Tue.Jan 10, 2017

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Understanding ACA Compliance And Utilizing Staffing Firms

ACA Times

By now it should come as no surprise that maintaining ACA compliance is a confusing and at times difficult task. We know the basics: Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) with 50 or more full-time (FT) employees or full-time equivalents must offer affordable minimum essential coverage to its FT staff. That much is known. However, what happens when an employer utilizes staffing firms for a considerable portion of its staff?

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Should I Go Into HR?

Laurie Ruettimann

“Should I go into HR?” I think it’s a great profession for many people. Go into HR if you’re a young mom. The cool thing about human resources is that the job offers a ton of flexibility if you can keep your eye on the prize: your kids. The barrier to entry is low, and you’ll work with like-minded individuals who want to have fun and don’t take life too seriously.

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The Top 7 Things on HR’s To-do List for 2017

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. Capella is an accredited online university dedicated to providing an exceptional, professionally-aligned education that puts you in the best position to succeed in your field. They offer bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees as well as certificate programs for human resources and business professionals.

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What You Can Do to Attract HiPo Candidates

ClearCompany HRM

We’re always on the search for new talent. Someone who can provide a fresh look at current processes or fill gaps in departments with specialized skills. In the past, that would mean classified ads and help wanted signs, but today, in the digital era, that isn’t the case. The new workforce is not only finding you in new ways, their new outlook is changing the way they select who receives their resume.

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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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Cartoon Coffee Break: Virtual Meetings

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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A remedy for managing Paid Sick Leave

nettime solutions

Regulations for Federal Contractors have changed. Join nettimesolutions for this important Bloomberg webinar. Whether you’ve got a handle on the new Paid Sick Leave regulations or you’re still scrambling to catch up, this is your chance to hear from a panelist of industry experts – and ask questions. This webinar will help you: Learn about recent state and local paid sick leave regulatory changes.

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How To Help A New Employee Understand The Culture Of An Organization

Hppy

Culture is NOT the “unwritten laws” of an organization that people follow because they know “that’s the way things are done around here”; the subliminal “understandings” that explain what people do and how they do it. Culture is not an outcome of employee dynamics. Culture is a thoughtful, carefully crafted topology of how individuals MUST engage together if the organization is to succeed.

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Hey, can you cover my shift today?

nettime solutions

If you’re in the service industry – managing a busy restaurant or a retail store – some of your biggest challenges center around employee scheduling. Keeping track of who’s available to work, setting your shifts for a full week, and covering for last-minute absences or surges in customers. We designed stratustime’s new Advanced Scheduling capabilities based on client feedback to address these challenges and help you: Create and customize shifts and capacities.

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Harness Your Great Culture as a Hiring Tool

Achievers

By: Melissa Ricker. When it comes to attracting talent, competitive pay and great benefits are two big factors. But there’s a third factor that’s high on the list: company culture. For some professionals, the opportunity to work for an organization with a productive culture that aligns with their own values and work style may even outweigh compensation when it comes to deciding on whether to take a particular job.

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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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Is “HR Analytics” an Oxymoron?

China Gorman

As we head full-on into 2017, a friend sent me the link to a survey analysis that is extremely eye-opening. Still Under Construction: The State of HR Analytics 2016 , conducted and published by the New Talent Management Network , has some compelling data about how HR functions are deploying higher level analytics and how successful they are in deriving actionable insights.

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20+ Job Interview Do’s and Don’ts That Good Candidates Follow

UpstartHR

As an HR professional, I am used to being on the interviewer’s side of the hiring table. That makes it easy for me to forget all the hard work candidates put into preparing for their interviews—well, some candidates. There are also people who waltz in totally unprepared, which makes me wonder whether they really want to be hired. These 21 tips from Company Folders reveal the things prepared candidates do before, after, and during their interviews.

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The Hidden Potential of Teams

WorkHuman

If you had to describe your average work day, would it consist mostly of solitary work or collaboration with a team of people across different functions? Most people in white collar positions today would agree that their work falls in the latter category, and this likely isn’t changing anytime soon. Last year, two of Deloitte University Press’ Top 10 global human capital trends addressed the rise of teams – of hierarchical organizational models being turned upside down.

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5 Tips for Mastering Modern Employee Retention - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

5 Tips for Mastering Modern Employee Retention. Every organization has three implicit or explicit contracts: Brand, Transactional, and Psychological. Most of the intangible moments and nonverbal interactions in a company fall squarely within the oft-neglected Psychological contract. But as it turns out, it may be the most crucial. As discussed in the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , the Brand Contract and the Transactional Contract

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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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Federal Contractors: Understand Which Government Regulations Apply to You

Justworks

When it comes to contracting for the federal government, small businesses have big opportunities. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, over 25% of federal contracts went to small businesses — for a total of $90.7 billion. A lot has been written about how to score a federal contract. But once your company does, working with the government isn’t as simple as signing a few papers and getting to work.

