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How can we better identify HiPos using network data?

Analytics in HR

I recently met with the Organisational Design team of a large regional bank; we were talking about the future of HR technology, the challenges they were facing and how TrustSphere could help. One of the issues that they were keen to explore was opportunities to improve their ability to identify High Potential (“HiPo”) employees. The team was happy to admit that their current process for identifying Hi-Po employees was limited to asking managers a single question during the annual performance rev

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Why Your Best Managers are More Steve Kerr and Less Michael Jordan

Cornerstone On Demand

This article originally appeared in Talent Economy. The 1995 Chicago Bulls season was a memorable one. The team won a then-record-setting 72 games, including the NBA championship. Michael Jordan's return to the Bulls that year (after his brief stint in minor league baseball) was a big part of what helped them hoist the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy—his career average 30-points-per-game still holds the NBA record.

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DecisionWise Principal Consultant Kristin Chapman Named Among Utah’s 30 Women to Watch - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

DecisionWise, the global expert in creating employee engagement, and provider of employee engagement solutions, today announced that Utah Business Magazine named one of its principal consultants to its annual list of 30 Women to Watch. DecisionWise Principal Consultant, Kristin Chapman, was honored yesterday at an awards banquet at Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel and is featured in the magazine’s May issue.

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Sourcing and Machine Learning: What You Need to Learn

Engage2Excel

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are changing the sourcing game, and smart sourcers are adapting. In our quest to stay cutting edge, my team implemented a few new practices discussed at SourceCon , and in this two-part blog I want to share some of those methods. You probably know that AI and machine learning are already a part of our lives.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Engagement as a Competency - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Employee Engagement is an outcome of a complex array of contributing factors. While some factors are influenced only at the organizational level, many elements are under the direct control of individual managers. A skilled manager, therefore, can greatly improve the engagement of his/her team. Employee Engagement competencies represent the key skills a manager must master to create an engaging landscape for the employees they serve.

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Owners of Multiple Small Businesses May Need to Comply with the ACA

ACA Times

2 minute read: Understanding the details of the employer shared responsibility provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can be difficult. One of the first steps is determining whether or not your organization is an applicable large employer ( ALE ). In order to know whether or not your organization is an ALE , an aggregated employer analysis must be performed.

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Your Candidate Experience “Bill of Rights”

Hoops

Implement these best practices to turn your best applicants into new hires, and the rest into your employer brand advocates. The time has come for a candidate experience “Bill of Rights.” For employers, a well-planned and consistently positive candidate experience results in quicker times to fill positions, stronger quality of hires, more employee referrals, and a measurably improved employer brand.

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[Infographic] Tracking Apps That Work at Work

Hppy

In the modern age, it seems like there’s an app to track every aspect of one’s life. From sleep cycles to financial health to calorie counters, there are programs that create graphics and data points to help incentivize positive habits. . While staying fit and financially stable is useful across the board, poor work habits can cost entire companies a great deal.

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Your Candidate Experience “Bill of Rights”

Hoops

Implement these best practices to turn your best applicants into new hires, and the rest into your employer brand advocates. The time has come for a candidate experience “Bill of Rights.” For employers, a well-planned and consistently positive candidate experience results in quicker times to fill positions, stronger quality of hires, more employee referrals, and a measurably improved employer brand.

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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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How Coursera Encourages Its Millennial Employees to Keep Learning

TalentCulture

Training and development are crucial to an organization’s growth and success. Employees need professional development to grow and be promoted […]. The post How Coursera Encourages Its Millennial Employees to Keep Learning appeared first on TalentCulture.

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10 Best Job Interview Questions

TalentLyft

This article contains the top 10 best interview questions. These questions were carefully crafted to help you choose the best job candidate. They will also help you ensure the best candidate experience and make candidates choose your company as their Employer of choice. Read More.

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what to say if an interviewer asks about your favorite books or movies

Ask a Manager

I’m traveling to do some book promotion this week, so I’m running some reprints this week. This was originally published in 2014. A reader writes: I have a question about an interview that I’m pretty sure I bombed recently. Things were going fairly well until my interviewer asked me for my favorite book and favorite movie. I completely blanked and took way too long to answer, and I’m not even sure what I said for them (I think I said Little Women for the book).

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5 Tips to Engage & Retain Young Professionals

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written by Shelby Aprile, Senior Marketing Campaigns Manager, Oracle HCM Cloud. In today’s workforce, millennials and young professionals often get a bad rap – we’re seen as entitled, arrogant, and, perhaps most prevalently, we’re seen as disloyal job-hoppers looking for the fastest, easiest route to a promotion. And in today’s labor market, there are plenty of jobs to hop to.

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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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Q&A: How to Build a Business Case for a New Workforce Communications Platform?

