Tue.May 03, 2016

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3 Stats to Prove Your HR Tech Tools are Asking for an Update

ClearCompany HRM

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.”. -Someone Wise. The quote’s origin is questionable. Attributed to multiple influential people like Twain and Einstein, it’s less about who said it, and more about what is being said: innovation and adaption are the only way to see growth.

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These are the Best Times to Post Your Jobs on LinkedIn

Linkedin Talent Blog

Writing a great job post is a feat on its own, but it turns out so is getting people to apply to it. Don’t think so? Currently, unemployment in the U.S. is at a post-recession low, hovering around 5% (down from nearly 10% in 2009). The situation in Europe is similar with unemployment figures down to 10% from above 12% in 2013. While this has brought on a lot of exciting work for recruiting teams and staffing agencies, it also means that the competition for talent is increasing.

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Lois Melbourne on the “Paul”Cast – What I wish I had been told…

What is Paul Thinking

Today’s “Paul”Cast is all about taking the bull by the horns and reaching out to your network and owning that task. And we’re lucky enough to have Lois Melbourne to thank for that advice. I’ve known Lois for a few years. I think we met over a podcast – HRHappyHour. She was running a company called Aquire (formerly known as TimeVision.

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5 Companies That Are Responding To The Needs Of The Millennial Workforce

15Five

As of last year, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America. At 33%, they also have the greatest numbers in the American workforce – a number that is projected to hit 50% by 2020. As you probably know by now, members of this latest generation are quite demanding. With over 75 million people aged 18-35 either working or searching for work, you’d think that business owners and managers wouldn’t have to worry about pleasing these seemingly replaceable member

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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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Is Employee Engagement REALLY Worth It? [Infographic]

Kazoo

How do you know if employee engagement is really worth the investment in tools in programs to help improve it? Many organizations realize it should be a priority but struggle to understand the financial implications if they don’t take action. This infographic outlines how disengaged workers can affect your company. Some stats included: $11B is lost annually due to employee turnover.

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Treat Your Employees Like Customers

Kazoo

Last week at the Bersin by Deloitte IMPACT conference , Echo Global Logistics ’ CEO Doug Waggoner and SVP of Talent Cheryl Johnson shared their story of creating a strong company culture through treating their employees the same as their valuable customers. Read more about their approach below: Excellent customer service is a primary factor behind Echo’s success.

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Health Crisis Likely in Miami-Dade

ACA Times

Access to health care is more than just ordinary preventative care and occasional treatment: it’s also preventing a health crisis. As Florida’s Miami-Dade County sees large numbers of its residents without health care, a health crisis may be on the horizon. The Miami Herald reports that the escalating health issues in Miami could result in overpopulation of hospitals, which in turn would be costly to the county residents.

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Is Employee Engagement REALLY Worth It? [Infographic]

Kazoo

How do you know if employee engagement is really worth the investment in tools in programs to help improve it? Many organizations realize it should be a priority but struggle to understand the financial implications if they don’t take action. This infographic outlines how disengaged workers can affect your company. Some stats included: $11B is lost annually due to employee turnover.

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How Managers Can Develop Rapport With Their Teams

Everwise

What does it mean to build rapport? At first, it seems like an easy enough task towards forging healthy work relationships. But if you dig a little deeper, it also means having meaningful communication where you’re able to build trust, engage team members, and get them invested in a manager’s directives and business objectives. And rather than going about it with surface techniques such as making small talk, it’s more worthwhile to understand the role of building rapport in the larger scheme of

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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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Treat Your Employees Like Customers

Kazoo

Last week at the Bersin by Deloitte IMPACT conference , Echo Global Logistics ’ CEO Doug Waggoner and SVP of Talent Cheryl Johnson shared their story of creating a strong company culture through treating their employees the same as their valuable customers. Read more about their approach below: Excellent customer service is a primary factor behind Echo’s success.

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Chicago Marathon

Laurie Ruettimann

I won the lottery and will be running in the Chicago Marathon. My friend, Tim Sackett , nearly had an aneurysm when I told him the news. He’s like — Get ready for non-stop updates on what you’re eating, how much you’re drinking, how hard running is, how much you hate it, how much you love it, your shoes, your gear, and all the other crap that goes along with doing another marathon.

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Do Employees Give Leaders Points For Trying?

China Gorman

In honor of next week’s WorkHuman Conference , I thought I’d draw your attention to this white paper: The ROI of Recognition in Building a More Human Workplace. It was published by the WorkHuman Research Institute at Globoforce , the social recognition solutions company. Because it is a white paper, it has a definite bias towards recognition, but it also has some very interesting insights to share about the larger question of the impact of culture on employee engagement.

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RECRUITER VALUE: Don't Give Hiring Managers Drip Resumes.

The HR Capitalist

I'm on the record that recruiters should manage the submittal process - which is the timing, number, context and presentation strategy of when you give hiring managers resumes for any open position. The best practice? Having a plan which positions you like an expert and someone who knows what they're doing. Industry cynic and recruiter at large Matt Charney agrees with me in this FOT post called " Stop Submitting Resumes With No Chill ": "As I’ve written about before, one of the most ridiculous

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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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Do Employees Give Leaders Points For Trying?

