Thu.Jul 25, 2019

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Support employment for people with disabilities: 5 inclusive hiring tips

Insperity

By ensuring your hiring practices encourage employment for people with disabilities, you can gain access to an often-untapped labor pool. In fact, making your company disability inclusive could help your business grow. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the unemployment rate for persons with a disability was 8 percent in 2018, more than twice the rate of those with no disability.

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“Conference” HR vs. Real-World HR

Robin Schooling

For many years now I’ve lived simultaneously in two separate and distinct HR worlds. I’ve been fortunate to be able to travel the world attending and/or speaking at events and conferences focused on HR, Recruiting, Technology and the Future of Work. I’ve also continued to meet and work with human resources professionals and businesses that, to put it mildly, operate much as they did circa 1993.

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As the Talent Shortage Persists, Employers Get More Creative

Genesis10

New analysis by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) shows that as the unemployment rate remains low, employers will need to get more creative in recruiting qualified workers to fill the more than 1.5 million jobs that go unfilled each month.

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Six Myths of Employee Engagement

KeenAlignment

With today’s global ability to produce carbon copy technology and business models, people truly are a company’s only competitive advantage. Businesses that want to accentuate and optimize their competitive talent advantage focus on employee engagement strategies that improve overall workforce productivity and return on staffing investments. A major disruption to employee engagement is the adverse impact of the unhappiness epidemic across many companies.

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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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The Importance of HR Cloud Services. 2019 Trends in U.S. Data

Mitrefinch

The move to the HR Cloud for organizations around the globe has been progressing at a rapid pace. There are a number of substantial benefits for moving Human Capital Management (HCM) to the cloud, and even some factors that are forcing companies’ hands. Despite this fact, and millions of dollars of investment in the technology, many companies in the U.S. are still unsatisfied with their HR Cloud solutions and/or aren’t fully equipped to handle these essential tasks fully on the cloud.

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Best-Self Management Podcast, Episode 4: Present and Impactful Leadership

15Five

At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced what it feels like to be around someone who, for lack of better words, sucks the energy out of the room. Their negativity has an overpowering presence in even the best of environments. While this attitude can be hard to ignore, someone with magnetic positivity may be even harder to look past. Either way, our energy is what most affects the people around us, more so than the words we use.

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Increase Your WOTC Certifications with A Two-Step Process

Trusaic

The use of an online screening portal for federal Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC) certifications is becoming more common. The process is fast and convenient. However, if organizations really want to maximize their WOTC certifications, they will want to incorporate a personalized screening experience for their candidates in addition to an online screening portal.

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Get a 360 View on Employee Sentiment with Onboarding, Engagement, and Exit Surveys

Reflektive

Many company leaders assume that high employee engagement and retention are due to mission-driven work or a strong work-life balance. However, there are many other variables that impact these crucial metrics. For instance, employees are 60 percent more likely to stay at an organization for more than three years when there is a structured onboarding program.

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Techniques to Help Accelerate Engagement Throughout the Recruiting Process

Engage2Excel

The data makes it clear that organizations that cultivate high levels of engagement also deliver exceptional performance regarding productivity, revenue, profitability, retention, customer service and other key metrics. Knowing this, you want new employees to reach high levels of engagement as quickly as possible. In fact, engagement starts before the hire, whether you're being intentional about it or not.

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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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House Passes Fair Chance Act

SHRM Resources

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation prohibiting federal agencies and federal contractors from asking about job applicants’ criminal history until after making a conditional offer of employment.

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10 Things You Need to Know to Become an Effective Leader

6Q

There are many different attributes and topics you need to know to be an effective leader. Guest writer Sharon Hooper gives us her top ten topics that you need to know. Like all individuals and many employees, you want to do well at whatever you are asked to do. Sometimes, you will be asked to lead a team at work and this could be a daunting task if you do not have leadership skills.

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HR Software: How Beneficial it is for Your Organization

SutiHR

Do you find it difficult to search and identify the right candidates to hire? Then you are not alone. Many HR managers reveal hiring the best candidates tops the most challenging part of their work. But with today’s technological advancements, there are several tools available in the market to help streamline and solve the challenges. The post HR Software: How Beneficial it is for Your Organization appeared first on SutiHR.

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Evolution of a company retreat: from product updates to breaking bread

Workable

Some people call it a corporate retreat. Others call it a company gathering. Still others call it an all-hands. Workable CEO Nikos Moraitakis calls his company’s own tradition of the company retreat simply as “the summit”. It was an idea that took form over time, he explains, and grew into something more. Something with energy and purpose of its own.

