuing positiveness. He explains that genuinely positive people naturally attract others and position themselves for achieving the goals and aspirations they’ve set.