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10 Strategies for Recruiting In a Highly Competitive Job Market

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Alongside , a company that bridges the communication gaps to create a better hiring experience for both employers and job seekers. Check out how they help companies like Motörleaf showcase their team dynamic to active and passive candidates. For a free trial or demo of their product , visit their website.

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Cartoon Coffee Break: Wellness Programs

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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7 More Fascinating Employee Engagement Trends For 2017

15Five

It’s no surprise that employee engagement numbers have been abysmal for the last few years (and if that is a surprise, you need to read our blog more often.) According to Gallup, engaged employees comprise only around 30% of the workforce. No wonder this post on 2016 engagement trends was so popular. . Until engagement numbers dramatically increase, we are going to continue presenting these trends.

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Cost Per Hire: How to Calculate It the Right Way

ClearCompany HRM

Almost constantly, talent acquisition departments are pressured to reduce their cost per hire. Finding the right balance in your company’s cost per hire can be tricky. You’re trying to please everyone from your CFO to senior executives all while providing quality talent to the hiring managers who are desperate to fill an open position.

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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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Terrible Managers Don’t Need to Spell the End of Employee Growth

Kazoo

Most people have had a terrible manager at some point in their careers. People feel helpless — caught between wanting to leave and needing to stay. In either scenario, employees are hamstrung and performance suffers. Oftentimes, managers serve as the gatekeepers for their employees’ professional opportunities. Good managers advocate for their team, mentor them and coach people toward better performance.

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18 Ways: How to Find your Dream Candidate for 2017

Achievers

By: Randi Sherman. Content Writer, Guest Blogger from Proven. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. You’re looking to expand your team. Congratulations on your company’s growth spurt! Now you want to find candidates that fit your company culture and bring the right expertise to the job.

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The IRS ACA Audit Process Forces Employers to Prove Their Case or Face Penalties

ACA Times

Op-Ed Updated Published on March 16, 2017 on ‘Accounting Today’. A few weeks after the national election, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began to issue notices to employers who may have failed to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).These notices appeared to be the first salvo in the IRS ACA audit process. Failure to successfully defend this IRS audit could mean significant ACA related penalties.

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Terrible Managers Don’t Need to Spell the End of Employee Growth

Kazoo

Most people have had a terrible manager at some point in their careers. People feel helpless — caught between wanting to leave and needing to stay. In either scenario, employees are hamstrung and performance suffers. Oftentimes, managers serve as the gatekeepers for their employees’ professional opportunities. Good managers advocate for their team, mentor them and coach people toward better performance.

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Building Effective Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills

EmployeeConnect

The standard approach that people tend to follow especially when they are under the gun, feeling stressed is to usually react with a decision which had worked previously. While this may work, however, there is a high probability of you getting stuck in a circle of solving the same problem again and again. Hence, it is advisable to adopt an organised approach to solving problems and making sound decisions.

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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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Trust is the Oxygen of The Employee Experience - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Trust is the Oxygen of The Employee Experience and stepping up in moments of truth helps make organizations sustainable and resilient. When something happens that tests the validity of the promises that make up the Contract, that’s a moment of truth (MOT). Read the bestselling book, The Employee Experience. The result of a collision between expectations and MOTs is like what happens when physicists at the Large Hadron Collider bring elementary particles together at near-light velocities: unpre

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News You Might Have Missed – March 21

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Q&A with HR Expert, Andee Harris. Finding the right talent is difficult. Many companies are using “returnships” to bring experienced employees back to the workplace. Are you utilizing employees on leave? Secrets to Setting Your Company’s Culture.

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Three Steps To Take If You Aren't Able to Implement Relocation Technology Before 2017 Intern Season

UrbanBound HR

It’s officially spring, which means internship programs around the country are firing up at full power. Some will be implementing relocation technology for the first time, some will be using previous relo tech experience to fuel an even better-tuned, tech-fueled solution, and others will be working without relo tech at all.

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Learning From Other’s Mistakes: First-Time Manager Do’s and Don’ts

Everwise

You’ve just been promoted to your first management role. Congratulations! It is an incredibly exciting time in your career, but also an overwhelming one. You now have the power to effect change and guide the employees on your team to bigger and better things. But how should you go about doing so? This is the question that many managers ask as they take the reins.

