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Beware Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

DailyPay

For the last 50 years, payroll has been a business-as-usual, set-in-stone, mechanical process that takes place on a predictable weekly, biweekly, semimonthly or monthly schedule. Workers, without any savings, who had an emergency or a bill due outside of the normal pay cycle have been forced to endure late and overdraft fees or, even worse, resort to predatory pay loans to handle these circumstances.

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Unfair Performance Reviews Prompt Most Employees to Consider Quitting

Reflektive

Performance reviews are almost universally dreaded, especially if done on an annual basis. Managers and employees alike often find them anxiety-inducing and frustrating, as so much hinges on one conversation. Employees know their careers (including promotions and/or pay raises) depend on the accuracy of their performance reviews, and can react poorly if the review is perceived inaccurate.

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Bringing Your Baby to Work: A New Work Perk

Employment Metrix

The pressure of having a career and a family has become a difficult balancing act for most families. In fact, in 2018, 63 percent of family households with children had two working parents. For that reason, perks for new parents have become an important discussion for most companies. If companies are not able to support working parents and encourage a balance between home and work, they may lose out on a significant portion of the work force.

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Personality Assessments Aren’t Just For Hiring

Caliper

Personality assessments have a reputation for being a hiring tool — something that helps managers to know hiring candidates a little better, and that’s it. But, a good personality assessment provides employers with so much more than a few simple character traits. The Caliper Profile uses scientific data and validated job models to provide insights about an individual’s potential to perform a job, which means employees’ Caliper Profiles are actually something to use throughout their development w

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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WorkTango Makes Reporting Enhancements to Goals & Feedback

Kazoo

Ready for an update? We’re here to help you say “Out with antiquated performance management, and in with a more nimble, insight-driven approach— Employee Success.” Here’s our latest innovation to help you make that happen. Our hardworking Product team has expanded the Insights & Reporting capabilities of our Goals & Feedback solution. We also added two new features: Sync-Up and Calendar Invitations.

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WorkTango Makes Reporting Enhancements to Goals & Feedback

Kazoo

Ready for an update? We’re here to help you say “Out with antiquated performance management, and in with a more nimble, insight-driven approach— Employee Success.” Here’s our latest innovation to help you make that happen. Our hardworking Product team has expanded the Insights & Reporting capabilities of our Goals & Feedback solution. We also added two new features: Sync-Up and Calendar Invitations.

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How Attracting and Retaining Older Employees Can Help Your Business

SHRM Resources

?After 68-year-old Paul Critchlow retired from a successful 30-year career in corporate communications with Merrill Lynch, he had no intention of returning to the workforce. However, when the initial euphoria of being retired wore off, he found himself wondering, "What comes next?""When you retire, it's shocking how fast people forget about you.

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3 Ways Retaining Overqualified Employees Improves Talent Acquisition

Spark Hire

There’s a new crisis in talent acquisition and, for once, it has nothing to do with the skills gap. Actually, it’s just the opposite. Our latest report, The Risks and Rewards of Hiring Overqualified Talent revealed 70.7 percent of hiring pros agree with the statement, “the number of overqualified talent in today’s job market complicates filling entry-level roles.” .

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14 Key Steps New Entrepreneurs Should Take When Starting A Business

Forbes Coaches Council

Figuring out how to start and grow a business from the ground up can be tricky. Take it from these successful entrepreneurs, who understand the essential first steps of launching a company.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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HR Tech 2019: 5 HR lessons from Barbara Corcoran

HRExecutive

By the time she was 23 years old, Barbara Corcoran had held down 22 jobs. She was confident her latest waitressing gig in Edgewater, N.J., would land her a big break—and she turned out to be right. It was at the small diner that she met her future business partner, who ultimately would loan her $1,000 that kickstarted her real estate career and led to the founding of the Corcoran Group—which she eventually sold for $66 million.

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LinkedIn Invites Users to Help Close Career Opportunity Gap

SHRM Resources

?DALLAS—LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is asking the site's 645 million members, who represent predominantly professional knowledge workers, to reach out and connect with someone beyond their peer group to expand career opportunities for those with weaker networks or no network at all.Weiner outlined the company's initiative to help close employment opportunity gaps last week at the LinkedIn Talent Connect 2019 conference for recruiting and HR professionals.

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How to Prevent High Staff Turnover Using 6 Effective Methods

6Q

Despite all the technological advancements today, more and more employers are realizing that human resource still is their most important asset. Employees are the first ambassadors of a company and indeed its first customers. Their skills and contributions are key to setting a company apart from its competitors. While it is inevitable that employees will move on to pursue other opportunities, a high turnover rate doesn’t signal good health and can affect productivity if skilled labour keeps maki

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HR Tech 2019: HR in the age of artificial intelligence

HRExecutive

The words “artificial intelligence” get tossed around a lot these days in the HR space, but what does it actually mean and how does AI actually apply to HR? At the opening day of the HR Technology Conference, Jeanne Meister , an author and partner at Future Workplace, led a wide-ranging discussion on “Re-Imagining HR in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” with a panel of HR leaders from some of the world’s largest companies, including Delta Airlines, Hilton Hotels,

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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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HR Team Productivity Hack: How to Save Time and Effort by Optimizing Corporate Travel

Workology

HR Team Productivity Hack: How to Save Time and Effort by Optimizing Corporate Travel It’s an understatement to say that most HR professionals have a lot on their plates. From recruiting and. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How You Can Use Onboarding to Build Trust With New Employees

The Muse

What makes a great employee onboarding process? The goal is make new hires feel welcomed, valued, and prepared to do their job.

