Tue.Nov 14, 2017

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5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Background Check Turnaround Time

Precheck

5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Background Check Turnaround Time Nov. 15, 2017. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. While most healthcare employers conduct background checks on new hires, it can also be a component that can increase the time to fill for talent acquisition. While human resources departments have traditionally been viewed as cost centers, focusing on improving metrics such as time to fill that can demonstrate improved return on investment can change thi

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Strategies for Retaining Talent When Employees Have the Upper Hand

HR Daily Advisor

We all understand the concept of a buyer’s market vs. seller’s market in real estate. Typically, one side or the other has an advantage as the housing market and/or economy shifts over time. The same is true for the workforce. At any given time, we’re either in an employer’s market or an employee’s market, and it shifts over time. During the recession, we saw a strong employer’s market, when companies could obtain and retain talent fairly easily at reasonable rates.

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Companies Don’t Have to Get Employee Feedback About Everything

HR Bartender

I’ve always said that one of the worst things organizations can do is ask employees for their feedback and then do nothing with the information. As a human resources professional, this is one of the major gripes that employees have with employee surveys. (Side note: The length of time it takes to hear the survey results is another.). The company wants employee feedback, so employees take the time to (honestly) complete the survey…and then nothing.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Performance Review

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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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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What is WOTC?

ExactHire

“WOTC” is an acronym for Work Opportunity Tax Credit. It is a Federal tax credit available to employers who hire individuals from defined target groups. Individuals from this these groups are defined as having consistently faced significant barriers to employment. The goal of WOTC is to facilitate access to quality employment, while also incentivizing workplace diversity.

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Will the IRS Extend ACA Reporting Deadlines?

ACA Times

Are deadline extensions and reinstatement of penalty relief for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the cards for employers? The IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC) has recommended the IRS provide organizations more time to submit IRS filings mandated by the ACA for the 2017 tax reporting year to individuals, as it did for 2016 tax year filings.

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Have you outgrown your PEO?

PeopleStrategy

Some companies choose to work with Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) to handle their HR activities. Under the arrangement, the PEO becomes co-employer with the organization and takes responsibility for payroll, benefits and tax functions, and often also other main HR tasks. Because PEOs group employees from several different companies together, they are often able to secure lower rates for benefits coverage, such as health insurance, reducing costs for the companies.

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News You Might Have Missed – November 14

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Six Communications Tips to Strengthen Your Company’s Culture. Check out these communication tips on how to better your company culture, like being intentional and establishing terminology. Modeling clear, consistent messaging is key to foster a strong culture, via Entrepreneur.

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[New Research] Radically Rethinking Your Learning Content Strategy [Free Report]

Lighthouse

Anyone who believes that yesterday’s learning content can engage today’s modern learner is sorely mistaken. More than ever employers need to think about how to offer learning content that not only delivers value for the learner, but value for the business as well. Frankly, it can be tough. Creating learning content is a tough game. You’re often focusing on very fundamental or routine topics, but that’s only half the battle.

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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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Build vs. Buy: The Complexity of Your Organization

Kazoo

Most successful organizations have some type of recognition and rewards program in place, although many do not leverage a technology solution to make it a best-in-class program. And yet, the larger and more complex an organization, the more critical the need for a modern, sophisticated and integrated system becomes. Though larger organizations may want to use internal resources to build a solution, a premium system for purchase may cut costs in half and be configured to suit requirements.

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Top 10 Things To Do When Hiring A New Employee

TalentCulture

You finally found that perfect candidate to fill your vacant position in the company, but it’s not yet time to sit back and relax. Giving new hires a proper welcome and perfecting your employee onboarding process is just as important as your well thought out hiring process. A well-structured onboarding process will not only give your company an improved employee retention rate, but it also will save you the money it takes to hire and train a replacement.

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Creating a work-life balance: Why flexibility needs to be a two-way street

HR Zone

Culture. Why flexibility needs to be a two-way street.

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This is What Happens When You Pay For It

TalentCulture

If it’s not in the compensation plan it won’t get done. If you don’t pay employees to further the strategic goals of the organization, they won’t be achieved. That’s a fact; that’s the reality. Why do you think sales bonus plans are so pervasive? It’s all very well to strike an audacious goal and throw it out to the organization expecting employees will somehow identify with it, get excited about it and do whatever is necessary to implement it.

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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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5 Tips to Help Your Employees Get Through The Holidays With Less Stress

TLNT: The Business of HR

It’s that time of year again. Time to start preparing (and indulging in) lavish meals, fighting over the last Black Friday deal, holiday parties and after holiday party, and making jolly when out of town guests arrive It’s the holiday season.

