Thu.Oct 11, 2018

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How AI Made a Difference for this Company’s Recruiting

TLNT: The Business of HR

Applying for jobs can be difficult, to say the least. Candidates have waited weeks just to be notified if they got the job. Those are actually the lucky few who receive any response at all. Disgruntled jobseekers are growing tired of this reality; 42% of candidates said one bad recruiting experience would be reason enough for them never to seek employment with that company again.

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Best Bosses: Where Do You Fall on the List?

HR Daily Advisor

A recent study by OfficeTeam sought to understand which workers are happiest or unhappiest with their bosses by region. The research revealed that over 80% of workers are satisfied with their managers. The highest rating locations were Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami. The worst were Boston, Phoenix, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, and Detroit.

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What You Need to Know About Marijuana

InfoMart

BLOG. What You Need to Know About Marijuana. Tammy Cohen , PHR, SHRM-CP. September 18 2018. Marijuana legalization is one of the most often discussed news topics today. Though it has been considered a Schedule I drug since 1970, thirty states and the District of Columbia have legalized it in some form. Eight of those states and D.C. have adopted laws legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

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Engagement in Action: Four Key Drivers to Highly Engaged Employees

Engage2Excel

Employee engagement: the buzzword is everywhere, but can anyone really agree on what it means? How do you measure it? And how can you build an effective strategy that works in your unique company culture? Employee engagement is tricky to define because it represents different things to different people. Some companies describe engagement as an emotional commitment to the company that includes both loyalty and dedication to achieving goals.

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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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We’re Only Human 41: HR Leaders, Stop Treating the Symptom

UpstartHR

“HR should see themselves as the sole source of people exertise in any organization… You don’t go to IT to get ideas on how to formulate product. You go to them for [technical] expertise.” How many times do you solve a problem only to have it come back around again? Are you treating the symptom instead of treating the root issue?

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Achievers CARES: Going Above and Beyond with Employee Volunteer Opportunities

Achievers

It’s easy to come to work, put your head down and focus on your tasks at hand. I am young and I care so much more about what the impact of my work means, not just that things get done. At Achievers , we understand that work is so much more than getting things done. The company’s motto is to Change the way the world works , and we truly believe that.

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Three ways to improve your strategic thinking skills

HR Zone

Strategy. How to think more strategically.

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Achievers CARES: Going Above and Beyond with Employee Volunteer Opportunities

Achievers

It’s easy to come to work, put your head down and focus on your tasks at hand. I am young and I care so much more about what the impact of my work means, not just that things get done. At Achievers , we understand that work is so much more than getting things done. The company’s motto is to Change the way the world works , and we truly believe that.

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How data can enhance employee wellbeing

HR Zone

Employees. How data can enhance employee wellbeing.

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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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EEOC releases sexual harassment stats one year after #MeToo

HR Morning

It’s been a year since countless stories of workplace sexual harassment started making headlines, and new data suggests the number of harassment complaints and lawsuits won’t be declining any time soon. . To mark the anniversary of #MeToo, the EEOC released its preliminary findings to examine the effect of the movement. And while many HR experts predicted sexual harassment claims would rise, the Commission’s numbers now back this up.

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Pay as an engagement tool: time for a rethink?

HR Zone

Retention. Pay as an engagement tool.

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How SendGrid takes action on diversity and inclusion

CultureAmp

In light of the recently published findings in Culture Amp's 2018 Diversity, Inclusion and Intersectionality report , we wanted to put the spotlight on how companies are using our Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) survey to act on related initiatives. Executives at SendGrid , a Culture Amp customer, joined us on a webinar to discuss how they’ve taken action on diversity and inclusion at their company.

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5 can’t-miss keys to fostering innovation in the workplace

Insperity

What’s the difference between a company that’s doing OK, and one that’s crashing through barriers? Innovation. In business, it’s critical to adapt to and create change to stay ahead of the competition. When you foster a culture of innovation in the workplace, the payoff can be greater business achievement. It can’t just be the members of your leadership team who are tasked with coming up with ideas to do things better or faster.

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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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Insights from #SHRMLead 2018

Workology

This year was my first year attending SHRM LDF, otherwise known as the SHRM Leadership Development Forum (#SHRMLead). The conference took place October 2nd and 3rd at the Sheraton Boston. I heard there were just over 400 attendees, which I thought was a great size because it was easy to network and have more intimate […] Source.

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our “unpaid intern” is paid $42,000/year, my clients can’t make up their minds, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Our “unpaid intern” is paid $42,000/year. I’m an executive assistant for a small nonprofit agency. I have access to people’s salary information and I’ve never really been concerned about the salaries and fairness before now. Occasionally we take on graduate student interns, very rarely are they paid internships, and if they are paid it’s not very substantial.

