Fri.May 18, 2018

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Why 61% of Employees Say the Performance Review Is Outdated

Reflektive

Are your company’s executives and employees aligned on growth? The word alone—“growth”—can mean different things to different people, and that gets to the heart of the Growth Divide. How do you bridge the gap when managers and employees have different definitions and metrics for success? The word alone—“growth”—can mean different things to different people.

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5 times it’s OK to fire an employee on FMLA leave

HR Morning

Of course, you’d never fire someone for taking FMLA leave. But perhaps the termination had been in the works long before the person took FMLA leave. It’s still a sticky situation, but a court recently outlined when it’s safe to say goodbye to someone on FMLA leave. . The danger is, obviously, FMLA interference and retaliation claims.

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97% of People Say This Is the Most Toxic Team Behavior

Evil HR Lady

We all (well, 97 percent of us ) know that making up rumors about someone’s sex life is not okay. But even still, 39 percent of employees have seen it happen—and six percent say they’ve participated, too. People don’t just casually overhear inappropriate conversations—they tend to chime in. An older study suggests that 80 percent of what we talk about is in fact, gossip.

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Keep Your Rock Stars Without Busting the Budget

TLNT: The Business of HR

Here’s a thought bubble: Say you have a “rock star” employee , highly satisfied with his/her job, who came in young and hungry, growing into a superstar over several years with incremental raises, and one day gets woke to the fact they’re being paid way below market value; like in the 25% below or greater range – a huge, almost impossible ask for anyone in today’s business climate.

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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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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. What Amazon’s Board Was Getting Wrong About Diversity and Hiring — by Stefanie K.

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Learn How to Teach – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

A huge thanks to our friends at Kronos for this Time Well Spent. Earlier this month was Teacher Appreciation Week. You might have seen some hashtags with #ThankATeacher on Facebook and Twitter. At least, I hope you did. Education professionals, like teachers, play an important role in our personal and professional lives. Many of today’s teachers go far above and beyond the job description to make sure that students get a good education along with the tools they need to learn.

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Massachusetts Equal Pay Act: Review your Pay Practices

Justworks

A gender pay gap exists in almost every congressional district in the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics outlined in AAUW’s latest report. Despite the federal Equal Pay Act, which requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work, on average, working women earn only 80 cents on the dollar compared to their male peers. Although Congress is considering new federal protections to address this reality, some states have already taken action to further secure the.

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Courses to Careers – Helping Graduates Overcome Tunnel Vision

EDSI

Reflecting on my college experience, “career” was not a term often thrown around by myself or my fellow classmates. In fact, I could not describe the location of my campus career center if you asked. Surely one existed, but in my college mind, the career center was reserved for driven, data-minded business majors, not a scrappy young graphics art major too entirely focused on wondering how I was going to afford school supplies while pulling all-nighters in desperation to complete my schoolwork.

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Live from UNLEASH America: Rachel Botsman on Why Trust Matters

TalentCulture

This week, I’ve been in Las Vegas at UNLEASH America, soaking up big ideas about the latest HR tech trends […]. The post Live from UNLEASH America: Rachel Botsman on Why Trust Matters appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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Leadership and The Power of Doing the Work.

The HR Capitalist

From my drive time this week, I got two very different takes on a public figure in the business world - a guy named Gary Vaynerchuk. Here's a description of Gary that I pulled from Inc.com so I didn't have to think about how to describe him : If you’re an Inc reader, you’re probably familiar with Gary Vaynerchuk. He’s the entrepreneur who grew his father’s business from a humble liquor store into a wine empire through a combination of social media and content marketing.

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Benefits Workers Want Most

HR Daily Advisor

As an HR professional, it’s your job to make sure the benefits your company offers are competitive and desirable. It’s not just about hiring the best and brightest—it’s about retaining the great people you already have! Knowing what sorts of benefits are most valued by employees today can help you make confident plans for the coming year’s offerings.

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Key Metrics To Gauge The Success Of Your Hiring Efforts

SutiHR

Hiring the right talent is crucial to the future success of your business and measuring this metric will prevent you from making mistakes. The best way to improve your recruitment performance is by tracking every stage of your hiring pipeline that provides real-time insights into the talent acquisition process. Analytics provides actionable insights into the.

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HR calibration: how to make your HR teams work in sync

HR Zone

Strategy. HR calibration: making teams work in sync.

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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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Confused by All the Software? So Is Everyone

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you strive to keep up to date with HR technology, you’ll continually run into new categories. For example, there are a whole host of vendors who offer tools to enable video interviewing hence “Video Interviewing Software” has become a category. That’s pretty clear and useful to know.

