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5 Tips for Managing Vacation Requests Fairly and Effectively

Patriot Software

As an employer, you face the challenge of juggling employees’ vacation requests. It can be difficult to find the perfect balance of being flexible while ensuring your business has enough coverage. To keep things fair and square, learn the ins and outs of managing vacation requests. Managing vacation requests Otherwise, unfair procedures could spell doom […].

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Re-engaging Five Generations in the Workplace

HR Digest

The incursion of AI and automation into the workplace is engineering a disruption that employers and employees are handling differently. While 73 % of executives are carefully paying attention to a significant workforce shift from AI invasion, WEF expects the technology to create over 58 million new jobs by 2022. Employers may have a new task of re-engaging every generation in their office to ensure a swift transition into potential new workplace eras.

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How to Successfully Implement Performance-Based Pay

HRsoft

When it comes to effectively implementing performance-based pay, simplicity is one of the most important aspects to bear in mind. The simpler and more concise your plan is, the more people will understand it and buy into the process. A performance-based pay plan should also clearly communicate eligibility so employees understand what’s expected of them, as well as their earning potential.

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How HR team scan find better applicants, faster

BerniePortal

Check out this column in Small Biz Daily : Many small and mid-sized businesses are growing and creating new jobs these days, but most aren’t hiring quickly enough to fill them effectively. According to the 2019 BerniePortal Recruitment Report, inefficient hiring processes are putting these organizations at a disadvantage in the war for talent. Facing the most competitive job market in 50 years, the report indicates improving the hiring process and prioritizing retention are critical in maintaini

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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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How to Respond to Negative Glassdoor Reviews.

The HR Capitalist

You love to hate Glassdoor. You feel like the negative reviews are disgruntled ex-employees who can hide behind not disclosing their identities. . You're halfway right. There's still plenty of disgruntled takedowns of your company that are probably unfair. But remember we are living in the review economy, with sites like Trip Advisor, Yelp and Amazon making the process of reviewing products and services feel commonplace to a higher percentage of your workforce.

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Reflektive’s Inaugural Performance & Engagement Survey Reveals Key Insights into Impact of 1:1s, Feedback for Employee Engagement

Reflektive

In May of this year, Reflektive ran its inaugural Performance & Engagement survey to better understand the impact of performance management on employee engagement. The survey was sent to 1,000 U.S. employees from different industries, company sizes, and roles. We uncovered no shortage of insights, but the biggest takeaway we gleaned is: performance management plays a monumental role in employee engagement, motivation, and tenure.

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Handling Seasonal Employees and Workers is Critical for ACA Compliance

ACA Times

3 minute read: Unfortunately, we’ve heard first hand from many of our clients that their Affordable Care Act compliance responsibilities tend to slip during the summer months following the push to submit annual ACA information filings to the IRS. The reality is that the summer is a very critical time for the health of your ACA compliance, largely due to the high volume of seasonal workers and employees that many businesses process during the summer.

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our office may be haunted — how do I keep it from distracting from our work?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small, conservation-based nonprofit with four full-time people, five contract employees, and a summer program of up to 16 young people. We work out of a tiny office located inside 20 beautiful acres of land with which we are creating a public park. The office is a 110-year-old private home that was a rental for decades before being converted into an office.

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Software Testing interview questions

Workable

Use this software testing interview questions template to find and assess qualified candidates for your company. The post Software Testing interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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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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Biggest Challenges of Manual Payroll That Organizations Face

SutiHR

Today, manual payroll processes have become a pain for the HR department as well as for the finance team as it needs a lot of time, work, and effort to make it successful every month. Transitioning from a traditionally paper-based process to cloud-based payroll software is still a debatable topic for many companies. Manual payroll. The post Biggest Challenges of Manual Payroll That Organizations Face appeared first on SutiHR.

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3 Ways to Foster Physician Leadership for Improved Outcomes

Precheck

3 Ways to Foster Physician Leadership for Improved Outcomes Jul. 16, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. As the healthcare sector witnesses unprecedented organizational changes, fostering leadership potential in physicians is crucial. Studies have shown that physician leadership has positive effects on both organizational outcomes and patient care.

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Five Reasons Why Leaders Need Increased Gut Intelligence

Forbes Coaches Council

Instead of approaching situations as if they were on fire, leaders who have increased gut intelligence approach situations with a ready-aim-fire mindset.

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10 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Work Anniversaries + A Case Study

Bonusly

A work anniversary is a significant milestone and like we’ve written about before, it’s super important to celebrate them the right way. Because when we talk about celebrating work anniversaries, we’re talking about more than just a number! After all, every new year with a great team member isn’t just another tally in their records—it’s an achievement that should be celebrated with purpose.