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What Happens When Payday Falls on a Holiday or Weekend?

Namely

Whether you pay your employees weekly, biweekly , monthly, or semimonthly, odds are your company’s scheduled payday might land on a bank holiday or weekend sooner or later. Should that happen, don’t panic—you have options. We’ll break down all the payroll holiday rules below so you can navigate holiday and weekend paydays with ease.

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Here’s a 4-Step Recovery Plan for Meeting Addiction

TLNT: The Business of HR

We have a love-hate relationship with meetings. Most of us want to get rid of them? — ?they drive frustration and waste our time. However, when we don’t invite someone to a meeting, that person feels left out. Sounds familiar? It feels hard to overcome this addiction though — the more we run away from meetings, the more we crave for them.

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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 if you let your TA Interns run your campus Career Fairs? #TC18Live

The Tim Sackett Project

I’ve noticed something when I go onto campus for career fairs. The TA Pros that are there representing your company, don’t really want to be there. They don’t really want to be talking to students. They find this beneath them in many aspects. That is if you’re over one year out of college! It seems like the only people who want to go on campus are your new hire recruiters.

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Pre-Tax Benefits Explained Through Emojis ???????????

Benefit Resource Inc.

What is a pre-tax benefit account? A pre-tax benefit account allows you to set aside money from your paycheck before taxes to use for IRS-approved purchases. The items you can pay for through a pre-tax benefit account depends on which plan(s) you have. There are three categories a pre-tax benefit account can fall under: Medical (Medical FSA, HSA, HRA).

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How Can You Have Great Customer Experience Without Great Internal Experience?

HR Daily Advisor

Everyone is talking about how to improve the customer experience because, of course, happy customers result in increased revenue. It’s no wonder they get such a huge share of our attention. Source: skynesher / E+ / Getty. We were at a tech meeting in Arizona. The focus was on customers, and it became clear that a huge amount of money and energy was going to delivering exceptional customer experience (CX).

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Australasia's Public Transport Leader Transdev Launches Pilot App to Improve Internal Communication

Staffbase

It’s 7 o’clock in the morning in Melbourne, and hundreds of workers are counting on Transdev to get them to work on time. Public transportation is a big job in Australia and New Zealand; relying on almost 6,000 Transdev employees who operate more than 2,000 vehicles and vessels carrying 145 million customers each year.

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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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3 Interviewing Mistakes Smart Managers Routinely Make

Julie Winkle Giulioni

As a manager, recruiting, interviewing, selecting and hiring talent may be among your most valuable contributions to the organization. Let’s face it: on your own, you can do little. But, working with and through experienced and capable team members, you dramatically magnify what’s possible. As a result, interviewing is a high-leverage skill that effective managers must master.

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7 Ways to Make Your Project Fail and 7 Ways to Prevent That

TLNT: The Business of HR

Wonder why some projects fail while others are successful? Like the 7 deadly sins, this article from Toledo Solutions lists 7 of the most common ways to ensure a project fail — and they all come down to people and managers. Read on to learn what you can do to encourage your team and improve your chance of success.

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The Impact of People Analytics at Genentech

i4cp

The recently released report from the ROI Institute and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), Four Ways to Advance Your People Analytics , examines workforce analytics advances, trends, barriers, and more. It includes four key recommendations to advance organizations’ people analytics function based on data collected from hundreds of organizations and a dozen interviews with people analytics leaders: Focus on talent on the team Integrate far and wide Invest in technology and tools Bui

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How HR Professionals Can Achieve Better Work-Life Balance Today

Rise

There’s no set formula for the ideal work-life balance—it’s different for everyone. In fact, that disparity just might contribute to the problem burdening HR professionals. If your CEO seems content working ten hour days, shouldn’t you be too? If another employee stays late every night, do you need to as well? The main thing to make sure of is that your values align with how you are actually spending your time.

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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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5 Benefits You Should Negotiate for Your Next Job

Commuter Benefit Solutions

There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of books written on negotiation. You can read them all, and when it comes time to do it, it’s still not easy. If you are moving into a new job, though, it's the right time to summon the courage and ask for more than what’s in your initial offer.

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Now What? Disciplining an Employee with a Suspected Addiction or Substance Abuse Issue

HR Daily Advisor

With the rise of opioid and other drug addiction in the United States today, employers have to wonder—is it possible one of my employees is dealing with addiction? In the second article of a three-part series, Littler shareholder Dale L. Deitchler and associate Jeffrey E. Dilger discuss how to approach discipline where an employee might be dealing with substance abuse.

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It’s Time To Measure Your Recruitment Marketing Capability Gap

WorkTech

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