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Overworked and Overwhelmed. Welcome to HR Today.

TLNT: The Business of HR

Earlier this year, Lattice surveyed over 700 HR professionals to better understand their challenges and priorities. The resulting 2021 State of People Strategy Report found that 42% of HR teams cited emotional exhaustion and burnout as their top challenges. They also said that they’re feeling overwhelmed and understaffed. Considering how critical these teams will be in driving the economic recovery, results like these should give us all pause. .

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Costco Not Joint Employer of Woman Hired by Staffing Agencies

SHRM Resources

A woman who was hired by staffing agencies to work at specialty events on the Costco premises was not a Costco employee, a federal appeals court ruled. The trial court, therefore, correctly dismissed her claims against Costco under California's wage and hour laws, the appellate court said.

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5 HR Metrics All Staffing Firms Should Be Tracking

Essium HRM

Staffing firms need to know how they measure up to the competition. So, tracking certain metrics is key. It helps you identify areas where you can improve and where there is room for growth. Here are five human resources metrics every staffing agency needs to be tracking. Is Your Staffing Firm Tracking These Metrics? Cost Per Hire. Cost per hire is an extremely important metric for staffing firms to keep track of.

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How To Tailor Recruiting Strategies And Improve Candidate Engagement

PandoLogic

On September 6, 2021, the United States government officially ended federal unemployment benefits. While some states opted to end the benefit sooner, the labor market has been in a state of flux since the cut-off. Workers have walked away from their jobs en masse leaving staffing and recruiting professionals little time to piece together effective strategies.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. Nader Beshara

Recruit CRM

Growing up in Brighton, on the south coast of the United Kingdom, Nader always wanted to become a race car driver growing up. However, things took a turn as he grew up. After studying business in college and university, Beshara developed a keen interest in the same and knew he wanted to do something of his own and run his own show. After working for 6 months as a paralegal in a small law firm in Brighton, Nader took a dive into recruitment after realising it didn't fit his personality type.

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How to Improve Team Spirit in Your Office

Hppy

Your office is your second home, a place where you spend the most productive time of the day. Having a great office environment is beneficial to both the employer and the employees and every visionary leader makes every effort to ensure that their office has a productive environment. It’s become widely accepted that a team is more than just a sum of its members’ experience, vision and brains – collaborative efforts have a synergistic effect that brings consistently better results than coul

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I feel insulted by the rolls at my new job, coworker uses baby talk, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, I feel insulted by the rolls at my new job, coworker uses baby talk, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. I’m on vacation. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. And how can we kick off December other than with… 1. I feel insulted by my new job.

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13 Ways HR Leaders Are Reskilling For a New Future of Work

SHRM

What is one way you are reskilling for a new future of work? What area of HR are you reskilling? To help HR professionals consider what skills to update, we asked HR leaders, recruiting specialists, and business professionals this question for their insights. From reinventing job postings to using people analytics models, there are several ways HR professionals can reskill for the business world’s ever-changing landscape.

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Boese: 3 ways HR tech can help employees find meaning at work

HRExecutive

One of the most interesting work and labor market developments in the pandemic era has been the tightening of the labor market, especially in the U.S. The combination of near-record-high job openings with the surge in American workers voluntarily leaving their jobs—along with workers’ ongoing concerns for their own health and safety, and lack of affordable childcare—have created a kind of labor market perfect storm, making the filling of open positions and employee retention HR’s top chall

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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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3 Key Steps to Creating a Great Candidate Experience

TalentCulture

The world of recruitment has undergone a power shift in the last decade. With job openings at a record high and alarming talent shortages in some industries, candidates have more […]. The post 3 Key Steps to Creating a Great Candidate Experience appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Think carefully about staff wellbeing this Christmas

HR Zone

Employees Tips to manage staff wellbeing this Christmas.

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The State of Employee Engagement in 2021: 4 Key Takeaways

Bonusly

Engaged employees are the wind beneath your organization’s sails. ??. Making sure you don’t hit rocky seas in terms of employee morale and motivation isn’t a set it and forget it process. Instead, the organizations with the most engaged employees are constantly measuring and adjusting employee engagement based on changing company culture and world events.

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#NowPlaying: The Sound of Red Branch + What Makes RBM Amazing

marenated HR

Red Branch Media is comprised of a diverse range of people, skills, cultures, living locations, and you guessed it, music tastes. That begs the question… what does RBM sound like? You can’t just ask us that, right? Hold our beer because we have the answer to that very question. This new playlist we’ve created was built by each brancher, combining all of our musical tastes into one comprehensive playlist.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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How to Scale Automation with Low-Code

Quickbase

Here is how low code can help scale small-team automation efforts grow to the cross-departmental and enterprise-wide levels.

