Wed.Sep 13, 2017

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Nonprofits Continue to Hire More Aggressively Than For-Profits in 2017, but the Gap is Narrowing

HR Daily Advisor

According to new survey findings, nonprofit organizations have been hiring more aggressively than for-profits for the last several years and will continue to do so in 2017, however the survey indicates that the gap is now narrowing. creatarka / iStock / Getty Images Plus. According to the 10th annual Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey , released by NonprofitHR, 50% of nonprofits plan to hire in 2017 (down seven percentage points from 2016), while the corporate hiring outlook is the best it ha

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A Day In the Life of a Campus Recruiting Expert

Cornerstone On Demand

This piece is the third in our "Campus Recruiting 101" series, about how recruiters can make the most of their campus recruiting efforts this year. As industries shift and demand for multi-skilled workers skyrockets, companies are looking for young and dynamic talent to join their ranks. A study from Bentley University found that 71 percent of in-demand skills are required across two or more job categories—meaning cross-disciplinary talent is in high-demand.

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Today’s Fast-Paced Workplace Leading More Employers to Recruit Contingents

HR Daily Advisor

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller, 1986. cofotoisme / iStock / Getty Images Plus. The workplace moves pretty fast, too. Human resources specialists of Ferris Bueller’s time probably couldn’t imagine today’s workforce. Back in the 1980s, independent contractors, contingent workers, and part-time workers were largely seen as supplemental to the main workforce of full-time employees – or as unwanted but necessary cost-cutt

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How To Foster A Thriving Team Via Better Meetings: An Interview With Mamie Kanfer Stewart

15Five

Meetings are tricky things. Many people hate them, because they are considered boring or a waste of time. When done poorly, they can dissolve productivity and cost your company significantly. When they are done right, they can align the entire team around key objectives. Better meetings can facilitate innovation and improve your organizational culture.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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[Video] How to Make an Unforgettable Workplace Wellness Program

Justworks

Many competitive employers offer health and wellness programs for their employees, but how can you compete with the big guys as a small- to medium-sized business? If you’re not sure where to start, Justworks hosted a webinar on how to create an unforgettable employee wellness program. In the webinar, we run through the nuts and bolts — how to plan and execute a wellness program, along with plenty of free and low-cost ideas to get you started.

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Why It’s Important to Give a Bad Employee Good Feedback

Kazoo

If you’ve worked in HR long enough, you’ve had plenty of conversations about “bad employees,” “disengaged workers, “underperformers” and even “bad apples.” Managers often need HR’s help in figuring out what should be done next. But it’s not just about giving a bad employee good feedback, it’s about arming managers with the tools they need to be effective advocates and coaches.

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Six Ways Leaders Can Build a Culture of Innovation

TalentCulture

What makes an enterprise organization successful? Is it a phenomenal understanding of the market? A visionary growth strategy? A value-driven customer focus? A strategy that enables digital transformation, both from a tech standpoint and a culture standpoint? Yes, yes, and yes. So many yesses. But there’s something else, something that would fall into the “all of the above” category: Winning enterprise companies are innovative, keeping them out in front of the curve and always on the cusp of som

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Why It’s Important to Give a Bad Employee Good Feedback

Kazoo

If you’ve worked in HR long enough, you’ve had plenty of conversations about “bad employees,” “disengaged workers, “underperformers” and even “bad apples.” Managers often need HR’s help in figuring out what should be done next. But it’s not just about giving a bad employee good feedback, it’s about arming managers with the tools they need to be effective advocates and coaches.

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How to Attract, Select, and Hire the Right Candidates – Not Just Warm Bodies

TalentCulture

In Culture Hacker , we focus on elevating the employee experience and improving engagement. While everyone seems to focus on improving engagement, we believe in taking a broader perspective – one that takes into consideration that a part of the engagement problem is the inability to select or attract the right people. As thought leader Bob Kelleher says , “Many companies don’t have an engagement issue; they have a hiring issue.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Mentorship and M&A: the key to capturing institutional knowledge

Everwise

In the world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), there is significant due diligence required to map strategic synergies, financial impact, and investor relations that result from the transaction. But the “people” side of M&A is often overlooked, when it can be one of the most critical components for a successful merger or acquisition. Leveraging Human Capital in M&A.

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Are Managers Really Critical To The Transfer Of Learning?

Looop.co

Over the years, L&D professionals have almost universally advocated that managers are critical to the transfer of learning – and it’s almost blasphemous to suggest otherwise. But why? The vast majority of learning solutions are designed and delivered separately to the context of the work itself. This traditionally, and typically, leaves learners to translate what they’ve ‘learned’ into a better way of doing their jobs.

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Engagement Surveys: It’s What You Do About the Results That Counts

TLNT: The Business of HR

Does each of your employees know how their job contributes to the big picture? Are you truly interested in their input? The answers too often are no to both of these questions, which is bad for employers. An employer with an engaged workforce can experience higher productivity, higher profitability, and lower absenteeism and turnover rates.

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Not Blowing Sh*t Up At Work is Hard.

The HR Capitalist

"You think this is hard? This isn't hard. You know what's hard? Riding a bike on a freeway, now that's hard.". -- Willard Sims, Head Basketball Coach , Truman State. -. Yep - Willard Sims was my college basketball coach at NE Missouri (later renamed Truman State, because, you know, we can't let people think our mission is to simply serve the region we reside in - the horrors!

