Wed.Oct 09, 2019

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How to Launch a Career Pathing Program (Quickly + Effectively)

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Part 1: How To Boost Productivity Through Intrinsic Motivation

15Five

In life and in business, motivation bleeds into everything we do and it helps us choose where to focus in our busy lives. We have certain motivations for why we’re in relationships, listen to certain podcasts, choose which books to read, and even navigate how we work. Where we derive our motivation is connected to how we expend our energy both short-term and long.

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How the Candidate Experience Influences Your Employer Brand

Hubert

Broadcasting personal experiences is easier than ever. Had a dry steak??-? Yelp it. Your eBay package arrived 3 days late??-? 1 star it. Your 4-star hotel room was more like a 2-star??-? TripAdvise it to the world. Your boss treating you unfairly??-? Glassdoor that jerk. In today's business world, it's increasingly difficult to hide for those providing bad experiences.

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Power Outage Today? What You Need to Know About Paying Employees

HRWatchdog

You can require employees to “wait out” the power outage, but you must pay them for the time spent waiting. Today, more than one million California residents are expected to be without power due to the first phase of PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff. Expected high winds combined with hot and dry conditions have prompted this shutoff, which is expected to leave customers, including businesses, without power until at least Thursday.

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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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From Big Gulps to Big Data: How 7-Eleven is Driving Digital Innovation

Workday

Some of my fondest memories of growing up in San Francisco are the sunny afternoons I’d spend at Golden Gate Park feeding ducks, playing frisbee, and picking flowers. On many occasions, those days also included a pit-stop at 7-Eleven for a Slurpee on my bike ride back home. . Alongside the Slurpee, 7-Eleven has created a wide range of renowned consumer products (cue the Big Gulp) over the last 40 years.

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Mental Health at Work: Lean Into It

Achievers

We live in an era of shattered stereotypes and new frontiers. Monumental demographic shifts, the evolving women’s movement, heightened cultural sensitivities and, of course, the ubiquity of new technologies have fundamentally altered our culture. More specifically these sweeping changes in a short amount of time have changed the places that we work.

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Three Assumptions Standing Between Employers and the Workers They Need

Allegis Global Solutions

When it comes to today’s in-demand skills, the supply of talent is tight. From engineers and programmers to marketing, management, and trade skills, employers are not only challenged to find the people they need to fill critical roles; they must compete for those people. Also at issue is the fact that such competition is growing beyond traditional realms to include companies both within and outside their industries that need people with the same capabilities.

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World Mental Health Day: achieving equality between mental and physical health in the workplace

HR Zone

Change World Mental Health Day: the fight for equality.

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How To Know If Your Defined-Benefit Pension Plan Is In Trouble.

The HR Capitalist

I'm not an expert on pension plan funding. But if you're relying on a pension in retirement, you might want to take a look at what % of obligations are funded currently in your pension plan. Why would I say that? Because while I'm no expert, I can tell you when your pension plan is in trouble. Here's how you know: You know your pension plan is in trouble when your company announces they're freezing pension benefits, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC EXPANSION IN HISTORY.

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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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This is why you have to take employee experience seriously

HRExecutive

One of the five key takeaways from the recently concluded HR Technology Conference & Expo in Las Vegas involved the employee experience. According to HR technology guru Josh Bersin , for example, vendors are focusing their attention on “employee-centric tools” that operate within Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Salesforce and other widely used workplace tools.

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Survey: What Do L.A. Millennials Want? A Guide to Millennials in the Workplace

Justworks

Millennials — young professionals ages 24-37 — are rapidly becoming the leading workforce in L.A. and the U.S. workforce at large. By 2025, millennials are expected to make up 75% of the national workforce. This trend can mean many changes for businesses that don’t know what millennials want or expect from their employers. To help employers better understand the state of the millennial workforce, Justworks conducted a series of surveys in major metropolitan areas.

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my employee locked me out of a work document in a fit of pettiness

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I took a job a few years back to manage an area that previously did not have a manager. My employer doesn’t fire people, it just moves them around, and this area was the dumping ground for problem employees before I arrived, so I inherited some colorful personalities. One employee in particular, Jason, is infamous across the entire department for being very difficult to work with.

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LiveInspired Across the Nation: Kronos Snags Trio of Health and Wellness Awards

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced that it has received national recognition for its wellness efforts in three separate competitions, including being named one of the 50 healthiest employers in the U.S.

