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4 Ways College Recruiters Can Attract Diverse Talent

Cornerstone On Demand

This piece is the second in our "Campus Recruiting 101" series, about how recruiters can make the most of their campus recruiting efforts this year. “Be open to the idea that great candidates can come from different backgrounds and bring something valuable to your company," says Adrianna De Battista, Tech Recruiting Lead at Lyft—I couldn't agree more and there's plenty of research to back her up.

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Everything you need to know about Managing Employees on an Index Card

Don Phin

I must admit – I got the idea for this index card after listening to a podcast with Howard Pollack, a professor from University of Chicago, who said that everything you needed to know about building your financial wealth can be written on an index card. The card went viral and he followed up with. Read More. The post Everything you need to know about Managing Employees on an Index Card appeared first on HRSherpas.

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Improving Cross-Functional Teamwork

Hppy

Imagine a manager in your office commiserating with you over the last disastrous team meeting. He complains that the people from the departments that make up the team just don’t seem to get it. They fight with each other, protect their own departments and are distracted by a hundred side issues and personal problems. Frankly, he is getting disgusted with this teamwork idea, and would rather go back to the good old days.

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Advice On How To Rollout OKRs To Your Entire Company

15Five

By now, you have probably heard of the OKR methodology, or perhaps you already use it to keep people focused and successful at your company. Objectives and Key Results are used by businesses as large as Google , or as small as five person startup teams. These businesses meet periodically (usually quarterly) to set a handful of company-wide objectives.

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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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IRS Reveals 2017 Average National Monthly Premium Needed to Calculate Individual Taxpayer Penalties for ACA

ACA Times

The IRS has issued the 2017 Average National Monthly Premium of bronze-level qualified health plans for both individuals and shared responsibility families of five or more. That figure is the benchmark by which taxpayers can assess whether they owe an individual shared responsibility payment to the IRS under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It’s another sign that the IRS is continuing to prepare for enforcement of the ACA.

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New Research Sheds Light on How to Build a Business Case for HR Technology

PeopleStrategy

In one of our blogs last year, we looked at the value delivered by HR technology as the gold standard that organizations should target in new technology deployments. What organizations are looking for from HR technology are a set of improved results. According to the 2016 HR Transformation Study by KPMG , 63% of companies expect their new cloud HR system to add value to the business, and our own research validates this finding.

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Culture Leadership Charge – Values Operating System

TalentCulture

What is your organization’s values operating system? In today’s three-minute episode of my Culture Leadership Charge video series, I describe how every organization has values, just as every human has values. Some organizations’ values are all about results, others embrace a “service to others” environment, and some have a combination. We see a wide range of values demonstrated in organizations, large and small, around the globe.

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Why leaders need to be positive thinkers

HR Zone

Culture. Why leaders need to be positive thinkers.

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That’s What No One Tells You About Hiring Women in 2017

TalentCulture

Picture this: It’s 2017, but gender imbalances still occur in companies. Managers know that gender diverse boards perform better , but female talents still face gender bias and stereotypes, which turn into challenges for ladies to overcome if they want to thrive. Recruiting and hiring stats from Uptowork reveals that women are 82% more likely to believe men are paid more for the same work ; and that is among many reasons why hiring managers might find it more difficult to recruit ladies.

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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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Fostering a leadership pipeline: a springboard for long-term success

HR Zone

Future. How to foster a leadership pipeline.

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Lawless Forge, the Mother of all Corporate Team Building Events

HRNasty

Corporate Team Building We have all been to corporate team building events. Trust falls, Kum Bah Yah and sharing personal stories. Yuck! Bah Humbug and b t. Don’t get me wrong, I am all about team building activities and work on employee engagement like a mother f@#$%er everyday within our company. I blogged about employee engagement […] The post Lawless Forge, the Mother of all Corporate Team Building Events appeared first on by HRNasty, HR gone rogue.

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HR vs IT: who owns the employee experience?

HR Zone

Business. HR vs IT: who owns the employee experience?

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Why I Got an MBA in HR

Namely

In this HR for Humans story, Cherie Mason—an HR Generalist at Academic Travel Abroad —reflects on her experience of balancing career and education after she decided to make a change. For more stories at the intersection of work and life, follow @namely_hr. You can also submit your stories here. I had been with the National Association of Home Builders for about 13 years, working as a Program Manager with a focus on professional development and adult education.

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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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Using People Analytics and Technology to Boost Performance

Rallyware for Human Resources

Businesses in almost every industry today are harnessing the power of big data and advanced analytics to identify problems in internal processes and create new efficiencies, rewarding them with significant improvements in performance. We believe that adopting this “analytics mindset” to human resource management can have a similar effect for companies interested in leveraging the value in their human capital for greater returns.

