HR Daily Advisor
APRIL 27, 2018
New research suggests you should consider freelancers. A survey conducted by The Creative Group, a Robert Half company providing creative staffing services, finds that nearly four in 10 advertising and marketing executives (39 percent) say the freelance creative talent pool has grown stronger. In addition, more than half of survey respondents (58 percent) report that their company employs project professionals.
Linkedin Talent Blog
APRIL 27, 2018
In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Slow Hiring Is Damaging Your Firm and Here Are 20 Reasons Why -- by Dr. John Sullivan. 2.
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Hppy
APRIL 27, 2018
Networking is an important part of a business, and inevitably one of the first questions you will be asked when you meet someone new is “Do you have a business card”? Of course, the worse thing to happen would be for you to say no and look unprepared, but second to that would be not having a card that’s memorable that could lead to business from your new contact at a later date.
Kazoo
APRIL 27, 2018
As an employee incentive, cash isn’t king. In fact, if you look at recent employee engagement trends , factors like “employee pay” aren’t even top-five engagement drivers anymore. As part of Kazoo’s research on rewards and recognition systems that work, we uncovered how to make employee incentives effective. Here are nine ways to create the best possible employee incentive options at your company. 1.
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TalentCulture
APRIL 27, 2018
Your employees are the core of your brand, but you wouldn’t know it looking at most companies’ websites and social […]. The post 3 Reasons It Pays to Invest in Your Employees’ Personal Brands appeared first on TalentCulture.
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HR Zone
APRIL 27, 2018
Employees. Customer experience & employee experience.
HR Morning
APRIL 27, 2018
It’s not surprising some job applicants feel the need to embellish their resumes to get a better shot at a job. But the exact number — now 85% — has risen dramatically over the past few years. . Resume lies have become so common that a lot of dishonest applicants are going undetected. Whether this is due to increasing pressure to fill positions quickly or trusting HR pros, a survey by SimplyHired discovered that 46% of hiring managers fail to check references, and 65% don’
Workology
APRIL 27, 2018
As much as HR is an increasingly strategic part of organizations, compliance is still a fundamental aspect of what we do. The consequences of not having proper records or being on top of employment laws, are pretty dire, and one of the best ways to ensure that your organization doesn’t fall into any of these […] Source.
TLNT: The Business of HR
APRIL 27, 2018
In the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2010 Congress enacted a law requiring public companies to identify the compensation of their median-paid employee, compare that to the CEO as a ratio, and disclose it each year. As noted by the SEC in enacting rules to implement the legislation, Congress provided no rationale for the rule, although presumably it was intended to highlight perceived inequities between executive and average worker pay.
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Ask a Manager
APRIL 27, 2018
It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.
SutiHR
APRIL 27, 2018
In many organizations, performance management is still considered a yearly task that needs to be completed in order to initiate pay raises and other administrative actions. Businesses take on a large risk by not including the goals they have set as part of their annual performance management process. When goals are not included in performance. The post The Best Ways To Set Performance Goals appeared first on SutiHR.
Evil HR Lady
APRIL 27, 2018
My company has an Employee Manual stating company policies on vacation, sick time, tardiness, overtime, absences, conduct, appearance, drug testing, etc. We do not, however, spell out company policy regarding the day-to-day operation of our business. We would like to start issuing written warnings to employees that violate operational policies by being rude to customers, charging items to customers with bad credit, not returning items to vendors in a timely manner and breaking other rules.
Tandem HR
APRIL 27, 2018
How to use an employee benefits strategy to boost morale, retention, and profits. Did you know that 8 out of 10 of your current employees would choose additional benefits over a pay raise ? While salary is important, never underestimate the power of a robust employee benefits strategy. If you’re worried employees are leaving perks on the table, stay tuned to learn how your benefits compare to the competition, why you should consider expanding benefits, and how to make sure employees are making t
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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.
The Tim Sackett Project
APRIL 27, 2018
It seems like being an ‘inclusive’ employer would be super easy! You just accept everyone! Can’t we all just get along!? The reality is, being an inclusive employer is hard, because being inclusive isn’t about accepting everyone. What!? Oh, great, Tim has finally lost his mind, buckle-up! I wrote a post about Jeff Bezos’s annual letter and how he lays out a great framework for how organizations and leaders should management performance.
TLNT: The Business of HR
APRIL 27, 2018
The “Bradford factor” describes the use of a special formula that calculates a score for each individual employee based on the amount of absences they have had, and the length of those absences. This formula is used in order to objectively assess and minimise absences within the organisation.
