Thu.Jul 20, 2017

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Stop Sabotaging Your New Hire! Try These Bold Onboarding Ideas

ClearCompany HRM

While the employee onboarding process should instill confidence in new hires, it goes beyond warm fuzzies. You and your team are preparing the new employee for the reality of the job. Give them the wrong idea about your company or their position, and you will see a quickly exiting or disengaged hire. Aside from the critical steps of the employee onboarding process , your team should be using your company culture and values to inspire a unique experience.

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Human Resources: 2017 Changes for Form I-9

HR Bartender

There’s a lot happening in the news. Regardless of your politics, our legislators are talking about immigration, health care, elections, and much more. It can be a challenge to keep up with it all. For example, did you know that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office just released a new version of Form I-9? I didn’t know this change was coming until I was in New Orleans at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference.

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Dealing with a Narcissistic Boss

EmployeeConnect

Do you feel your boss is a narcissist? Do they expect you to be on call the entire day? Are they a person who blames everyone else other than themselves for any mistakes? Do they often argue and contradict themselves? Well, if the answer to most of these questions is yes, then it appears you are probably reporting to a narcissist! Some of the common character traits of a narcissist include being selfish, throwing temper tantrums, and taking away the credit for other people’s work.

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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Easy on Yourself

CONCERN: EAP

When you hit a rough patch, what does your self-talk sound like? For some of us, in those moments, our inner voice comes on like a drill-sergeant full of harsh words and criticism. Even people who are naturally supportive and understanding of others may find it hard to offer the same kindness to themselves. An area of behavioral science research observing self-compassion is taking a closer look at how kindly or unkindly we view ourselves, and the effects on mood, health, and overall wellbeing.

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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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Know the Basics: What is an FSA? And How Do I Set One Up?

Justworks

If you're looking into an FSA, you may want to find out what other fringe benefits prospective hires want. Between all the jargon of HSAs and FSAs, you may have asked yourself — what is a flexible spending account, exactly? A flexible spending account, or FSA, is an account eligible employees use to put pre-tax money into throughout the year. They then use that account to pay for certain health care out-of-pocket costs.

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Pay Attention to Originality

WorkHuman

Adam Grant & Greg Stevens at WorkHuman 2017. Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Adam Grant and Greg Stevens, embedded at the top of this post. People can learn to increase their originality, developing creative ideas to improve the world around them and seeing those ideas through to reality. That’s the idea at the center of Adam Grant’s book, “ Originals.”.

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Why Your CEO Doesn’t Care About Employee Engagement (Yet)

Achievers

It seems that we can’t turn around today without having a conversation that touches on employee engagement. Yet despite all the attention, it hasn’t really moved the needle. In the time that Gallup has been measuring engagement, it hasn’t changed–engagement levels are hovering right around 30 percent. At the same time, Google data shows that there’s been a steady climb in searches and interest in the topic for the last five years.

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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Easy on Yourself

CONCERN: EAP

When you hit a rough patch, what does your self-talk sound like? For some of us, in those moments, our inner voice comes on like a drill-sergeant full of harsh words and criticism. Even people who are naturally supportive and understanding of others may find it hard to offer the same kindness to themselves. An area of behavioral science research observing self-compassion is taking a closer look at how kindly or unkindly we view ourselves, and the effects on mood, health, and overall wellbeing.

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3 Reasons Not to Include Compensation Questions in Your Employee Engagement Survey - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Don’t A$k: 3 Reasons Not to Include Compensation Questions in Your Employee Engagement Survey. John D. Rockefeller is widely considered the richest man in modern history. Adjusted for inflation, his peak wealth would be worth over $340 billion today. For perspective, Bill Gates is currently the richest man alive with a mere $86 billion fortune.

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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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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Easy on Yourself

CONCERN: EAP

When you hit a rough patch, what does your self-talk sound like? For some of us, in those moments, our inner voice comes on like a drill-sergeant full of harsh words and criticism. Even people who are naturally supportive and understanding of others may find it hard to offer the same kindness to themselves. An area of behavioral science research observing self-compassion is taking a closer look at how kindly or unkindly we view ourselves, and the effects on mood, health, and overall wellbeing.

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Is Your Company Facing High Employee Turnover? A PEO Might Help

Justworks

Most business owners know the high costs of employee turnover. But how can your company stem the loss? According to a study by SHRM, the average cost-per-hire for companies is $4,129. And when it comes to replacing highly-trained executives, the cost can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars — a steep price to pay. Facing Fierce Competition In highly competitive industries like tech startups and PR and marketing agencies, companies face substantially higher employee turnover.

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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Easy on Yourself

CONCERN: EAP

When you hit a rough patch, what does your self-talk sound like? For some of us, in those moments, our inner voice comes on like a drill-sergeant full of harsh words and criticism. Even people who are naturally supportive and understanding of others may find it hard to offer the same kindness to themselves. An area of behavioral science research observing self-compassion is taking a closer look at how kindly or unkindly we view ourselves, and the effects on mood, health, and overall wellbeing.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Leverage a Digital Workplace for Better Engagement

TalentCulture

The mobile and digital revolution has changed the traditional workplace as we know it. The companies that have embraced this change in the digital environment have seen improved productivity, more innovation from their employees, and a cultural alignment in the workplace. The digital workplace helps solve challenges related to communication, collaboration, and employee engagement.