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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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The Importance Of Values: 12 Ways Startups Can Build Their Ethical Foundation

Forbes Coaches Council

A company's values are the building blocks of its success. Learn how you can begin to shape your startup's ethical foundation with these tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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The rise of the check-in culture: why HR must transform the appraisal process

HR Zone

People. The rise of the check-in culture.

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5 ways to improve your customer service experience

Qualtrics HR

Customer Experience (CX) is the future of business and companies who don’t get on board will have trouble competing in an evolving marketplace. In a Deloitte research study , customers who enjoy positive customer services experiences are likely to spend 140% more than customers who report negative NPS scores and remain customers for five years longer.

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It’s Time for our HR Community to Give Back! #SHRM

The Tim Sackett Project

I’m asking a favor. I do this extremely rarely as a blogger. But I know the power of our HR community worldwide! We have a bright, shining star in our industry who is in need of a miracle. If you haven’t heard SHRM’s Field Service Director, Callie Zipple has recently been diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer. Callie isn’t her diagnosis.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Designer Brands Case Study

Benefitfocus

Find out more about what BENEFITFOCUS® MarketPlace meant for Designer Brands when it came to helping their associates understand the benefits that were being offered.

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how do incompetent people get work?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m long-term unemployed and have been looking for work for years, on and off, as I had support and I found job seeking just so depressing. One of the worst things I have found when I have been applying for jobs, and when just doing general shopping as a consumer, is I see people who are employed and I know I could do a much better job than they are doing.

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Episode 189: Sourcing on Reddit & Social Media Sites

Workology

As HR leaders, we’ve had to get creative in our sourcing methods as the unemployment rate has declined and the job market has shifted in favor of candidates. Many of us already use some form of. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. As HR leaders, we’ve had to get creative in our sourcing methods as the unemployment rate has declined and the job market has shifted in favor of candidates.

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Why Qualtrics – Madeleine Ackels – Recruiting Coordinator – Provo, UT

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Madeleine’s “Why Qualtrics” story. Joy is the biggest motivator for me. My desire to be joyful drives my career, my relationships, and my whole life. I find the truest joy in building and fostering relationships with people and recruiting allows me to do that in a uniquely professional and profound way.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Best Practices for Starting an Advocacy Program

Advos

Since introducing collaboration and advocacy on our advos marketing platform we’ve seen customers use the tools for three distinct business purposes: Brand advocacy: a marketing initiative whereby participants are helping to promote content that supports marketing. Types of content advocates are asked to share include blogs, webinars, conference participation, etc.

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13 Effective Strategies Coaches Use For Finding The Ideal Clientele

Forbes Coaches Council

Aligned values. Matching personality. Open to change. Find your ideal client with this advice from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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Recruiting Process Feedback Gaps: Scalability

Survale HR

In our final installment of a four part series exploring the typical recruiting process gaps that organizations deal with when gathering candidate, recruiter and hiring manager feedback to optimize their recruiting process, we turn to scalability. We’ve already looked at a big gap, lack of automation , which is closely tied to scalability. To review what we’ve covered in the previous articles, top-tier organizations, to their immense credit, have cobbled together processes which allow them to ga

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Five Tips On Building Rapport And Managing Up -- According To Kids

Forbes Coaches Council

Although the environment we work in as adults is increasingly more complicated, we need to consider that the baseline lessons we learned as kids still apply to building rapport and managing up.

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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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Utility Analysis Revised: The ROI Of Better HR Selection Methods

Analytics in HR

In a previous article, I have explained and advocated the use utility analysis for estimating the financial return of learning interventions. As highlighted in this previous article, utility analysis refers to a specific tool designed to estimate the institutional gain or loss anticipated to a company from various HR interventions designed to enhance the value of the workforce (Sturman, 2003).

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Whistleblowing: Why It Should be Embraced and How to Make it Effective

Evil HR Lady

In movies, whistleblowers uncover deep, dark company or political secrets: greedy corporate fatcats who will happily kill small children in the hopes of increasing shareholder profits. Naturally, managers hate whistleblowers and will do anything to stop them. While obviously, such things do exist (and are the reason we need whistleblower protection laws), using the word whistleblower tends to make people think they are risking their livelihood if they expose problems at work.

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should I warn a contact not to take a job at my awful company?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: A friend of a friend may be trying to join my small company. However, it’s a terrible place and several of us are trying to leave ASAP. If this were a friend I would definitely let her know. But this is an acquaintance. Do I say something? I ran into this person, and she excitedly told me she was meeting with the boss Friday. She asked me how I liked the job and I couldn’t lie.

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