Tue.Nov 01, 2016

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Ceridian Cares: The Road to Giving Away One Million Dollars!

Ceridian

By Lisa Bull, VP of Employee and Leadership Learning, Ceridian. The launch of Ceridian Cares, Ceridian’s own charity, shows the importance of listening to your employees. While our late President, Dave Mackay was a tremendous champion early on, it was by reaching out to our people and asking for input that lead to Ceridian Cares. Our people have always been generous, even before Ceridian Cares, but they wanted to have a more visible impact.

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Dear ReWorker: What Should I Do About a Lack of Learning Opportunities?

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, During the interview for my current job, I emphasized that I wanted a job with professional development opportunities. The hiring manager said that professional development was important and definitely a priority. After six months, I approached my supervisor about a recognized professional certification that I wanted. It was an 18 month online course, so I wouldn't miss work, but it was expensive.

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HR Is Not the Only Profession Redefining Itself

HR Bartender

Human resources has been the subject of many articles and conversations over the years. Specifically, the need for HR to evolve and become more analytical in their approaches. While I don’t always agree with the way the argument is being presented, I’m cool with the idea that HR needs to stay on top of their game. I think it betters the profession which is good for HR pros as individuals, our organizations, and the employees we serve.

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Hiring Seasonal Workers? Here’s a Checklist to Guide the Process

FingerCheck

Many businesses are staffing their teams in preparation for the busy holiday season. If you’re considering hiring extra help but don’t know where to start, these steps can help. . Figure out the basics. If you’re pressed for time, it’s tempting to start your holiday hiring as quickly as possible. But before you do that , it’s important to determine your hiring budget, your needs, and the length of employment you’re hiring for.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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3 Ways to Maximize Your Staffing Firm's Budget in 2017

Linkedin Talent Blog

According to LinkedIn’s 2017 Global Staffing Trends Report , more than half of staffing industry leaders expect their firms’ budgets to grow within the next year. Meanwhile, 79% expect the volume of candidates placed to increase, too. The result is one of the most competitive recruiting climates ever: recruiters need to focus on filling roles with quality candidates, faster.

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How to Protect Your Company from High Employee Turnover

Achievers

Every manager and HR professional views employee turnover as a headache, but do you actually know how expensive and damaging it can be to your organization? Here’s a look at the dimensions of this complex problem and some tested managerial practices to alleviate it with long-term solutions. The dimensions of the problem. Current statistics from Catalyst show that it costs an average of one-fifth of an employee’s salary to replace that person, which means that for a position paying $50,00

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Getting Great Results from HR Technology

PeopleStrategy

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”. ― Albert Einstein. This quote has been attributed to a variety of people over the years, and it still makes a valid point. When you think about it, the problems HR faces on a day-to-day basis are not new. Since companies have been employing people, there have been challenges with attracting, retaining, and engaging talent.

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The Most Attractive Benefits for Globally-Minded Millennials

UrbanBound HR

As the millennial takeover of the workplace population continues at a rapid pace, your corporate policies need to be updated to reflect the changing expectations of this new generation of employees. For many offices, the first round of millennials caused a fair bit of shock and culture clashing between the various generations in the office. Those initial sparks should be dying down, as employees have had time to settle in and you have had plenty of time to update policies to address the changes.

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How Does a High-Engagement Culture Drive Business Results?

ExactHire

Our world of work is evolving to become more complex and competitive every day. However, the labor force is simultaneously shrinking as a result of shifting generational patterns and a widening skills gap. This clash of variables has created an unprecedented set of dynamics in almost every business environment. Ever-changing technology, globalization, environmental concerns, resource constraints, and a host of other issues are escalating in complexity and competitiveness such that achieving busi

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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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Your Mission Statement: What You Need To Improve Hiring

Spark Hire

It goes without saying that finding a technically competent professional is a crucial part of the hiring process. You don’t want to go through the trouble of adding a new member to your team, only to find they don’t actually have the knowledge base to do their new job successfully. However, now more than ever, you’ll want to look beyond just what this person knows in order to ensure the hiring choice is a wise one from a cultural fit standpoint.

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3 Ways to Engage Your Younger Employees

ATD Human Capital

This posting is the first in a series of articles to discuss viable strategies to make greater use of the skills, talents and abilities of currently employed workers. What do 40 percent of Canadian university graduates aged 25 to 34 have in common with 51 percent of American Millennials ? They’re stuck in situations of underemployment. To drive home how serious the underuse of skills is in the United States a full 12 percent of the overall working population reporting being underemployed.

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5 Tips for Keeping a Job

EDSI

But landing that job opportunity is just a first step. Keeping the job as you continue to work towards your career goals can prove challenging for some. You must strive to demonstrate to your supervisors that you are a good worker – a fast learner who is dedicated to self-improvement. Let your actions demonstrate that you’re serious about your career by following these five tips: Show Up Every Day – By being consistently responsible, you gain the respect of your emp

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A Look Ahead at L&D 2016 / 2017: Invisible, Contextual & Systemic

Bersin with Deloitte

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: L&D is in crisis. L&D must evolve or become irrelevant. We’ve heard this declaration so often during the past few years that it’s beginning to lose its shock value. Indeed, it seems this conviction has become common knowledge among L&D leaders: According to Deloitte’s Global Human Capital […].

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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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HEY HR FOODIES: Stop Dreaming About Opening a Restaurant - Here's Why.

