Fri.Mar 16, 2018

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These 3 words just cost an employer $50K

HR Morning

A recent lawsuit taught managers what not to say as the EEOC showed, once again, that a small comment can end up costing an employer big. . Diverse Lynx, an IT staffing firm in Princeton, NJ, was slapped with an age discrimination suit after rejecting a older applicant. ‘Age will matter’ According to the EEOC , after learning how old a job applicant was, the company emailed him saying he would no longer be considered for the position because he was born in 1945.

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Know When to Upgrade Your Technology – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of quality workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the fourth consecutive year, Kronos has been named one of the Best Workplaces for Women according to global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work. Congrats to them!

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Upskilling Talent Acquisition: The 21st Century Recruiter -- by Amber Grewal. 2.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Building Your EQ

TalentCulture

When you turn on your laptop or open your office door, what do you bring with you? I’m not talking […]. The post #WorkTrends Recap: Building Your EQ appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Does Technology Have an Answer to Quality of Candidates Complaints?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Quality of hire is the most important and most difficult metric in talent acquisition. Talent Tech Labs , a New York based incubator, introduced me to Talenytics , a software vendor that focuses on quality of hire.

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When Money Isn’t Enough: 4 Drivers of Motivation

TLNT: The Business of HR

Most existing recognition and incentive programs have been designed utilizing traditional economic theories which suggest:

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Key Success Factors for Modern Recruitment

SutiHR

The recruiting function takes many different forms from one industry to the other. In environments where talent supply is limited and competition is high, HR recruiters may be required to spend more time with potential candidates, resulting in taking on fewer requisitions at a time. Success in modern recruitment may be a moving target, but. The post Key Success Factors for Modern Recruitment appeared first on SutiHR.

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5 SXSW Trends to Take Home With You

Workology

Now that SXSW has wrapped for the year, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at some of the conference’s biggest trends and think about which ones would be the most useful to you, me, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Your New HR Tech Can't Deliver the Reporting and Analytics You Need

Hire Road

“ It’s Been 2 Years Since We Implemented Our New HR Tech, and We Still Don’t Have the Reporting & Analytics We Need!”. prefer to download as a PDF? Click image.

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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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Webinar Recap: Leverage AI to Transform Time Management into Time Intelligence

Replicon

A big thank you to everyone who made our webinar last week – Leverage AI to Transform Time Management into Time Intelligence – a huge success. It was a great session with many excellent questions. Director of Product Marketing, Vivek Gopalpuria, and Solutions Engineering Lead, Rajiv Borrison, discussed how companies can utilize artificial intelligence to […].

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Making Social Media Work for You—Not Against You—in Recruiting for Diversity

HR Daily Advisor

Achieving a diverse workforce and learning how to use social media to recruit talent are two common goals for employers. Sometimes, though, the two objectives can work against each other. Gone are the days when employers would specify an age, gender, or other characteristic in a newspaper help-wanted ad. Today’s social media-aided recruiting opens a world of opportunities to find a diverse set of potential employees.

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Get Endorsed for Your Skills with New Quick Base Qualification Badges

Quickbase

The third blog in our Certification Series, Quick Base University’s Peter Goldstein talks about a new program that lets you earn Qualification Badges as you learn about the Quick Base platform.

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Employee Recognition and 6 Powerful Ways To Implement It

Vantage Circle

Employee Recognition is the acknowledgement of an individual or team for their hard work, efforts, and accomplishments in the organization. Employee Recognition is paramount in the workplace. It creates a friendly atmosphere and induces a sense of belongingness and closeness. Altogether it nurtures a supportive work environment. How important do you think it is to build a workplace recognition culture?

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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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weekend free-for-all – March 17-18, 2018

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: The Newlyweds , by Nell Freudenberger. A Bangladeshi woman comes to the U.S. to marry an American man, and ends up caught between two cultures. You may also like: all of my 2017 book recommendations all my 2016 book recommendations all my 2015 book recommendations weekend free-for-all – March

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Employee Engagement Decreases Nursing Home Turnover, Improves Healthcare Quality

Total Employee Recognition

Nearly 1.5 million. That’s the number of Americans who currently live in nursing homes and long-term care facilities across the nation. People who, in many cases, depend almost entirely on their caregivers – men and women who have dedicated their lives to helping others. Rarely is this an easy job.

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open thread – March 16-17, 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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Diversity in the Workplace – Do You Have What Women Want?

