Ask a Manager
MAY 10, 2018
A few weeks ago, I asked you about the strangest things you’ve ever seen on a resume. You shared some amazing stories — so many, in fact, that I couldn’t pick my usual 10, so here are 30 of the best. 1. “A recent applicant for an entry-level office job at the nonprofit where I work wrote in his application, ‘Just Google me.’ As if I wasn’t already going to.
Hppy
MAY 10, 2018
The young prince had grown weary of the jester – his jokes fell flat, his singing was out of tune and his attempts at acrobatics were dismal. “Perhaps you’d be funnier without your head,” admonished the monarch, “I can easily find a replacement for you.”. The same challenge as the jester befalls HR managers – how do we engage millennials?
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Global Upside
MAY 10, 2018
Decoding international PEO Researching and finalizing your global employment strategy is complex enough. Add in the confusing acronyms and industry jargon, and the undertaking can quickly become overwhelming. We’re here to help clarify and simplify—and we’ll start with a dive into the murky definition of international PEO. Let’s start with the basics: What is a PEO?
HR Bartender
MAY 10, 2018
“Tell me one of your weaknesses.” is a classic interview question. Of course, no candidate wants to answer with a weakness, so they often come up with a weakness that can also be considered a strength. Like “Oh, I work too much.” Or “I have perfectionist tendencies.”. The same holds true for companies. During the interview process , no organization wants to show off their weaknesses.
Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo
HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.
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ClearCompany HRM
MAY 10, 2018
Whether this is your first remote employee or your 50th, hiring and managing a team that spans beyond one office can be a challenge. This checklist is perfect for leaders who are looking to hire a remote employee/team or who have remote employees, but want to boost their program. As with any employee, hiring the right remote worker is crucial to productivity and performance.
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CultureAmp
MAY 10, 2018
Managers have many tools for helping their team members succeed, like regular one-on-one meetings. However, this humble meeting might seem daunting for a new manager. Confusion around what types of questions to ask is understandable.
TalentCulture
MAY 10, 2018
It’s human to make mistakes — after all, no one is perfect. However, errors in the workplace can feel ominous. […]. The post How to Bounce Back from a Big Mistake at Work appeared first on TalentCulture.
The Muse
MAY 10, 2018
Knowing how to recruit like a marketer can help you attract even more best-fit talent to your company. Here's some expert advice on how you can apply some tried and true marketing tactics to the recruitment process and attract even more top-notch candidates.
TLNT: The Business of HR
MAY 10, 2018
We’ve all heard doom and gloom reports of the coming AI revolution. Some forecasters predict a very grim future indeed: Robots take over and humans find themselves unceremoniously kicked to the curb, suddenly unable to provide for themselves and their families. According to these doomsdayers, what happens next is anyone’s guess, and predictions run the gamut from jobless, rootless humans fighting for resources on a planet-wide scale (think Lord of the Flies ) to the robots annihilating us all, S
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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.
Insperity
MAY 10, 2018
Recruiting big-time talent to small businesses is often a struggle. But, with a few creative recruitment strategies on your side, you can level the playing field and compete for top talent. The best candidates may be more likely to apply to companies whose names they’re already familiar with; however, that shouldn’t discourage you. All you need is a little ingenuity to grab their attention and learn what they’re looking for in a career and office culture.
TLNT: The Business of HR
MAY 10, 2018
Many managers mistakenly think that employee satisfaction can increase employee motivation. American psychologist Frederick Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene theory proposes that people are influenced by two factors: those that impact motivation and basic factors that influence job satisfaction. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, and responsibility.
Workable
MAY 10, 2018
Depending on the reports you’re reading, between 80 to 97 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn to source and make first contact with candidates. Combined, LinkedIn Recruiter and a robust applicant tracking system have become the mainstay for many recruiters. And yet, toggling back and forth between the two can be cumbersome. Manually copying data from one system to another can mean lost, duplicate or incorrect data.
SocialChorus
MAY 10, 2018
Date: Wednesday, June 6. Time: 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM PT | Registration from 11:30 – 12:00 with lunch served at 12:00. Location: Palo Alto Four Seasons | Address : 2050 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA, 94303. How to Make Video Like a Boss – Silicon Valley. How do you get your employees’ attention in the age of distraction when they are getting hit by news, emails, and chats all day long?
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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.
Goodhire
MAY 10, 2018
The 10 Most Common Background Checks and What They Include. What is a background check? A background check is a process a person or company uses to verify that a person is who they claim to be, and provides an opportunity for someone to check a person’s criminal record, education, employment history, and other activities that happened in the past in order to confirm their validity.
