Fri.Jun 02, 2017

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The Business Case for Hiring 50+ Workers [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

I’ve been to quite a few conferences lately and recruiting remains a top challenge. So, I think we’ve moved past the point where we need to convince people that recruiting is difficult. It seems to be a given that finding qualified talent is tough. Organizations everywhere are looking for qualified workers. If you’re not aware, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has partnered with AARP to help organizations understand the value of recruiting, engaging, and retaining older workers.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

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. 8 Bad Mistakes That Make Good Employees Leave -- by Dr. Travis Bradberry. 2. 7 Strategies to Attract Passive Candidates. 3.

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Level Up Your Networking Skills with Tips From Six Experts [eBook]

Justworks

Networking is pivotal to a successful career, yet it’s something most people have little to no formal instruction on. We probably don’t need to convince you much of the importance of networking. According to a survey conducted by LinkedIn, a whopping 85% of jobs are filled through networking. But in this eBook, we will explore beyond networking just to land your next job and take the the long view instead.

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How To Create A Culture Of Imperfection

Hppy

A perfect cross into the penalty area. A perfect product launch. A perfect presentation. No glitches. No deviation from the intended purpose. How often does that happen? Rarely if ever do we actually achieve precisely what we had intended. There are simply too many uncontrollable and unpredictable variables in play that impact the planned outcome. The environment is too complex to cultivate perfect results; where the deviation between intention and result is ZERO.

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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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Are your employees surviving or thriving at work?

HR Zone

Employees. Are your employees surviving or thriving at work?

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Five ways to ensure your feedback has impact

HR Zone

People. Five ways to ensure your feedback has impact.

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#WorkTrends Preview: 7 Keys to Effective Recruiting

TalentCulture

Most HR specialists agree they want to get better at talent acquisition. In a 2016 SHRM survey of more than 2,300 HR professionals, respondents said recruitment was their top business/HR challenge, ahead of compliance, employee training and compensation/benefits. Finding the time to implement these leading strategies is the bigger challenge. Join TalentCulture #WorkTrends host Meghan M.

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Employee Rewards: From Most Popular to Most Creative

Compensation Today

Today’s employees have some unique advantages that employees of the past didn’t have. For one thing, the U.S. economy is relatively stable, and the unemployment rate continues to decline steadily overall at 5 percent or lower for over a year now. Lots of companies are hiring, and many workers have far more opportunity than they did in the post-recession recovery period.

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Stuff the Capitalist (aka KD) Likes: Ryen Russillo

The HR Capitalist

Who am I? Who cares? Good questions. It's my site, so I'm going dig in once in a awhile by telling you more about who I am - via a "Stuff I Like" series. Nothing too serious, just exploring the micro-niche that resides at the base of all of our lives. Potshots encouraged in the comments. We live in a "hot take" society. Fox News. MSNBC. ESPN. It's not enough to report these days, you have to have a "hot take" - a polarizing, all or nothing opinion about someone that will cut through the n

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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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3 Reasons SMBs Might Consider Outsourcing Recruitment

TLNT: The Business of HR

The idea of companies outsourcing key business services is gaining traction like never before. Small businesses, midsized companies and large conglomerates continue to integrate third-party solutions into their operations. And this adoption couldn’t be truer or more transformative than what we’re seeing in the HR space.

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Why Are Exit Interviews Important?

Engagedly

One of your best employees requests you for a one on one meeting and says, “Hey Charlie, I wanted to talk to you about something very important. I have been thinking of quitting my job here lately. So […].

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An Uncomfortable Truth About Analytics

TLNT: The Business of HR

As an advocate of analytics its pains me to reveal the truth that analytics never delivers answers. No matter how big your data set or how clever your analysis, you will never be able to prove a proposition beyond doubt.

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How to navigate toxic behaviours during conflict

HR Zone

People. How to navigate toxic behaviours during conflict.

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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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Maybe we got this Culture Fit thing all Wrong! #WorkHuman

The Tim Sackett Project

So, I’m sitting on a plane flying back from the WorkHuman conference and I’m going through my notes. Here’s one of the things I wrote down: “Instead of culture fit, what if we focused on culture contribution…” . I don’t even remember who said it that sparked me to write it down, but I loved it. I want to say it was Adam Grant, seemed like he was saying a bunch of stuff I liked during his session.

