Mon.Mar 05, 2018

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The One Word Recruiters Use to Describe Themselves That’s a Lie!

The Tim Sackett Project

Did you catch the article on LinkedIn by Lydia Abbot , The Top 10 Words Recruiters Use to Describe Themselves ? If not, go check it out. Lydia is a content marketer for LinkedIn and she puts out some good stuff based on inside data LI data. In this piece, she basically gave us the Top 10 words recruiters use to describe themselves (based on LI data): I’ve been a recruiter for a long or worked in talent acquisition for a long time.

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Why You Shouldn't Overlook Candidates With an Alternative Education

Cornerstone On Demand

More students are pursuing higher education than ever before—but at a higher cost. The result? The national student debt burden is approaching $1.5 trillion, and in 2016 the average college student graduated with over $37,000 in student loans. For many potential college students who are now the future of our workforce, this process has become untenable.

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#MentorHer – Supporting Women in the Workplace

Everwise

“Put your head down, work hard, and you’ll be promoted.” Odds are, if you’re a woman, you’ve heard this oft-repeated aphorism about how to get ahead in the workplace. Perhaps, as you started out your career, you even believed it. Yet the rise of #MeToo movement this fall has made clear what women have long suspected (or, in many cases, known): workplace success is tied not only to what we do, but to who we are.

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IRS, CMS, EBSA Seek Public Comment on ACA Change

ACA Times

The IRS, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are seeking public comments on proposed regulations that would change the definition of short-term, limited-duration insurance so that offering it for longer periods of time would still exempt it from the definition of individual health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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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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Leadership Tips for Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace

The People Equation

“I asked you here today to let you know where I’ve been for the past month. I was in a mental health facility.”. So began a conversation with a colleague that I admired tremendously. His confession surprised me; we had worked on a long-term project together just three months prior. I had no idea he was suffering. Even more surprising was the ease with which he shared his news.

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How the Cloud Can Help You Stay Compliant with Wage & Hour Laws

nettime solutions

For many professionals, the phrase “cloud-based computing” has become synonymous with business-as-usual, and the promises that come with the cloud, such as rapid deployment, faster services, and greater connectivity, are baked into many modern work environments. However, less than a decade ago, the concept of the cloud was still new and fairly novel for many businesses and organizations.

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I’ll be at #SHRM18 — My Interview on #DriveThruHR

UpstartHR

Last week I had a quick conversation with my long-time friend Michael Vandervort on the DriveThruHR podcast. As one of the official social media team members for the SHRM 2018 Annual Conference, Mike wanted to chat about me, my background, and my current projects as a lead-in to the event. It was one-sided (as interviews must go!) but if you’ve listened to my podcast We’re Only Human or if you’ve followed the blog here for any length of time, you might be interested in learning

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4 Ways Healthcare HR Can Drive Engagement

Precheck

4 Ways Healthcare HR Can Drive Engagement Mar. 5, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Employee engagement in healthcare settings can bring enviable returns: A hospital that worked with Gallup to improve engagement decreased turnover costs by $1.7 million in three years and increased its operating margins. Gallup research also indicates that employee engagement is correlated with patient outcomes, making employee engagement a vital part of managing healthcare employees.

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6 Surprising Employee Engagement Ideas for Managers

Quantum Workplace

More and more organizations have come to understand that in order to truly. impact employee engagement, they need to act on the local level. What do I mean by that? I mean that your managers — team leads, supervisors, or whatever you call them — are in the best position to understand and improve employee engagement. But unfortunately, they don't often have access to impactful employee engagement ideas (or intuitive, manager-focused software.but that's for another time) to influence the engagemen

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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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Fantastic Team Icebreaker Games for Better Teamwork

6Q

When companies don’t prioritise team-building activities both veteran and rookie employees alike are less likely to have genuine friends in the workplace. Team icebreaker games are one of the quickest paths to a connected team because all participants are in it together. A recent report stated that only 24% of workers say they have a strong connection with their colleagues.

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11 Ways to Refuel/Refresh When You’re Approaching Burn Out

Take It Personel-ly

Burnout is a serious psychological syndrome where the mind and body experience prolonged exposure to chronic stressors at work, and you’re prone to respond with cynicism, irritability, low morale and detachment. During burn out, you may feel worthless and lost. It’s more than job stress. Workers exposed to toxic work environments and chronic triggers are […].

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Applicant Tracking System Promotes Your Business Brand

SutiHR

Organizations that don’t invest in promoting their business brand miss out on the premier hires and the numerous benefits of employee loyalty. The longer an organization retains its top talent, the more specialized skills they acquire and retain, thus making them more efficient. Loyalty in the workforce attracts more talent and creates a positive work.

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Are You Living the Culture Your People Expect?

TLNT: The Business of HR

In order for members of an organizational culture to feel like they can fully contribute to the success of that organization, they must feel a sense of safety to protect, innovate and renovate. Cultures that create an environment of “ Cultural Dissonance ” eliminate the capacity for their members to help that culture evolve positively towards organizational goals.