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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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ask the readers: what do I do once I retire?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My concern skews to an older audience than most of your readers but it’s one that I probably should have given more thought to years ago. How do I prepare to retire and what do I do once I retire? I’m not talking about the money piece of retirement, but rather, what do I do with my time? Some people continue to work in another capacity.

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2020 Will Be HR’s Year to Flip the Script

HRExecutive

We sure have flipped the script on HR, haven’t we? Suddenly, the whole world is going digital, everything is mobile, and the people you’re hiring and managing have better tech on their wrists than you used to find and onboard them. The entire HR-technology industry is talking about the future of work, the role of HR and next-generation technologies, AI (artificial intelligence) and IA (intelligent automation), and digital transformation.

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do job titles matter?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small company of 25 employees. We still call ourselves a start-up (with all of the cultural elements that brings), but we’ve been around almost 10 years now. The founder/sole owner believes “titles don’t matter” and it’s more important to focus on the responsibilities each person has. So most people have their official title as basically the department they work for (business development, software engineering, etc), although the managem

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Employers to Benefit from Plans to Modernize H-2A Visa Program

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is set to propose a number of reforms to the labor-certification process of the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural workers.

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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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talkative job candidates, baby showers at work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Talkative friend was advised to show interviewer he can be quiet. My friend “Alex” is applying for jobs as at breweries and bars. He had an interview today at a brewery and one of his other friends, “Charlie,” knows the head brewer and business partner. The interviewer spoke with Charlie afterwards and made a comment about Alex talking too much/oversharing.

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Finding The Right Fit: 15 Strategies Businesses Should Use To Hire The Best

Forbes Coaches Council

Don't end up with the wrong hire. Follow these strategies from Forbes Coaches Council experts and make sure you bring on the right mind every time.

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updates: the harsh email, the school supplies, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from people who had their letters answered here in the past. 1. My manager calls and just reads my emails back to me (#5 at the link). It turns out that there were a couple of issues that created the situation where my boss reads emails at me over the phone. The first issue was that he felt left out of the project. I started asking him for “help” in each message, and giving him something to do really helped.

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6 Ways to Increase Clarity Around Employee Compensation

Quantum Workplace

People know what they’re getting paid (and generally what they’re getting paid for), but they often lack the context to understand what that really means. Employees want to know: -How does their salary compare to the rest of the marketplace? -Is it in line with other employees at their organization? -What could their potential compensation look like?

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Income Tax e-Filing for FY 2018-19 – Report Income from Other Sources in ITR-1

Empxtrack

Income tax e-filing of Income from other sources is vital. This may be tax free and include investments, selling of property etc. Learn how to declare such income in ITR-1. Income Tax Department has extended the date of income tax e-filing from July 31st to August 31st. This post has useful information that would help you file ITR-1 and report taxes and investments accurately under “Income from Other Sources” section.

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Hard Decisions And Tough Moments: 10 Entrepreneurs Share What They Learned

Forbes YEC Women

Leadership involves choices, and not all of them are without risk. Here are a few moments or decisions that changed the course of businesses and careers.

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Wellbeing in the Workplace: Strategies that Work

Newmeasures

This is the first of two blogs that examines how employee wellbeing initiatives have become a key business strategy for organizations. Then, we discuss a critical step that is often skipped in the process of designing a robust wellbeing strategy. Employee wellness isn’t a new topic. For decades, employers have understood that having healthy people on payroll is good for the bottom line, as it means reduced absenteeism, fewer safety incidents, and lower insurance costs.

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How To Land An Interview During Your Job Search

Forbes Coaches Council

Getting in front of someone so that you can let them know just how awesome you are can be tricky.

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A Benefits Leaders Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers? Cancer.

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How to Stay Active and Healthy for Seniors

Take It Personel-ly

Staying fit and active is important at any age, but regular exercise may be even more beneficial to seniors. Staying active is crucial for seniors to prevent muscle atrophy and bone density deterioration; it helps them to avoid injury and sudden accidents. Whether it’s finding a way to more effectively manage pre-existing health conditions or […].

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Embrace An 'Integrator Mindset' For Organizational Success

Forbes Coaches Council

Organizational mindsets are an ideal way of assessing the choices we have to adapt to changing competitive environments. They also provide a realistic framework for personal change.

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13 Best Jobs for Older Workers

Digital HR Tech

As an HR professional, have you ever wondered what would be the best jobs for older workers? If you haven’t, you may want to give this question some thought as it is something that will become increasingly important. . The aging workforce has been a reality for a while now. Since 2011, there have been 10 000 baby boomers turning 65 every day in the US alone.