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Despite Worker Complaints, Google Is Still World’s Most Reputable Employer

SHRM Resources

?Google, the Internet search engine that promised to not "be evil," is consistently the subject of bad news, including charges of sexual harassment, data privacy concerns, anti-trust investigations, and criticism—both internal and external—of projects with unpopular U.S. agencies and foreign governments. Yet it retains its rank as the world's most reputable employer for the second consecutive year, according to the Reputation Institute's 2019 Global Workplace 100 study based on 23.

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A Disability Employment Story #NDEAM

SHRM

It's happened too many times for me to count. A well-meaning person asks me if I work. It’s automatic. They take one look at my disability and motorized wheelchair, and think: “this person couldn’t possibly work.” It would be easy to take offense since I have worked continuously and advanced in my career since graduating college (and later graduate school) 20 years ago.

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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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Major Overhaul to Illinois Employment Law Takes Effect in January

SHRM Resources

Employers already know that recent high-profile sexual-harassment cases have prompted state legislatures to enact changes. What may come as a surprise, however, is the number of other changes likely coming to Illinois employment law very soon.

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ADP Women in STEM Profile: Giselle Mota

ADP

Growing up, one of Giselle Mota's heroes was MacGyver, the genius television character who was always solving insurmountable problems in unconventional.

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Three Reasons Why The Best Leaders Ask Rather Than Tell

Forbes Coaches Council

The next time you face a challenging situation in the workplace, pause long enough to consider that you may not have the answer needed to address the issue.

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Marijuana in the workplace – What employers need to know

Insperity

Attitudes toward marijuana are shifting, and for multi-state employers, different state marijuana laws can make it challenging to enforce a company’s drug policy across an entire organization. Since 2012, 33 states, Washington, D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have legislated laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Despite the dynamic nature of these laws, no state law forces employers to tolerate use of marijuana in the workplace.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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If You Feel Your Business Passion Waning, Take These 12 Steps Immediately

Forbes Coaches Council

When you find yourself losing passion for what you do, take these steps recommended by the experts of Forbes Coaches Council and get you and your business back on track.

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Is Being a Founder a Career Death Sentence? #HRTechConf

The Tim Sackett Project

I’m out at The HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas this week and it struck me at the number of ‘Founders’ I meet when I’m here. The founders I meet seem like the perfect person you would want to hire. Super motivated. Smart. Creative. They believe in an idea and they are willing to do what it takes to make that idea a reality.

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WHRT 2019: How agile innovated Walmart’s hiring

HRExecutive

For four years, technologists at Walmart worked with a third-party vendor to design, iterate, build and test a new applicant-tracking system—yet, just four weeks before rollout, the project came to a screeching halt. Katie Taylor, senior director of software engineering in global talent systems at Walmart, told conference-goers at the Women in HR Tech Summit —the opening event of the HR Technology Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas—that, when she came into her new role last year, she exami

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Six steps to better learning and development for small businesses

HR Zone

Development. Six steps to better L&D.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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How Workday harnessed the power of data

HRExecutive

Today’s HR leaders are drowning in data—but just having the numbers about the workforce is only the first step toward maximizing their full potential, said the keynote speakers at today’s opening session of the Women in HR Tech Summit. A trio of female leaders from Workday dove into how data can drive career development, improve leadership and enhance the feeling of belonging throughout an organization during the first event of the HR Technology Conference and Exposition, being held in Las Vegas

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these are the most important things I want you to know about being a good interviewer

Ask a Manager

So, you want to be a good interviewer. Maybe it’s your first time hiring people, or maybe you’ve been doing it for a while with less than stellar results. Maybe you’ve had your own terrible interviewers and want to make sure you don’t inflict that on someone else – or inflict bad hires on your colleagues. I get asked all the time about how to be a good interviewer, and so at New York Magazine today, I’ve put together a primer about the most important things you need to do when you’re

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The Ultimate Job Board For Video Talent?

Ongig

There’s a new job board in town and it’s focused solely on video. Vimeo, known as one of the biggest video sharing platforms recently announced its entry into the job market with Vimeo For Hire. ?. They’ll have over 30,000 video producers, editors, directors, operators, and more available for hire. “Every business, brand, and agency today faces hurdles in producing video at scale” “Right now, they rely on informal networks and word-of-mouth to find the right people to make those vide