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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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Compliance Corner: March 2018

Workforce Software

Laws affecting workers are not set in stone. Regulations regarding leaves of absence, payment of wages, employee scheduling, and other workplace issues keep changing.

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New to HR? Learning The Art of Negotiation

Workology

Negotiation is something you need to be skilled at in order to get the right offer. No matter what job you’re interested in, the art of negotiation will be a valuable asset to your career. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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6 Tips for Learning to Speak Like a Pro

Jason Lauritsen

I’ve been speaking professionally now for about a decade. I enjoy telling new people I meet that I’m a professional speaker because they often react as if they’ve just discovered an alien species. It’s fun. By nature of being a speaker, sometimes I get asked for advice about speaking. How did you get started? How did you become a good speaker?

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I Walked Alone Into a Fight

NoExcusesHR

Community - a unified body of individuals Team - a group of people with a full set of complimentary skills Network - an association of individuals with common interests providing mutual assistance Friends - one attached to another by affection or esteem Colleagues - a fellow worker or professional Family - all the descendants of a common ancestor So Muc h, But.

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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 Roundtable: Successful Networking Takes Work, Honesty

TLNT: The Business of HR

The HR Cincinnati Roundtable for February revisited a topic that we’ve done on a regular basis because it honestly never grows old! Also, we cover this topic because people agree it’s a needed business skill, but very few people do it well. What are we talking about? Networking. It’s so much more than a job search skill. To break the traditional thoughts around networking, Steve offered up the following questions for the small groups to chew on.

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5 Practices from the EEOC to Prevent Workplace Harassment

Extensis

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) put a task force in place to study workplace harassment and how it can be prevented. In their report from the findings of this study, they found 5 key principles that have proven to be effective in addressing and preventing harassment in the workplace.

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What is Employee Engagement? (In 100 Words or Less)

Quantum Workplace

Definition: Employee engagement is the strength of the mental and emotional connection employees feel toward their places of work. Impact: Employee engagement affects every element of an organization. – profitability, revenues, client experience, employee turnover, talent acquisition, brand presence, workplace safety – the list goes on and on. Engaged employees work harder, stay longer, and motivate others to do the same.

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I recommended my sister for a job — and it was a disaster

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am writing in to you to ask how I can recover my reputation and the trust of the people I work with, vendors and clients after I recommended someone for a job who turned out to be a disaster. My job was hiring several entry-level and basic positions, no experience or education required. I made the mistake of recommending my older sister.

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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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Upcoming Appearances

Human Workplaces

The early spring is always one of the busiest when it comes to speaking. Here's where you'll find me in the coming weeks/months (and if I'm visiting your town, reach out and we can have coffee or something!): March 6: NACS Human Resources Forum, San Antonio, TX March 8: Ag Progress meeting, Kansas City, MO March 20-22: ABC Annual meeting and a Corporate Training gig, Los Angeles, CA April 2-5: WorkHuman Conference, Austin, TX April 11-13: Nonprofit Technology Conference, New Orleans, LA April 18

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Factors of Self-Funding: Evaluating the Pros and Cons

WEX Inc.

In a changing healthcare landscape, employers are increasingly considering taking the funding of their healthcare benefits into their own hands. If you're one of them, this webinar is the one-hour guide you must see.

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free food at work, weird phone call from a recruiter, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Free food at work. My question is about the recent trend in offices that offer generous perks like free lunches, a fully stocked kitchen with drinks and snacks, etc. What are the general rules around utilizing these perks? I’m sure it depends on the company culture, but do you have any general guidelines?

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#HotInHR: Is That All? Women Need An Extra Academic Degree to Achieve Equal Pay With Men.

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. Collective Health Bets Employers Are Fed Up With Health Expenses (Bloomberg). The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2013, is betting that growing dissatisfaction with rising health-care costs will lure more firms to its technology, which lets employers cut through the tangle of differen

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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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How your company plans to use its tax cut windfall could be a great recruiting tool - or maybe not

Steve Boese

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed some recent research that analyzed how American companies plan to put to use their increasingly sizable cash hoards, (much of parked overseas but expected to start being repatriated), and which are expected to also be boosted by the recent reduction in corporate income tax rates. The TL;DR version of that prior piece: Most of the cash is heading back to investors, either directly in the form of increased dividends, and indirectly as a benefit from increased share

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The Problem With Excel

Bayzat

Who doesn’t love their Microsoft Office programs? Word, Excel and PowerPoint have been our reliable go-tos for over a decade, making it difficult for companies and individuals alike to put them aside in favour of more suitable.

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How to pick your investors as a first time founder

Typelane

It's time. You have struggled to test your early MVP and you have finally been able to validate your core idea. You got traction, initial feedback is really good and it is time to raise money. Congrats, you have made it beyond the first step, a step that is not that easy to get to. As a first-time founder raising capital can be a daunting task, so what should you keep in mind while talking to investors?

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6 Best Practices for Drafting an Independent Contractor Agreement

MBO Partners

Follow these 6 best practices to draft the right contract for your next project.

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