Mon.Nov 12, 2018

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Create a Workplace That Veterans (and Non-Vets!) Will Appreciate

Justworks

Employers looking to hire veterans are looking at a great pool of candidates. Veterans often bring valuable technical and leadership skills to the workforce, and can be a great asset to diverse teams of all kinds. After all, diversity isn’t only about race, sexual orientation, or age. Building a diverse team includes hiring people with diverse backgrounds, education, and ways of thinking.

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Turnover And Retention Rates for Millennials In The WorkPlace

DailyPay

In our previous article, we discussed employee retention rate by industry and looked at which industries have the best and worst employee turnover rates. In this article, we take a closer look at generational retention rates, and how the millennial generation fulfills and defies their job hopper stereotype. For two years now, millennials have been the largest demographic in the U.S. workforce.

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Alternative Training Programs Help Improve Diversity Opportunities

TLNT: The Business of HR

The gender wage gap means women must work into the next year to earn what white non-Hispanic men earn by the end of the current year. And how long it takes women to catch up largely depends on their race and ethnic background. August 7th was Equal Pay Day for black women, based on the fact they make $0.63 for every dollar white, non-Hispanic men do — so it has taken them until then to earn what those men earned by December 31, 2017, according to Equalpaytoday.org.

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Challenge Your Assumptions: Three Steps to Better Decision-Making

Cornerstone On Demand

Assumptions are often an inevitable part of quick decision making, but accepting assumptions as fact can be harmful to your business and employees. I learned this the hard way years ago when I was part of a performance management platform implementation at LandAmerica Financial Group. The platform was “state-of-the-art," and we were excited to have access to data about performance, given that up until that point, we had no quantifiable way to measure it.

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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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Employees Don’t Respond to Perks, They Respond to Culture

DecisionWise

A few days ago, Jordan Yadoo at Bloomberg reported that employees will give up big pay raises in exchange for job perks. The reported statistics were eye-catching, with the headline teasing that “Americans Are Willing to Forgo a 56% Pay Raise for Best Job Perks.” At the end of the day, I agree with Mr. Yadoo’s findings, but not his headline. Employees do not give up pay for perks!

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Lessening the Impact of Employee Turnover

Workology

In recent years, turnover rates have steadily increased due to lower unemployment, skills shortages in the labor market, and an increasing number of Baby Boomers reaching retirement age. While some turnover can be healthy, the costs associated with high turnover levels can accumulate quickly. Widespread factors such as a retiring population may be beyond your […] Source.

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5 Reasons To Start Using A HR Management Software For Your Business!

Engagedly

HR is one of the most crucial functions for any business whether it is a startup or an established brand. Managing employees requires a lot of effort and is time-consuming. Using an automated HR management software smoothens the work-flow […].

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EEOC sees retaliation workload rise: How to stay off its radar

HR Morning

The increase in sexual harassment charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have made headlines this fall, but that’s not the only eye-opening statistic coming out of the agency. Retaliation claims a bigger share of EEOC charges. Retaliation claims and lawsuits now make up almost 50 percent of the EEOC’s workload. According to the most recent stats available from the agency, fiscal year 2017 saw retaliation jump from 46% of all charges filed to 49%, despite a dro

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A beginner’s guide to Continuous Improvement in HR

Analytics in HR

On Monday, 543 possible errors were found. Tuesday: an additional 79. Wednesday: 378 more. Just three average days. Imagine what would happen if these possible errors would not be handled on a daily basis. No matter what your organization looks like, what systems you use or how talented your administrative team is: there are always going to be faults in your (HR) data.

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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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Using cognitive automation to solve the age-old problem of hiring the best talent

Bersin with Deloitte

Posted by Stefan Lint on November 12, 2018. You cannot follow the news today without reading stories about how robots and machines are taking over the world. One aspect of this revolution is the role of artificial intelligence in deciding who is hired and who is not. Depending on your point of view, this may either strike fear in your heart (or at least creates a level of unease), or may feel like we are finally seeing the promise of AI come true.

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Culture is What Motivates and Retains Talented Employees

The SHRM Blog

Culture is what motivates and retains talented employees. Every decision your organization makes strengthens or weakens your culture, and a healthy workplace culture—one that is fair, inclusive, high-functioning and free from harassment—is a critical business asset and force multiplier. At Booz Allen, we take pride in cultivating an environment that empowers people to change the world and makes them proud to be part of our team.

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Culture is What Motivates and Retains Talented Employees

SHRM

Culture is what motivates and retains talented employees. Every decision your organization makes strengthens or weakens your culture, and a healthy workplace culture—one that is fair, inclusive, high-functioning and free from harassment—is a critical business asset and force multiplier. At Booz Allen, we take pride in cultivating an environment that empowers people to change the world and makes them proud to be part of our team.

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Remote worker, why some companies allow it and why others don’t want to

HRNasty

Effective remote workers in their element How the remote worker can demonstrate success Do you want to be a remote worker? With evolving workforces and the new technologies entering the job market, one common perk in a comp package is the ability to work as a remote employee. There are several reasons this request is made by a candidate or existing employee: The employee doesn’t have to worry about a commute Independent workers who don’t interact with customers don’t have the need to be i

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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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Flatarchie, Holacracy and Virtual: 3 Emerging Business Structures That Might Work For You

TLNT: The Business of HR

With millennials now moving rapidly into management positions and the “fourth industrial revolution” just on the threshold, according to the World Economic Forum , traditional business practices and structures are under pressure to change like never before.

