Thu.Apr 13, 2017

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Qualtrics raises $180 million led by Insight Venture Partners and Accel. HR Path lands 30 mln euros.

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5 Big Things on the Minds of Today's Most Innovative CHROs

Cornerstone On Demand

Human resources isn't traditionally seen as the most innovative, or even most influential, department in a company. But today's Chief Human Resources Officers are changing the game, challenging the common perception of HR as just an administrative department and positioning themselves instead as critical to business strategy. This fundamental shift in talent management inspired us to bring some of today's foremost HR leaders, from some of the most successful companies across the U.S., together t

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4 Things I Like About My Recruiter

Hospital Recruiting

Andriy Popov/123RF.com. In the span of seventeen years, I have worked in twenty different facilities as an emergency physician. The vast majority of these jobs came as a result of working with a talented recruiter. Hardly a day goes by where someone doesn’t reach out for help staffing a hospital. I am selective in where and why I’ll travel to pick up some shifts, but a key factor is the methods of the recruiter.

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The Single Greatest Metric in the History of Talent Acquisition!

The Tim Sackett Project

“0.00” or “Zero” I’ll let you decide how you want to display it, both ways work. Oh, what is this measuring? Check this out: The number of candidates, in the past twenty years that I’ve hired, that were willing to accept a job without first having a phone call with someone at the organization I worked for. . That number is: 0 .

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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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Best Practices for Creating an Employee Performance Review Program

ClearCompany HRM

Nowadays, the term “performance review” inspires chills in the spines of managers and executives alike. The practice has become a bit taboo as more and more reports express just how little they’re appreciated and even how they hinder the productivity and satisfaction of employees.

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Effective Coping Strategies for Employees: Learning to Reframe and Mix in Some Humor

CONCERN: EAP

As the saying goes, “To err is human.” We all experience small errors and mishaps throughout our daily lives. These setbacks are no fun, often complicating our day, our work, and adding to stress levels. Even though stress can have a very real impact on employees physically, it often begins as a mental process. When facing life’s setbacks, the way employees view the experience can either intensify—or minimize—the resulting stress response.

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NYC Bans Asking Candidates About Pay History

Justworks

What is the new legislation? The new legislation, if signed, will bans employers (those with four or more employees) from asking job candidates, as well as their current and past employers, about salary history during the hiring process. This includes inquiries as to wages, benefits, and other forms of compensation. It also bans employers from searching publicly available records for this information and using it to make compensation decisions.

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How Some Simple Changes Can Make Your Work Life Happier

Hppy

While we spend a huge proportion of our weeks at work, reports sadly show time after time that huge numbers of workers across the country aren’t happy in their jobs, and that this dissatisfaction can even lead to severe health issues. Many people either hate their boss, aren’t enjoying the actual work they do, don’t feel appreciated, think they’re under paid, or are just bored on the job.

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Employee Engagement: How to Measure What Matters

Achievers

By: Josh Danson Director of Content Marketing, Achievers. Recently, there have been some eye-opening reports about the state of employee engagement, both here in the U.S. and globally. Aon Hewitt, in their 2017 Trends in Global Employee Engagement Study , found that engagement levels have dropped for the first time in five years and Gallup recently reported in its State of the American Workplace report that a full 70% of U.S. workers are not engaged at work.

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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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Future Models of HR

Strategic HCM

One of the areas which seem to have produced quite a few ideas this year is the future of HR, supporting the broader future of work. My favourite report in this area is probably Henley's: HR with Purpose: Future Models of HR - partly but not just because I contributed to it. A lot of the report emphasises the need for HR to act more strategically. Eg the diagram above suggests that creating an HR strategy is one of the most important needs for HR and is also an area of low capability.

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Thought That ACA Reporting for 2015 Was a Free Pass? Think Again.

ACA Times

With now two reporting years (2015 and 2016) behind us since the implementation of the Employer Mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the IRS has yet to impose any penalties on employers for failure to comply with the Employer Mandate. These are the “A” and “B” penalties under Internal Revenue Code Section 4980H, which correspond to (A) penalties for failure to offer minimum essential coverage and (B) penalties for those who offer such coverage but fail to meet minimum value and/or afford

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Effective Coping Strategies for Employees: Learning to Reframe and Mix in Some Humor

CONCERN: EAP

As the saying goes, “To err is human.” We all experience small errors and mishaps throughout our daily lives. These setbacks are no fun, often complicating our day, our work, and adding to stress levels. Even though stress can have a very real impact on employees physically, it often begins as a mental process. When facing life’s setbacks, the way employees view the experience can either intensify—or minimize—the resulting stress response.

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Millennials: Helping the “Workaholic” Generation

TalentCulture

We live in a world that is constantly in “on” mode. Smart phones, computers, emails, and phone calls; even after you clock off from work, it’s so easy to forget to actually “check out.”. This is especially true for the millennial generation. Despite common misconceptions, millennials appear to be more workaholics rather than lazy youngsters. Their relationship with technology often means they are constantly checking work emails after they’ve clocked off, or first thing when they wake up in the m

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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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Effective Coping Strategies for Employees: Learning to Reframe and Mix in Some Humor

CONCERN: EAP

As the saying goes, “To err is human.” We all experience small errors and mishaps throughout our daily lives. These setbacks are no fun, often complicating our day, our work, and adding to stress levels. Even though stress can have a very real impact on employees physically, it often begins as a mental process. When facing life’s setbacks, the way employees view the experience can either intensify—or minimize—the resulting stress response.

