Wed.Jun 28, 2017

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This Is What Happens When You Ditch Hard Skills For Soft Skills [Webinar]

Spark Hire

The workplace is more demanding, more complex, more collaborative, and more diverse than it has ever been before. Finding candidates who will excel in this environment means finding people with the right balance of hard and soft skills. So, here is the hard truth about soft skills: The difference between hard skills and soft skills and why soft skills matter.

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Find the Best 2017 Applicant Tracking Software – Get FREE Custom Price Quotes

HR Morning

The recruitment process can be arduous for both employers and candidates. From sourcing candidates to tracking current applicants and ultimately hiring the ideal candidate, an ATS will reduce the time and expense of hiring new employees for both HR departments as well as recruiting and staffing agencies. There are hundreds of ATS solutions currently on the market, with different solutions for organizations of different sizes, industries and hiring models.

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10 Tips on How to Mentor Emerging HR Talent

Cornerstone On Demand

One of our greatest assets in the field of human resources is our next generation of thought leaders. As we undergo significant changes in our industry and prepare for a new world of work in the information age, there is no better time to start focusing on how we lead the next generation through these uncertain times. As someone who has spent decades in HR rising through the ranks, one of the greatest joys of my career has been coaching my younger teammates.

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How Important Human Resources Training is for Today's Shifting Workforce

ClearCompany HRM

2017 has been a big year for change in Human Resources. A new presidential administration is creating changes and affecting healthcare and employee benefits. Meanwhile, we’re learning to handle a workforce that’s filled with a new generation: Millennials (and it’s just 2 more years until they make up the majority of the workforce). On top of all that, talent acquisition and management has become increasingly candidate-driven.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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What is Disability Insurance, and Should You Offer it to Employees?

Justworks

According to the Social Security Administration, 25% of all 20-year-olds will become disabled and unable to work sometime before reaching the age of 67. But unlike with health, dental, and vision insurance, very few people know that there are insurance products designed to replace a portion of their income when they become ill or disabled and cannot work.

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The 7 Corporate Culture Questions Every CEO Should Ask

ATD Human Capital

Leadership and learning are indispensable from one another. —John F. Kennedy. I like questions. Questions make people think. Statements may go in one ear and out the other, but a good question will bounce around inside your head until you come up with an answer. And good questions often breed even better questions. And the outcome of all these questions is often a new insight.

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How to Make the Most of Manager 1-on-1s

Kazoo

Employees don’t leave companies. They leave managers. If that sounds counterintuitive, think of it this way: a manager is an employee’s link to everything that is the company. When it comes to the employee experience, they can either be an asset or a detriment. Recently, Gallup devoted an entire section of its 2017 State of the American Workplace report to management’s role in the sad state of employee engagement (just 33% of employees are engaged at work).

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4 Talent Acquisition Strategies that Can Help Your Business Grow

Paychex

Developing a talent acquisition strategy can be challenging. Take a look at some best practices that can help you assess your company's needs, source necessary talent, and hire based on those findings.

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Kronos Continues to Accelerate and Simplify Complex, Global Workforce Management Deployments

Empower Software

To further ease the challenges associated with global deployments across multiple locations, Kronos also introduced a new global workforce management approach that improves global visibility, mitigates compliance risk, and lowers total cost of ownership.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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How best to manage your short-term hiring projects

Allegis Global Solutions

At AGS we are able to help our clients to achieve enhanced efficiency in the hiring process, helping to smooth out spikes in hiring and deliver lasting benefits.

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Advice For New Managers

TLNT: The Business of HR

Good leadership is essential for any successful company, but it’s not always easy for junior or first-time managers to adapt to their role. Many times, leaders look back on their career and have a whole host of new insights and knowledge they wish they’d known from the beginning.

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How and Why You Need to Recognize Your Executives

Bonusly

Most employee recognition programs position senior leaders as champions or role models, not candidates for feedback. In fact, everyone can improve in some way; everyone’s drive wavers sometimes, and money is not always the best motivator. For leaders with greater influence, continuous personal improvement and targeted motivation can have a significant impact on an organization.

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How HR Can Leverage Technology to Help Employees Cope With a Merger

TLNT: The Business of HR

“Dear colleagues, I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to be acquired by Company X! We have an exciting future ahead and are looking forward to sharing more information in short order.”.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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5 Tips for a Successful Telecommuting Policy

Namely

In today’s workplace, there’s no place like home. Whether you call it telecommuting or just working from home, the practice is undeniably on the rise. Since 2005, its prevalence has skyrocketed 115 percent , with an estimated 4 million teleworkers making up the U.S. workforce today. Working from home is on course to becoming less of a perk and more of the new normal.

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DOL Reinstates Valuable Compliance Tool for Employers

TLNT: The Business of HR

On June 27th the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it has reinstated the issuance of Opinion Letters by its Wage & Hour Division and unveiled a new website to guide employers and employees in requesting an Opinion Letter. The agency also redesigned the website housing its Opinion Letters and other sub-regulatory guidance.

