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Is It Okay to Contact a Job Candidate Via Their Work Email – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

In today’s tough recruiting market, organizations are looking for every way possible to find qualified job candidates. Today’s reader note asks a straightforward question about doing that. Hi Sharlyn! Can I get your advice? Is it inappropriate to email a potential job candidate at the work email address? Instead of me just offering my opinion in answering this question, I wanted to bring you some differing thoughts.

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How to Evaluate Resume Employment Gaps

SHRM Resources

Many recruiters consider significant employment gaps on a job candidate’s resume to be a bad sign. While a consistent work history is associated with reliability and trustworthiness, periods of unemployment carry a negative stigma.

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50 Must-Have Questions for Your Employee Feedback Survey

TinyPulse

If you want to measure your workplace and find out the underlying issues plaguing your workers, you turn to employee surveys, right? 81% of organizations do, according to a report by HRZone. But before you jump the gun, you need to be deliberate with your question choices. The wrong word choice or a confrontational tone can be off-putting for employees and even push them away from answering the question.

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Become a Better Manager by Improving Your Attitude

6Q

Anyone can easily become a better manager, simply by changing attitude and becoming more positive about things. This article explains. Think back to the last time your company faced a major setback. Likely, with it there was a great deal of stress among your entire team, and a lot of pressure on you. These situations are inevitable in a work environment, but it doesn’t have to be negative and bring the entire team down.

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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 Your Employees Setting Strong And Effective Goals?

Engagedly

Isn’t ‘Employee Goals’ the new buzzword these days? If you ask anyone in your organization if they have goals, they’d say yes. But do you think that these goals are effective enough for your organization to achieve success? […].

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Technology Companies Are Looking Abroad for Talent

SHRM Resources

?Overseas expansion is high on the agenda for U.S. technology companies, according to a new survey report.Eighty-five percent of tech firms in the U.S. said they have plans to expand into new markets soon, according to research conducted by survey firm Censuswide for the international employment solutions company Velocity Global. Currently, 54 percent of the 500 companies surveyed said they operate in the U.S. only, but this is expected to fall to just 22 percent by the end of 2019.Almost half (

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How HR and Internal Communications Can Collaborate to Drive Amazing Employee Engagement 

SocialChorus

Is it possible for internal communicators to achieve effective internal communication with HR ? . We all know IC and HR teams have traditionally been siloed, and businesses suffer as a result. According to Gallup , 70% of employees are not engaged. Meanwhile, organizations that do improve employee communications can increase productivity by 20-25%.

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Launching the Powerful Deep Learning Resume Parsing Module

RChilli

Building a resume parser is not an easy job. It is the result of using the right technologies in the right way. After putting in years of hard work and doing research in NLP, machine learning, and AI, RChilli feels proud to introduce its deep learning resume parsing module.

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How to Improve Employee Productivity and Accountability

TalentLyft

Are your team members missing deadlines? Or maybe there’s an attitude of apathy toward work among your employees? Learn 3 proven ways to encourage and improve employee productivity and accountability ! Read More.

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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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Arise !!

Everyday People

As an HR professional, you’re in one of the most emotionally demanding professions around. That’s the case because you are bombarded by the various emotions of every person you encounter throughout your day. This isn’t bad. It’s just a fact. The result of this is that HR pros are flat worn out. This is the type of tired that goes to your bones.

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7 Reasons Why Your Business Should Use Performance Management Software

GroSum

The process of performance management is integral to the success of any company. It increases the enthusiasm to work and aligns efforts to achieve the overall goal. A proficient performance management process increases the productivity of employees and has a positive impact on the bottom line. Traditional paper-based review procedures tend to be inefficient and […].

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How To Get Employees On Board With Organizational And Cultural Change

HR C-Suite

Organizational change is never easy. It takes time, effort, resources and a lot of patience. The fact is, when faced with change, employees can become resistant. They can become frustrated. They can become angry. Even though we all know change is good and healthy — in our private lives and our professional lives — so […].

