Wed.Dec 06, 2017

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Is Lack of Financing Slowing Your Franchise Brand’s Growth?

Hireology

A franchise brand’s overall growth is dependent on the success of its franchise locations, so what happens when prospective franchisees face challenges securing the financing needed to open a location? Over the years, many franchise brands have missed growth goals for this very reason. . Your franchise brand has several options when it comes to helping franchisees secure financing – and a solution that works for some won’t necessarily work for all brands.

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What to Expect for HR Compliance in 2018

ClearCompany HRM

As the new year rapidly approaches, it’s time to start thinking about compliance. Many rulings were passed last year and more will continue to come into effect which means there is a lot for an HR department to monitor. To help you navigate, we’ve compiled a quick list of HR compliance subjects your department should be aware of as we head into 2018: Overview of 2017 Rulings Taking Effect in 2018. 2017 brought quite a few rulings HR managers across the country will be dealing with in 2018.

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The Board of Global Ministries: Challenging Young Leaders to Take Charge of Their Professional Growth

Cornerstone On Demand

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is quietly working to build (and rebuild) communities around the world. In Northern California, UMC volunteers are helping victims of the recent wildfires complete the paperwork necessary to receive federal assistance after losing their homes and loved ones. In hurricane-torn Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, church-organized relief workers are clearing the rubble , while church members have donated millions of dollars.

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Minimize Employee Absenteeism with Time & Attendance Software

nettime solutions

If you did a head count around your workplace, how many absences would you notice? Maybe one or two every day? Perhaps a handful each week? According to 2017 Bureau of Labor Statistics , the absence rate for full-time employees is 2.9%. That means if your company has 100 employees, on average, about 3 people per workday would be out. Overall, it’s a pretty small number.

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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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Top-Down or Bottom-Up Management: Which is Best for Your Business?

Everwise

Creating an effective management culture has countless positive effects on your organization. Employees will feel better connected to the business’ mission and goals. They’ll be more engaged, productive, and motivated — all of which encourages them to remain at your company longer. In fact, managers account for 70% of variance in employee engagement. .

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3 Risky HR Technology Trends That Disturb People Processes

Reflektive

Nearly two years ago, Josh Bersin, principal and founder of Bersin by Deloitte, noted that HR technology trends were steering towards an “employee first” approach to new and improved products and features. He pointed out that HR technology was first created primarily to streamline administration and improve processes. But is it? HR technology trends are steering towards an 'employee first' approach.

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The Future of Work: Solving Problems Through a Flexible Workforce

Entrepreneur

Innovative companies ask themselves two key questions: What products or processes do we think the marketplace will want next? What talent do we need to deliver that?

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Virtual Reality Gives Job Candidates a Vivid Big Picture

TalentCulture

By Steve Bates. You’re piloting a 37-foot-long boat on a river deep in enemy territory. Your mission: Extract a Navy SEAL team pinned down by gunfire. Your craft can cruise at over 45 miles per hour, but the noise might alert the enemy to your approach. With 360-degree vision, you notice fellow sailors around you tightening grips on weapons. Night begins to fall.

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Will You Be Leading an HR Function in 2024?

The HR Capitalist

I'm up on this topic over at my monthly column at Workforce magazine. Hit the link below to go to the digital version and take the quiz. Will You Be Leading an HR Function in 2024? . .

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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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Winning at Talent Recruitment in the Age of Extreme Competition

TalentCulture

In today’s highly competitive job market, winning at recruiting top talent is no easy task. Whether you’re a talent recruitment pro or a small to midsize business owner looking to find and hire individuals for your organization, success in recruiting today requires an understanding of your target “customer” (i.e. the job seeker or prospect). That means knowing where to find them, understanding what’s important to them, knowing how to market a job opening, crafting a job offer that will be compel

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Rethinking How We Age at Work

Women of HR

As a middle-aged female with a long career in HR communications consulting, I’ve been reconsidering my role as a “maturing” business woman. In my experience, women tend to behave in one of two ways as they get older. One camp is proud of their longevity, and frequently point to their extensive track records. They’ll refer to junior staffers as “kids,” bemoan the “good old days,” and either use technology poorly or eschew it altogether.

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6 Things We Need to Do to Advance People Analytics

Visier

I invite you to participate in a survey we are currently running on People Analytics maturity, value, and best practices. To further illustrate why sharing your opinion on this topic is important, here are my thoughts, surfaced from some of the fantastic thought leadership content our team produces here on Clarity. Since joining Visier as Principal of Customer Value and Research, I’ve spent many hours speaking with both early adopters and recent converts of people analytics about their transform

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What's next? Future trends in employer branding

Papirfly

The world of Employer Branding is changing fast. What does the future hold? We take a look at some key trends that will shape Employer Branding in 2018. Consumer and Employer Brand go hand in hand. A strong consumer brand can positively influence your Employer Brand, and vice versa. Successful companies like Google for example have long realised that.

