Mon.Jan 22, 2018

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How to Future-Proof Your Organization in 2018

Cornerstone On Demand

Reprinted from ERE Media ( www.ere.net ). What does the future of hiring look like at my organization? Who should we be hiring to set ourselves up for long-term success? How are we helping talent get from where they are now to where they want to be? As head of talent acquisition at Cornerstone OnDemand, I've been thinking about these questions lately as we prepare to ring in a new year.

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The Biggest Sleep Study in History Uncovered this Chilling Fact About Us

UpstartHR

Recently I caught a story on Yahoo Finance about the analysis of more than six billion nights of sleep data released from FitBit. We all think about sleep in almost abstract terms–I sleep or I don’t, I’m sleepy or I’m not, etc. But this has a real, tangible effect on how we operate as humans and how we perform at work, at home, and elsewhere.

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How to avoid the costs of disengaged employees

PeopleStrategy

According to a Gallup poll , around 85% of employees class themselves as either ‘not engaged’ or ‘actively disengaged’ at work. No wonder employee engagement is a perennial issue. But what does a ‘disengaged’ employee look like? Disengagement can take many forms but some of the most common are: doing just enough to get by (if that), not recommending their employer to others, complaining to teammates and avoiding their manager, and making excuses for their mistakes.

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ITIN, SSN, or EIN Number – What's the Difference?

Justworks

The Internal Revenue Service announced in 2014 that effective immediately, “Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will expire if not used on a federal income tax return for five consecutive years.”. This announcement generated some confusion. People wondered if it means that an individual's Social Security Number (SSN) or a business's Employer Identification Number (EIN) will expire if it is never used.

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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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4 tips for effective change management 

PeopleStrategy

You’ve selected a new HR technology system for your organization and now, a critical time begins. You need to effectively prepare your company to adopt and use this new technology – otherwise, you will not see the highest return on your investment. A conscientious and empathetic approach to change management can help your organization maximize success as you move to a new HR technology system.

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VIDEO HANGOUT THURSDAY - The Psychology of Recruitment: Brain Hacking to Get Agreement.

The HR Capitalist

If you’re a client or follower of Jobvite, you know the Recruiter Nation Live series. It started with the Recruiter Nation Live Conference in San Francisco last June, and continued with the Recruiter Nation Live Roadshow that brought real recruiter talk to 9 cities in North America over the last three months of 2017. The feedback was great – you loved it, so we’re back with the latest in the series – the Recruiter Nation Live Hangout Series, hosted by Fistful of Talent and me.

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ACA Health Insurance Marketplace May Stabilize In 2018

ACA Times

It’s been a tumultuous year for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). From insurers withdrawing from providing health insurance on government exchanges to spiking premiums in the face of financial losses to Congressional legislation to repeal parts of the ACA, 2017 was a crossroads of sorts for the fate of the health insurance marketplace. Several counties scattered across the country were reporting little to no options for coverage on the Marketplace as insurers only migrated to regions of guaranteed

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Don’t Become a Failed Growth Statistic: Update Your Talent Acquisition for Success

Spark Hire

Two-thirds of the fastest growing companies fail. This statistic from the Kauffman Foundation’s report should startle you. With a high rate of failure, even your rapidly growing company could be at risk. Before you decide if it’s in jeopardy, it’s important to understand what factors are sending failure numbers through the roof. The most detrimental issue is the inability to reach a point of self-sustainment.

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handling the government shutdown: an open thread for federal employees and contractors

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a longtime lurker. I’m hoping you would be willing to host an open thread for federal employees and federal contractors on handling the government shutdown. No politics allowed of course. Mostly a place to share information and lessons learned from 2013 and instructions for this one. I’ve been told that I’ll go the office for 3-4 hours Monday to shut everything (lights, computers, equipment) 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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A Great Employee Experience Makes For a Great Customer Experience

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every business wants their customers to have a great experience every time they deal with their company – the customer experience (CX) is considered the Holy Grail. Large sums are spent on discovering and implementing the best customer experience possible. Less heralded but arguably no less important though is the employee experience.

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The Agile HR Guide for Human Resources and Recruiting

Workology

In this post, we’ll dig deeper into the basics of Agile principles, how they align to Lean philosophies, and how Agile’s Scrum can help a human resources team manage fundamental shifts in their organizations, teams and technologies—especially when it comes to HR technology adoption. Josh Bersin, HR guru, describes in his newsletter how they asked […] Source.

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Why creating a culture of kindness and gratitude is more important than a discounted gym membership

HR Zone

Culture. Creating a culture of kindness and gratitude.

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This Is How You Write a Job Description That Candidates Will Actually Read

Evil HR Lady

Job descriptions can often blur into one. Companies are constantly looking for a “motivated and self-directed individual” who can “hit the ground running” in an “exciting and fast-paced environment.”. Reading that, you have no idea if they’re talking about a senior-level finance position or a preschool teacher. It’s not like there’s ever a job description that says a business is seeking a “lazy individual” who “will require extensive training” in a “boring and tedious environment.”.

