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Best Practices for Scheduling Hourly Employees

nettime solutions

Your schedule forms the backbone of your daily business operations. Since payroll is one of the biggest items in your budget, the way you staff your shifts makes a huge impact on your bottom line. You also need to have protocols for when and how the schedule is displayed, how employees make time off requests, and how they swap shifts. It’s vital to respect the time your employees give you and your business.

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Customer Spotlight: 5 Tools Making Life Easier for Pet Care Business Owners

Hireology

This is a guest post from Hireology client Cara Armour, founder of Boston-based Active Paws. Cara has more than a decade of pet sitting experience, winning Pet Sitter of the Year in 2009. Below, Cara highlights several tools that help her pet sitting business run smoothly. Read more insights from Cara’s 13+ of professional pet services experience here.

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Best Practices for Scheduling Hourly Employees

nettime solutions

Your schedule forms the backbone of your daily business operations. Since payroll is one of the biggest items in your budget, the way you staff your shifts makes a huge impact on your bottom line. You also need to have protocols for when and how the schedule is displayed, how employees make time off requests, and how they swap shifts. It’s vital to respect the time your employees give you and your business.

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5 Onboarding Best Practices to Apply to Your Evolving Workforce

ClearCompany HRM

First impressions are important, and many new hires are using those first few days on a job to decide just how interested they are in remaining employed within the organization. In fact, some employees consider the candidate experience and time between the offer letter and first day as an important indicator to how all of their employment might go. That’s why a quality onboarding program is so pivotal.

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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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The Stats You Should Know If You are Recruiting Contractors in the UK

Linkedin Talent Blog

There are 7 million members in the UK on LinkedIn that identify themselves as contractors - that’s 15% of the total UK workforce today. The industry, made up of freelancers, contractors and the self-employed, has grown steadily over the last decade and, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 set to create exponential change to labour market dynamics, this is certainly an employment trend that we can expect to see grow!

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Seven Tactics to Boost Learning in the Workplace

Everwise

Successful organizations emphasize ongoing professional development and gaining new knowledge. A learning culture benefits companies by enriching the employee experience, boosting productivity and innovation, and curbing turnover. It is an essential priority to remain competitive in today’s rapidly-changing landscape. Employees must be prepared to learn and adapt to rapidly changing conditions and new technologies.

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Your Performance Management Is Not Fine: Defending Against the Naysayers

Achievers

One busy Friday, I met with a West Coast client in the morning and then returned to my office to take a call from one of my East Coast clients in the afternoon. In the span of a few scant hours, both of my clients used the exact same phrase to describe their current performance management programs: “Our performance management program is fine.”. All weekend that phrase was stuck in my brain like an annoying popcorn hull wedged between my teeth.

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Three Ways External Feedback and Recognition Can Be a Career-Changer

Kazoo

Many companies are well beyond assuming an employee’s contributions to an organization can be fully understood from an annual performance review alone. To better assess and improve employee performance, conversations much happen much more frequently. For employees to understand their strengths and weaknesses – and for their managers to help them develop – feedback must be gathered continuously and in a variety of ways throughout the year.

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8 Signs that Your Employee is Ready for a Promotion

EmployeeConnect

One of your the most rewarding tasks of a manager is to identify & develop the leadership potential in an organisation. In fact, a high-performing, high-potential employee, it is not unlike having a life saver to watch your back. These individuals are known as star performers as they tend to pick up from where you left off. They are quite adept at reading what has slipped your mind and often can be a seamless extension of you.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Three Ways External Feedback and Recognition Can Be a Career-Changer

Kazoo

Many companies are well beyond assuming an employee’s contributions to an organization can be fully understood from an annual performance review alone. To better assess and improve employee performance, conversations much happen much more frequently. For employees to understand their strengths and weaknesses – and for their managers to help them develop – feedback must be gathered continuously and in a variety of ways throughout the year.

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Want Great Culture? Create an Inclusive, Diverse Workplace

TalentCulture

A company’s success relies, at least in part, on knowing how to create a great corporate culture. A positive culture keeps employees engaged , helps attract top talent, and ensures high-quality employees stick around. HR executives often talk about hiring for culture fit to maintain and promote a workplace culture that works for the organization. The counterpoint to this is it may lead to a homogenous workplace, which could hinder innovation.

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Performance Consulting Tips: Finding Solutions When Learning Is Not the Answer

ATD Human Capital

I want to share a story from my consulting practice—one to which you can probably relate. My client, a vice president of branch sales at a regional bank, needed to increase the average number of banking products each customer used from around two products to four products. For example, most customers had checking and savings accounts, but the bank wanted each customer to have two additional banking products, such as credit cards or money-market accounts.

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Happy Vets and Happy Pets: Bringing Customer Loyalty to B-to-B

Maritz Motivation

There are programs designed to incent people to sell a product and others designed to create brand loyalty. Our partner Purina has a program that combines both of these elements. Instead of focusing on a consumer buying a product, the focus is on their business customer recommending a product. It’s a hybrid approach that combines the best of channel and customer loyalty that we call “commercial loyalty.”.

