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HR Tech Number of the Day: Job application hurdles

HRExecutive

As the Great Resignation marches on and employers scramble to fill empty jobs, they might be inadvertently erecting barriers in front of eager candidates. In an audit of Fortune 500 organizations’ ability to turn job seekers into applicants, applicant tracking solution provider Jobvite found that nearly 85% of the Fortune 500 lack optimized job application processes.

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The Impact of Unconscious Bias in The Workplace

Professional Alternatives

Even when there are good intentions, as well as the need to be fair, unconscious bias still manifests in different ways when in the workplace. Nepotism and even affinity bias plague hiring practices, and this makes micro-aggressive behaviors and other inequities thrive. This means that some groups are marginalized, making them miss out on key opportunities to excel.

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Childhood Cancer: A Leading Cause of Death in Children. How One PeopleStrategy Employee is Bringing Awareness to this Deadly Disease.

PeopleStrategy

In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we talked with our very own Steve Payne to highlight a cause near and dear to him; American Childhood Cancer Organization — an organization whose goal is make childhood cancer a national health priority by shaping policy, supporting research, raising awareness, and providing educational resources and programs to … Childhood Cancer: A Leading Cause of Death in Children.

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What Makes High-Performing and HiPo Employees? | ClearCompany

ClearCompany HRM

This article on high-performing and high-potential employees (HiPos) was last updated in January 2017. It was most recently updated to include new information and statistics about top performers and HiPos in September 2021. High-performing employees are every company’s dream. Their output is high, their attitudes positive, and they’re always looking for ways to improve.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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How to Develop Competencies for Your Organization and Teams

15Five

Earlier in my career with 15Five, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to job craft my role, which then became “Director of Talent Transformation.” This encompassed manager enablement, organizational development, talent development , and performance management. As the owner of our organization’s performance processes at that time, competencies became an area of focus for me.

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Employee benefits: The secret to keeping employees passionate about work

HR Zone

People The secret to keeping employees happy at work.

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There Is No Finish Line

Jason Lauritsen

Last week, my daughter ran her first cross country race. For those who aren’t familiar with cross country, at her age, it’s a mile and a half run in the “country” (i.e., on grass, through the trees, up and down hills, etc.). She’s new to running and had never run any kind of race in the past, so this was all new territory for her. To help her prepare, we talked a little about strategy.

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Virtual team building: How to create a cohesive remote team

Insperity

As we move toward the post-COVID-19 workplace, here’s a phrase we’ll hear about with increasing frequency: virtual team building. Even after the coronavirus pandemic eventually wanes, remote work is likely to continue in some form for the foreseeable future. For some industries and occupations, it may remain a permanent feature of the modern workplace.

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7 Burnout Busters

SHRM

It’s been a wild and bumpy ride over the past eighteen months for everyone, everywhere! Burnout is rampant in many workplaces, and HR professionals are often the most underrecognized workplace heroes, just as vulnerable to burnout as everyone else. If you are feeling physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually drained, you need to pay attention to your own ‘burnout’ meter’ and take care of yourself, so you can better take care of others.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Four Strategies for Building and Maintaining Resilient Healthcare Teams

Hospital Recruiting

Having resilient healthcare teams is essential for the immediate and long-term success of healthcare organizations. Resiliency is crucial and challenging now, considering the current epidemic, financial constraints, rapidly changing technology, and fluctuations within healthcare delivery systems. Even typically resilient workers are emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted.

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how do I manage a great employee who finishes everything ahead of schedule?

Ask a Manager

This post, how do I manage a great employee who finishes everything ahead of schedule? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I have an employee who is extremely efficient. He finishes tasks in about half the time of his predecessors. I give him additional work, but he still ends up with significant downtime. I’m inclined to ask him to search for efficiency ideas but success in that will lead to more downtime.

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Pros and Cons of Exit Interviews and Surveys

Quantum Workplace

All HR pros know it’s important to collect exit feedback: exit feedback allows an exited employee’s voice to be heard, and it can mitigate the many costs of losing an employee in the future. And HR isn’t the only one who recognizes the value of exit feedback. In fact, 93% of employees believe that exit feedback is important , and 87% of employees believe that their feedback can help others at the organization.

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don’t pretend to have a question just so you can talk about yourself — in interviews and in life

Ask a Manager

This post, don’t pretend to have a question just so you can talk about yourself — in interviews and in life , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation. This post was originally published in 2016. When your interviewer asks what questions you have for them, this is your cue to ask legitimate, genuine questions that you have about the work (or the company, or the team, or so forth).

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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How Do You Build a Personal Brand? Here Are 5 Tips to Get You Started

The Muse

If you're looking to build a personal brand to boost your career, try these five essential tips.

