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How to Improve After a Not-So-Great Mid-Year Review

Reflektive

It can be tough to hear negative feedback in a performance review. If you feel down after a bad review, just know that you’re not alone. According to a Gallup survey , only 14% of employees strongly agree that their performance reviews inspire them to improve. But rather than becoming apathetic or letting a bad performance review defeat you, you can be one of the few employees who use it as an opportunity for growth.

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Do You (Really) Know Why Wages Have Shrunk?

Compensation Cafe

Why have wages stopped growing? We all have theories, but the Society for Human Resource Management ( SHRM ) has done a nice job of pulling the facts together. I encourage you to read this article to get a comprehensive understanding of the contributing factors. I'm sure you'll find surprises, or at least clarifications. Here are a few of mine: A valid time perspective.

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How Candidate Experience Affects Recruitment and Retention Efforts

Employee Communications Council

Recruitment and retention is all about keeping the life blood of your company healthy. Negative candidate experience can undermine your recruitment efforts before you can even focus on retention. Have you ever considered going to a new restaurant, then decided not to go because your friend had a terrible experience or you read a bad Yelp review? If your potential employees have a bad candidate experience while applying and interviewing for a job at your company, you’re the restaurant in this met

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In-Depth Look: Joint-Employer Standard and Liability Under California Law

HRWatchdog

Employers must keep in mind California’s rules and tests when determining joint-employer liability. Last week, we posted about the proposed rule recently announced by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would change the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). As a reminder, the NLRA covers all employers involved in interstate commerce (subject to certain jurisdictional limits), except airlines, railroads, agricultural operations

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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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Berkshire’s President Shares Tactics to Address Applicant Issues During North Texas ILG Meeting in November

Berkshire Associates

What do you do when faced with applicant data challenges? Beth Ronnenburg, President of Berkshire , will present real-life scenarios related to managing unusual or challenging applicant situations to participants in an interactive presentation Inspired by the popular television series, “What Would You Do?” At the North Texas ILG meeting on Thursday, November 15, 2018, Beth will explore the different ways of managing situations such as evergreen requisitions, working with temporary staffing agenc

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Infographic: 5 Reasons Why Employee Retention is So Difficult - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Why is employee retention so difficult? Well, times have changed. Gone are the days when companies held complete control and employees would remain with the same company for their entire career. Download the PDF version. THE AGE OF THE EMPLOYEE. We have entered the age of the employee where talent rises to the top, and job opportunities and technology give employees control over their career path more than ever.

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Hello from HighGround! Meet Alyssa Venere Braun

Kazoo

At HighGround, we take diversity seriously, and today we’re giving you a prime example: Alyssa Venere Braun. It might seem unlikely to go from nonprofit fundraising to software development (what?) but Alyssa shares why she did and what she loves about her job, HighGround and the HR tech space. On LinkedIn, you call yourself a “nonprofit fundraiser turned full-stack developer.

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An ACA Penalty Risk Assessment May Help Employers Avoid IRS Penalties

ACA Times

3 minute read: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is complex and complying with the law’s Employer Mandate can be challenging for organizations. Under the ACA’s Employer Mandate, Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees, are required to offer Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) to at least 95% of their full-time workforce (and their dependents) whereby such coverage meets Minimum Value (MV) and is affordable for the employee

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Do You Need a Culture Budget?

TalentCulture

We’ve been talking about work culture for decades now. But it turns out most organizations still don’t do anything really meaningful to manage their company culture. If fact, we’ve just been paying lip service to it. That’s largely because actually doing something to manage culture is really hard. It takes time, energy and investment. We often think of culture as driving sentiment in the workplace — Are we happy?

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Campus Recruiting: Tips for Recruiting Students and Recent Graduates

TalentLyft

Campus recruiting is the process of hiring students and recent graduates straight from campuses at their college or university. Learn how to attract the top young talent and fill your entry-level positions with the best and the brightest students! Read More.

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Employee experience: the five practices that will make your organisation a more ‘human’ workplace

HR Zone

Employees. Employee experience: five top tips.

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The Power of Letting Go

Workology

Sometimes we all need to just let it go. It could be anything we are faced with. I have spent many years digging my heels in on a multitude of issues. I bet many of you reading this have too. Want examples? OK, how about bad management decisions on – yes – almost a daily […] Source.

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does it look bad to be unavailable on one of the dates an employer suggests for an interview?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: On Monday, I got an unexpected call from an internal recruiter. We talked about next steps, and she indicated that if my resume was approved by another member of the firm, I’d get an interview. She said the interviews were on Thursday and Friday, and asked about my availability. I’d previously booked non-refundable (so non-flexible) travel with a friend for Friday, so I told the recruiter I’d be out of town on Friday and only able to interview Thursday.

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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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10 Things To Look For In A Goal Setting Software

Engagedly

Goal setting software can help an organization manage goals and track them across the board. But if you are looking for a goal-setting software, other than creating and tracking goals, what else should the software accomplish? And more […].

