Fri.Jul 13, 2018

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6 Guidelines to Developing A Professional Mentoring Program

Engagedly

Does your organization have a professional mentoring program? If it doesn’t, it’s time to consider instituting one. Workplace mentoring programs are important because they address certain needs in organizations such as: Leadership and management development Effective onboarding of […].

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open thread – July 13-14, 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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The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look through some of the best articles published this past week for staffing and corporate recruiters and posted them below. Here are the must-read posts for this week: 1. Here's What's Most Likely to Make an Employee Want to Stay — and It's Not a High Salary or Company Cars -- by Jessica Dawid. 2.

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Employees Should Establish Their Own Priorities

HR Bartender

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about Kronos’ transition from a traditional time-off policy to an unlimited time-off program (called myTime). On some level, I like to think of the concept of unlimited time off as Paid Time Off 2.0. Decades ago, organizations had vacation, paid sick time, and holidays. Then they decided to merge all these categories together and give employees one balance called Paid Time Off (PTO).

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Engaging Employees with Collaborative Goal-Setting

Reflektive

In sports, a team’s goal is simple: To win. In business, the goal is usually much more complex. Organizations must balance short- and long-term needs, stay ahead of the competition while keeping up with changing trends, and ensure that the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of employees working for the company are all making positive contributions. DOWNLOAD FREE E-BOOK: The Growth Divide Between Employers and Employees.

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Tips for Planning and Completing Your Time & Attendance Implementation

nettime solutions

The process of implementing new software can be complex. There’s early research, vetting different vendors and partners, checking with budgeting, getting feedback from managers and employees, and finally getting buy-in from senior leaders. And all that is just the beginning. Your Vendor Should Support our Time and Attendance Implementation. While the extent to which your vendor supports your implementation varies, you want to be sure to get as much assistance as you need.

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Grand Slam: Acing The Candidate Experience.

Allegis Global Solutions

Wimbledon and The World Cup have brought out our global competitive sportsmanship once again. There's nothing quite like the world of sports to get us thinking in terms of winners and losers. We may find ourselves identifying with Ricky Bobby's mantra: "If you ain't first, you're last.". However, second place in any championship doesn't leave the court empty-handed.

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Who Is Really The Best Employer? Making Sense Of ‘Best Place To Work’ Lists

Josh Bersin

There’s nothing that excites a CEO or CHRO more than being listed on a “Best Place to Work” list. These lists, which are being published by more companies every year, seem to have. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Ask a Recruiter: How do you include video interviews in the hiring process?

Workable

As an organization hiring up to 50 new employees per year, we needed to find ways to be more efficient with our time. To make things easier, we decided to try Jobma , one of the video interviewing platforms already integrated with Workable, our recruiting software. While this added another step to our hiring process, it actually helps us to hire faster by ensuring that we’re bringing in the right people for an interview.

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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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Recruitment Content for Every Step of Candidate Journey

TalentLyft

Creating great recruitment content for every step of the candidate journey doesn’t have to be time-consuming an exhausting process. In this article, you will find a list of great content ideas and examples of great recruitment content created by big brands! Read More.

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Everything You Need To Know About Workplace Competencies!

Engagedly

The success of an organization depends on how capable and skilled their workforce is. The capability of your workforce can be measured if you have specified job competencies for different functions in your organization. Job competencies have been […].

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My Week at the NBA Summer League In Las Vegas, Part 2 (Featuring Lessons on Talent)

The HR Capitalist

Went to Vegas this week with a few bloggers of note - Steve Boese, Tim Sackett and Matt Stollak. Our destination had a nerd quality to it - The NBA Summer League, where professional basketball hopefuls convene to prove they have what it takes to be one of 450 players who play in the best hoops league in the world. As it turns out, a lot of the NBA is probably no better at evaluating talent than the rest of us - and there's a lesson in that.

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Characteristics of a Positive Workplace Culture

HR Daily Advisor

No employer wants to end up with a toxic workplace culture. Negativity spreads, and it can drive employees away quickly. A positive workplace culture, on the other hand, is associated with higher productivity and reduced turnover—a real win-win. Changing the workplace culture takes time and effort, but the payoff can be enormous. tumsasedgars / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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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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Add a ‘Human Touch’ to Make HR Communication More Effective

TLNT: The Business of HR

One important way for a company to engage their workers is by listening to them. Effectively communicating with your employees, however, involves more than just the way you talk to them.

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The First Amendment and Burping

HR Daily Advisor

At the beginning of one episode of The Simpsons, Bart is seen writing “The First Amendment does not cover burping” on the blackboard. Although the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law abridging” freedom of speech, more than two centuries of practical application have taught us that even the word “no” has limitations.

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What is technology recruiting?