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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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Business-Savvy Tips for Female Entrepreneurs in 2017

TalentCulture

Are you a woman in business? If so, you’re certainly not in the minority. According to Arizona State University , women make up 51 percent of corporate professionals in the United States, today. However, many C-suite positions are still occupied by the opposite gender. In fact, Jared Lindzon argues via an article in Fortune that companies with the best reputation in their respective industries have more than twice as many women in senior management; however, Lindzon also points out that “Onl

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Why Trust in Leadership Matters More Than You Realize

WorqIQ

Trust in leadership should be more frequently discussed in HR and among entrepreneurs. The days of authoritative leadership are done. Employees no longer respond to a “do as I say” philosophy; they want to relate to their leaders. They want regular contact and communication and, most importantly, employees want to believe their leaders will have their backs when it matters most.

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What Recent Research Says about Incentive Efficacy

Compensation Cafe

I caught an interesting bit of research out of the UK recently, which considered the relative impact of different types of incentive programs on employee attitudes. Of the three subjects to analysis, performance-based pay seemed to emerge as a front-runner. It demonstrated positive relationships with satisfaction, commitment, and trust in management.

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4 Ways AI Enhances But Doesn’t Replace Your Workforce

Workology

When you think about artificial intelligence, two competing images come to mind. One is of the friendly digital assistant who lives and travels with you—Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri—whose job is. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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You Are Rating Employees Even When You Say You’re Not

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This is the second of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. Monday’s article discussed the broad issues raised when ratings are eliminated. Wednesday, the final article discusses ratings distribution.

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For Culture Success, Organizations Must Focus on the Big 3

Culture University

According to Josh Bersin, demographic upheaval coupled with digital technology has greatly contributed to a rapid increase in the rate of change. This accelerated rate is, in turn, leading to new social contracts and business considerations. Bersin is responsible for long-term strategy at Bersin by Deloitte and is frequently published in Forbes.com and Chief Learning […].

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Upcoming Webinar – A Fast Track Guide To Video Interviews

Spark Hire

Video interviews. If you aren’t already conducting them, you’re probably wondering why this style of interviewing is taking the industry by storm. As you may have read elsewhere, video interviewing makes adding talent to your team easier, faster and more cost-effective than ever before. To clear up some of the confusion you may be feeling, we’ve decided to host a webinar and give you a fast track guide to video interviews!

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The Workforce Institute at Kronos Announces New Board Member, John Frehse

Empower Software

The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated, a think tank dedicated to providing research and education on critical workplace issues facing organizations around the globe, today announced the addition of John Frehse, managing partner at Core Practice, to its board of advisors.

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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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From our CEO: To build a world-class company, A-players matter less than C-players

CultureAmp

Many modern organizations talk a lot about A, B, and C players. The concept of an A-player is they produce outsized results, conforming to the Pareto principle, where 20% of people generate 80% of the value. A-players are more relative than we like to think A-players exist, but they're more relative than people think. Whether someone is an A, B or C is specific to the situation rather than being an inherent trait.

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HR Tech Companies Can Also Be Awesome Places to Work

Jeff Waldman

I’ve said this many times that the HR and Recruitment tech industry has been growing like wildfire during the past 5+ years. I’m a little bit partial to start-up and SMB companies but we can’t completely ignore the big guys though. The majority of them offer solutions for small businesses, which to be honest, I have started to take notice of during the past little while.

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How To Future-Proof Your Career In A Digital Economy

Forbes Steve Cadigan

What it takes to standout and succeed in a digital economy isn't as hard as you think. Learn how professionals can stay relevant in an ever-changing market.

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The Illuminati of Wellness

CoreHealth Wellness Technologies

Okay, maybe Illuminati is a bit much but there has been a very successful, mysterious group called the Wellness Underground ticking away for three years. It has met each January in the happiest place on earth to bring together the greatest minds in the wellness industry.

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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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Is this the best time to work in HR?

HR Zone

People. Is this the best time to work in HR?

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The Hidden Costs of Underutilized Office Space

Asure Software

Despite increased use of office hoteling and other alternative workplace management strategies, real estate is still a major expense for most businesses. Making the most of this investment in office space is critical. Sometimes it’s obvious that a particular space is underutilized—for example, a conference room that’s seldom used because it’s out of the way, … Continue reading "The Hidden Costs of Underutilized Office Space".

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8 Secrets of Powerful Communicators

TLNT: The Business of HR

Why does one person see a glass as half full and another sees it as half empty?

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