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10 Ways to Celebrate Labor Day at the Workplace

FingerCheck

While Labor Day has unofficially become a marker for the end of the summer and the start to fall, it was established as a federal holiday in 1894 in order to recognize and celebrate the contributions of American workers. Annually observed on the first Monday of each September, Labor Day often signifies a three day weekend for workers, and brings with it an opportunity to rest and relax.

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After Hurricane Harvey, Here’s What Employers Must Do

TLNT: The Business of HR

Hurricane Harvey is relentlessly drenching southeast Texas and the surrounding areas, resulting in unprecedented flooding and damage. As the storm rages, many employers are wondering how to respond and what happens next. After the waters and dangers subside — and even as they continue to process the personal toll inflicted by the storm — affected employers will face a host of legal and practical issues.

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Workplace Words that Wound

HRWest

Contributed by Lorie Reichel-Howe Founder, Conversations in the Workplace Presenter, NCHRA Small Company HR Conference – October 19, San Francisco “Transforming Workplace Conversations” 11:15 am – 12:30 pm We have all felt the sting of cutting words, the stab of sarcasm and the sickening silence when a coworker is assaulted with a verbal bomb.

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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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an employee punched a manager who didn’t approve her day off, getting out of a training session, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. An employee punched a manager who didn’t approve her day off. A incident of violence happened at my office. I manage several departments and one of the supervisors was assaulted by an employee. It happened near her office, the employee went there because she was denied a day off she had put in for.

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Open Enrollment Success: When to Call for Backup

Benefitfocus

A dedicated employee benefits support center can make all the difference for your team during open enrollment, but only if you know they'll be a reliable resource.

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my coworker constantly complains, gossips, and is generally unpleasant

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: How do I deal with a nearby coworker (in an open office workplace) who spends a great deal of her work shift gossiping, using profanity, complaining, and being unpleasant? Every day consists of her complaining about clients; trashing our product by saying no one uses it and it is worthless; complaining about having to come to work; complaining about individual aspects of our job, such as taking a phone call; talking about her previous experience in jail; or complaining about her

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Can an Individual Supervisor Be Liable Under the FMLA?

HR Daily Advisor

Most supervisors know that they risk personal liability under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Chapter 151B if they sexually harass a subordinate employee. But that isn’t the only way supervisors may be held individually liable in Massachusetts. designer491 / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Employees can press other legal theories against their supervisors, and the list just got a bit longer.

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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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Set Goals to Get the Most Out of Your Compensation Analytics

Compensation Today

This is a lesson from our forthcoming ecourse on compensation analytics. Be on the lookout for the course launch — coming soon! One of the most important parts of tracking compensation analytics is making sure you have a goal in mind. Comp analytics align compensation to organizational objectives and provide the necessary business intelligence to make better business decisions.

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What should an employer do when the state reduces the minimum wage?

Steve Boese

While confessing to not knowing any of the back story or local details behind this, I read with interest this piece in the Atlantic about the state of Missouri rollback of the city of St. Louis minimum wage from $10/hour back down to $7.70/hour. The Atlantic piece is solid, if a little long, so if you don't have time to dig in to it the essentials are as follows: 1.

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Is Crunch Popular Because Coding Is Boring?

Workology

The tech industry is talking about crunch time again. Specifically, this time it’s the game industry, debating the value of long, sustained coding sprints to make deadlines. The latest. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Are you ready for an Alpha workforce?

HR Zone

Future. Are you ready for an Alpha workforce?

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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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Hurricane Harvey Shows Need for Employee Financial Wellness

Payactiv

August 30, 2017 09:00 AM ET PayActiv is stepping up for its employer partners to deliver Earned Wage Access to disaster-struck employees. SAN JOSE, Calif.Aug. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Our hearts go out to the victims of Hurricane Harvey, including our users who have been impacted by this unprecedented emergency. In times of disasters, such as flooding, which can take weeks and months of recovery, lower income employees need urgent access to small dollar amounts between paychecks, but legacy

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No formality, no problem!

PI Worldwide

You just met the perfect candidate, the unicorn of talent. Her resume was stunning—neatly written, and with all the right experience. She answered each of your interview questions to perfection and your gut feeling is she’ll fit right in to your organization’s culture.

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At Sprout Social, Getting Coffee Is a Teambuilder

TLNT: The Business of HR

Alan Boyce, the VP of engineering at Sprout Social, averages three coffees a day. You might think he’s just a run of the mill office caffeine junky, or perhaps that he’s attempting to dodge his work with frequent coffee breaks.

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