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PODCAST: HR Happy Hour - Oracle Spotlight - Bringing HR and Finance Together

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour - Oracle Spotlight - Episode 3: Bringing HR and Finance Together. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. Guest: Gretchen Alarcon, Group Vice President, Product Strategy, Oracle. Listen HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, hosts Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane conclude a special series of podcasts with our friends at Oracle HCM. On Episode 3, we are joined by Gretchen Alarcon from Oracle to talk about how the increasing importance of the relationship between the CHRO and the CF

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Compliance Training Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

TLNT: The Business of HR

The modern workplace expects employees to be flexible, accessible and fast moving. Shouldn’t the same apply to online compliance training? Yes, and the good news is that compliance training is breaking out of its boring lane.

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The Job Offers To Look For Online

Take It Personel-ly

The online world has a lot of jobs to it, even if we think of it as an invisible web where things just get done. There’s a lot of app developers and software makers out there that keep the internet running of course, but a lot of people aren’t qualified to fit this bill. It’s […].

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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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How to Leverage Technology to Change the Way You Recruit

HR Daily Advisor

The best companies are made up of the best people. However, attracting and retaining top talent is still one of the biggest challenges businesses face today. cofotoisme / iStock / Getty Images Plus. First impressions matter, and the biggest mistake hiring managers can make is to ignore the importance of how they recruit. In today’s world of social media and company review sites, if even just one candidate has a bad experience (during any point in his or her hiring process), the world can hear ab

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The ROI of employee engagement and culture

CultureAmp

At Culture Amp we're motivated to help build Culture First companies - and that starts at home, with us. We have big ambitions and goals, but what's just as important to us is how we achieve them. We see intrinsic value in feeling good about where we come to work.

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Managing Change in HR and TA – What Would Sackett Do?

The Tim Sackett Project

Hey gang! On May 21st (this upcoming Monday) there is a free online virtual summit around change and innovation. I was invited to participate and you can hear my interview on thoughts around innovation in HR and Talent Acquisition, as well as, how I think we (HR and TA) should be change leaders in our organizations! As a featured guest I’m able to share FREE passes to the Summit.

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Email to successful candidate after interview

Workable

Especially when it comes to successful candidates, timely communication is important because their experience with your hiring process might influence their decision to accept your job offer, if you decide to hire them. Send the following post-interview email template to successful candidates to let them know they’ve moved on the next hiring stage. Customize this template based on how you structure your recruiting process.

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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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Turning Cultural Differences into Workplace Assets

HR Daily Advisor

We humans are social creatures who have a compulsion to connect with other humans. Paradoxically, that same need deeply divides us from others as we choose to identify with those in our own tribes. Our tendency toward tribalism is increasingly creating a society segregated by ideological enclaves. From our social organizations, to our places of worship, to the media outlets we gravitate toward, we surround ourselves with like-minded people and similar points of view.

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HR for Small Business: How to Set Yourself Up for Success

Paycor

As anyone who’s started their own business knows, building an accomplished company doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes hard work and dedication to create the right foundation and sustain success. Think about the businesses you admire. Chances are they understood the importance of human capital and instituted HR best practices that would support them while they were small and as they grew.

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open thread – May 18-19, 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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New HR Job? Here’s a 90 Day Plan To Master Your Role

ForUsAll

If you are a new member of the human resources department – or if you are the HR department – you have a lot on your plate. Between payroll, medical benefits, recruiting, reviewing employee performance, evaluating office policies, or building employee handbooks, you’re probably swamped. If your company offers a 401(k), you may have even more on your new to-do list.

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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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Survey Highlights Differences Between Worker, Retiree Perceptions about Retirement Income

HR Daily Advisor

A new survey illustrates key differences between what workers perceive their most significant sources of income will be in retirement and which sources retirees have found to be the most significant. The Employee Benefits Research Institute’s 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey explores the retirement outlook of both workers and retirees. “Retirees continue to be more confident in their retirement security than workers,” noted Craig Copeland, EBRI senior research associate and co-author of t

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Employee Benefits: Hot Times, Summer in the…

Employee Communications Council

Should employee benefits include summer vacation as a matter of course? The data says ‘yes.’. In 1966, a band called The Lovin’ Spoonful came out with Summer in the City. It pays homage to city life when the weather’s scorching hot during the day, and ears are ringing with the cacophony of car horns and jackhammers. “…All around, people looking half dead/Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head….

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Hiring Internally Versus Externally: Is the Verdict In?

IO At Work

Researchers demonstrate advantages to hiring internal applicants versus external applicants when filling job openings.

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