Hacker Earth

What is technology recruiting? Technology recruiting is often defined as IT or technical recruiting which comprises sourcing, screening, and assessing candidates who fit specific technical roles. Technology recruiting involves finding quality technical talent from a sourcing pipeline to match the hiring manager’s requirements. Who is a technical recruiter?

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Why Are Latinos Leaving Corporate America?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Latinos in America are currently facing huge challenges. Latino children have been separated from their parents at the border and anti-Latino speech has been on the rise. With these stories in the news, it is easy to forget another area where Latinos are facing an uphill battle: Corporate America. CNN recently published an eye-opening article about Google, stating the company has a hard time keeping its Latino employees.

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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 Should Professional Services Organizations Measure Profitability?

Replicon

By Raj Narayanaswamy | July 12, 2018 The 5 pillars of success HR professionals are well aware that resource time accounts for nearly 80% of operating expenses in professional services organizations – so a clear and accurate picture of every hour they spend, and where they spend it, is critical. While every services business operates […].

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Video Like a Boss: Setting Up Your Studio

SocialChorus

In our most recent “Video Like A Boss” installments, we established our foundation: structuring videos using the TWIN strategy and breaking down the basics of being on camera. Now, we’ll take a step back and delve into providing you with the best video production equipment checklist you’ll need to shoot quick, easy, and high-quality leadership videos.

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Ask a Recruiter: How do you include video interviews in the hiring process?

Workable

As an organization hiring up to 50 new employees per year, we needed to find ways to be more efficient with our time. To make things easier, we decided to try Jobma , one of the video interviewing platforms already integrated with Workable, our recruiting software. While this added another step to our hiring process, it actually helps us to hire faster by ensuring that we’re bringing in the right people for an interview.

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My conversation with the lawyer who, IMHO, just earned the biggest employment law win of 2018.

The Employer Handbook

By Chris Potter (Flickr: 3D Judges Gavel) [ CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, I blogged here about the most important employment law decision of 2018. It’s a case called Minarsky v. Susquehanna County (opinion here ). If you missed my post, well, it was long. 1,888 words long. So, here’s the super-condensed version: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a plaintiff might not complain about sexual harassment at work for several years but still have a viable

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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 Second-Generation Bias Creates Barriers for Aspiring Women Leaders

Select International

In the last blog in this series , we discussed implicit biases and how all of us are susceptible to them. Remember they are unconscious and, unlike explicit bias, we are not likely to be aware of when we are being influenced by societal norms and factors like gender, age, and race. Because of this, the effects of implicit bias can be more subtle and indirect.

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My conversation with the lawyer who, IMHO, just earned the biggest employment law win of 2018.

The Employer Handbook

By Chris Potter (Flickr: 3D Judges Gavel) [ CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, I blogged here about the most important employment law decision of 2018. It’s a case called Minarsky v. Susquehanna County (opinion here ). If you missed my post, well, it was long. 1,888 words long. So, here’s the super-condensed version: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a plaintiff might not complain about sexual harassment at work for several years but still have a viable

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Are You Overlooking the HR Research That’s Already Out There?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Most of the useful data crunching in HR occurred long before the term analytics graced the booths of every darned vendor in the trade shows. That work was done by trained scientists in universities and subject to peer review. It was, compared to most of the analytics we can realistically do within companies, good quality work. The results of this research can be found in journals on industrial organizational psychology (now sometimes re-branded as behavioral economics) and related disciplines.

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Onboarding Best Practices: Making Your Company Culture “Stick”

Outmatch

Onboarding Best Practices with Chelsea Petrie. When asked how well their talent acquisition processes reflect their company culture, only only 1 in 4 employers answered “very well.” That when I/O expert Chelsea Petrie, Talent Strategy Partner at OutMatch, shared her insight on how to improve employee retention, reduce ramp-up time, and increase engagement—all through a strong, culture-focused onboarding program.

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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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Webinar | Healthcare Check-In: The Latest Developments in Health and Welfare Plans

WEX Inc.

We work in an exciting industry – which means quick changes are the norm, and adaptability is a necessity. Keep your compliance plans up to date with a download of all legislative changes since our last update webinar. We'll cover legislation that's passed in the last six months, what's on the way, and what it means for your organization. Join us on Tuesday, Aug. 7 for our one-hour webinar!

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Compassion, Competence, Consistency

HRGem

I have been thinking about what is important when it comes to the people stuff. Thoughts informed by work I have been doing of late. I have been focusing on the practical stuff. Guidance. How to guides. Frequently asked questions.

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5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong with Org Charts

Pingboard

Many companies use org charts, mainly to illustrate reporting relationships and show where work gets done in the organization. However, there are many more uses and benefits associated with org charts. We’ll dispel some of the myths and describe the five things people commonly get wrong when it comes to org charts: 1. Limiting Org Charts to Showing Reporting Relationships.