Tue.Dec 12, 2017

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How to Target Savings through Contingent Labor Programs

Allegis Global Solutions

Given up to 50 percent of company operating budgets focused on human capital—with contingent staffing specifically seeing a 35 percent increase in procurement and contingent labor programs in the past 10 years—it is not surprising that organizations worldwide are looking for the most effective ways to manage and control costs related to human capital management.

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3 Healthcare HR Strategies for Overcoming Nursing Shortages

Precheck

3 Healthcare HR Strategies for Overcoming Nursing Shortages Dec. 13, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. As many as 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day. In healthcare, not only will this continue to exacerbate the ongoing issue of nurse shortages; it will also increase the deficit in knowledgeable, experienced nurses, threatening the safety of patients and the nation’s health as a whole.

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Filling the gaps: Pros and cons of hiring part-time employees

Insperity

We’ve come a long way from the days when a person spent an entire career at one company, working full time, 9-to-5, five days a week. Today’s employees want more options, and working part-time is one of them. So, what exactly qualifies as part-time work? The answer varies depending on the company. There’s no federal law that sets the number of hours an employee must work to be considered part-time or full-time.

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is my employee trying to sabotage me?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m the founder of and sole manager at a small retail business with four full-time and a few part-time employees. My first hire was Mary, and I think of her as my second-in-command. She hasn’t been the easiest employee to manage: she’s a little flighty and forgetful, and not always as professional as I’d like her to be with our clients.

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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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Onboarding Is Successful When Expectations Are Met

HR Bartender

I think as a general rule, people are happy when their expectations are met. If Mr. Bartender and I go out to dinner, we expect a nice meal. When our expectations are met, we’re happy. When they aren’t, we’re disappointed. Same happens with candidates. When they accept a job offer, they expect to like their job and the company they’re working for. When that happens, they’re happy and engaged.

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The State of Year-End Bonuses

HRExecutive

For many workers, 2017 will end on an extra jolly note, according to new research from global staffing firm Robert Half. More than half of 300 senior managers surveyed (51 percent) said they expect year-end bonus levels to be at least somewhat higher than 2016. Just 10 percent of respondents reported bonus amounts will decrease, and 39 percent anticipate no change in bonuses.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Side Hustle

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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Employee Pulse Surveys, What You Need to Know - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Are you considering an employee pulse survey? Few would debate the notion that keeping fingers on the pulse of the organization is critical to business success. At DecisionWise, we’ve been running employee engagement surveys for over 20 years, and never has it been clearer that business results can be directly tied to the employee experience. In fact, we go as far as to say the Customer Experience (CX) is a direct result of the Employee Experience (EX).

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The Bottom Line: Employee Happiness is Good for Business

Justworks

Happiness is a worthwhile goal for anyone. Who doesn’t want to feel good? And in fact, there are benefits to happiness that go beyond the warm and fuzzies. Happy people spread positivity into other facets of life — including their workplaces. Employee happiness is becoming a key consideration of modern work life. It’s important to employees, and should be crucial to employers as well.

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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 to Effectively Get New Hires Up to Speed

Achievers

Employees are the moving gears behind a business. For this reason, employers must be sensitive on how they treat and engage their workforce. And it starts from the very beginning, an employee’s first day at work. A new hire’s first day is important because it is the day that they get a real first impression of what your company is like and is critical to setting them up for future success.

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The Untapped Resource Startups Can Leverage To Design The World’s Best Workplaces

15Five

Companies both big and small want to steer management decisions away from dangerous half-truths and recycled best practices. Stanford professors, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton brought data-based decision making to the world of business through evidence-based management to help these companies make better people decisions. Here’s how you can do the same… What’s Evidence-Based Management?

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Worried About Your Employee Turnover? See How it Stacks Up

Reflektive

Losing employees can be scary. Sure, there’s a certain amount of turnover that’s to be expected, but how can you know if the turnover in your organization is normal — or indicative of a larger problem? In a year where the number of Americans quitting their jobs surged to the highest in 16 years according to ZeroHedge , this is something that’s on the minds of HR leaders more than ever.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on HR [Video]

Lighthouse

In case you missed it, artificial intelligence is everywhere and it’s rapidly coming for your job. Or maybe that’s just a bit of hyperbole to make you incredibly nervous about the future of work. In reality, while AI is being proclaimed as everything from the savior of the world to the devastator of jobs, it still hasn’t made a significant impact on most jobs just yet.

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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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Let's Hangout and Talk - Getting Ready to Staff Up at the Start of 2018.

The HR Capitalist

If you’re a client or follower of Jobvite, you know the Recruiter Nation Live series. It started with the Recruiter Nation Live Conference in San Francisco last June, and continued with the Recruiter Nation Live Roadshow that brought real recruiter talk to 9 cities in North America over the last three months. The feedback was great – you loved it, so we’re back with the latest in the series – the Recruiter Nation Live Hangout Series, hosted by Fistful of Talent and me.

