Wed.Nov 14, 2018

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Making the Case For—and Against—Hiring Overqualified Candidates

Cornerstone On Demand

We've all seen it before—you get an application from a candidate that is simply overqualified for the position that she's seeking. After all, why would an applicant with over twenty years of experience be vying for a mid-level role? But here's the problem with calling someone "overqualified." At some companies, the term has become an easy way to reject someone without saying "you're too old.

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Healthcare Turnover Rates in 2018

DailyPay

In our previous article, we discussed employee retention rate by industry and looked at which industries have the best and worst employee retention rates. In this article, we take a closer look at the healthcare industry. The turnover rate in the healthcare industry has risen nearly 5% — across all jobs in the industry — over the last decade. According to a study by National Healthcare Retention & RN Staffing Report , the average hospital turnover rate in 2017 was 18.2%, which is the highest

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Closing the Skills Gap

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon. Closing the skills gap is easier said than done. Here are five practical steps employers can take to build the skills their future workplace will need.

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Be Thankful for Feedback: Both the Positive & Constructive

Reflektive

As we approach the end of the year, many companies will be conducting annual reviews in the weeks ahead. While annual reviews are a source of anxiety for many employees—the Growth Divide survey found that 54% of employees report feeling anxious or stressed during their performance review period—they are also a key time for feedback, and that’s something everyone should be thankful for!

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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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my employer fined me $90 for being late

Ask a Manager

A reader writes. My company has a ridiculous late fine policy: you will be fined $2 for every minute, starting from 9:01 a.m. So if you come in at 9:05 a.m., that’s $10 you gotta pay up in cash. (This is not somewhere where down-to-the-minute coverage would be essential. It’s just typical deskbound, back-end work. I can see why the receptionist who gets the calls will need to be there smack on the dot, but the rest of us — not really.).

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Instagram for Recruiting: Why Instagram Should Be Your Brand’s Secret Weapon

Spark Hire

As recruitment marketing shifts to target a younger demographic, finding candidates becomes even more challenging. We live in an increasingly visual world, where attention spans are dwindling. According to recent research , Millennials have an attention span of about 12 seconds, while Gen Z’s tops out at 8 seconds. For recruiters and brands looking to attract new candidates, it’s incredibly important to not only make a visual impact on new candidates, but also be able to clarify their message an

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How to Create a Human Resource Strategy

Digital HR Tech

Whether you´re working in a large corporate or a smaller enterprise, a Human Resource strategy forms the basis of everything you do in HR. In this article, we will give a definition of the HR strategy, explain how the HR strategy impacts daily HR practices, and we will end with a Human Resource strategy example. What is a Human Resource strategy? How to create an HR strategy.

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Pros and Cons of Using Recruitment Agencies

TalentLyft

Discover the pros and cons of using a recruitment agency ! Using a recruitment agency to help you find and hire the right candidates can be the best - or the worst thing for your company. To make a sensible decision, you should carefully consider both advantages and disadvantages of using a recruitment agency. Read More.

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Ep 159 – How Tech Adoption Drives Employee Experience

Workology

In this competitive market for talent, it’s not just about recruiting. It’s also about retaining the employees that we’ve hired, trained, and developed, and helping them perform at the highest levels possible. A big part of this is creating a great culture and employee experience for them. The tech we choose to leverage in our […] Source In this competitive market for talent, it’s not just about recruiting.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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What Do You Say If Your Contractor Wants to Be Paid In Bitcoin?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: The use of cryptocurrencies — a digital or virtual currency — is far from common, though interest is growing particularly among digital sophisticates concerned about financial transaction security and privacy. As companies increase their hiring of remote independent contractors, requests to be paid in one or another of the cryptocurrencies is not unheard of.

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Why your social enterprise doesn’t have to be political

Bersin with Deloitte

Posted by Michael Gretczko on November 14, 2018. A recent Twitter Poll we conducted found that 54 percent of employees don’t expect their organizations to take a stand on social issues and 46 percent say “yes” they expect them to. In these times of disruptive social dynamics, we have been exploring the role of the employer this conversation. Related links.

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Culture Can’t Be Cookie-Cutter

SHRM

When people ask us about our culture at Zappos, they’re typically looking for ways to bring a piece of what we’ve learned back to their own company. Founders, CEOs, and HR professionals alike are all trying to figure out a way to bring order to the sometimes-chaotic work of shaping their company’s culture. We try to answer these questions the best we can by speaking from experience but the truth is, authentic culture can’t be taught.