Blu Ivy Group

#MeToo Movement Sheds Light on Gender Diversity Gaps In Employer Brands. More than ever, workplaces are being held accountable for how equitably women are. treated. It seems that a day doesn’t pass without new and disturbing allegations of. sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace. Every week we hear of gender pay. gaps. From movie studios to boardrooms, it’s clear that we have a long way to go. before women are accorded the equity and respect that they deserve, and that is. required for org

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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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Strategic HR: Writing a Strong Termination Letter

HR Daily Advisor

Writing a termination letter can be a daunting task when you realize that so much can rise or fall on what it says. A few straightforward strategies can help you prepare a termination letter that provides all the benefits and helps you manage the risks that accompany all termination decisions. What to Leave in and What to Leave Out. A termination letter is obviously a critical document.

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Where Should You Really Spend Your Recruiting Dollars? Here Are 5 Scrappy Ideas

Evil HR Lady

If you work for a hot startup or a Fortune 100 company, recruiting is no big deal. If you work for the former, applications probably flood your website. Plus, you’ve got the budget to splurge on specialized headhunters to find the exact match for each role. If you work for the latter, candidates are probably scrambling to get in on the ground floor of something huge.

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Measure Learning Agility to Identify Successful Leaders

Select International

Identifying, hiring, and developing successful leaders is a daunting task for many organizations, especially when attempting to implement a succession plan. Change is inevitable and having a strong pipeline of high potentials (Hi-Po) is essential to staying competitive.

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Dilemma of the Month: Out-of-Office Socialization

Evil HR Lady

I am the chief human resources officer of a startup and live with a fellow co-founder. Without telling me, he invited one of our interns over to our house for reasons unrelated to work. While they are just playing Pokémon, I feel I am in an awkward position. Is after-hours employee fraternization between a co-founder and an intern inappropriate, or am I just being extra cautious?

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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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3 Ways Employers Should Be Encouraging March Madness!

The Tim Sackett Project

For those that know me, I’m a huge basketball fan. Pro, college, AAU, high school, hell, if you really dig into my past you would probably find me hanging out at some playground breaking down the defense effort of a pickup game between grade school kids. So, when March Madness time comes around each year I’m like many of your employees.

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Why HR was the Perfect Way to Kick-Start My Career

Namely

Stephanie Madsen spent eight years building processes for a Chicago-based startup, Red Frog Events. A self-labeled “mother hen,” she took initiative around the office to nurture new hires, keep the office clean and stocked, and build a one-of-a-kind culture. Before long, she had plunged into HR and built a career doing everything from employee benefits to HR software implementation.

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Austin, Texas Enacts Mandatory Paid Sick Leave Law

HR Daily Advisor

Last month, the Austin City Council passed a new Paid Sick Leave Ordinance—the first of its kind in the south. The Council voted 9-2 to implement the policy in the early hours of February 16, 2018. The ordinance applies to private-sector employers located in Austin, Texas, and requires employers to provide paid sick leave (PSL) to employees beginning October 1, 2018. olm26250 / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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HSA Limits Changed

HRWatchdog

The IRS recently announced that it was revising downward the annual limit for HSA contributions for family coverage. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are pre-tax accounts available to individuals covered under a high-deductible health plan. Eligible individuals can accumulate money, tax-free, in HSAs to pay for qualified medical expenses in the face of rising health insurance costs.

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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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Employee Recognition and 6 Powerful Ways To Implement It

Vantage Circle

Employee Recognition is the acknowledgement of an individual or team for their hard work, efforts, and accomplishments in the organization. Employee Recognition is paramount in the workplace. It creates a friendly atmosphere and induces a sense of belongingness and closeness. Altogether it nurtures a supportive work environment. How important do you think it is to build a workplace recognition culture?

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HELP! DocketBird, PacerPRO, or Bloomberg Law? What’s the best for docket tracking and searches?

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Tim Green on Flickr ([link]. Attorneys, I could use your help. I’d like to invest in a product that can track federal dockets (so that I can be first to alert clients and prospects about new litigation) and also have access to federal pleadings in real time (to easily download pleadings). I’ve got three options: PacerPRO. DocketBird.

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Employee Recognition and 6 Powerful Ways To Implement It

Vantage Circle

Employee Recognition is nothing but the acknowledgment of an individual or team for their hard work, efforts, and accomplishments that go with the organization’s goals and values. It creates a friendly atmosphere, induces a sense of belongingness and closeness and altogether creates a supportive work environment. But most often than not employees feel they are not valued in their organization and they don’t receive their due recognition.