SocialChorus

Your employees make or break your business. They’re at the frontline, representing your brand, taking care of customers, and making your products. And yet as company leadership is trying to deal with disengaged employees and high attrition rates, HR and communications budgets are not keeping up with the pace. In a recent report, the average internal communications budget for a company with 500+ employees was a mere $185,000 per year, far less compared to other departments like marketing who gene

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Ask an HR Expert: How Can I Engage Remote Employees?

Tandem HR

Hello! My name is Katie Stewart and welcome to Ask an HR Expert where we answer any of your HR questions. Today’s question is: How can I engage remote employees? 3 Tips to Engage Remote Employees. Tip #1. Make sure you are intentional in your program design. Your program design should have remote workers in mind. What works for co-located teams may not work for a remote workforce.

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Hearing rather than solving is the new approach to creating inclusion

HR Zone

Culture. Inclusion: why you need to hear rather than solve.

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Help Your Employees to Have a ‘Line of Sight’ to Goals

TLNT: The Business of HR

Incentives remain one of the most powerful, and yet also one of the most misapplied, management tools out there. While research has shown that group incentives can deliver significant return on investment ( CARS research showed a median plan ROI of 134% – or $2.34 for every $1.00 in payout), evidence abounds that our incentive design and implementation efforts often misfire or fall short.

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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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The critical missed step when candidates ask question in a job interview

HRNasty

This interviewer is thinking, “He had the job until he asked me these candidate interview questions.” Today’s post explains how candidates can have a great interview. The hiring manager is thinking “this candidate is the one” Then, in the last 10 minutes, the candidate loses the job because of the candidate interview questions they asked.

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11 Poor-Management Offenses You May Not Know You’re Committing

BambooHR

It’s difficult to be a boss. Let’s say you’ve been managing a team now for a while, and you think things are going well. Work is getting done on time, your people seem reasonably content, and nobody is flagrantly shirking their responsibilities. You’re working hard, your people are working hard, and that’s all you have […].

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Employee Handbook Examples You Should Steal From

Zenefits

If you haven’t spent time designing an employee handbook yet– you’re not alone. An employee handbook can be incredibly useful in building a positive workplace culture and employee loyalty, but they’re not easy to write. That’s why we’re breaking down the process for you and offering you six employee handbook examples. Often having an employee handbook isn’t something most businesses think about until it’s a pressing need.

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Slash Start-up Costs with Tech

Take It Personel-ly

Capital is one of the main things preventing start-ups from launching and also from progressing as far and as fast as they could do. Start-up entrepreneurs spend so much time trying to get loans from banks and other investors, with many setbacks along the way, only to find when they do raise the money they […].

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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can you contact a hiring manager with questions before applying for a job?

Ask a Manager

I’m traveling to do some book promotion this week, so I’m running some reprints this week. This was originally published in 2012. A reader writes: Is it ever advisable to reach out to a hiring manager before applying to a position? For example, if you’re hoping for clarification of what they’re looking for in a candidate or something along those lines.

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Podcast: 2018 State of Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

What are other organizations doing to increase Employee Engagement? We collected feedback from over 150 organizations to find answers to these questions and more: What are companies doing to increase employee engagement? What is the ROI of employee engagement for most companies? How do organizations effectively measure employee engagement? Is employee engagement really working?

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Does Your TA Program Include Hiring People Who Think Differently?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Diversity has ratcheted up the boardroom agenda as companies increasingly recognize the potential that a rich mix of different backgrounds, attitudes and experiences bring to innovation and decision making. But most companies are still laggards in the key area of neurodiversity in the workplace, which means hiring individuals that think differently.

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Fun and Easy Ways to Encourage Peer-to-Peer Recognition

C. A. Short Company

A handwritten note from an executive. An award to honor years of service. Maybe even a personalized gift from a manager. There are many ways your company can recognize your employees for their hard work. But if your business only engages in top-down recognition, you may not attain the Culture of Recognition you’re seeking.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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4 Ways to Keep Executive Candidates Interested

Thrive TRM

Executive candidates have characteristics that other jobs candidates may not share. Because of their executive status, they are often more impatient than others when it comes to waiting. Think about it: most employees do everything in their power not to keep executives–their bosses–waiting for anything. Over time, executives simply become unaccustomed to waiting.

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Is a College Degree Really Necessary to do the Job?

TLNT: The Business of HR

The University of Georgia’s Sanford Stadium has 92,746 seats. As large as that is — and it’s larger than all 31 NFL stadiums — it is still not big enough to seat every unemployed, out of school 16-24 year-old in the city of Atlanta.

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5 Ways Your Employee Handbook Benefits Your Business

Tandem HR

Employee Handbook Benefits. Does your business have an employee handbook? If not, you’re not alone. Some statistics suggest that as many as three out of four small businesses don’t have an updated handbook. While they’re not legally required, providing employees with a handbook serves as simple yet detailed protection for employees and businesses alike.