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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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Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro Headphones Review

Take It Personel-ly

Beyerdynamic has an excellent reputation when it comes to headphones. Whether you are looking for headphones for working in a studio or headphones to take with you on your daily commute and around town, beyerdynamic has something to offer you. This is the first in a series of 3 reviews for different beyerdynamic headphones that […].

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The market for enterprise tech is huge - and growing

Steve Boese

The market research company Gartner recently released their projections for Enterprise IT spending (think how much and for what types of technology upon which companies and organizations will spend their IT budgets), and what the Gartner data suggests is really telling and interesting for the HR and HR Technology space. Here's the data from the Gartner press release , then some comments from me after the chart: A few notes and observations from this data, and one thing to think about if you are

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Know your employees’ work languages

HR Daily Advisor

Note from Dan Oswald: A colleague and I, on occasion, discuss various leadership or management approaches. It was more than a year ago when he floated the concept of “work languages” during one of our conversations. I told him that I agreed with his overall premise, as I believe that a leader must understand what drives each person on his or her team.

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#HotInHR: Iceland wants to end its gender pay gap in 5 years. Can the U.S. follow?

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. The 40 Best Workplaces in Technology 2018 – Fortune. These are the best tech companies to work for in 2018 (including HR Tech) sorted into categories of large, and small or medium.

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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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Before You Settle a FLSA Claim Out of Court, Read This

TLNT: The Business of HR

It is widely understood that the vast majority of lawsuits settle before trial. From a company’s perspective, early resolution ensures certainty and limits legal expense, business distraction and – of course – liability. In recent years, corporate counsel have been dealing with a massive increase in wage and hour issues , often in the form of a lawsuit, Department of Labor investigation or an in-house compliance audit.

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Hiring manager-recruiter intake meeting questions

Workable

This guide helps recruiters prepare for intake meetings with hiring managers, including targeted questions that will set the stage for a successful recruitment process. What is an intake meeting? Recruiters hold intake meetings with hiring managers during the initial phase of a recruiting process. During these meetings, recruiters and hiring managers clarify the job title and job duties, set candidate qualification criteria and agree on the hiring stages (e.g. screening calls, assessments tests,

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Importance of Continuous Feedback in Performance Management

SutiHR

The purpose of performance reviews in an organization is to guide and motivate the workforce, along with promoting their growth and achieving business goals. But, in most companies, appraisals take place once in a year, and it is only at this time that the managers and employees discuss and review the previous year’s performance. Employees. The post Importance of Continuous Feedback in Performance Management appeared first on SutiHR.

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can I ask my employees to be nicer?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a new director at a medium-sized nonprofit that has gone through a hard year. There have been many staff changes in the past year, and I can tell that many within the organization are still struggling to negotiate these changes. Two supervisors who report to me are very unfriendly to me. They give one-word responses most of the time.

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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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Latest Trends in HR Management Technology

SutiHR

HR is one of the most important departments of an organization. Monitoring and tracking all employees, managing business resources, and working in close collaboration with administration makes HR a vital department of any business. Today, technological advancements in various business sectors have brought remarkable developments in the HR management world.

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Tips for Empowering Employees

HR Daily Advisor

Ensuring that your employees feel empowered can help them not only to be able to successfully handle everyday quandaries that arise, but also to feel they’re more trusted and valued in the workplace. Empowering employees can have a lot of positive benefits, and it can allow employees to work in ways that are most efficient. It can free up your managers’ time if they’re no longer dealing with day-to-day miscellaneous issues that employees feel they’re able to handle on their own.

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The Top 100 Fortune 500 Employment Brands Report @WilsonHCG

The Tim Sackett Project

RPO provider WilsonHCG released their annual Employment Brands Report for 2018. The report lists the top 100 employment brands based on an algorithm Wilson put together, and they are: #1 – Johnson & Johnson. #2 – Intel. #3 – IBM. #4 – Lockheed Martin. #5 – Proctor & Gamble. #6 – General Motors. #7 – J.P.

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Conducting Individualized Assessment as Part of the Adverse Action Process

Sterling Check

When a company uses a job candidate’s background information to deny employment, they must comply with federal and state laws that protect the applicant from discrimination. One possible outcome of a background screening report is that an employer takes adverse action when choosing to deny employing a candidate based on the findings of the report.

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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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Employee Work/Life Balance and How Small Businesses Can Use to Their Advantage

Acacia HR Solutions

Work and life balance means something different to everyone. Businesses that value work and life balance have a culture where they believe a person’s time outside of work is just as valuable as their time spent at the office. Many companies say their number one goal is work and life balance for their employees but. The post Employee Work/Life Balance and How Small Businesses Can Use to Their Advantage appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.

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Thinking about Jobs of the Future

Teamatics

A couple weeks ago I came across an article that LinkedIn posted regarding data indicating the most promising jobs and in-demand skills for 2018. About this same time my 8th grader was applying for a specialized high school, and having to make some decisions about the specific programs he wanted to enter. While it feels awfully early to me for a 13 year old to have to consider these life setting decisions, I realized we had some pretty interesting data about both the market and my son and could

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How to measure corporate social responsibility in a simple and time-efficient way

HR Zone

Business. How to measure corporate social responsibility.

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