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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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UBER-ing: 5 Thoughts About Naming Your Primary Conference Room The WAR ROOM.

The HR Capitalist

In case you missed it, one of the outcomes of the Uber fiasco - in addition to an indefinite leave for the CEO, departure of a board member for an inappropriate comment during an all-hands meeting among other things - was that the company will be renaming it's primary conference/board room from "The War Room" to "The Peace Room". More from Bloomberg: Uber is trying to turn a new chapter in its history, and is renaming its "War Room" the "Peace Room," according to Bloomberg.

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How to Sell the Need For Employer Branding

TLNT: The Business of HR

You already know employer branding is a must in today’s competitive market for top talent, but if you’re struggling to get your executive team on board it’s difficult to know where to start.

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6 Places to Eat When You’re in Austin for #Compference17

Compensation Today

Ah, Austin. The capitol of the great state of Texas, home of delicious food, drink and sun, is also the location of Compference 2017. There are plenty of great reasons why we chose to host Compference in Austin this year. But let’s be real: It’s mostly about the food. So if you haven’t been to Austin before, or maybe it’s just been a while, these places come highly recommended from locals, and are sure to please any Compference-attending foodie.

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What to Do When Managing People You Don’t Like

TLNT: The Business of HR

When you get promoted to a managerial position, you don’t automatically gain managerial skills that allow you to easily treat people fairly. You’re still the same person you were the day before, and let’s face it, that probably means you don’t like everyone equally.

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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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Chef job description

Workable

Modify this Chef job description template and post to online boards and careers pages to attract qualified candidates with solid cooking skills. Chef responsibilities include: Setting up the kitchen with cooking utensils and equipment, like knives, pans and food scales. Studying each recipe and gathering all necessary ingredients. Cooking food in a timely manner.

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S Corporation vs. Limited Liability Company: Which is Right for You?

Paychex

Uncertain whether an S corp or LLC is right for your startup, or what these terms even mean? Keep reading. We’ll break down the differences between these two entities.

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Don’t Hire a Data Scientist to Lead Your People Analytics

TLNT: The Business of HR

The head of people analytics is a new role in HR and from what I’ve seen most organizations are not quite sure what kind of person they need. The tendency is to lean towards someone who has some expertise with big data; or at least as close to that as you can get.

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Man+Machine:The Fundamentals of AI for Recruiting

Allegis Global Solutions

In an article I published earlier this year about how job candidates feel about AI apps in the application process , I shared some data we developed that showed job seekers are mostly okay with interacting with robots to help the interview and application process along. But also that there is still a need for some human interaction in the process. That’s largely due to the fact that artificial intelligence is not good with the human quality of empathy.

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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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Remember Why You Started

NoExcusesHR

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein Grey, not Black and White Think back to when you finally broke through and landed that first big job. Whether it was in leadership or not, you soon realized two important things: - the greater the responsibility you have, the greater the impact you can make - the greater the responsibility you have, the greater the pressure coming at you from all directions Finding the balance between the these two thi

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Warning! Is Your Workplace Culture Holding Your Talent Back?

HR Daily Advisor

When you’re building your workplace culture, it’s important to reflect on one important question—are you empowering your employees? Your employees want to be their best and grow with you. Unfortunately, a lot of employers aren’t setting their staff up for success. A recent study conducted by LifeWorks found that only 14% of HR professionals strongly agree their organizations help employees reach their full potential.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

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. Recruiting Software Firm Lever Raises $30M For Effort To Transform Hiring. FreshBooks, Freelance Accounting Platform Raises $43 Million In Funding.

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we hired someone without talking to any references … and it went badly

Ask a Manager

About a month ago, a reader posted this in an open thread : Does anyone have any experience hiring someone when you couldn’t get in touch with any real references? We recently interviewed some one who seemed okay but I had reservations. We didn’t have many good options, so we asked for her references. The only one we got in touch with was someone who worked with for 3 months 15 years ago and who is now her friend.

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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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The DISC Profiles Interviewing You for a Job

Extended DISC

Being interviewed for a job is stressful. It is even more stressful when you go into a job interview without a clue as to who is interviewing you. Learning about the four DISC profiles before your job interview can help ease stress before the process. Job interviews. We all dread them. It is never fun to have to try to prove your worth to another person for something you desperately want and need: a job.

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Feed the Birds: Attracting the Right Candidates with Your Job Ad

BambooHR

When was the last time you saw a seagull picking at a bird feeder? Or a hawk scavenging among leftover bread crumbs? Or pigeons sipping nectar? It doesn’t take a degree in biology to know that different birds like different foods. If you want to see little blue jays on your back patio, then you […]. The post Feed the Birds: Attracting the Right Candidates with Your Job Ad appeared first on.

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Dishwasher job description

Workable

This Dishwasher job description template is easy to customize for your restaurant’s hiring needs. For more kitchen staff positions, check out our Hospitality job descriptions. Dishwasher responsibilities include: Collecting used kitchenware from dining and kitchen areas. Loading and unloading washing machines. Washing specific items by hand (e.g. wooden cutting boards, large pots and delicate china).