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Culture Can’t Be Cookie-Cutter

The SHRM Blog

When people ask us about our culture at Zappos, they’re typically looking for ways to bring a piece of what we’ve learned back to their own company. Founders, CEOs, and HR professionals alike are all trying to figure out a way to bring order to the sometimes-chaotic work of shaping their company’s culture. We try to answer these questions the best we can by speaking from experience but the truth is, authentic culture can’t be taught.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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How to Get Your C-Suite to Care About Culture

TLNT: The Business of HR

How can HR professionals help C-suite leaders care about culture? Or, even better, help senior leaders proactively engage in culture management?

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Is our use of technology doing more harm than good?

HR Zone

People. Technology: more harm than good?

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New York Is Giving Amazon a Helipad and New Yorkers Are Furious

Entrepreneur

The governor and mayor are thrilled with Amazon. Ordinary New Yorkers just see higher rents and even more crowded subways.

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Improve Your Active Listening Skills With These 13 Strategies

Forbes Coaches Council

Leaders often want to jump and help solve the problem, when many times, people simply want to be heard and have the opportunity to share their thoughts.

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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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3 Common Misconceptions about AI in HR

Cognisess

What worries people most about adopting AI in HR? Below we will tackle three misconceptions about the technology. It will eliminate jobs. Given some of the hyperbole around AI, it understandable that there is a common perception and fear that the robots are primed ‘to steal our jobs’. And therefore, any move an employer makes to adopt machine learning and predictive analytics may be perceived as accelerating this inevitable development.

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Why Employee Turnover Spikes after the Holidays and What to Do about It

Bonusly

The holidays are approaching rapidly. Before you know it, the turkey decorations will be replaced with holiday music, and then bam : it’s January. For many companies, November and December can be a much more relaxed time of year – end of year goal-setting, a slower and more leisurely pace, uplifted spirits in the office, and holiday parties. But come January, the environment can be drastically disrupted by New Year turnover.

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The gig economy: how has the Government responded?

HR Zone

Change. The gig economy: how has the Government responded?

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Why Integrity is More Valuable than Reputation

SHRM

John Wooden-if you are a basketball fan, this name speaks volumes. For those of us over the age of 50 (for me almost 60) Coach Wooden is synonymous with success with class. I often talk with others now about how many leaders seek success without class or without integrity, but short-term success without integrity is like sugar, the short term impact may help you get through a quick issue, but the long term impact of sugar is fleeting.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Why Integrity is More Valuable than Reputation

The SHRM Blog

John Wooden-if you are a basketball fan, this name speaks volumes. For those of us over the age of 50 (for me almost 60) Coach Wooden is synonymous with success with class. I often talk with others now about how many leaders seek success without class or without integrity, but short-term success without integrity is like sugar, the short term impact may help you get through a quick issue, but the long term impact of sugar is fleeting.

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Why Did Amazon Decide on Having 3 Corporate Headquarters?

The Tim Sackett Project

So, the biggest news of the week is Amazon finally made a decision on where they were going to build HQ2 and come to find out instead of just one location, Amazon is splitting the job lottery into two prizes and both Washington D.C. and New York will get an Amazon Headquarters. Okay, it’s probably really about 4 Headquarters since they’re really focusing a ton of the supply chain talent in Nashville, but who’s counting!?

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I lied to my boss and said I’ve been doing a task I haven’t actually done

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I started at my company in an administrative role and was quickly promoted to a highly technical role, which came as a challenge. My technical experience being quite limited, I met with some freelance consultants to go over the nuts and bolts of the role. I was scrambling to understand a lot of information very quickly, and when my boss asked me early in the training process if I had been trained on one specific task yet, I confused knowing what the task meant with actually know

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How Technology Enhances Employee Performance & Engagement

SumTotal

Gallup research revealed that it is an employee’s manager that influences 70% of their engagement. This statistic suggests that it is the relationship between manager and employee that is the crucial factor in determining why performance varies so wildly from one group to another. As a result, organizations now recognize the importance of the manager-employee relationship and are challenging HR leaders to produce ways to better understand, measure and influence these relationships and in turn dr

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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These Are The Skills To Learn For The Future Of Work, According To The World Economic Forum

Government Executive

The list of growing and declining skills suggests how to stay relevant in the new economy.

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Don't Mistake Perks for Corporate Culture

SHRM

Too often, companies confuse perks and culture. Leaders think that to create a great culture, they should go purchase ping-pong and pool tables, get a keg for the office, or offer four-day workweeks. But these are all perks, not culture, which are two very different things. If a company only focuses on adding flashy perks, they may attract an employee, but they won’t retain them.

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Don't Mistake Perks for Corporate Culture

The SHRM Blog

Too often, companies confuse perks and culture. Leaders think that to create a great culture, they should go purchase ping-pong and pool tables, get a keg for the office, or offer four-day workweeks. But these are all perks, not culture, which are two very different things. If a company only focuses on adding flashy perks, they may attract an employee, but they won’t retain them.

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