Company 101
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Data and Tech Are Useless Without Core Values

UrbanBound HR

Tech and data analysis are changing the relocation industry rapidly. We have more control and insight and overseeing a relocation program is simpler than ever before. Whether you’re scaling an internship program, aiming to increase your campus hire groups, or simply just expanding your talent search to find the best and brightest regardless of their location, relocating employees is an accessible goal.

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Hey, Can You Cover My Shift Today?

nettime solutions

If you’re in the service industry – managing a busy restaurant or a retail store – some of your biggest challenges center around employee scheduling. Keeping track of who’s available to work, setting your shifts for a full week, and covering for last-minute absences or surges in customers. We designed stratustime’s new Advanced Scheduling capabilities based on client feedback to address these challenges and help you: Create and customize shifts and capacities.

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The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 5 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 5 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast. Listen as co-author of the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , Matthew Wride, discusses chapter 5, “The Brand Contract.” The Employee Experience – Chapter 5 – The Brand Contract.

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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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[Video] From His Worst Boss to His Best Advice: An Interview with HighGround CEO Vip Sandhir

Kazoo

As the founder and CEO of HighGround, Vip Sandhir spends more time than most thinking about the employee experience. He recently sat down for an interview with Entrepreneur to share what he’s learned, both as an entrepreneur and as an employee. Learn what he says about leadership style and having the right mindset in the video below. The post [Video] From His Worst Boss to His Best Advice: An Interview with HighGround CEO Vip Sandhir appeared first on HighGround.

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How To Lead Change By Looking At The Past

TalentCulture

There is certainly no shortage of advice on what actions leaders should take to successfully implement change. However, despite the plethora of guidance available, organizations generally have difficulty executing their “brave idea” The desired change doesn’t see the light of day; the intended benefits aren’t realized; dysfunction and discontent are often left as the aftermath.

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Family-friendly workplaces: the role of mental wellbeing

HR Zone

People. Mental wellbeing in family-friendly workplaces.

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Can Machine Learning Make HR Better?

TalentCulture

Are you familiar with deep learning? Deep learning describes the ability for artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to learn from our behavior using brain-like structures called neural networks , and it’s changing the field of human resources in significant ways. AI programs can predict outcomes based on past experiences fed into the program. Because AI can recognize patterns and analyze data at light speed, it can help HR directors make decisions with greater confidence.

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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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Talent Alignment Is the Key to a Successful Merger

TLNT: The Business of HR

In the business world, there’s nothing quite like the uncertainty born of a merger. Trying to blend two company cultures into one is a bit like mixing unknown chemicals in a beaker: The result could be a more potent chemical, a more diluted chemical — or an explosion!

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how much money do you make?

Ask a Manager

It’s hard to get real-world information about what jobs pay, especially tailored to a particular industry or geographic region. Online salary websites are often inaccurate, and people get weird when you ask them directly. Two years ago, in an effort to take some of the mystery out of salaries, I ran a post asking people to share how much money they make, their job, and their geographic region.

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Doing Culture Right Takes Intention and Attention

Culture University

The articles and expertise found here on Culture University and ConstructiveCulture.com provide a fantastic foundation for a leader to learn how a purposeful, positive, productive culture operates. From making values as important as results to creating an organizational constitution to evaluating climate and relationships—that critical information is readily available.

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How to Become An Employer of Choice This Year

TLNT: The Business of HR

Being an employer of choice means top applicants are eager to work for you, competitors envy your employees, and your most talented workers stay with your company for years and years. Given the competitive job market, combined with the new-normal Baby Boomer retirements and millennial job-hopping, this seems like a great item for the top of your New Year’s resolution list.

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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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UI Design: Do Amazon Echo and Google Home Have Anything to Teach Us About The Power of Being Nice?

The HR Capitalist

I ordered a Google Home a few months ago. It's an interesting if not life-changing first step into the intersection of AI and digital assistants. I'm a big user of the Google suite of products, and I smiled when I found out that I had to say "OK Google" or "Hey Google" to activate the digital assistant. Google has a nice way of making a lot of their products softer than they have to be.

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The Tone Deaf Decisions Companies Make

TLNT: The Business of HR

Yes, they told us that in 2017 we will no longer have the option to work from home. We used to be able to take one day a week. Their reasoning is that they just opened another office in North Carolina and they will not be offering it there so they are cancelling it across the company in all locations. We all looked at each other and everyone had that look, that we are out of here.

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The state of family-friendliness in UK financial services

HR Zone

Retention. Family-friendliness in UK financial services.

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