Thu.Feb 08, 2018

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Hiring Could Be Even More Difficult in 2018 as Employers Compete for a Shrinking Talent Pool

HR Daily Advisor

Employers have high expectations for business and headcount growth in 2018, but a severe skills shortage in the fastest growing sectors could hinder plans, according to the 2018 U.S. Salary Guide from Hays, a specialist recruitment agency. Based on a survey of more than 3,000 people, the Hays US 2018 Salary Guide asked U.S. professionals, managers, and employers about current business, compensation, and workforce trends.

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If Those Performance Reviews All Sound Alike, It Could Be ‘Decision Fatigue’

TLNT: The Business of HR

Decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions as one is forced to engage in more and more decision-making. If you’ve ever planned an event, re-designed a home or purchased a new car, you probably remember the exhaustion and indifference that eventually resulted from being faced with so many choices. Many companies put managers at risk of decision fatigue by creating performance management, compensation, staffing and development processes that require evaluating multiple peopl

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. *This week’s Fundings: $60M+. Captain401, now Human Interest, raises $11M to build a 401(k) for small businesses.

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ICYMI: 5 Things the Modern Worker Looks For in Talent Development

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest HR trends and stories. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular articles every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for January's top stories! 4 Quick Fixes to Jump-Start Your 2018 Recruiting Recruiting isn't what it used to be, and companies can't afford to have a wait-and-see attitude anymore.

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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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3 Tips to Kick-Start Career Development in Your Company

Compensation Cafe

What keeps employees at your company? In every recent year, career or growth opportunities have been ranked in the top three of employee priorities. Even so, I don't know a company that's satisfied that they've done enough in the career development area. What's getting in the way? You know better than I do. Somehow there are always other priorities like chasing recruiting needs.

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You Can’t Be a Good Manager If You Miss Your One-on-Ones

Reflektive

A company is only as good as its people, and when employees succeed, the company succeeds. This is especially true for Omada Health, the explosive healthcare company that is helping people at high risk of diabetes and heart disease make vital, lasting lifestyle changes through technology and design. So how can leaders build an empowering employee success function while simultaneously meeting demanding business objectives?

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Keep Excited and Carry On

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library How do you approach a situation that makes you anxious? If your standard response is to tell yourself to calm down, you’re in good company. When hundreds of people were polled as part of a Harvard Business School (HBS) research experiment, over 91% of them thought the same way. However, the research itself didn’t agree, giving surprising insight into anxiety and performance.In the HBS experiment a group of 140 students were asked to participate in a speec

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What To Do About The Epidemic Of Multitasking And Technology Addiction

15Five

I have a confession to make. I’m addicted to technology and am guilty of irresponsibly multitasking nearly every day. What’s amusing is that I probably use less technology than most people. I use a handful of mobile apps (including messaging and the actual phone app), I haven’t owned a television in a decade, and I love my 2001 truck because it doesn’t talk to me or try to help me park.

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Servant Leadership: A Lesson in Building Relationships

EDSI

The way I measure my success as a leader is by regularly asking myself these four questions: Speaking of building relationships, I’d like to share a defining moment in my career a several years ago when I faced adversity while acquiring additional business. A very important client asked us to step in by operating a career center after the previous provider had committed fraud.

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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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[Infographic] The Non-Confrontational Person’s Guide to Conflict

Hppy

Disputes at work are inevitable. Even the most communicative team with the most well-intentioned employees will find they clash from time to time; ambitious people are passionate about what they do, and you won’t always share the same ideas as those around you. But more often than not, conflict arises because somebody isn’t pulling their weight, or their attitude is out of line, or they are being inconsiderate without realizing it.

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Keep Excited and Carry On

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library How do you approach a situation that makes you anxious? If your standard response is to tell yourself to calm down, you’re in good company. When hundreds of people were polled as part of a Harvard Business School (HBS) research experiment, over 91% of them thought the same way. However, the research itself didn’t agree, giving surprising insight into anxiety and performance.In the HBS experiment a group of 140 students were asked to participate in a speec

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How to Tell an Employee They Didn’t Get a Pay Raise or Promotion

Justworks

Raises and promotions are the gold standard for recognizing an employee’s contributions to their company. Higher compensation and greater responsibility signify personal growth and successful alignment with performance milestones and business objectives. Unfortunately, not everyone can get promoted or be the recipient of a pay raise each time they’re granted.

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Keep Excited and Carry On

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library How do you approach a situation that makes you anxious? If your standard response is to tell yourself to calm down, you’re in good company. When hundreds of people were polled as part of a Harvard Business School (HBS) research experiment, over 91% of them thought the same way. However, the research itself didn’t agree, giving surprising insight into anxiety and performance.In the HBS experiment a group of 140 students were asked to participate in a speec

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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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7 Reasons Why Your Team Can’t Work as a Team

TLNT: The Business of HR

Everyone worships teams. But, the way most companies operate, is not helping. That’s why teamwork is sometimes an illusion.