SutiHR
MAY 10, 2018
Years ago, workforce engagement and satisfaction were not considered as key factors of business success, but today, most organizations believe that employees are the most powerful drivers of business performance. Most engagement initiatives have been ill-defined and ineffective, incapable of providing the actionable insights required to enact lasting change.
Ask a Manager
MAY 10, 2018
A reader writes: Thanks to your blog, I found the job of my dreams. I have so much autonomy and my boss is amazing. I arrive at 7 a.m. to beat the morning traffic. I leave at 4 p.m., again, to beat the traffic. My wonderful boss knows this. She’s in by 9 and out by 5. I have received glowing praise from my boss in the short time I’ve been here.
Ongig
MAY 10, 2018
If you need to write better job descriptions, there are a few great free tools to use. 1. Hemingway App. Just copy and paste your job description text into Hemingway and you can see things like: The grade level of your writing (this IBM job description is at the 14th-grade level which is “poor” and Hemingway recommends you aim for 9th grade).
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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.
HR Daily Advisor
MAY 10, 2018
Delaware legalized medical marijuana in 2011, opening the door for patients with certain chronic illnesses to use cannabis for treatment. Unfortunately, the statute failed to address a wide variety of employment issues, including the impact of medical marijuana on workers’ compensation law. tvirbickis / iStock / Getty Images Plus. The Delaware Industrial Accident Board (IAB), the agency responsible for processing workers’ comp claims, recently provided the first guidance on whether e
Quantum Workplace
MAY 10, 2018
How employee engagement drives business success is often framed as being really straightforward. You’ve all heard that high levels of employee engagement drive business success : higher retention, more revenue, you name it. In fact, we’re almost to the point where most business professionals believe it’s “just common sense” that high engagement means better results, lower engagement means worse results, good business means high engagement, and bad business means low engagement.
Ask a Manager
MAY 10, 2018
Remember the letter-writer in February whose year-long position was being renewed , but her boss was starting the hiring for it without considering her for it? (#5 at the link) Here’s the update. I spent February trying to sort out my feelings around my manager telling me that I had done an exemplary job in my role, yet also wanting me to find my own replacement.
Criteria Corp
MAY 10, 2018
There has always been a lot of fear and hesitation around data and artificial intelligence, especially when it comes to incorporating it into the hiring process. The resistance is reasonable. After all, HR is a “human” field, and hiring is such a nuanced, personal process.
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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?
Namely
MAY 10, 2018
HR Redefined is less than a month away, and we hope you’re as excited as we are! Whether or not you attended last year’s inaugural HR Redefined conference , this year is one not to miss. We have a variety of surprises up our sleeve, but to get the excitement brewing, here are five things we’re looking forward to at this year’s HR Redefined: 1. Adam Grant Takes the Stage.
Advos
MAY 10, 2018
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 *This week's Fundings: $70M+ Lyra Health, Solutions Provider for Employee Mental Health Issues Receives $45 million [ ] The post M&A Friday!
Acacia HR Solutions
MAY 10, 2018
On Monday night I had the pleasure of attending an event put on by Eightfold.ai. Eightfold is a fairly new player in the HR tech space. Their system works alongside your ATS and/or HRIS to mine millions of data points to allow you to make better talent decisions. Of course this is the most laymen. The post Machine Learning and Why Change is Hard for HR appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.
Workology
MAY 10, 2018
Meet the team interviews and tryouts are increasingly common in the tech industry. In some organizations, team members play as important a role as human resources and managers, casting the final. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.
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.
Ask a Manager
MAY 10, 2018
It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. Our vendor has started hugging everyone. I’m generally very against hugging at work, and I’ve run into a weird situation — or maybe I just let this go on too long. I work in communications and we have a service provider who is a big internet company everyone would know. We’ve also got regular meetings with them a few times a year.
Efficient Hire
MAY 10, 2018
Because every employer is different, the most complete onboarding checklist for new hires will be the one that you create specifically for your organization. However, there are a number of basic items that many companies commonly use. Some of these. Read more. The post Where Can I Find a Complete Onboarding Checklist for New Hires? appeared first on Efficient Forms.
HR Daily Advisor
MAY 10, 2018
You know that funny feeling you get in your gut when you leave the house thinking you forgot something? That exact feeling hit me earlier in my career when our company launched a division in a completely unfamiliar industry. Source: guvendemir / iStock / Getty. At the beginning, things looked fine. We had insurance. Marketing and sales started selling.
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