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my coworker gets away with everything

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My coworker has a family member who was a pretty big deal in the company. Said relative has since retired, but her legacy sort of lives on. My coworker gets away with EVERYTHING. She treats her superiors with no respect, does whatever she wants, never has consequences. I have literally heard her say to our manager, “No, I am not going to do that” and just walk away.

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7 DIY Video Ideas for Internal Communication

Staffbase

As communication professionals, we all know that the power of an awesome video is unmatched at telling stories for internal or external purposes. That said, video production isn't cheap, making video expenditures a frequent victim on the budget chopping block. But don't despair! You can in fact save your company thousands of dollars by learning to produce videos in-house.

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What’s Your Type? How the Myers-Briggs Became a Business Favorite

TLNT: The Business of HR

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has been widely used for decades to assess personality. But there is very little, if any, science behind it. Merve Emre, associate professor of English at the University of Oxford and fellow at Worcester College, delves into the story behind the test with her new book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Training.

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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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Stop Saying “We Love Vets!” You don’t, or You would actually Hire them for real jobs! #VeteransDay

The Tim Sackett Project

Veteran’s Day was yesterday! I’m sure your social media team made a big deal out it. Send around a lot of American Flag IG and Twitter posts. Even put up a blog post on your site about how much you just love Vets! The problem is, it’s all a big fat lie! You don’t love Vets! You love the concept of being politically correct and wrapping your company and brand around the American flag!

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Five Tips for Attracting, Hiring, and Retaining Veterans

Sterling Check

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 370,000 US veterans were out of work in 2017. With a veteran-filled candidate pool, connection and communication are essential in the hiring process. Here are five tips to help draw veteran talent to your organization. With these strategies, you can be a part of bringing veterans into the civilian workforce with the understanding and respect they deserve. 1.

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SharePoint Can’t Learn

Conversation Matters

I am just back from KM World and was amazed that so many of the presentations were about how some organization has implemented SharePoint. SharePoint has become so ubiquitous that, at KM World, Knowledge Management seems to have become equated with implementing SharePoint repositories and communities! I want to push back a little on that. Learning in an organization happens when teams or workgroups take the time to think together about what is occurring within their purview and then to consider

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Does a Formal or Informal Outfit Boost Office Productivity?

HR Daily Advisor

It used to be that a 9–5 job meant snappy Charles Tyrwhitt suits and briefcases all through the office. But these days, many companies are happy to let their employees dress how they like (so long as it doesn’t affect their work!). Does dressing comfortably increase or decrease productivity though? Business Casual. The influx of younger workers may well be to blame for the shift to business casual.

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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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The Future of Learning Technology

Looop.co

You will have undoubtably read many ‘future of learning’ articles that predict the means and mechanisms for learning, extrapolating peripheral technologies that are entering the vernacular of L&D, but this article is different. This isn’t a crass oversimplification of technologies but a means of extending L&D’s expectation of technology and how it could serve us […].

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why don’t employers send job rejections anymore?

Ask a Manager

You take time off work for a job interview, spend a few hours preparing for it, maybe buy a new suit, maybe even travel from out of state, and then … crickets. You hear nothing. Maybe you contact the hiring manager or the HR rep who scheduled the interview to inquire about an update on the job, and still … nothing. If you’ve had this experience, you’re not alone.

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20 Easy Dishes to Make For Thanksgiving Potlucks at Work

TinyPulse

A Thanksgiving potluck at work is a great team-building activity to celebrate the holiday together and drive employee engagement. For a "Worksgiving," everyone brings in a dish that can feed the whole team — an appetizer, side dish, or dessert — and the manager or other leader can handle the main event: the turkey. But you don't have to be a professional chef to bring in a dish that will have all your coworkers asking for the recipe.

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It’s Free, You’re Welcome

HR Examiner

Dr. Todd Dewett | Founding member, HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board. Being a great leader doesn’t cost a fraction of what most people think. I’m often approached with questions about motivation, morale, and engagement. Choose whichever label you’d like, the question is the same: how do we get employees to feel like doing a great job? Most practicing leaders over rely on antiquated and questionable approaches centered on compensation or some other form of awarding money or other tangible th

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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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A Spotlight on Small Business and Recruitment Challenges

ADP

To counteract small business challenges related to talent shortages and high turnover rates, consider offering these benefits.

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my team doesn’t do any personal development, my coworker keeps telling me to reply-all, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My team doesn’t do any personal or group development. I am very into personal development on my own time. I read a lot of books that would be considered self help and love to advance my life by learning new skills. However, at work, none of that is present. Our manager does not ever talk to us about our development plans, we have done zero Strengths-Finder-like activities and it’s really frustrating as a new employee on the team because

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The Quiet Wars That Veterans Face Long After Deployment Has Ended

Symantec

On Veterans Day, Joe Gervais shares his chilling story of adjusting to civilian life after a tour of duty with the Marines in Kuwait.

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