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#WorkTrends Recap: The Leadership Gap

TalentCulture

According to this week’s guest, one of the most sought-after leadership coaches in the world, Lolly Daskal , being successful as a leader takes persistence and patience—and the investment of a lot of time and energy. It, also, takes the willingness to get up day after day, putting in long hours and hard work, navigating the roadblocks, as well as the detours as they come.

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Effective Coping Strategies for Employees: Learning to Reframe and Mix in Some Humor

CONCERN: EAP

As the saying goes, “To err is human.” We all experience small errors and mishaps throughout our daily lives. These setbacks are no fun, often complicating our day, our work, and adding to stress levels. Even though stress can have a very real impact on employees physically, it often begins as a mental process. When facing life’s setbacks, the way employees view the experience can either intensify—or minimize—the resulting stress response.

Strategy 100
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Millennials: Helping the “Workaholic” Generation

TalentCulture

We live in a world that is constantly in “on” mode. Smart phones, computers, emails, and phone calls; even after you clock off from work, it’s so easy to forget to actually “check out.”. This is especially true for the millennial generation. Despite common misconceptions, millennials appear to be more workaholics rather than lazy youngsters. Their relationship with technology often means they are constantly checking work emails after they’ve clocked off, or first thing when they wake up in the m

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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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Degrees Measure Resilience In Employment.And That's Why We Require Them.

The HR Capitalist

Do you have to have a degree to get hired at your company? . Maybe. Do you need a degree to be one of the best in any company? Hell no. That's probably why Ernst and Young decided to drop the degree requirement. Then why do we require degrees? I think for the most part we've progressed past the point where we think a degree means anything related to job performance.

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#WorkTrends Recap: The Leadership Gap

TalentCulture

According to this week’s guest, one of the most sought-after leadership coaches in the world, Lolly Daskal , being successful as a leader takes persistence and patience—and the investment of a lot of time and energy. It, also, takes the willingness to get up day after day, putting in long hours and hard work, navigating the roadblocks, as well as the detours as they come.

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Guess Who Wastes Time at Work

TLNT: The Business of HR

I’m not a big fan of over-generalizing the characteristics of the different generations in the workforce. It’s just too easy to say “Millennials are entitled;” “Baby Boomers aren’t good with social media;” or “Gen Xers are lazy.” Too easy, and not at all true. Any of it.

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Jostle Awards 2016: Finalists revealed!

Jostle

We’ve spent the last few weeks looking at more than 70 entries to Jostle Awards 2016 from 39 Jostle customers across the globe. These stories of people, purpose, and transformation wowed and inspired us. And now, it’s time to announce our finalists!

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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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Get the Feedback You Need By ‘Mentioning the Unmentionable’

TLNT: The Business of HR

A manager at a constructive conversations seminar I was giving shared a great example of what I believe is one of the most powerful communication devices for getting to heart of an issue.

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Engaging Millennials: Unleashing a Generation in the Workforce

WorqIQ

Millennials is a strange word people use – often with some derision – to refer to a younger generation of workers. Many falsely believe they’re different from other generations, and that something might be wrong with them. What’s probably driving much of this sense of enigma is that Millennials are less engaged at work than […] Read more. Read More» The post Engaging Millennials: Unleashing a Generation in the Workforce appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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What Do You Do If Your Employee Gets Sick Abroad?

TLNT: The Business of HR

In 2016, U.S. residents logged 457.4 million person‑trips for business purposes. Life on the road can give employees an opportunity to see new places and immerse themselves in a new culture, but it also can sometimes put them at a higher risk for contracting illness. Health risks are of particular concern for business travelers overseas, given that they can be exposed to different illnesses in unfamiliar territories and may not have the health care resources they’re used to receiving at home.

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4 Super Powers of an HR Superhero

Quantum Workplace

Powers from the gods, lavish hideouts, and awesome costumes…these are the first things that come to mind when most people think of superheroes. But their super powers and sick gear are nothing compared to the heroes behind the masks: it’s their genuine humanness that drives us to read their comics, watch their movies, and sport their logos on our t-shirts.

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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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How to Deal with a Toxic Job

HR Daily Advisor

A toxic job. It’s one where people are assigned more work than they can accomplish, micro-managed about how to get the work done, and surrounded by people who don’t have their back. Also known as the “toxic triad,” this combination of high demand, low control, and low social support leads to increased likelihood of depression, burnout, stress, sleep disturbances, and absenteeism.

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Leave Me Alone, I Know What I'm Doing

NoExcusesHR

"Arrogance destroys the valuable, and absolutely essential relationships a leader has with other team members. Even more devastating is the feeling arrogant behavior creates in others. People have no desire or motivation to follow an arrogant leader." - Peter Barron Stark Landing The Big Job There is something very exciting, and candidly hard to describe, about starting a new job, particularly one that is much bigger than the previous one.

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Interviewing Tips Not Enough? Here’s How to Guide Candidates Into Careers

Spark Hire

Jim seemed like a perfect fit for one of your top clients. He met all the job requirements. His experience was diverse and extensive. His knowledge of the industry was impressive, and it showed. Within a year, his previous employer promoted him from a supervisor role to director. You gave him interviewing tips and coached him through several video interviews.