Fri.Aug 05, 2016

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update: should I care about my employer when figuring out when to have a baby?

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer last year who was wondering whether she was over-thinking how the timing of her future pregnancy might impact her employer ? Here’s the update. I was indeed over-thinking it, and I was being way to accommodating to my employer in my planning. In hindsight, my question really came down to two issues: first, being transparent about my plans for leaving in the midst of some staffing changes/professional development plans and second, being concerned about my reputati

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

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. benefitexpress Acquires benefitsCONNECT.

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Recruitment Must Be Both Good and Fast – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Kronos CEO Aron Ain was recently awarded Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEO recognition for 2016. We’ve been honored to interview Aron on building a world-class company culture. Congrats to him and enjoy the post!).

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

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. A Senior GE Executive Explains How She Tests Job Candidates -- by Rachel Gillett. 2. 10 Simple Yet Effective Ways Recruiters Can Work Better -- by Siofra Pratt. 3.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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WorkHuman by Leaving Work – Why Vacations Matter

RecognizeThis!

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – We cannot create more human work cultures if we don’t honor the human need to rest, reflect, and breathe. I’m just back from vacation – enjoying family and friends immersed in sun, sand, and ocean. The ability to step back, relax, and rest my mind certainly made it possible to bring a rejuvenated spirit to my work. And this experience reminded me of recent podcast from NPR’s Shankar Vedantam and Dan Pink (author of Drive ): “What Science Says about Taking a Grea

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Stuff the Capitalist (aka KD) Likes: Maggie's Farm (RATM Version)

The HR Capitalist

Who am I? Who cares? Good questions. It's my site, so I'm going dig in once in a awhile by telling you more about who I am - via a "Stuff I Like" series. Nothing too serious, just exploring the micro-niche that resides at the base of all of our lives. Potshots encouraged in the comments. I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more Well, I wake up in the morning Fold my hands and pray for rain I got a head full of ideas That are drivin' me insa

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4 Steps to Implementing Design Thinking at Your Organization

Degreed

If you don’t think your organization is creative enough to implement design thinking, think again. Design thinking isn’t about how good you are at design tools such as Photoshop, but rather it’s about using human elements when figuring out how to create products that address the real needs of people. Using the design thinking process, everyone is a designer and design is everywhere – the way you plan out your day, the way you arrange furniture in your room, the way you match clothes.

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35 Ways to Influence Corporate Culture: Mentor Programs for New Hires

Total Employee Recognition

C.A. Short Company is proud to announce our new eBook, 35 Ways to Influence Corporate Culture and Increase Your Bottom Line. This complimentary eBook is a powerful tool that aims to help organizations achieve and maintain a meaningful Culture of Engagement. Today’s blog entry is an excerpt from this publication, and it focuses on the importance of mentors and how your organization can best decide who to select for this role.

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A New Illegal Interview Question: How Much Did You Earn In Your Last Job?

Evil HR Lady

Massachusetts just passed a new law that, among other things, prohibits companies from asking how much you earned in previous jobs. That’s right–those salary history questions in MA will be illegal starting in January 2018. While I generally dislike regulations placed on businesses, I can’t say I’m too worked up about this one.

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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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Healing vs. Achievement

TalentCulture

While giving a recent acceptance speech at a BAFTA award ceremony, actress Kate Winslet shared an inspiring message: Don’t listen to the people who hurt you, shame you, and belittle you. Believe in yourself and follow your dream. She ignored the people who insulted her, and made it to stardom. So can you. This advice is repeatedly given with the best of intentions.

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Which States are the Smartest?

Criteria Corp

Cognitive aptitude is one of the best predictors of job performance because it measures so many key drivers of work success – the ability to solve problems, think critically, and learn new skills. But does cognitive aptitude vary from state to state? Every year, hundreds of thousands of job seekers take the CCAT , our most popular aptitude test. Using a sample of nearly a million CCAT scores, we decided to dig a little deeper to see which states came out on top.

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Balancing Summertime Fun and Productivity

Ceridian

By Anthony Kwan, Product Marketing Manager, Ceridian . As we’re midway through summer, many of us have already taken well deserved time off to rest and relax. Whether you’ve booked that ideal vacation on the beach or just took time off to spend with your family and kids, the summer is a great time to break free from the daily grind. . However, the summertime months can be a difficult period at work.

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New resource for recruiting: Interviewing the candidates that got away

HR Morning

Many companies conduct exit interviews with departing employees, to gain insight into why they’re moving on. But have you ever thought of interviewing the candidates who’ve turned down your job offer? . That’s the suggestion made by executive coach Ben Dattner in a recent Harvard Business Review blog post. What’s the payoff?