China Gorman

In honor of next week’s WorkHuman Conference , I thought I’d draw your attention to this white paper: The ROI of Recognition in Building a More Human Workplace. It was published by the WorkHuman Research Institute at Globoforce , the social recognition solutions company. Because it is a white paper, it has a definite bias towards recognition, but it also has some very interesting insights to share about the larger question of the impact of culture on employee engagement.

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Leadership vs. Management: How to Strike the Right Balance in Your Business

Insperity

Being a leader sounds exciting, powerful. Everyone wants to be a leader who inspires the troops. Being a manager sounds boring, like someone who spends all day forcing workers to sweat over the assembly line. The problem with this either-or thinking is that both are needed in a well-run enterprise. Leaders focus on high-level objectives such as inspiring and motivating the team to success, which can be exciting and powerful.

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Want Fierce Loyalty from Your People: Create a Village

WorqIQ

The world we live in is becoming a world where isolation and lack of human connection is the norm. We don’t know our next door neighbors. Technology means we don’t actually have to talk to or interact with anyone. Our jobs take us far away from friends and family. Read More» The post Want Fierce Loyalty from Your People: Create a Village appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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10 Things Every Working Mom Needs

Evil HR Lady

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, husbands and children are thinking of presents for wives and mothers. Just what does a working mom want for a mother’s day present ? Well, probably not these things, unless your wife/mother loves practical gifts. Some moms love practical and some moms want jewelry. I assume you know what the mother in your life wants and if not, ask.

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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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10 Ways to Make Your Team More Productive [Infographic]

WorqIQ

Productive, collaborative teams don’t just happen. Just like with positive work cultures, building a productive team takes strategy and leadership. You may have team members who individually are rock stars, but that doesn’t mean they know how to work well, or productively, with others. As a manager it is your responsibility to build a framework […] Read more.

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4 IRS Tax Changes You Should Be Aware of in 2016

Paychex

Here's a look at four federal tax changes for 2016, including business tax breaks made permanent, stricter requirements under the Affordable Care Act, better tax breaks for commuters who take mass transportation to work, and new mileage reimbursement rates.

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6 Reasons Why Your Company Needs Real-Time Feedback

TalentCulture

In the news today we’re constantly seeing major companies announce they’re dumping their old performance management systems for more agile solutions. Accenture , Adobe , Deloitte , Gap and Microsoft are just a few of the big names that have upgraded their people management processes based on real-time feedback. You may be asking yourself what the reasons are for this major shift in HR and how it will affect your company?

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Do Employees Leave a Company or a Boss? 

Women of HR

There are various schools of thought on what drives employee retention. Some expert sources like Gallup place an emphasis on the importance of the manager’s role in engaging, motivating and retaining employees. Other sources suggest that employees rarely leave a job solely because of the boss since there are many other contributing factors such as a compelling strategy, company culture and meaningful work.

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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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Focus on Employees and Their Happiness, and Customer Success Will Follow

Culture University

“Our people are our greatest asset” has been uttered by many CEOs for a long time. However, most of them don’t focus enough on employees’ experience because they are too busy setting their sights and business targets on improving the customers’ experience. Even Google says so … doing a simple Google search on “customer experience” […].

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Growth Mindset – From great idea to effective implementation

HR Zone

Thank you for downloading Growth Mindset – From great idea to effective implementation. Download complete! new_ml_logo_-_green.png. If your download has not started click here to download the resource.

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A Powerful Way HR Can Reclaim Millions for Your Company

HR C-Suite

Over the last 15 years, through good economies (remember the New Economy?) and bad, I’ve been heartened to see that companies haven’t abandoned the pursuit of employee engagement. All my IO psych friends continue to be busy surveying, measuring, counting, aggregating and advising on how to create dynamic, profitable organizations led by managers who know […].

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4 steps to transform your performance management process

Ceridian

By Kevin Thompson, VP of Professional Services, Ceridian. It’s that time of year, the annual performance review! We’ve all had them, the grueling session where you and your manager try desperately to remember what you did last year. Or maybe you are one of the many who have no idea how you are doing; you just receive a note with your new raise in it.

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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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13 Zingers For Good Work: The New Employee Engagement

David Zinger

Let’s sharpen our focus on work in the New Employee Engagement. I simplified employee engagement into an 8 word definition: good work done well with others every da y. There is a lot of meaning packed into each word in the eight word definition so I will take the next four blog posts to examine two words at a time. Today the two words are good work.

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Mobile, Remote & Fast: The Future of Communication at Work

Workology

There are several trends that are, and have been, intersecting to create changes in workplace and workforce communication. These trends include: Millennials as the workforce. The hatred of email. Telecommuting. Increased use of mobile devices. These four things are changing the face of communication at work. I will explore each below. Millennials As the Workforce.

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How to Clean Up Your Company Culture the Right Way

WorqIQ

As a leader, you’re accountable for everything from finances to branding to, yes, even company culture. With that accountability comes the pressure to do everything right. After all, half the difference in operating profits between comparable organizations derives from different company cultures. Read More» The post How to Clean Up Your Company Culture the Right Way appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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