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Keep Excited and Carry On

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library How do you approach a situation that makes you anxious? If your standard response is to tell yourself to calm down, you’re in good company. When hundreds of people were polled as part of a Harvard Business School (HBS) research experiment, over 91% of them thought the same way. However, the research itself didn’t agree, giving surprising insight into anxiety and performance.In the HBS experiment a group of 140 students were asked to participate in a speec

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How to Take Action: Strategies for Creating a More Diverse and Inclusive Workplace in 2018

HR Daily Advisor

The volatility of 2017 further surfaced a number of longstanding and important issues, like racial and gender equality and diversity of thought in the workplace. While these issues aren’t new, the political climate created an environment where we all proactively address diversity and inclusion more frequently, bringing it to the forefront of workplace conversations, values and policies.

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What You Need to Know About Self-Confidence

TLNT: The Business of HR

Our level of confidence – or our lack of it – lurks at the heart of every business decision we make and action we take. It stifles us or encourages us to move forward, and is something most of us want more of, yet rarely understand exactly how to achieve it.

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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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What is With the Human Psyche Today? Definitely More Questions Than Answers

CoreHealth Wellness Technologies

Today I was reading CNN news (perhaps fake) that in spite of city officials restricting water consumption in Cape Town, South Africa due to the impending water crisis (“Day Zero” being April 16 when the city will run out of water), almost half the people are ignoring the limit. What is with the human psyche today?

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The Best Hacks to Improve Employee Productivity

SutiHR

Employee productivity can be at risk when employees feel that their needs are being neglected. When your employees start to believe their employers are ignoring them, this can lead them to become dissatisfied with and disengaged from their work. To prevent this, organizations should find better ways to motivate their employees to produce their best.

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What CEOs Expect from HR Leaders

HR C-Suite

I’m sure you have heard it many times that the CEOs of an organization are more fixated on the “big picture”. They want to see the results that contribute to the “end goals” of an organization. However, this is easier said than done. For an HR professional, it is difficult enough to meet organization needs […].

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Is commuter stress killing your employees’ productivity?

Insperity

Commuter stress isn’t a new phenomenon. The term “road rage” was even coined as a result of it. But, have you considered the toll long commutes may have on your workforce – and your business? Studies show that average commute times vary widely between states, and even industries. What most of them agree on, however, is that commuter times are steadily increasing across the country.

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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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HR Technologist Features ADP’s Linda Mougalian on Creating Inspired Employee Experiences

ADP

Linda Mougalian, ADP® division vice president of product marketing and strategy, recently took part in “HRTalk,” an interview series published in HR Technologist that features leadership at HR technology companies discussing how they are redefining the way HR functions. In the interview, Linda discussed how technology can improve the employee experience and be a competitive […].

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The Judge In Me

NoExcusesHR

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others." - Jose Emilio Pacheco clothes words associates department academic background color of skin gender faith perspective home address car tech vacations politics friends partners music hobbies sexual orientation savvy business knowledge experience It's Automatic I.er.I mean, "we" j udge everyone.and everything, every minute of every day, forever.

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CHART OF THE DAY: There are too many open jobs, (or not enough people to fill them)

Steve Boese

A really quick shot for a busy Thursday - from the most recent JOLTS report (that's the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey and you should have this page on permanent bookmark), the most recent (as of December 2017) data on the ratio of Unemployed workers to job openings in the US. Here's the data. The actual chart on the BLS site is interactive if you want to play around with it, but I will save you the time and let you know that as of the end of December 2017 the ratio of unemployed workers

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Reduce Your Hiring Risks with Pre-Employment Tests

Criteria Corp

Hiring is a fundamentally risky endeavor. With every new person you hire, you’re taking a gamble on how well that person will perform within your organization. Traditional hiring metrics like interviews and resumes often do little to minimize the unknowable risks associated with each hire because the information they impart is often unreliable. For example, one study found that 57% of hiring managers had found lies or embellishments on a resume , and interviews are equally poor at predicting act

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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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2018 HR trends: what’s in store for the industry this year

HR Zone

Future. 2018 HR trends: what’s in store this year.

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Nine Great Reasons to Attend the 2018 Great Place to Work For ALL Summit

Great Place to Work

The 15th annual Great Place to Work® For All Summit™ is just around the corner! Here are nine great reasons to boost your career by joining us March 7-9: Connect with other passionate leaders building workplaces that are better for business, better for people, and better for the world. Escape winter and visit beautiful San Francisco! Learn from Arianna Huffington about ending the stress and burnout epidemic through sustainable, science-based solutions to enhance well-being, performance, and purp

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update: my boss planned team-building activities that I couldn’t fully participate in

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer in December whose boss had planned team-building events that she was physically unable to participate in ? Here’s the update. I’ve added in names because there are more people this go-round. I emailed my boss, Peter, with what you suggested (I also added the part about why it didn’t affect my regular work, which a wonderful commenter suggested).