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Plan Your Next Career Steps Alongside Your Manager

Everwise

When it comes to development opportunities, managers are well-positioned to stretch their team’s skills and support their reports. This doesn’t always happen organically in a fast-paced workplace. Our Everwise community has offered up useful guidance on ways professionals can begin a conversation around development with their manager and gain their support.

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Webinar: The Employee Experience – Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, Drive Results - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

DecisionWise will help you understand how to create an engaged workforce. This is the age of the employee, and the majority of organizations are failing to meet their employee’s expectations, why? The authors of the best selling book The Employee Experience will share best practices for improving the employee experience and creating engaged employees in your organization.

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Building Your Talent Pipeline - Strategic Workforce Planning

EDSI

Does that mean hiring for these skills, training current employees, or utilizing consultants? There are many different options to consider when filling the skills gap. The key is to take the time to plan ahead and determine what kind of organization and skills you need to have in the future. Organizations who fail to do this often end up ‘spinning their wheels’ in a never-ending hamster cage!

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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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HR planning and budgeting best practices

PeopleStrategy

With everything on your plate at year-end, it can be overwhelming to think about planning and budgeting for the next one. But taking a little time to consider these matters before December 31 can save you headaches down the road. Here are some best practices to keep in mind as you start building your 2018 strategic plan and budget. . 1. Look to the past before looking ahead.

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How To Tell If Your Leader Is Ruining Employee Retention

TalentCulture

What drives retention? Leaders: the flesh and blood humans in charge. From managers to CEOs, the boss has a huge impact on retention. For all the bells and whistles we create to drive engagement and ensure retention, it won’t mean a thing if an organization’s badly led. The national unemployment rate was 4.5% in March. Key fields are desperate for hires, while others (like health care) will soon explode beyond capacity.

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How to Create a Robust Relocation Benefit

UrbanBound HR

Reimbursement policies have been a pillar of employee relocation programs for years. Over time they evolved, but rather than increase in efficiency, they typically became more time consuming, burdensome, and a hassle to relocating employees, relocation professionals, and payroll departments. Even as technology improved other burdensome processes, reimbursement procedures remained frustratingly manual.

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3 Proven Ways Successful Leaders Handle the Unexpected

TalentCulture

Building an organization that is able to respond to “the unexpected” is one of the most challenging roles for leaders to play in today’s environment. . Market dynamics are significantly different now than in the past where there was greater continuity and relatively less unpredictability. Today it is commonplace to see multiple new technologies shot into markets simultaneously; each ripping into market flow with massive disruption.

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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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4 tips to help you reduce churn and inspire young employees

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Mervyn Dinnen, Author and Talent Acquisition Analyst. Speak to almost any HR professional and they’ll tell you the same thing: today’s employees, especially those in their 20s and 30s, are changing roles and employers more frequently than ever before. This reality may not always leap out in a company’s top line data, and with older employees holding on to secure roles in the face of economic uncertainty; most studies on churn do little to reveal micro trends among millennial wo

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Perfection – a most unhelpful addiction

Culture University

I confess to being a perfectionist in a state of constant rehabilitation. I love things done right. And I mean ‘my’ kind of right. The kind of right that is so insanely satisfying to me that the absence of it leaves me bereft. I think I had an inkling that this wasn’t healthy when people […]. The post Perfection – a most unhelpful addiction appeared first on Culture University.

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9 HR Thought-Leaders to Follow in 2018

TinyPulse

Need a new resolution heading into 2018? Forget dieting and gym memberships. Why not commit to being a better manager and growing happier employees? This resolution isn’t as hard as you may think. You can get started by updating your Twitter feed to show the latest news in employee engagement, leadership, and HR best practices. By reading one article a day, you can improve yourself and influence your company.

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Steve Pemberton – 3 Can’t-Miss Speakers on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at WorkHuman 2018

WorkHuman

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging has always been a key theme at WorkHuman , part of the vernacular and at the forefront of conversation. Now it’s rising to a new level. “You Belong,” the connecting fabric of WorkHuman, is a business imperative and a core driver of bringing humanity back to the workplace to inspire culture change. WorkHuman 2018 in Austin, Texas, April 2-5 ( register here ), features a content track exclusively focused on diversity, inclusion, and belonging, with high-level, i

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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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Ep 120 – Cisco’s Inclusive Hiring Apprenticeship Program

Workology

In 2016, the Department of Labor reported the rate of unemployment for those with a disability was 10.5%. This talent pool remains largely untapped and presents a great opportunity for businesses who. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. In 2016, the Department of Labor reported the rate of unemployment for those with a disability was 10.5%.

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling in the Background Screening Industry

Sterling Check

Women’s share of the labor force in 2016 was 46.8% with 56.8% of all women 16 years and over in the labor force compared to 69.2% of men the same age. For more than 50 years, women continue to position themselves into leadership roles at a growing rate. According to a 2015 Pew study , more than half of managerial and professional occupations (52.2%) were held by women, up from 30.6% in 1968.

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9 Reasons to Invest in Benefits You’re Not Offering Now

TLNT: The Business of HR

So you’ve survived open enrollment. Now that you’re finished fielding 10,000 questions about health care plans, you can start looking ahead to 2018.