The HR Capitalist

A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place. . You and I, face to face. A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian Restaurant. --Billy Joel. If there's one false positive in the business world, it's that a person should start a business simply because they love something.

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A Look Ahead at Bersin by Deloitte Research

Bersin with Deloitte

Welcome to the new The Business of Talent blog! We hope you appreciate the new look-and-feel and the new aggregated setup. Our intention is to increase the frequency and depth of our ongoing dialogue with you, our public readership. Let us know what you think of the flip. In the meantime, I want to draw your […].

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Lebron Telling A Teammate to Keep Khloe Kardashian Away Shows What a Leader He Is.

The HR Capitalist

I'll admit it. I was like most of America when Lebron James left Cleveland to join the Miami Heat. He left his hometown to create a super team. He posed and performed in the transition with a lack of humility. He was easy to hate. The cynic in me remained reserved when he left Miami to return to his home town two years ago. More attention/"look at me" moments perhaps?

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Why You Should Let Employees Pick Their Job Titles

TalentCulture

Traditional job titles are like business meeting jargon—they’ve become meaningless and have tended to make my eyes glaze over. As positions evolve thanks to changes in technology and workplace dynamics, it’s time for employers to let individuals choose job titles that reflect what they actually do. Think about it: Wouldn’t you like to have a desk plaque that says Chief Happiness Officer?

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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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Why Your Organization’s Purpose is Important to Your Culture

Culture University

Purpose. It’s a trending topic for businesses today. A quick Google search of the phrase “company + purpose” produces a whopping 1,030,000,000 hits. Harvard Business Review has published literally dozens of articles on the subject in the past 12 months alone. And leaders across the country – and the world – are paying attention; working […].

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New Year – New Employees: Energize Your Recruitment Marketing Strategy in 2017

TalentCulture

As we prepare for the upcoming year, talent management may be the last thing on your mind. We still have many Sunday night football games, post-turkey naps, holiday treats, and family traditions to look forward to. On the other hand, we all have performance goals to meet, budgets to create, and strategies to strategize before 2017 arrives. Who has time for recruitment marketing and talent management, right?

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That Time I Didn't Speak Up

NoExcusesHR

Ah, if it were only one time. Maybe then I wouldn't feel bad.or, at least not as bad. But over the years I've had multiple examples of staying quiet. Sometimes Sometimes it was an executive far senior to me. I couldn't challenge them, right? Sometimes it was my colleagues, and I guess I wanted to somehow fit in. Did my silence achieve that goal? Sometimes it was a family friend.

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Women in Iceland Left Work Early to Protest the Pay Gap

Workology

Last week women in Reykjavik, Iceland left work two hours and twenty-two minutes early to protest the country’s 30% unadjusted pay gap. That extra time off works out to 30% of the day, the time that, according to the protesters, Icelandic women are working for free while Icelandic men are still being paid. The protest was big — you can gauge just how big by the video below — and effective, garnering loads of domestic and international press.

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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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Benevolent Capitalism: Creating a Business for the Good of All

WorqIQ

Do you ever feel concerned about the current state of the world? Are you frustrated with the status quo? Are you tired of business as usual and long for a different possibility? As an entrepreneur and owner of a successful global company, I can tell you that something else IS possible! Business can be kinder, […] Read more. Read More» The post Benevolent Capitalism: Creating a Business for the Good of All appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Managing Today for more HiPo Employees Tomorrow

Reviewsnap

Developing a culture that supports and nurtures high potential employees is not reliant on one or two simple factors. The entire context on which your business operates impacts your results. One of the most important aspects is the culture of your company – how things get done, what works and what does not work as … Continue reading Managing Today for more HiPo Employees Tomorrow.

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How to Use Content to Target Qualified Candidates on Your Career Site

Workology

You’ve probably heard the saying that content is king. When it comes to digital and the internet, content drives traffic, makes your website sticky and increases brand recognition, loyalty and sales. With the recruiting function looking more and more like marketing , it’s no wonder that what works for marketing pros could work for our industry too.

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coworkers think I left a bad Glassdoor review, negative feedback in an open office, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworkers think I left a bad Glassdoor review, but I didn’t. I work at gossipy, small, family-owned, white collar business. We have about 40 employees, many of whom have been here for decades. I have been with the company for about a year and a half in an entry-level position (this is my first job out of college).

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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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HR Tech World San Francisco

Laurie Ruettimann

There’s another new HR technology conference on the scene. It’s called HR Tech World San Francisco. The company that organizes this event has a foothold in Europe. Now they’re coming to the states with a pretty stellar line-up of speakers and a desire to clean up the American HR technology conference market. You ask — “Aren’t there 600 HR technology conferences?

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How to Tell Your Salaried Employees They are Now Hourly

Evil HR Lady

Some of your salaried employees are about to become hourly employees , and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Starting on December 1, 2016, the minimum salary needed to qualify for a salary exemption will jump from $455 a week ($23,660 per year) to $913 per week ($47,476 per year). If you have employees who are currently exempt from overtime who earn less than $47,476 per year, you’ll have to change the way they are paid.

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4 must-use listening techniques for leaders

Insperity

When you’re caught up in the daily hustle and bustle of your business, you may be tempted to quickly dismiss your employees when they come to you with questions or concerns. But beware, if you routinely rush through conversations or give employees the cold shoulder, they’ll feel disrespected. And they’ll be less likely to respect your leadership. The development of good listening skills is one of the most efficient methods for becoming a great manager and leader.

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