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The 5 W’s Of Customer Marketing

New to HR

One of the most common rules of content generation is to address any situation using the 5W’s and the H, aka the reporter’s technique, to create a clear and informative article. Indeed, these questions are the 6 most important questions. The post The 5 W’s Of Customer Marketing appeared first on New To HR.

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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 Leadership Can't Be All About You

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Why is leadership still being celebrated as the heroic work of the solo executive? Are you a leader guilty of the same faulty mindset--and falling behind the curve of the network age?

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How to Block Email Tracking and Maintain Your Privacy

G2 Crowd

“Hey there, I saw you opened my email and figured I’d follow up.”.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide To Building A Personal Brand

Forbes Leadership Strategy

An entrepreneur's personal brand is their company's asset, which creates exciting opportunities for the company and the individual. Like any company asset, it needs its own business plan, with goals, investment and support.

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did I send too many follow-up emails, I’m worried about working with a childhood friend, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Did I annoy this employer with too many follow-up emails? I recently applied for what is essentially my dream job and got an automated response saying that all applications would receive a reply, whether positive or negative. A week and a half later, I sent a follow-up email, saying that I understood that the application deadline was still a week away but that I wanted to restate my interest in the position.

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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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Use This Improvisation Technique To Build Collaboration

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Collaboration has moved from a "nice to have" business philosophy to a "must have" business strategy. Try this technique from improvisational comedy to create an environment of psychological safety in which people choose to collaborate.

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Introducing Workable 2.0 – and the future of hiring

Workable

Cleaner, lighter, contemporary UI. With 15+ major releases in the last twelve months alone, we’ve been adding more and more features to Workable. And you’ve been adding more and richer data — over 75 million candidates and millions of jobs. So we simplified our design elements, typography and layout to make sure you can focus more on what matters to you: your work.

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The Vital Next Step In Fighting Climate Change

Forbes Leadership Strategy

We must create a fully empowered national climate change agency, devoted exclusively to climate change with a mandate to prepare a moonshot.

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Introducing Workable 2.0 – and the future of hiring

Workable

Cleaner, lighter, contemporary UI. With 15+ major releases in the last twelve months alone, we’ve been adding more and more features to Workable. And you’ve been adding more and richer data — over 75 million candidates and millions of jobs. So we simplified our design elements, typography and layout to make sure you can focus more on what matters to you: your work.

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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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Five Excuses Leaders Use To Justify Stifling Innovation

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Leaders understand that their companies need to innovate. So the question becomes why they are not allowing their teams to do it. This article describes the excuses that leaders use to deny their teams time and resources to innovate.

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Field Of Beans – If You Build It…

101 Half Connected Things

Synopsis: Why having values is tricky but, lacking them is far worse. At the weekend someone I respected posted a view on something that I didn’t agree with. I think we broadly want the same outcomes, but they are absolutely adamant that a change should come about that I’m not sure of. They posted it for the world to see and stood squarely behind it as people disagreed.

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Not A Fad, CEO Activism Is Vital

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Nearly fifty years later, CEO activism – a relatively new term – is on the rise and the debate over assuming such responsibilities has intensified.

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A New Study Finds That 26% Of Employees Are Motivated But Dislike Their Company

Forbes Leadership Strategy

A new study, called Disengaged Employees Are More Motivated Than You Think, has discovered that 26% of employees are Motivated But Unhappy. These are people who dislike their company but are still motivated to give 100% effort at work.

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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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6 Vacation Habits That Defend From Future Burnouts

Forbes Leadership Strategy

You may be leaving work objectives behind, but vacation is a great time to prioritize self-care, self-development and family.

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Why Ambition Isn’t A Dirty Word For Women

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Too often, ambitious women are viewed as pushy, selfish and unlikeable. Here's how we can change the narrative.

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The Future Will Be Formulated Using Category Theory

Forbes Leadership Strategy

A new approach to defining and designing systems is coming.

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