Compensation Cafe
APRIL 27, 2018
Editor's note: I am proud to feature as today's Classic the cautionary post written for us a few years ago by Jay R. Schuster and Patricia K. Zingheim, the winners of the prestigious WorldatWork Keystone Award and authors of some of the top selling books in our field. Unfortunately, the problems highlighted by Pat and Jay are not only still with us today but are becoming more entrenched as too many leaders are content to focus exclusively on market competitiveness and not rocking the board.
Steve Boese
APRIL 27, 2018
We are probably all a little tired of or at least raise a cynical eyebrow when we see yet another job posting advertising an amazing work culture, fast-paced environment, incredible colleagues, and off the charts compensation and perks. We all know that every job ad is a kind of marketing message, so a little bit of hype and exaggeration is kind of a given and kind of expected and accepted.
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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?
Ask a Manager
APRIL 27, 2018
This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: Then She Was Gone , by Lisa Jewell. A woman whose daughter disappeared 10 years ago ends up in a relationship with a man whose daughter looks eerily like her own, and all is not what it seems.
C. A. Short Company
APRIL 27, 2018
More than 200 million eggs from North Carolina. All romaine lettuce from southwest Arizona. Detox teas from around the nation. Not even our animals are safe. Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed a deluge of food recalls. And while the news may seem unprecedented, these events are far from isolated. Despite incredible technological and industrial advancements, the number of food recalls in the U.S. has actually doubled over the past 15 years.
HR Daily Advisor
APRIL 27, 2018
Research and studies indicate that members of the LGBTQ community, racial minorities , women , individuals who practice different religions , and those who have a disability still experience workplace discrimination. Here’s how you can inspire a more inclusive company culture that works toward dispelling as many instances of discrimination in the workplace as possible.
The Employer Handbook
APRIL 27, 2018
By late! [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Last Friday, I blogged about CareerBuilder’s Survey of bizarre excuses for being late to work. And, don’t get me wrong, there were some good ones in there (e.g., “I was here, but I fell asleep in the parking lot.”), but I had a sneaking suspicion that some of the readers of this blog had heard some better ones.
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.
Pingboard
APRIL 27, 2018
Every employee, from workers on the front lines all the way to the C-suite, wants to believe their efforts are important and appreciated. Yet, a recent survey by AttaCoin found that only 53 percent of employees feel appreciated. In a glass-half-full kind of way, that means a majority of workers feel content that they are being recognized in some way for their efforts.
Jostle
APRIL 27, 2018
According to research by Deloitte , almost 88% of the American workforce is lacking passion for their work. That's astonishing. It should make organizations and workers take stock immediately. Passionate employees drive sustained performance with their resilience and energy. They also look for new challenges and keep learning. So how can workplaces and employees find and keep this passion for work?
HR Daily Advisor
APRIL 27, 2018
According to a Bridge study about knowledge retention from training, 70% of employee respondents admitted to forgetting something they had been taught during a training within 24 hours of learning it. 1 And because so many organizations invest so much time and money developing their training programs, this number is quite alarming. Is there a way to ensure employees don’t forget most, if not all, of the things they’ve learned?
Corn on the Job
APRIL 27, 2018
If your organization is like most non-profits, each year serves as a new opportunity to make the most of your mission and serve a greater number of people than ever before. As you consider the ways you can take your efforts to the next level, it’s important to consider the help you need to make this a reality. For many organizations, this help can be provided by a fundraising consultant.
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.
HR Daily Advisor
APRIL 27, 2018
When a person who is paid to edit the written words of others fails to edit his own words, his job may be in jeopardy. Background. Early this year, Denis Finley, editor of the Burlington Free Press, Vermont’s largest newspaper, was fired for the tone and content of several tweets about matters in the news. Like most print media, the Free Press has watched its subscribership and advertising revenue decline as fewer and fewer people wait for the arrival of a morning newspaper on their do
Quickbase
APRIL 27, 2018
Learn Quick Base quickly with simple, short videos that walk you step-by-step through creating a complete app.
HR Daily Advisor
APRIL 27, 2018
Companies often promote diversity and inclusion, to attract diverse job candidates and build a diverse workforce. But how successful are these efforts? Source: enot-poloskun / iStock / Getty. The only way to know is to measure. Defining Diversity. Before focusing on analytics, it’s essential to come up with a definition of diversity. Although the term diversity is most often used in connection with race, ethnicity, and gender, your definition should be broader in order to truly determine if your
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