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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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Peopletrail Named A Top Employee Screening Service in HRO Today’s 2017 Baker’s Dozen

Peopletrail

Peopletrail, a leading provider of background checks and screening service, has been recognized by HRO Today for the 3rd consecutive year. DRAPER, UT (PRWEB) December 06, 2017—Peopletrail has been recognized by HRO Today’s 2017 Baker’s Dozen Awards. The announcement marks the third consecutive year that HRO Today has rated Peopletrail as a top employment screening provider.

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How to Create an Interview Scorecard (and Why You Need One) Plus a Free Template

Capterra

Update 12/5/17: This article has been updated to remove old references and outdated links, and to add additional information. Interviewing a job applicant without using a scorecard is like going running without tracking your distance. Sure, you did all the work and you’ve got the fatigue and experience to show for it. But, you have no way of measuring your success.

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What are the most annoying co-worker habits? Study says …

HR Morning

If you get annoyed by your co-workers from time to time, you’re not alone. In a recent survey conducted by Olivet Nazarene University , 2,000 American workers were asked if they ever get annoyed at work. One hundred percent of respondents said yes. . Bad habits. So what are these co-workers doing to get under everyone’s skin? Respondents listed the following: 49% are annoyed by loudness and complaining. 32% are annoyed by gossiping and bullying. 12% are annoyed by bathroom and eating

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update: my coworker keeps calling me his “work mom”

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose younger coworker kept calling her his “mom,” even after she’d told him to stop? Here’s the update. I followed your advice and the advice of the commentators. I sent the email back that had “Mom” in the subject line and said “I didn’t know your mom worked here, you sent this to me by mistake” and that was enough to shut that down.

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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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Why Targets of Harassment Keep Quiet, and What You Can Do to Avoid a Matt Lauer Situation

HRWest

By Catherine Mattice, HR West 2018 Speaker In the last few months, a long list of perpetrators of harassment have emerged from politics, Hollywood, and television. Most recently, it was Matt Lauer, a familiar face that has graced the television screen of nearly every home in America. What is going on? And why in the […]. The post Why Targets of Harassment Keep Quiet, and What You Can Do to Avoid a Matt Lauer Situation appeared first on HR West℠ 2018.

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Book Review @iReadBookTours: 21 Days To Happiness & Guest Post by Author Ingrid Kelada @ikelada

Take It Personel-ly

Now is the perfect time of year to reflect on your own happiness, productivity and energy levels from the past year. With the year coming to a close and a new one about to begin it is tempting to buy into the commercialism of the season and to try to buy happiness for yourself or […].

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Integrated HR and Payroll System

SutiHR

The functioning of HR and payroll department vary in organizations across the globe; HR focusing on the full spectrum of employee-related processes and payroll centering upon finance tasks. But, there is always been some alignment between the services of both departments provide during the life-cycle of an employee within an organization. HR and payroll departments.

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How To Improve An Organization Performance

HR C-Suite

Organizations across the world are driving to improve organizational performance regardless of the size of the organization or the industry. Managers within the organization measure performance, perhaps by comparing it against a benchmark. They analyze and assess their findings and design their controls accordingly to advance the organization’s performance.

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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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How Much Should You Expect to Get Paid as an HR Professional?

HRIS Payroll Software

Starting off as an HR professional can be exciting. You have the opportunity to directly influence the way that people are treated within your organization and potentially even on a grander scale in the workforce. While the ideals for starting out as an HR professional are noble, it’s important to consider pay in order to make sure you are getting a fair salary.

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our new assistant doesn’t have boundaries

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My company last year acquired another company in the same industry, and we’ve finally merged offices. The acquired companies offices were larger and less expensive, so we moved in with them. As a senior team member in our old place, I had my own office. But we went from 10 team members to 60 when we moved, so now I have a little cubicle.

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Testing Times: UAT, Test, Pilot and Parallel Run

HR Zone

Business. Testing Times: UAT, Test, Pilot and Parallel Run.

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the person who holds the job I’m applying for doesn’t like me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have an interview scheduled for this Friday, and it turns out that the person who currently holds the position (“Jane”) is a former coworker of mine from a different company. Unfortunately, there was a falling-out over the way we interacted during an orientation session and we ended on bad terms. To provide you with some additional background, we were both tasked with giving an orientation session to incoming foreign exchange students.

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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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What Does the TSheets Acquisition by Intuit Mean for You?

Replicon

Early this week it was announced that Intuit, the company behind products like Quickbooks and Turbotax, acquired TSheets. The deal makes plenty of sense- Intuit and TSheets both have a small business audience, which had prompted their integration many years ago. This newly minted partnership will help strengthen their foothold in that market even further. […].

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Common HR Pain Points and How to Cure Them

Bayzat

There are few departments with as many woes and worries as HR. From managing a bevy of administrative tasks, the constant ebb and flow of hiring, onboarding and training of new and current employees, there’s 101 things HR.

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My Top Three HR Tech Recommendations for 2018

Jellyvision

If you’re an HR pro, it’s no secret you can’t do your job without a few great software platforms to support you and your busy team. The trick is figuring out what you really need. There’s a lot of noise in the HR tech space, which can make that hard to figure out. But I’m happy to report there’s a whole lot of awesome, too. (In fact, I saw a bunch of it when I attended The HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas this year.).