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Navigating Employee Health Care to Provide the Best Insurance for Your Workers

Paychex

Health insurance: employees want it, but ensuring compliance with the Affordable Care Act, budgeting, and finding a provider can all take time and effort to navigate. Read on to understand the requirements, options, and responsibilities for establishing this sought-after employee benefit.

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Benefits for Singles: Are You Guilty of Singles Discrimination?

ADP

Singlism is a term for discrimination against single workers, but some organizations are realizing that benefits for singles can help.

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6 Memes About Open Enrollment That’ll Make You Smile

Jellyvision

Getting your ducks in a row for open enrollment can be grueling, thankless work. Which is exactly why we made you these Open Enrollmemes to cheer you up! Enjoy…and if you have any ideas for other memes the benefits world needs right now, please send us your suggestions at astroup (at) jellyvision.com. Thanks! If you’re looking for other ways to brighten your day as you plan for OE right now, check out our Open Enrollment Stress-Relievers page.

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Manage Difficult Employees to Get Better Results

Paychex

Employees can be difficult to manage in a variety of ways, and the underlying cause may be stemming from a lack of training, trouble meshing with the team, or any number of other challenges. With the right strategies in place, you can help employees overcome issues that may be getting in the way of their success at work.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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5 ways managers can make (or break) a team

Jostle

Have you ever thought of your office as a classroom? It seems a bit silly, but a classroom bears a compelling likeness to an office environment, save for the increased autonomy of adulthood. Barron Rosborough of SnackNation explains the parallels between the two and the extremely influential role of managers in the workplace.

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Corporate life is a game. How one man found his dream job and didn’t sell have to sell his soul to win it.

HRNasty

Find your dream job Todays post is a success story of a candidate going from frustration to dream job. I couldn’t be happier or prouder of this guy. He worked his ass off and he deserves every bit of his success. He went from frustrated fishing guide to Exec Director in his field of study. […] The post Corporate life is a game. How one man found his dream job and didn’t sell have to sell his soul to win it. appeared first on HRNasty.

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A Day in the Life of an HR Professional: Meghann Isgan

Namely

What does an HR person do all day? Every HR professional knows there’s no such thing as a “typical” day at work. In our Day in the Life series, we speak with pros from a variety of cities and industries to get a snapshot of their work lives. Title: Team Success Manager Company: One Click Ventures Location: Greenwood, IN Industry: Online Retail Number of Employees: 70 HR Team Size: 1 Years of Experience: 13 years College Major: Human Resources Management Favorite part of HR: “I love interacting w

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AI & Machine Learning: Matching talent with the right job at the right time

Papirfly

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are changing the world of talent acquisition. While talent is still scarce, it is now easier and quicker than ever to identify the right candidates for a job. So how do AI and machine learning help recruiters to be more efficient at finding and connecting with the right talent at the right time?

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Training Needs Assessment Process: How to Start and What to Ask

FlashPoint

Photo by Jessica Ruscello on Unsplash. In one form or another, organizations perform a training needs assessment before embarking on a leadership development program. These assessments range from simple awareness that leadership development should be provided to an extensive multi-faceted analysis to identify gaps in development and determine the right additions to the development process.

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new hire is badmouthing our business on Twitter

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am the manager of a small business and recently made a verbal offer of employment to someone for an entry-level/cashier position. In the last day, this hire has made several deprecating comments on Twitter about the business. My knee-jerk reaction is to rescind the job offer, but I have doubts about how ethical that would be and the ramifications of it all.

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My Coworker Thinks He’s the Voice of HR

Evil HR Lady

We are a small company. We have no HR department, but we do have a jerk. A jerk who is a director and has decided that he is the voice of HR. Nobody appointed him to this role. He frequently dips snuff at his desk, which is a shared table with eight coworkers. He throws temper tantrums exactly like a three-year-old, ranting and cursing at employees and vendors alike.

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I don’t want an intern, I’m dating my boss, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I don’t want an intern. I need to find the appropriate way to tell my supervisor that I do not want to supervise another intern next year. I work for a nonprofit that contracts with schools to provide services in the schools. Last year, we had an intern and I ended up shouldering the “burden” of training her, answering many questions on a daily basis, maintaining her daily schedule, attending any meetings she was required for (whic

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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The barriers to flexible working

HRGem

First things first. There are some jobs that cannot be done flexibly, neither in time nor in location. If you need to open a shop at 9.00am, then the options for flexibility will be minimal at best.

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The 5 Hiring Managers You Never Want to Work With

The Tim Sackett Project

I tend to read a lot about the type of manager you want to work for and with. It got me thinking, what about the 5 Hiring Managers You Don’t Want!? Not only for performance reviews but for interviews, development planning, discipline, etc. In HR we are constantly dealing with every type of hiring manager you can imagine but I came up with the top 5 I hate dealing with: 1.

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Court officially kills Obama-era OT rule, but changes are coming

HR Morning

While the Obama-era changes to the DOL overtime rule had been on life support for some time, a recent court ruling officially euthanized the controversial changes. That means HR pros can officially scrub the $47,476 salary threshold from their collective memories. And, for the time-being, they can also forget about a flood of newly overtime-eligible employees.

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