Tue.Aug 29, 2017

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The 4 Constituents in Today’s Blended Workforce

HR Bartender

We’ve talked about how today’s workforces need three key constituents: regular full-time workers, regular part-time workers, and contingent workers (i.e. freelancers, contractors, consultants, etc.) Each group involves a unique recruiting as well as an engagement strategy. Which we’ve also talked about before. BUY is where the company hires talent from the outside.

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3 Ways Man and Machines Can Work in Harmony

Cornerstone On Demand

Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing are slinking into every nook, cranny and call center of the workplace. But this is not a dystopian future where man is pitted against the evil machine. Instead, the future is much more likely to look like man and machine working in harmony—combining complementary strengths to transform business for the better.

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Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

HR Daily Advisor

What’s the truth about lying on résumés? Almost half of workers (46%) polled by staffing firm OfficeTeam said they know someone who included false information on a résumé, a 25-point jump from a 2011 survey. Job experience (76%) and duties (55%) were cited as the areas that are most frequently embellished. Fifty-three percent of senior managers suspect candidates often stretch the truth on résumés, and 38% said their company has removed an applicant from consideration for a position after

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How to Measure Learning and Development’s Business Impact

Visier

Measuring the effectiveness of learning and development on business results is a challenge learning leaders have yet to overcome. According to an ATD report , 35% of talent development professionals surveyed reported that their organizations evaluate the business results of learning programs to any extent. Furthermore, only 15% measure the ROI of any learning programs.

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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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17 Excellent Workplace Wellness Ideas That Don't Break the Bank

Justworks

Have you decided it’s time for your company to invest in a health and wellness program? There are many reasons to offer an employee wellness program, such as reducing absenteeism, increasing employee engagement, and attracting top talent with competitive benefits and perks. Now more than ever, many companies ranked as a Great Place to Work have robust health and wellness programs to attract great employees.

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5 Solutions for Hiring During Busy Season

Hppy

When it’s your job to hire and recruit exceptional talent, you know the ins and outs of the business change with the wind. It’s a fast-paced world in which your job is to find the best of the best and provide those outstanding candidates to clients in need of someone with those skills. It takes a great deal of time and dedication to find someone good enough to fit the needs of your clients on any given day, but it’s especially difficult when you’re doing it in the midst of the busy season.

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IT and HR: Working Together to Keep Employee Data Safe

TalentCulture

High-tech companies like Sony, Target, and Yahoo—along with the U.S. government—have been victims of data breaches. If these companies, with the best resources at their disposal, can be compromised, what hope do average small-to-mid-size businesses have to protect their data? And how can HR departments help keep employee data safe? Most small to medium sized businesses haven’t had to think about network security, much less a breach of security, but times have changed, and keeping employee data s

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What World Class HR Looks Like.

The HR Capitalist

Was working on a webinar deck this morning related to this title. Here's what I came up with, take a look and let me know what you think. I'll share the webinar link when it goes live. --. WHAT WORLD CLASS HR LOOKS LIKE. You know them – they’re the HR pros that make it look easy, flowing from meeting to meeting with style and grace – but not in an empty way.

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Are toxic employees ruining your workplace?

Insperity

Many managers tend to avoid addressing problem behaviors in the workplace under the belief that “we’re all adults here so everyone deal with it.” The problem with this laissez faire approach is that toxic behaviors, left unchecked, can lead to serious consequences that impact the bottom line. Although addressing toxic employees can be uncomfortable, you need to put a stop to destructive behavior quickly.

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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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A Job Recommendation Engine for Veterans

Traitify

Today we are proud to announce the launch of a new product with our partners at Military.com. The Military Skills Translator + Personality Assessment is the first of its kind in the market creating an innovative approach to help veterans find their passion and truly match to job opportunities that fit not only their skills, but their personality as well.

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Empathy, Self-Reflection: The ‘Soft-Skills’ of Today’s Leaders

TLNT: The Business of HR

“The world is dramatically reshaped and operates differently. We have gone from an industrial economy where we hired hands, to a knowledge economy where we hired heads, to a human economy where we hire hearts. When machines can out process, outperform and even outthink us, it is the things that machines can not do, the things that come from the heart, that are uniquely valuable and can never be automated or commoditized.” ~ Dov Seidman.

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Be One of the Best Places to Work, Even If You Didn’t Make a List

WorqIQ

We’re over halfway through the 2017 work year, and many lists of the best places to work are rolling out. Inc. Magazine (in partnership with Quantum Workplace) surveyed 169,000 people and compiled a list of 50 Best Places to Work. Fortune (in partnership with Great Places to Work) surveyed 230,000 people and came up with their own list of 100 Best Companies to Work For.

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4 Best Practices for Passive Recruiting in Healthcare

Precheck

4 Best Practices for Passive Recruiting in Healthcare Aug. 30, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Did you know that nearly 79 percent of the U.S. workforces are passive candidates? These are candidates who are currently employed and not actively seeking work but are open to hearing about other job opportunities. Not only do they have jobs, but they are also generally satisfied with their current position, Hire Velocity explains in an article.

