Wed.Apr 03, 2019

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Building Organizations Worthy of Our People #WorkHuman 2019

Women of HR

I recently had the honor and privilege of attending the Workhuman conference for my fourth year in a row. That’s four out of five years for me. I missed the first year, but only because I didn’t know about the event until it was already happening. However, once I stumbled across it I followed along closely, and made sure I was at the next one. Since then it has quickly become an event I very much look forward to each year.

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Adult Learning and Training Workshops – It’s Not an Oxymoron

The People Equation

Adults like to learn. No, really, it’s true. If you’re skeptical of this statement, it’s most likely because you’ve shown up to facilitate a training session and felt like you’ve walked into some sort of hostile takeover situation. There is a way to help turn things around: respect your learner’s adult-ness. By doing this, you will diffuse much of your learners’ dysfunctional behaviors.

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Improve Employee Motivation with Generation Z | Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

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3 Reasons Conversational Technology Should Be on Your Radar

HRExecutive

Full disclosure: When I’m not on the road attending an HR event, I probably speak to Amazon’s Alexa at home more than just about all the people I know. I ask her when my next meeting is, how long it will take me to drive somewhere, to play the “HR Happy Hour Show” and lots more. And that is not even mentioning at all the “non-work” interactions I have with Alexa—including getting the weather forecast, playing music and reading the news headlines of the day.

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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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Career Confessions of Gen Z: Busting Common Misconceptions

The Tim Sackett Project

Tim Sackett released a tweet last week about a Gen Z coworker not knowing what Kinko’s was. That coworker was me — GUILTY! I have to admit, maybe my lack of awareness of Kinko’s is due to my age, or maybe it’s due to the fact that I grew up in a very small, rural town and the closest office supplies/copy center was a Staples a few towns over.

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Career Confessions of Gen Z | The Power of Seeing – B-roll!

The Tim Sackett Project

Hello everyone! Thank you for joining me on this Gen Z journey. In the last episode, I talked about what verbal and spoken content can do for your recruiting methods, but I think it’s just one side of things to simply hear what a job is like. It takes it to a whole other level when you can visually capture what the processes of a job are like.

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6 Small Business Tax Deductions To Remember

Justworks

When it comes time to file taxes, many small businesses scramble to make sure that they have all their paperwork in place to minimize their tax liability. But even if the small business has all of their paperwork squared away, many times, they don’t realize there are certain small business tax write-offs that can help to minimize what they owe. Small Business Tax Write-Offs.

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Avoid These ACA Filing Errors to Prevent Getting IRS Letter 226J Year After Year

ACA Times

5 minute read: They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. We’ve seen many employers repeatedly make the same mistakes in their annual ACA filing submissions with the IRS. This is resulting in these employers receiving consecutive IRS Letter 226J penalty assessments for the 2015 and 2016 tax years. If these employers don’t make any changes to their ACA compliance process, these employers can expect the receipt of an ACA penalty notice from the IRS to beco

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Meet Kazoo

Kazoo

Exciting News for YouEarnedIt and HighGround. In July, when YouEarnedIt acquired HighGround, we knew big things would be in store for our combined organization. As part of our continued commitment to pushing the boundaries in HR technology, we’ve been working tirelessly over the past few months to create an unparalleled, integrated people management solution.

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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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More Jurisdictions Are Banning Salary-History Inquiries

SHRM Resources

To address the gender pay gap, a number of states and localities have prohibited employers from asking about job applicants' salary history. Here's how these laws are affecting HR professionals around the country.

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Ep 175 – Where to Get Started with Recruitment Marketing?

Workology

I am what many people call a trailblazer especially in the area of what is now referred to as digital recruiting and/or recruitment marketing. In 2001, when I first started in HR and recruiting, I. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. I am what many people call a trailblazer especially in the area of what is now referred to as digital recruiting and/or recruitment marketing.

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12 Trends Changing the Corporate Training Landscape in 2019

Take It Personel-ly

With the need to remain competitive, the need for training to adopt various professional developments in the market is high now more than ever. Corporate training programs have earned much popularity in improving employers ability to understand the needs of employees and recognize talent. Additionally, they impart learners with skills and knowledge to propel companies […].

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Nontraditional Ways to Gain STEM Skills

EverFi - HR

Traditional classroom teaching is a staple of education and for good reason: it works! That said, there’s an entire world of nontraditional STEM education and innovation out there. Why not branch out a little? We all like to be a little set in our ways, but our students greatly appreciate participating in STEM skills education in nontraditional ways.

