Advos
JUNE 10, 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.
HR Morning
JUNE 10, 2016
The recruitment process can be arduous for both employers and candidates. From sourcing candidates to tracking current applicants and ultimately hiring the ideal candidate, an ATS will reduce the time and expense of hiring new employees for both HR departments as well as recruiting and staffing agencies. There are hundreds of ATS solutions currently on the market, with different solutions for organizations of different sizes, industries and hiring models.
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HR Bartender
JUNE 10, 2016
An essential element to well-being is wellness. There is a difference. Wellness focuses on our physical health. Because when we feel good, we do our best work. Some of the ways we take care of our physical health include posture, nutrition, exercise, and sleep. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, most adults need 7 – 8 hours of sleep each night.
Linkedin Talent Blog
JUNE 10, 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. 10 Red Flags Not to Hire That Promising Candidate -- by Jessia Stillman. 2. How to Hire for Team Skills -- by Lou Adler. 3.
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Trinet
JUNE 10, 2016
This post was written in collaboration with TriNet Regional Vice President of Sales Jim Blackie. If you ask for money, you’ll get advice. But if you ask for advice, you’ll get money twice. This. Visit site for full story.
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RecognizeThis!
JUNE 10, 2016
By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – A strategy that includes evidence-based business cases and ground-up moments of positivity can help shift companies away from leaders who manage through fear or pressure. Of the recent webinars that I’ve given and attended, there is almost always the inevitable question from someone in the audience: “how can an organization become more positive when leaders there believe that the best way to motivate people is through pressure or fear?”.
Hppy
JUNE 10, 2016
Ready for another round of inspiring #FridayFinds? This week’s finds are focusing on leadership styles, company vision and values and management tactics. Here’s what caught our attention this week: MIT for Managers: Lessons in Effective Leadership Styles. Part of the series by the MIT Leadership Center, under the direction of Deborah Ancona, the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, and a professor of organization studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, this video talks about the n
HR Morning
JUNE 10, 2016
If you’re telling new hires that your dress policy is “business casual,” you can bet they’ll do three things before they show up for work the next day. . They are: Google “business casual” Then, after reading too much confusing and contradictory advice online, they’ll call a friend to ask “Hey Mike, what the heck is business casual?
HR Daily Advisor
JUNE 10, 2016
Teambuilding exercises, if done right , can help bring your employees closer together; creating a more unified front! And for all you James Bond fans, a new program has caught the attention of Fortune 500 companies with its unique approach. The program helps companies train and motivate their employees through a series of Secret Agent spy games. It starts by kidnapping your company’s boss!
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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
JUNE 10, 2016
Company perks are a fashionable trend among small business employers, but taking time to craft a deliberate strategy about what to offer may actually pay off with greater employee creativity and productivity.
Total Employee Recognition
JUNE 10, 2016
Improving Safety Through Employee Engagement. Building a safe work environment is a challenge for any company. But, perhaps even more challenging, is the ability to maintain that safety over the long-term. Many companies struggle with how to best keep workers and customers safe. And with so many statistics and opinions out there, it can be hard to determine the right solutions for your environment.
TalentCulture
JUNE 10, 2016
In this Corner Office article, Cyndy Trivella, Events Manager with TalentCulture, spoke with Brian Carter, Founder and CEO of The Carter Group and Co-author of the best-selling book The Cowbell Principle. Brian is one of the most innovative people in business, and a marketing and branding genius. He went from a state of unemployment to building one of the biggest and most successful non-traditional agencies in the social marketing space.
The Employer Handbook
JUNE 10, 2016
Eric not pictured (probably off blogging somewhere). And, I already ruined this post with a sports metaphor. Dammit ! Let me introduce you to my wife, Carly. I love her. Our kids love her. Olaf loves her. Goats love her. Not sure about this rooster, though. When she’s not designing #1 Teacher displays (I was busy blogging), taking all four of kids to the Phillies game by herself (I was working late), or busy finding our youngest daughter’s sneakers after she decides to put them away
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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.
TalentCulture
JUNE 10, 2016
I was browsing the short-term rental site airbnb.com the other day when a pop-up informed me that the owner of one of the properties was a friend of friend! It was surprising, but then again, I wasn’t surprised. Why? Because privacy is dead. In the era of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, data mining, and company-specific chat rooms and social media, just about everything we say or do becomes public record at some point in time.