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Pay Banding: Why it Needs to Focus on the Position and Not the Person

SHRM

Pay banding drives pay equity, both are important for transparency, serving to keep employees feel valued and engaged without any untoward biases. Erika Lance Pay banding is a compensation management approach that provides a salary range based on a position and its requirements as well as considerations of market rates. It’s a way of ensuring that pay rates are equitable both within a given position and between positions based on the value assigned to each role.

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Employees’ guide to compassionate and bereavement leave

cipHR

Here’s what all employees need to know about compassionate and bereavement leave. If a loved one is ill and you need to take time off from work to look after them, do you know how compassionate leave can help? If you sadly lose a loved one, do you know what you’re entitled to under bereavement leave? Read our blog as we share the key points and answer the main questions employees are likely to have around compassionate and bereavement leave.

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Insurance Deductible Reset: End of Year Tips

BerniePortal

As the time nears for organizations to renew their health plan , many employees may become concerned if their health insurance deductibles are also set to renew. If an employee is on the cusp of meeting their deductible when it comes time for their health insurance plan to reset, it can be an understandable worry. It is crucial that employees understand exactly when the plan will be renewed, and how they can best prepare for the reset.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Digital Nomads and More: What Does Working Remotely Mean?

Runzheimer

The pandemic had a large impact on the way we work. Many people who typically went into their office to do their job had to work from home. This change has left a lot of people wondering not only what working remotely means, but also how do work remotely effectively. . What does working remotely mean? . While working remotely isn’t necessarily new, it is new to many people.

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Top 3 Things Clients Wish They Knew About Employer Branding (Before They Started)

Blu Ivy Group

There are two common requests that we get for employer branding services. The first is focused on getting tactical elements as quickly as possible. This request typically involves talent acquisition and has one primary focus: driving candidate applications and conversions as fast as possible. They want programmatic ads, search engine marketing (SEM), career pages; the digital marketing tools will help them amplify their brand awareness and fill their roles – now. .

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Ask Madison: What systems we use to track performance-based pay?

Madison

While performance-based pay is generally structured as part of an employee’s compensation package, there are tools available to help track goals, performance, milestones and more that can support pay values but are also part of a complete rewards and recognition platform. Companies can create customized platforms to centralize the performance management process and define the incentive requirements, which also folds into an overall rewards and recognition program.

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COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Expiration Approaches

HRWatchdog

For nearly the entirety of the pandemic, either the federal or California governments have required most employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees for COVID-19-related qualifying events. These mandates are expiring at the end of the month, but employers still need to keep an eye on any local ordinances where employees perform work. The federal government first implemented the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) that required employers with fewer than 500 employees to pr

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Boosting Mental Wellness at Work

Helpside

Encouraging mental wellness in your company will ensure your employees are well equipped to handle the challenges of work. Additionally, you will encounter less mental health and physical health challenges if your employees are mentally well. There are many ways for you to boost mental wellness in your own life and encourage it in the lives of others.

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5 Best Compensation Management Software 2021

HR Lineup

Employees are the roots or backbone of every organization. Therefore, you must ensure that they are comfortable to have an increased retention rate and achieve organizational objectives. One of the ways to achieve employee satisfaction is by designing an effective compensation plan that provides fair salaries and other pay programs like bonuses, commissions, equity, and more.

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Finding The True “E” Of Entrepreneurship: Equanimity

Forbes Coaches Council

By being mindful of emotion and choosing to surround ourselves with an emotional supporting culture, we can maintain a level of equanimity through whatever environment is thrown at us.

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Manager checklist — Are you a “good” manager?

Business Management Daily

“Am I a good manager?” Simply being the type of person who routinely thinks about this question points to an affirmative answer. Leaders willing to reflect upon their management skills demonstrate self-awareness. This self-awareness develops confidence in what they are doing well and keeps top-of-mind possible improvements to their managerial style.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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a rogue admin, a silent snacker, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, a rogue admin, a silent snacker, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation this week. Here are some letters from the archives. 1. Our rogue admin has published her own strict rule book for new hires, without any authority to do that. Our organization has an employee at a satellite office, Jane, whose job description clearly states she that supervises no one; she is administrative support staff.

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3 Great Learnings from Rejected Offers!

The Tim Sackett Project

The CEO of Kapwing, Eric Lu, a video online technology company, recently wrote a blog post about what he and his team learned from recruiting engineers and had sixteen offers that were rejected! Go read it, it’s a great insightful post, from a leader will to share a bit of his pain and learning for the benefit of all of us! First, we all know that recruiting technology candidates have been, and will continue to be, very difficult, especially in Silicon Valley.

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9 Jobs You Can Get With an Art History Degree (and the Skills You Can Take to Any Role)

The Muse

As an art history major, you’ll hone skills like research, analysis, and writing that’ll be useful in a huge range of jobs—including these.

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