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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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The Silent Killer of Diverse Trainers: Microaggressions and Inequality

ATD Human Capital

As a trainer of color, the obstacle of inequality is a day-to-day experience. In 2017, the workforce is the most diverse it has ever been. From age to race to gender to religion to disability, there are a plethora of signifiers that can make an employee the only “different” person in their space. As the workforce has changed, the trainer has changed as well.

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The Top HR Conferences in 2017-2018 You Can’t Afford to Miss

BambooHR

Table of Contents Conference Tips January February March April May June August September October November December. The post The Top HR Conferences in 2017-2018 You Can’t Afford to Miss appeared first on.

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Simplify the Recruitment Process With Google Hire

Entrepreneur

Hire, a new recruiting app for small and mid-sized businesses, integrates with G Suite apps like Gmail and Google Calendar.

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Best Predictors of Higher Income Attainment in 12 Year Old Kids? Rule Breaking/Defiance of Parental Authority Of Course.

The HR Capitalist

Ready for some science today? Of course you are. You want to be taken back to the college days where you'd figure out how to game the Dewey Decimal System to find the right cites for that lame research paper you had to write. Actually, this cite is kind of cool - it comes from the Journal of Developmental Psychology and breaks down Best Predictor of Higher Income Attainment in 12 Year Old Kids.

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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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4 questions to ask before firing a friend or family member

Insperity

When launching a new venture, many small business owners bring family and friends on board as employees. It’s often a great solution for busy, cash-strapped entrepreneurs. Support from family and friends helps business owners focus on growing their companies, rather than the hassle of hiring. What happens next is an all-too-common scenario for fast-growing small businesses.

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Google Launches a Powerful New ATS For SMBs

TLNT: The Business of HR

On the heels of its May announcement of a powerful job search tool — Google for Jobs — the company today publicly released an ATS designed for small- and mid-sized businesses.

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Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017 | Engagedly

Engagedly

HR practice is on a path of rapid innovation driven by prominent thought leaders. This summer, our industry research team at Engagedly decided to put together a list of the 100 most influential people in the field of […].

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Business Leadership Isn’t Just About How They Lead the Business

TLNT: The Business of HR

Bad behavior at the top is apparently “in.” In just the last few months we’ve seen all manner of examples of respected and not so respected leaders behaving badly, Uber’s former CEO Travis Kalnick being the poster child.

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2024 HR Calendar of Important Dates

64% of HR managers lack the time and resources to meet HR compliance challenges and 50% of HR professionals lack confidence in their ability to keep up with ever-changing rules and regulations ( UpCounsel ). This free calendar from Paycor can help.

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Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017 | Engagedly – III

Engagedly

Here are the next 25 thought leaders who are a part of the list, Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017. 51. Sommer Kehrli Sommer Kehrli is the Executive Director at the Centre for Organizational Effectiveness. The Centre for Organizational […].

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"I think about work all the time" (and you had better too, if you want to work here)

Steve Boese

Super interesting and quick read from our pals at Business Insider on a method that one CEO of a small but growing media company likes to use as a screening device for job candidates. From BI: If Erika Nardini (CEO of Barstool Sports) is going to hire you, first she wants to know you're committed to your job — even on a Sunday at 11 a.m. "Here's something I do," she said.

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Getting Fired Is Becoming Part of the CEO Lifecycle

TLNT: The Business of HR

The recent rash of CEO departures, presumably involuntary, punctuates a growing trend of Boards of Directors making changes at the top with an urgency not seen in earlier decades. The Wall Street Journal recently noted the trend with the headline: “ The Angst of Endangered CEO: How Much Time Do I Have? ” ( public access here ).

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European Employers Must Notify Job Candidate When Viewing Social Profiles

Workology

In the United States, recruiting with social media is commonplace. In fact, social sourcing is a common strategy among companies looking to find talent on sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. However, European countries are focused on protecting the privacy of its citizen when it comes to the internet, online data which includes […] Source.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017 | Engagedly – IV

Engagedly

And last but not the least, here are final 25 industry experts who make up the list, Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017. 76. Coretha Rushing Coretha Rushing is the CHRO and Senior VP at Equifax, a leading information […].

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Top 6 SDG, Employee Engagement, and CSR Articles of 2017

WeSpire

As we begin the second half of 2017, we thought we’d share some of the most impactful articles and reports the first half of the year had to offer. Let’s face it, a lot has happened in just a short period of time. . Here is our list of the articles and reports from this year that we’ve found most interesting. We hope that you find them to be inspirational and educational.

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Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017 | Engagedly – II

Engagedly

Here are the next 25 stalwarts who are a part of the list, Top 100 HR Influencers of 2017. 26. Kris Dunn Kris Dunn is influential in the HR field for his work in recruitment. He is currently […].