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What U.S. Employers Can Learn About Work-Life Balance from These 6 Countries

Hppy

As much as health is regarded as the backbone of wealth, so also is family and friends, regarded as the support system of every human when all other supporting media seems to have failed. Balancing the level of attention you give to your career and working with the one you give to your health and people around you will not only bring the best out of you but will give you a good landing spot at the end of everything. .

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13 Team Bonding Activities to Bring Your Team Together 

6Q

If you are managing a team, you probably already know how important it is to build a cordial relationship between your team members to streamline your business operations. However, it is not that easy to develop team bonding between team members coming from different cultures and ideologies. But it is not impossible either! Managers and HRs need to practice the right team bonding activities in the organisation that can help team members to better interact with one another.

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Guide to the Vaccine Mandate in Transportation

Cisive

What is the vaccine mandate? The Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on vaccination and testing says employers with 100 or more employees must require that all employees are either vaccinated, or tested weekly for COVID-19 and to wear face coverings. To whom does it apply? Employers who have over 100 employees, even if the employer dips below 100 employees after crossing the 100-employee threshold.

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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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How fake is your employment brand?

The Tim Sackett Project

I think most employment brands are completely fake. The reason I feel this way is because HR and Executives approve the messaging. We, HR and Executives, are the last people who really know what our employment brand truly is. So, we end up with stuff like this: Seems really cool! Makes us feel good about ourselves and our organization. But for the most part, it’s one big lie.

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HR Operations: The Essential Guide

Analytics in HR

HR Operations is an indispensable part of every HR department. What exactly does HR operations do, what are their key responsibilities and main goals? Let’s dive in. Contents What is HR Operations? Key responsibilities of HR Operations The main goals of HR Operations HR operations manager role. What is HR Operations? A has Microsoft study found that 41% of the global workforce “is likely to consider leaving their current employer within the next year” With the ever-changing eco

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updates: not being the boss, the commute anxiety, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, updates: not being the boss, the commute anxiety, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are five updates from past letter-writers. 1. How do I adjust to not being the boss anymore?

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Capt Ved Singh Interview: Pioneering Change with Tact and Ambition

Darwinbox

The world of work has undergone significant transformation in the past couple of years. And the story of this transformation is best told by the people who are pioneering this change. No one embodies ‘change’ better than a leader who has been there, done that , and transformed teams with his tact and ambition.

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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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5 tips for running more meaningful performance reviews

Zoho People

Think about the time when you received your first performance review. Was it well-structured, timely, and useful? Or was it a procedural, once-a-year process where small mistakes were criticized, triumphs were ignored, and the feedback was generally unhelpful and vague? Now compare that to the current review process at your organization. With HR refocusing to prioritize employee experience , it may be time to reevaluate those annual evaluations.

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Leadership Coaching: Developing Future Leaders

Namely

Companies around the world invest in leadership development to ensure their employees have the critical knowledge, skills, and experience they need to perform at a higher level. Capabilities such as strategic thinking, collaboration, and decision making are critical to employees’ growth and improvement in their career progression.

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14 Pragmatic Ways To Become A Better Co-Worker

Forbes Coaches Council

To ensure effective cooperation and collaboration among teammates, it’s up to each individual member to do their part to cultivate a team culture where all interactions flow in a productive manner that benefits the entire organization.

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Psychological safety in the workplace: What it is and why it matters to your organization

Qualtrics HR

When employees feel safe to challenge the status quo, they bring new, innovative ideas to the table. But without psychological safety at work, your employees won’t speak up – and your organization will suffer the consequences. Do your employees feel safe to voice an unconventional or even an unpopular, opinion in the workplace? Can they share their ideas freely in a brainstorming session?

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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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What Does the Research Say about Crypto Investments?

ForUsAll

Though cryptocurrency is a relatively new investment option for the public compared to other assets, many people have already made up their minds that it’s too unstable to be part of a long-term investment strategy. However, many institutions and governments are beginning to integrate cryptocurrency into their financial spheres, particularly Bitcoin.

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New Study Reveals How Best Workplaces are Keeping Their Working Parents from Joining the Great Resignation

Great Place to Work

If you thought for a moment that working parents were an exception to the Great Resignation, and that they were bound to their workplaces to fulfil the obligations of parenthood, you would be wrong. This year, Great Place to Work® conducted the largest-ever study of working parents to understand their workplace experience, the unique challenges they face and how leaders can support them.

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7 effective employee enablement ideas

Jostle

Employees need access to tools, information, and all kinds of resources to feel successful at work. Supported and well-trained employees are more likely to stay with a company —they operate and collaborate better too, leading to greater revenue and ideal outcomes for everyone.