The Employer Handbook
JUNE 10, 2016
Eric not pictured (probably off blogging somewhere). And, I already ruined this post with a sports metaphor. Dammit ! Let me introduce you to my wife, Carly. I love her. Our kids love her. Olaf loves her. Goats love her. Not sure about this rooster, though. When she’s not designing #1 Teacher displays (I was busy blogging), taking all four of kids to the Phillies game by herself (I was working late), or busy finding our youngest daughter’s sneakers after she decides to put them away
TalentCulture
JUNE 10, 2016
In the world of Human Resources, professional development, networking and relationship-building are not just nice-to-have; they are must-haves. Luckily, conference attendance is a solid way to maintain these important connections. With the workforce and workplace changing rapidly, regular conference attendance informs attendees about the latest trends and best practices, which are vital for career growth.
Steve Boese
JUNE 10, 2016
Job openings as tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the JOLTS report hit an all-time record high of 5.8 million in April 2016. And what I suppose could be considered a kind of perfect storm for recruiting, at the same time as job openings are at a record level, the average time it takes to fill an opening has also never been higher. Check the chart below from the latest DHI Group report, the DHI-DFH National Mean Vacancy Duration , which has been tracking average time to fill for about
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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?
HR Morning
JUNE 10, 2016
The problem with managing people is that managers are people, too. And managers do just as much dumb stuff as their employees do. . Andrew Saunders, writing on the U.K.-based website Management Today , recently compiled a list of the kind of behaviors managers fall into — usually unknowingly — that drive their employees nuts and hamstring productivity.
TalentCulture
JUNE 10, 2016
Recruitment data’s importance is continuing to grow for strategic workforce planning, specifically when considering the growing number of young workers joining the labor pool. With millennials becoming the majority of today’s applicants, and expected to make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2025, it’s clear that businesses need to attract young talent to survive.
HR Morning
JUNE 10, 2016
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. . This time, it’s with “ban the box” laws. The intent of such laws, which have been adopted by nearly 100 cities and nearly two dozen states, is clear: provide individuals with criminal records a better chance of reentering the workforce. After all, if employers can’t ask a job candidate about his or her criminal history until much later in the hiring process, the chances of the employer not putting much weight on the indi
Laurie Ruettimann
JUNE 10, 2016
Last November, I went to Havana with a bunch of HR professionals. We had an excursion to the National Museum of Fine Arts , which houses an impressive collection of Cuban art. Lots of good stuff in there. If you’re in Havana, check it out. I wasn’t there long enough to truly appreciate the accumulation of Cuba’s greatest artworks , but I enjoyed the tour.
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.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 10, 2016
Two Christmases ago, in a round-up of weird office holiday stories, a reader shared a story of her boss giving each of her coworkers at a holiday lunch a $100 gift card and pointedly leaving her out. The story made it into this compilation of workplace holiday disasters. Now, we have an update! Well… Today was her last day. Her assistant went around earlier this week, collecting money for a gift. 50 bucks each!
HRNasty
JUNE 10, 2016
Career epiphany If you have a career epiphany, you want to share it and that is exactly what happened. A reader of this blog just let me know about her career epiphany (while reading this blog) and I had to share it with the group. Career: an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life […] The post Career epiphany and why relationships at work make a difference appeared first on by HRNasty, HR gone rogue.
Evil HR Lady
JUNE 10, 2016
One of my friends asked me for some help. She works for a small accounting firm that has had a run of bad hires. Everything looks great on the resume and in the interview, but then the person doesn’t work out, for one reason or another. They haven’t had to fire the new hires, they’ve quit, but it’s becoming a huge problem. Her business isn’t the only business to run into this.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 10, 2016
It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. I feel weird about turning down jobs and interviews. I have had several situations arise lately where I ended up withdrawing from the interview process after I developed concerns about the position or company. Each time, I don’t think I handled it well. The first was with a small, family-owned insurance company.
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.
TLNT: The Business of HR
JUNE 10, 2016
There’s no greater disservice to employees than trying to sell them a piece of fiction about the nature of their relationship with their employer.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 10, 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 :).
TLNT: The Business of HR
JUNE 10, 2016
On the most basic level, change is a choice. Many leaders don’t see it that way. They declare employees must follow the system, as doing so is their job. Technically correct, but these leaders fundamentally miss the heart of the matter: Each person is free to choose how he or she uses the system.
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