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Salary History: Don’t Ask, Do Tell?

Compensation Today

There are two approaches for making laws around salary history disclosures during a job interview: we can make it illegal for potential employers to ask for salary history, or we can make it illegal for them to use salary history when making pay decisions. PayScale recently surveyed over 15,000 job applicants regarding salary history disclosures during the job interview process.

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Why Managers Should Play Favorites

TLNT: The Business of HR

Living up to its name in a major way, this DisruptHR talk’s title “Why Leader Should Play Favourites” is about as contrarian as it gets.

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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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Closing the gap on diversity within organizations

Allegis Global Solutions

Diversity in hiring helps to give businesses a fantastically varied skills pool, which enhances innovation, creativity and business growth.

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I Saw It On Dilbert

Compensation Cafe

Here's a bit of practical advice for every professional out there, whether you're in Human Resources or frankly any functional department at all. If you see a work practice or policy highlighted in the Dilbert comic strip (a world of credit to Scott Adams), you should immediately stop that policy or practice as a bad idea. For the uninitiated out there, since the 1980's Scott Adams has written about the dysfunctional workplace and its cast of oddball characters that we all recognize.

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7 Things HR Pros Should Be Doing to Deliver a World-Class Employee Experience

The Tim Sackett Project

Webinar Alert! Tomorrow at Noon EST – it’s me and the 7 Things every HR Pro in the World should be doing to Deliver a World-Class Employee Experience. Want to join me? You’ll get SHRM and HRCI credit! Plus, you’ll get to have lunch with me. Well, only if you sit at your desk and eat lunch, and you’re in the east coast time zone, or you can have your fifth cup of coffee with me if your in the west coast time zone, or maybe you’re just central and you get up ear

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Hiring Your First Employee: A Success Blueprint for Small Business Owners

Paychex

Small businesses should take particular care in finding and vetting reliable employees, including learning about places to find applicants, what to ask during the interview, and deciding whether to hire part- or full-time workers. If you’re considering hiring your first employee, take a look at these considerations.

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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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how can I stop gossip on my staff?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a new manager with a team of six administrative staff. There is a pervasive culture of gossiping among the team that I am at a loss about how to address. The gossiping is all about (perceived) work performance – two of them will stand in a corner and whisper about how a third did the mail run late today or wasn’t at the reception desk when an important guest arrived.

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Newton Launches Interview Scorecards to Help Companies Make Better Hiring Decisions

Paycor

New Product Delivers Advanced Functionality to Gather Consistent, Structured Quantitative and Qualitative Interview Scores to Select the Best Candidate. SAN FRANCISCO, CA--( Marketwired - Jun 28, 2017) - Newton , a Paycor company, today announced the availability of Interview Scorecards, an interview rating system that enables HR professionals to assign a quantitative rating to new hire candidates.

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The Best Moments from #SHRM17

Namely

There’s nothing quite like SHRM—when over 16,000 HR professionals from across the country come together for sessions, networking, and fun. At this year’s SHRM conference in New Orleans, we sent two Namely clients, Ariel Lopez, Human Resources Manager at Geek Powered Studios and Shayleen Stuto, Human Resource Manager at TechnologyAdvice , to join the mix.

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Yes, Healthcare’s a Mess. But Here’s What You Could Do Today

Payactiv

Return to Blog Home Yes, Healthcare’s a Mess. But Here’s What You Could Do Today By Don Peppers on July 5, 2017 --> For all the brouhaha and hoopla surrounding the acrimonious debate over healthcare, employers could very easily take some of the worry out of it for their workers, today, with a simple, frictionless, and free fintech product. It’s something that would benefit the most vulnerable members of the workforce – those lower-wage workers who are paid by the hour to tend to customers, coll

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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The public gets to beat the dead horse of the DOL overtime rules together, and other wage and hour news

The Employer Handbook

Want to weigh in on the U.S. Department of Labor ‘s proposed overtime rules? Well, now you’ll get that chance. Again. If this sounds familiar, it should. The DOL would love to hear from you (again) about those overtime rules. Yep, we’re talking about the same overtime rules that would have raised the salary level for the overtime exemptions.

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Navigating HR Certification Changes for Both #SHRM & #HRCI

Workology

This month was the 3 year anniversary of the conscious uncoupling announcement between SHRM and HRCI resulting in the creation of two separate HR certification programs. For those of us who were. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Reflecting on our I/O Psychs on motorbikes workshop trip

CultureAmp

When I was asked to help lead workshops around the world as part of my role at Culture Amp, I was initially hesitant. However, it didn’t take long for me to realize that this was a unique opportunity to blend a personal passion for teaching with my professional commitment to Culture Amp. Some might call this combination of personal and professional life bringing your whole self to work , others might say it’s simply lucky.

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