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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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#WorkTrends Recap: Transforming Businesses into Digital Dragons

TalentCulture

As we get farther into the digital transformation, more businesses are turning into digital dragons. So, what’s a dragon, you ask? It’s an agile company fit to adapt, innovate and thrive even in disruptive times. The ever-popular unicorn tends to rely on risky and experimental business models. Dragons, however, are established companies that continue to leverage their original startup mentality to systematically innovate their way to profitability.

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Is Your Customer Service a Gift Without Worth?

WorqIQ

Service works when it enriches the exchanges. Customers feel valued when the service provider delivers something special to the encounter. But generous must be coupled with conscientiousness or it turns contentment into caution. Read More» The post Is Your Customer Service a Gift Without Worth? appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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The Olympics and Learning – A Fierce Combination

Gyrus

The Olympics and Learning – A Fierce Combination. With the games already under way and the Opening Ceremony beginning tonight. It seems appropriate that we compare the games to our industry. In the Learning and Development market, as in most, there are incredible similarities and strange happenstance where the lines seemingly cross without much of a thought.

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Our Most Popular Employee Engagement Blog Posts

WeSpire

Are you looking for actionable information and best practices around employee engagement? Here are our most read blog posts on employee engagement topics. After much research and a lot of listening we’ve identified four of the most discussed topics related to employee engagement. Here are our most thought provoking, appealing, and helpful blog posts for each topic: Employee Engagement Programming.

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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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‘They wanted what?’: 20 crazy things bosses made employees do

HR Morning

Prepare to be alarmed by the kinds of things C-suite executives, managers and supervisors have asked their subordinates to do for them. . Two surveys conducted in the past few months — one by CareerBuilder and one by Staples Business Advantage — asked employees to name the craziest, most unusual requests they’ve received from their superiors.

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Coffee Break: Swearing, gratitude and what you need to know about the freelance economy

HR Zone

Employees. Swearing, gratitude and the freelance economy.

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How To Avoid A Copyright Lawsuit When You Register Your Domain Name

Take It Personel-ly

If you are in the process of establishing a brand new small business, you need every bit of advice and encouragement that you can get. One of the best bits of counsel that a new business owner can receive is to make sure that the domain name they choose is not already taken. Likewise, it’s […].

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my boss is refusing to pay a nonprofit money we owe them, my office lights turn off every 10 minutes, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My office lights turn off every 10 minutes and my manager doesn’t care. I am hoping for your perspective on this workplace issue. I just started a new job (yay!) where I share an office with my manager. He often works out in the field so I’m usually the only one here. The lights in this office are on a motion sensor so they turn off automatically if no one is in the room.

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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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Five for Friday: People or strategy first?

Jostle

“ Culture eats strategy for breakfast ,” is a famous quotation attributed to business management guru Peter Drucker. This idea has become the topic of much debate as the business world seeks to understand which is more important: culture (aka people) or strategy? In today's Five for Friday we take a look at five perspectives on this contentious question.

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our intern told us our ideas were boring and stupid

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Recently, my company designated a week for working on any project we want, even if it isn’t necessarily a part of our normal role and with people who we don’t necessarily work with. Some folks and I decided to use this opportunity to organize a series of small morale events for the office. The details aren’t super important, but it involved us creating puzzles that would be fun for small groups of coworkers to solve.

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Where workforce planning, talent attraction, and facilities strategy meet

Steve Boese

Quick shot for a busy summer Friday, (isn't every Friday now a busy Friday?), and a quick reminder on just how important workforce planning and talent attraction and acquisition challenges are towards making big, hairy organizational decisions like 'Where should we build the factory?' and 'Should corporate HQ be in some massive office park in the suburbs (near the affluent towns where all the C-suite lives), or within the city limits, (where the millennials all want to live?).

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open thread – August 5-6, 2016

Ask a Manager

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 :).

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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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Growth Comes Best In A More Human Workplace

TLNT: The Business of HR

Recognize This! – Growth within a human workplace combines traditional learning opportunities with the recognition of a challenge- and fun-oriented mindset.

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It’s what you ask your employees, not how often you ask it

Perceptyx

There has been a lot written lately about how frequently organizations should ask employees for their input. A recent article in Harvard Business Review speaks to companies that “need daily or weekly data on employee motivation to identify and fix motivational issues at the individual, team, and unit level.” An article in The Economic Times states “The objective behind this shift is to capture real-time employee engagement experience and make improvements.

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Want to Start a Software Company? This Is What You Need to Know

Take It Personel-ly

In the mid-nineties, the Internet was opened up to general commercial use. This saw the beginning of the high-tech economic sector in the United States. We use the term “Silicon Valley” to refer to this sector, though it also refers to a specific place where many of these companies started. Since then, the world of […].