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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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If you own a restaurant, and pay servers more than minimum wage, can you keep customer tips?

The Employer Handbook

A few years back, some progressive (?) restaurants around the country made headlines by paying their waitstaff more than minimum wage and putting the kibosh on customer tips. This broke with the traditional way of paying customarily-tipped employees in scratch offs and iced animal crackers. That is, most employers would pay the minimum-required cash wage of $2.13 under the Fair Labor Standards Act (unless your state requires a higher minimum wage) and use customer tips as a credit against the $7

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Why Gamble with Your Leadership Development Investment?

DDI

Manager support is the key to seeing positive returns on your leadership development investment.

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How ATS Systems Transform the Hiring Process

Workology

Back nearly before the dawn of time, HR technology was simple. We used HRIS and ATS systems that were simple. Seven tabs over to add the letter H. Enter in your new hire’s information. Hit. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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One-Faced Leader

NoExcusesHR

I hear a hell of a lot of noise in the world of leadership. Fancy titles, and years of doing the same thing over and over without changing with the times.er.I mean, lots of experience.do not equate with one of the easiest ways to be effective. Be real! Be you! Stop trying to sound like something you're not! Jargon Regardless of the terms in the glossary of your certification credentials handbook of choice, I beg you to only use them when you're taking your favorite certification exam.

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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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4 Strategies to Retain The Best of the Best

Workology

Unwanted attrition is an unfortunate yet inevitable reality in today’s business environment. Current studies highlight the threat facing leaders domestically and internationally: According to. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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I received a networking email from a stranger who’s job searching for her husband

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I received an odd email from an alum of my university (“Jane,” a stranger to me), asking for help finding her husband “Bob” a job in my state, where they were planning on moving. The email was bcc’ed, so I assume she searched for “wide job field” and “state” and sent an email blast to everyone she found.

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The Employee Engagement Action Readiness Model - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Written in collaboration by David L. Mason, Ph.D. and David Long, MBA. “I just don’t think ’great’ is what we’re ready for. Let’s tackle ’good’ first.”. What a relief to hear those words from an HR leader. Our line of work, in fact our entire purpose, is to help organizations improve. But that’s a lot like saying a doctor’s job is to make sick people healthy – a gross over-simplification.

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When it Comes to Benefits Questions, Who Do Employees Trust?

Namely

Come open enrollment season, choosing benefits can be a complex, jargon-laden process. When you don’t know the difference between a PPO and HMO, who’re you going to call? Each year, HR departments are tasked with finding the best possible plans and orchestrating employee enrollment. It’s no small task, but through it all, HR earns the chops to competently answer most questions.

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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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Leading Our Organizations with Humanity

Culture University

Each month I receive an email with a preview of the latest leadership books. There are always five or six new entrants in this already crowded field. Meanwhile, my Twitter feed overflows with three steps, five tips, and seven ways to improve engagement, build trust, and employ mindfulness. Yet with all this knowledge available, employees […]. The post Leading Our Organizations with Humanity appeared first on Culture University.

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The Few And The Brave

Compensation Cafe

When it comes to the design of performance management programs most companies play it safe. Right smack in the middle of their assessment scale is the word “average”; or perhaps they use “meets expectations,” or “satisfactory” or the like. Each term signals the same assessment, though – middle of the road. And isn’t that where managers expect most employee to fall?

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Can a Company Require a Long Drive and Not Pay for a Hotel?

Evil HR Lady

I am not in this situation but a friend of mine is. She works for a company as an outside sales executive. She obviously is exempt from overtime. When she took the job, she was told that her sales area would be in the city she lives while the corporate head quarters are located 2+ hours away. She was told that there may be a quarterly need to come down to corporate for corporate meetings.

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The Traditional Organizational Culture Is Doomed To Fail

TLNT: The Business of HR

In my previous article dated titled “ Is Workforce Optimization the Missing Piece To Your Organization’s Success? ” I wrote about how and why this shift in how organizations work with their employees is critical for future success. Now, let’s delve into a better understanding of why the traditional way that companies engage with their workforce is not very effective and why rigid adherence to this philosophy will lead to future failure.

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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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Career Survival Skills For 2025

New to HR

The year is 2025, and you are heading out for a job interview. You are nervous for good reason, and it is not because robots and intergalactic immigrants are queuing in front of the People Vision office, making competition even. The post Career Survival Skills For 2025 appeared first on New To HR.

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Predictive Analytics in Workforce Management

HR C-Suite

Predictive analytics isn’t just for increasing sales and customer leads. There is also business intelligence software designed for HR use. This is an invaluable tool for gauging employee performance, recruiting new members, and maintaining morale. Find out how predictive analytics shape the modern enterprise and how the “human factor” plays an equally important role.

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I got caught lying about a sick day, my boss calls me “pet,” and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I got caught lying about a sick day. I did something stupid. I finished college this spring and had just started working a full-time job in the industry I attended school for. The company I got the job at has a policy where new employees have a five-month probationary period, and once that is completed an employee is made permanent and receives and is able to take vacation or PTO time.