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? How HR can get over their love/hate relationship with metrics

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Andy Campbell, HCM Strategy Director at Oracle. HR leaders have a love/hate relationship with metrics. Let’s begin with the positive: metrics add structure to the way HR teams work and help guide their decision-making. They also provide a means of measuring success, which is not as easily defined for people performance as it is for more financial performance.

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Google Analytics is Your Recruiting Secret Weapon

Workology

As our work in recruitment and hiring becomes more digital, we need tools, reporting, and metrics that help us understand the needs, interests, and activities of our candidates for the positions we. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Is your workplace design killing your recruitment and retention efforts?

Insperity

When candidates walk into an office, they immediately observe the appearance of your building and start developing their impressions of your company. Beware that a potential new-hire is hyper-sensitive and will notice the things you may have become blind to. They will be on the lookout for red flags as they are asking themselves “Can I commit to spending the majority of my days at this company?”.

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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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Want Organizational Transparency? Get Comfortable Having Uncomfortable Conversations

Bonfyre

An edited version of this article was originally published on TLNT under the title “ Transparency Means Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable.” . Want to hear a tale of self-sabotage? I once worked for an organization where two executives wanted to bring in another person to run a large group within the company. There was a senior employee, we’ll call him Steve, who appeared to be an obvious choice for the role.

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Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture

Culture University

I recently met with a client, responsible for organizational development, in the financial services sector, who was seeking ideas, information and input from ImagineNation™ towards cultivating a “fail fast” organizational culture. It caused me to explore what might be some of the key messages that could be sent to people, to create permission, vulnerability, safety, […].

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4 Must-Have Features of HR Software for SMBs

SutiHR

HR departments have to manage the most dynamic resource of their organization – the workforce. HR management is full of tasks, which are diverse in nature, and it is more challenging when it comes to SMBs. HR software that is especially made for SMBs will streamline the core HR processes and increase overall productivity of. The post 4 Must-Have Features of HR Software for SMBs appeared first on SutiHR.

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is it okay to wear designer clothes to a job interview?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am currently employed at my first post-college job, and after two years with my company I am looking for other opportunities in my area. My job has paid fairly well since I started, and I enjoy bargain shopping as a hobby, so I have been able to score name-brand bags and accessories at well below their actual cost. I feel as though these have been investment pieces I’ll keep forever, and they suit my business casual/professional wardrobe and personal style extremely well

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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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Moonlighting policy

Workable

This moonlighting policy template (or outside employment policy) is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs and can be a starting point for setting up your employment policies. The post Moonlighting policy appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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What Makes a Good Leader GREAT When Managing Millennials

Clarity Wave

When searching for the secrets to becoming a great leader many books, articles, and blog posts say the same thing; Vision, Courage, Integrity, Humility, Integrity, Commitment and so on. While all these are wonderful attributes of a good leader, we tend not to place as much emphasis on communication. Communication is both an attribute and the medium which make a good leader great.

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my employee never apologizes when his mistakes cause extra work for other people

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have an employee who makes a lot of careless mistakes. He’s still learning, and the mistakes themselves are a separate issue, but my concern here is that he will email several people saying he found a problem — sometimes in an internal process, sometimes in a published report. It will take several back and forth emails to get the specifics, and multiple people have to then duplicate his checks, and it nearly always turns out to be his mistake.

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Simple Employee Performance Management System with Mobile apps

AssessTEAM Performance Management

The increasingly nomadic nature of the modern work-force means that significant numbers of workers do not have easy, sustained access to desktop computers. For modern employee performance management programs to be fully inclusive, workers must be able to access them via mobile apps. The good news is that there are plenty of employee performance management tools out there with extensive mobile functionality.

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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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9 Ways Calendar Connectivity Saves Employees Time

Cronofy

We’re big fans of finding ways to help you save time. That’s why we’ve combined some of our customer success stories and case studies to create a fictional account of the different ways employees can save time using calendar sync. In it, our protagonist discusses the different ways her company uses calendar sync, and the ways in which it’s saved her and her colleagues time.

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is my workload too high or am I bad at my job?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: How do you tell the difference between an unreasonable workload and unsatisfactory planning skills? I’ve been working in my first office job for just under two years. Our work is season based, and when we’re in season, it’s super busy. When we’re not, it’s super dead. Or at least it used to be. My first year here, my workload was manageable — I usually had plenty to do, but once in a while there were slow days.

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Why L&D and Marketing Should Be BFFs

Learnbee

According to the Bersin by Deloitte Research Bulletin, “ The Real Challenge with Learner Engagement: L&D Has a Marketing Problem ,” a staggering 65% of L&D professionals report that their learners are not aware of the learning opportunities available at their organizations. What’s the point of working day and night to plan, design, and implement an LMS powered corporate training program just to have your users forget about its existence after the first few weeks of launch?