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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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Yes, It’s Okay to Mess Up: Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Bonusly

It was day six of a seven-day whitewater rafting course with the Colorado Outward Bound School , where I worked as an instructor. I had handed over control of our boat to one of my participants—let’s call him Mike—to guide us through the day’s whitewater. Mike had miscalculated his route through the rapid and hit a rock, which promptly launched me out of my seat in the back of the raft.

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Optimizing Corporate Payments with AP Software

SutiHR

Historically, AP automation initiatives have not given enough consideration to the type of payment method chosen for disbursements. Today, the majority of organizations are continuing to use checks to pay their major business suppliers. There are differences in the costs and risks associated with a given payment method, whether a payment is made by a check or some form of electronic payment.

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HR for small business: why everyone needs a mentor

HR Zone

People Small business HRs need mentors.

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Gamification in the Workplace: Stats, Engagement, and Examples (Survey)

Digital HR Tech

Elements of gamification have well and truly found their place in our personal lives. The most simple example is that of customers earning (digital) loyalty points unlocking a reward once they’ve reached a certain level. Gamification in the workplace, however, is not a new concept but still has a long way to go apart from perhaps in the learning space.

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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 coworker is hassling me about his peer feedback, employee calls me “buttercup,” and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker is hassling me about his peer feedback. In my department, we’re asked to provide feedback for year-end reviews for our manager, other managers, and peers. The feedback is collected and delivered anonymously to the recipient by their manager. The process works well. However, based on some details provided, you can sometimes tell who wrote what about you.

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Develop a Career Plan and Make It Happen!

GetFive

Even though there are plenty of indications that the economy is growing, many are still struggling. More and more we see GetFive clients take on consulting assignments while they continue their searches. In the past, successful job hunters would “declare victory” if they landed a job — any job — after searching for a few months. Today, people are more strategic.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement

DDI

Ready to learn how to improve employee engagement? Here’s a hint: the top 3 drivers are the ones that employees are currently least happy with.

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The HRExaminer 2020 Watchlist

HR Examiner

As part of our work on our annual report on intelligent tools and AI in HR, we evaluate the interview and survey process to identify companies to watch closely. Each of the 12 companies we’ve selected this year for our HRExaminer 2020 Watchlist represent a different value proposition and core functionality across the entire spectrum of the industry.

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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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Join the 400% club:how to recruit top performers

Bob

You’re looking to do much more than fill a vacancy. In this hyper-competitive job market, one of HR’s primary roles is to seek out, find, and hire the best of the best: the top performers. One study found that top performers are up to 400% more productive than others. The problem is that the rise of the gig economy – putting talent ahead of the length of employment – and the focus on quickly wracking up diverse career experiences is making it harder to attract and retain today’s top

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Are Men And Women Equally Emotionally Intelligent?

Forbes Coaches Council

Even though we are equal in our overall EQ, men and women possess different EQ strengths or competencies that are considered gender-specific.

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Supreme Court Declines to Decide if ADEA Covers Job Applicants

SHRM Resources

The Supreme Court has left in place an appeals court decision that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) does not apply to job applicants who allege a hiring policy adversely impacts older workers.

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Revisions to IRS Form W-4: What's the Impact to Employers?

ADP

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has made significant changes to tax rates, deductions, tax credits and withholding calculations, beginning in 2018. The.

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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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Ep 200 – What We Need to do to Have More Workplace Accessibility

Workology

Workplace accessibility isn’t just about compliance with government regulations. It’s a human issue, and as human resource leaders, it’s something that we think about a lot. It affects our physical. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Workplace accessibility isn’t just about compliance with government regulations.

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Employee wellbeing: how to look after a multigenerational workforce

HR Zone

Culture Wellbeing in an age-diverse workforce.

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Where Does Corporate Logo-wear Go to Die?

The Tim Sackett Project

This is the very first blog post I ever wrote! It was 4-12-09 over at Fistful of Talent. I just got back from HR Tech, this past week, where I was wearing a bunch of corporate logo-wear (see the pic above wearing at Patagonia vest from Candidate.ID ) and it made me think for as far as I’ve come, I haven’t really come that far at all! . If you are like me, you’ve had a job or two in your career, and each stop along the way you pick up a few extra pieces for your wardrobe that y