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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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The ROI of Compassion #SHRM19

SHRM

As HR professionals we often speak about the importance of being “human”, dare I say “humane” to one another? This said, these conversations regarding so called soft skills are often the elephant in the room. How can our profession be taken seriously if we advocate for kindness, which is often considered to be a “nice to have” competency that doesn’t really add to the bottom-line?

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The ROI of Compassion #SHRM19

The SHRM Blog

As HR professionals we often speak about the importance of being “human”, dare I say “humane” to one another? This said, these conversations regarding so called soft skills are often the elephant in the room. How can our profession be taken seriously if we advocate for kindness, which is often considered to be a “nice to have” competency that doesn’t really add to the bottom-line?

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my boss brings her dog to work and he pees by my desk

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am lucky enough to have a job that I don’t hate and that pays well, and I’ve had it for about a year. Our office is dog-friendly, and my boss Christie brings in her dog, Ricky, once or twice a week. Let me start by saying that I have never owned or lived with a dog, and my parents are both very allergic (somehow the gene skipped me, I guess).

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SSN No-Match Letters Return

SHRM Resources

After seven-year hiatus, Social Security Administration is again notifying employers when W-2 records don’t match employee Social Security numbers.

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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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6 crucial collaboration skills (and how to foster them)

Jostle

Collaboration is all about bringing people together from different departments, locations, and teams, then focusing their efforts on a common goal. But it can’t happen unless everyone’s on the same page, skill-wise. Collaboration is a process , but collaborating well is a skill that’s honed over time.

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4 Recruitment Strategies to Attract, Engage, and Inform Candidates

ViziRecruiter

Hiring the right employees is integral for the success of your business. While a strong hiring process is one of the most important parts of running a business, establishing a hiring process that works can be challenging. With today’s hiring market now driven by candidates, it is time to improve your process in order to stand out from the competition. 1.

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If your company training program instilling the right attitude?

HRNasty

Is your company training setting the right work ethic? Is your company training program instilling a 9-5 work ethic and nothing more? I would suggest that a number of company training programs are not pushing new hires fast enough. I especially believe this is the case in a few areas: Training recent graduates Manager new to management who is training new hires Training programs that have not been updated Do you have new employees who leave as soon as the clock ticks 5:00 PM?

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Take Your Time Management Skills To The Next Level

Forbes Coaches Council

Managing your time is the basic level of ensuring that you'll complete tasks, but energy management can help you complete tasks more efficiently.

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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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5 Ways an LMS Can Boost Compliance and non-Compliance Training

SumTotal

Successful compliance training is all about process and result. The operation must be airtight so that employees complete the learning within any mandated time frame and all records are accurate and easily accessible. While the consequences of non-compliance vary, typically they amount to a serious problem for your business. To avoid such consequences organisations must utilise a reliable and future-ready learning management system (LMS) to ensure their compliance training achieves the desired o

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my boss thinks I’m his graphic designer, how to salvage my reputation at an internship, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss thinks I’m his graphic designer. I’ve been working at this chocolate shop for about six months now. It’s pretty slow and easygoing so I have a lot of free time. I remember the owner asking during the interview what I do for fun, and one of the answers I gave was drawing. He got really excited for some reason.

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People Managers:The Antidote to Employee Burnout

BetterUp

As employee burnout continues to rise in the workplace, many HR leaders are asking themselves: how do we stop it? According to a recent Gallup study , two-thirds of full-time workers are experiencing burnout on the job. The impact is considerable and costly, for both employees and businesses. . Employee burnout is hurting companies, from high turnover and absenteeism to a loss in productivity and quality of work.

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Dozens of Apps on Microsoft Store Displaying Adult, Gambling Content

Symantec

Symantec found 81 deceptive PUAs displaying pornographic and gambling content.

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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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Why Qualtrics – Daniel Rosen – Account Executive – Sydney, Australia

Qualtrics HR

So tell us a little bit about your ‘why’? I enjoy the challenge of going through the sales cycle where everything I do, everything I say and the way I say it makes a difference. How does Qualtrics connect with your ‘why’? The variety of the role, learning about different industries, organisations, and people. Having the opportunity to earn great money and with that money live the lifestyle I choose.

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Integrating Academics into PE Games for Elementary Students

EverFi - HR

Young children learn holistically, meaning they make connections by combining content with creativity. Thinking, language, academics, reasoning, and imagination are all strengthened through active play–which is why the gymnasium might just be the best place to reinforce how fractions work or to practice spelling vocabulary words. Integrating academic content into PE games for elementary students may help clarify and strengthen core concepts.

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To Podcast Or Not To Podcast: Five Lessons When First Starting Out As A Host

Forbes Coaches Council

Hosting a podcast may or may not necessarily bring fame and fortune to you or your business, but it will certainly lead to doors opening that you never imagined and new friends and professional relationships.

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