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These 5 Analytics Will Take Your Online Interviews to the Next Level

Spark Hire

Hiring pros are always on the lookout for the most effective and efficient hiring strategies. In fact, 62 percent of companies believe that following the latest hiring trends and using modern tools are very important for growth hiring, according to our 2018 Growth Hiring Trends in the United States. One of the trends our respondents are excited to use this year is online interviews.

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New Trend: Employee Sentiment Now Dictates Business and Talent Decisions

TLNT: The Business of HR

Can you remember a time in history when corporate employees decided which firms their company would do business with? Probably not, because for well for over a century the only real way employees could influence their firm’s corporate business decisions was indirectly through their union. But recently an alternative and powerful influence approach “employee sentiment power” has emerged.

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Strategies that Businesses Can Incorporate to Give Back to the Community

Take It Personel-ly

Corporate social responsibility is a strategy that requires business organizations to give back to the communities where they are based, or to the regions they have been operating. Helping the community helps an organization to create a harmonious relationship with its customers. Although business social responsibility is seen as a strategy to enhance the reputation […].

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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5 ways to reward employees

PI Worldwide

In our recent people management survey , 76 percent of employees surveyed said that great managers recognize good work. There are many ways to reward employees. But, when you manage people with different needs and behaviors, what does effective recognition look like ? Encouragement and feedback are important topics in workplace culture. Most managers know they should be recognizing and rewarding their employees–but few know the best way to do that.

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The Top 10 Qualities of the Great Coach

HR Daily Advisor

Most of us know what great coaching looks like: The person being coached learns, develops, and performs at a higher level. But what do great coaches look like? sapfirr / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Here are the top 10 qualities of great coaches. They have a spirit of generosity. They see their leadership role as primarily facilitating the high performance, learning, and development of others and share their attention, time, and energy liberally with others.

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Early symptoms of Breast Cancer and how to tackle them

Bayzat

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women worldwide. Some of the most developed countries in the world face the highest incidence rates of breast cancer with Belgium in the first place, followed by Denmark and France.

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Happy John Jorgensen Day! @jkjhr

The Tim Sackett Project

January 23, 2012, my friend and super HR influencer, Laurie Ruettimann, new my super fragile ego needed a boost, so without me knowing she rallied the other HR influencer in the space that had blogs and she created the first-ever “ Tim Sackett Day “! We used that date moving forward each year to recognize other individuals in our space who we felt were awesome but underappreciated.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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How to use employee exit surveys effectively

CultureAmp

Feedback from employee exit surveys can provide powerful insight into your company’s culture. No matter how excellent your culture is, people are eventually going to leave.

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Diversity in Tech Across Geography: The Pipeline Opportunity

Analytics in HR

The Pipeline Problem. Another year has passed, and despite major commitments from various firms and monumental efforts by individuals, diversity in tech continues to see a sparsity of meaningful improvement. A common explanation is the pipeline problem. It describes the challenge of hiring members of underrepresented groups for technical roles (women, people of color, veterans, LGBTQ), given that members of those groups are often less likely to pursue technical careers.

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Here’s what a report from a huuuuuuuuuuge sexual harassment investigation looks like

The Employer Handbook

By sportslogos.net [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Have you ever seen a sexual harassment investigative report? Maybe wondered what’s in it? (If that doesn’t interest you, click away and come back tomorrow. We’ll talk about recommendations to avoid harassment in your workplace.). However, if you’d like to learn more about what goes into a report of a sexual harassment investigation, read on. .

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10 Things You Should Never Say to Employees

6Q

When managing employees, your patience is sometimes tested by lack of motivation, resistance to your requests and particularly stubborn individuals. However thin your patience gets stretched though, there are things you should never say to employees. Real leaders speak carefully. Unlike the average worker, the onus falls upon the boss to keep their nose clean when it comes to verbal communication.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Introducing our New Brand Identity

ClaimVantage

Over the past three years, we have been growing rapidly; our team has quadrupled, we have moved to larger offices in Ireland and the US. Our global footprint has also expanded, with new offices recently set up in Tokyo, Japan, and Melbourne, Australia. At ClaimVantage our mission is to create game-changing software that empowers our customers worldwide to digitally manage life, health, and absence claims.

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“Wait til @jkjhr sees us, he loves us!” – #ILSHRM18

Robin Schooling

Many of us like to point to our vast social networks and talk about the friendships we have either made or deepened that are directly attributable to hanging out on social media. I, for one, can point to the early days on #HRtwitter as instrumental in bringing lots of people into my life; folks on whom I continue to rely for advice, counsel, fun and frivolity.

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I have way too much vacation time, asking my husband’s boss to secretly okay time off, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I accrue way more vacation time than I can use. I work for a small nonprofit in the education field. My manager is incredible and supportive, I’m paid a competitive salary, and the benefits are great. The problem is, I accrue WAY too much vacation. We bank one full PTO day each week, in addition to federal holidays.