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Make Room in the Trophy Case! ADP’s New Instant Funding API and Instant Tips Solutions Bring Home Two Top Innovation Awards from Visa and PYMNTS.com

ADP

Make Room in the Trophy Case! ADP's New Instant Funding API and Instant Tips Solutions Bring Home Two Top Innovation Awards from Visa and PYMNTS.com.

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“That’s not what I signed up for!” Linking job role, illegitimate tasks and wellbeing.

HR Zone

Employees. “That’s not what I signed up for!”.

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How To Convince Your Boss to Invest in Appraisal Software

AssessTEAM Performance Management

If you are reading this article, it suggests that you are thinking about acquiring performance appraisal software but are concerned that you are going to get some serious ‘push-back’ from your boss. So, how can you make a compelling business case for your new performance appraisal software? There are three very effective techniques: Show How the Software Can Fix Known Pain Points.

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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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What You Need to Know About the May Jobs Report

Workology

You’ve heard the headline figures: the American economy added 138,000 jobs in May and unemployment sank to 4.3%. Now let’s go a little deeper to examine some of the other figures from the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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More Than Just Diversity, HR Must Develop a Cultural Competence

TLNT: The Business of HR

We are facing a dynamic and consistent cultural shift in the U.S.

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Client Relations Manager job description

Workable

This Client Relations Manager job description template is optimized for posting to online job boards or careers pages and easy to customize for your company. Client Relations Manager Responsibilities. Include: Building long-term relationships with key clients. Addressing customer concerns and complaints. Creating sales plans to generate revenue. The post Client Relations Manager job description appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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Why You Should Go to Lunch, Today

Evil HR Lady

The Wall Street Journal just ran an article about how sad it is that people don’t go out to lunch anymore. They write: The U.S. restaurant industry is in a funk. Blame it on lunch. Americans made 433 million fewer trips to restaurants at lunchtime last year, resulting in roughly $3.2 billion in lost business, according to market-research firm NPD Group Inc.

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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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weekend free-for-all – June 3-4, 2017

Ask a Manager

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: Standard Deviation , by Katherine Heiny. As a middle-aged married person, I find that I increasingly love novels about middle-aged married people. You may also like: all my 2016 book recommendations all my 2015 book recommendations how early should I tell an employer about my long-distance marriage?

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4 Employee Reward and Recognition Strategies That Work

Mercer

Employee reward systems such as bonuses based on good performance may not be enough to motivate employees. Review these helpful tips before planning your employee reward program. The post 4 Employee Reward and Recognition Strategies That Work appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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open thread – June 2-3, 2017

Ask a Manager

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 :).

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Five for Friday: Get a raise

Jostle

Asking for a raise can be one of the trickiest topics to tackle in the workplace. It's often hard to know how to ask for more without appearing greedy. Don't distress! This week's Five for Friday will help you figure out if you deserve a raise and how to politely ask for one.

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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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Join Culture Amp People Geeks at HR Tech World

CultureAmp

Culture Amp is excited to be a partner of HR Tech World’s first US event. HR Tech San Francisco will take place at Fort Mason on Wednesday, June 14 and Thursday, June 15. Like Culture Amp, HR Tech World Congress is focused on how HR professionals can leverage technology to create successful organizations. Learning at HR Tech.

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5 Things Not to Do to an Employee on Vacation

HR Daily Advisor

School is almost over and that means pretty soon your employees will start taking their vacations. However, American’s are taking less vacation than ever. Various reports—released by Project Time Off —indicate that 40% of workers allow paid vacation days to go unused, often the result of employers subtly (or not so subtly) condemning time off and fostering a workaholic culture.

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A diversity and inclusion journey with AppNexus

CultureAmp

Diversity and inclusion was the topic of discussion at our 2017 People Geekup hosted at AppNexus. Brandon Atkinson , Chief People Officer, began the evening with a discussion about his personal journey as a champion for diversity and inclusion. He also spoke about formalizing the process for building a diverse and inclusive culture at AppNexus. He began with a story - “I was raised by my mother.