Tue.Aug 15, 2017

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The Only 3 Reasons to Send an Email

HR Bartender

Email has been around since 1972. It’s an essential part of communication today. Which is why it’s so frustrating that, after all these years, there’s not some definitive list of email protocols. And I’m not just talking about “typing in all caps means you’re shouting”. I’m referring to when is it okay to send an email. According to a report from McKinsey Global Institute, workers spend on average 28 percent of their time each week reading and answering email.

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How Does Your HR Budget and Staffing Compare?

TLNT: The Business of HR

How big should your HR staff and budget be?

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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Worrying About Culture

Cornerstone On Demand

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller’s column “The Science of Workplace Motivation” on Inc.com. One of my first employers in the corporate world knew how to build a fun culture. Whether it was free pastries in the morning, amazing product launches, team off-sites or happy hours in the evening, the company did a fantastic job at creating a workplace where people not only got along, but actually wanted to spend time with each other.

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How Does Your HR Budget and Staffing Compare?

TLNT: The Business of HR

How big should your HR staff and budget be?

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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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New LinkedIn Career Pages Enable Staffing Firms to Engage with Both Clients and Candidates

Linkedin Talent Blog

Today, we are excited to announce the new LinkedIn Career Pages for Staffing Firms , our second major product this year focused specifically on creating value for search and staffing clients on LinkedIn. Back in April, the release of Contractor Search in Recruiter opened the door for search and staffing firms to proactively find and recruit more interested talent for temporary roles.

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How to Create a Work Environment that Attracts Quality Workers

Hppy

There are a lot of companies today trying to attract quality workers in their field. One of the most important aspects of success in any company is hiring the best workers possible. There are many companies that are struggling to fill vacant positions. With all of the competition in the market for new workers, it is vital to create a work environment that attracts quality employees in your area.

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the ethics of firing racist protesters

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: After the Charlottesville violence, I’ve been watching discussion on one of my professional organization’s Facebook groups and would appreciate your opinion about it. People are discussing the ethics of figuring out the identities of white supremacists from news photos, and then reporting them to their employers. Apart from the “ethics” of white supremacy, and associated domestic terrorism, what do you think are the HR/management implications?

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Reasons to Hire for Culture Fit Over Skill Set

TalentCulture

When you recruit new talent, chances are you have a very specific job description in mind and are seeking an employee that bears the skillset to get that job done. But what if it comes down to one candidate who seems to fit your workplace culture but lacks some of the skills needed for the position—and another candidate who is a perfect match on paper but just doesn’t seem to gel?

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The Tyranny of Single Stall, Gender-Neutral Bathrooms in the Workplace.

The HR Capitalist

Notes to follow from life on the road. Topic: Transgender individual's rights to use either bathroom (men's or women's) they desire. Buckle up, people. But it's probably not going to be what you think. I spend a lot of time on the road, and I spend that time in a lot of different parts of the country. One thing that's happening in retail (shops, restaurants, etc) points to a trend I hope doesn't come to office parks.

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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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The Stress of Prejudice

TalentCulture

Whenever we encounter someone who we have an inherent prejudice against, whether conscious or unconscious, we begin to experience a degree of stress. When we are stressed, we release the stress hormone cortisol, which limits our capacity for empathy while also causing repetitive negative thinking. If you have prejudices against several types of people, it is likely that your cortisol levels will be consistently high.

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How to Get More Job Applicants From Your Career Site?

TalentLyft

Is your career site conversion rate low? Is your career site missing interesting and engaging content? Do your career site visitors leave the page immediately? Do the candidates abandon your job application form before they hit “submit”? Are you struggling to get more job applicants from your career site? Read More.

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The Value of Purpose

China Gorman

I’m seeing a trend in the Human Capital Management space wherein vendors/consulting firms are creating mini white papers rather than big research reports. The continuation of “Snack Nation,” I guess. But I like it. For those among us who just don’t have the time to sit down and focus on a lengthy research report, these snackable bits of relevant research and content are helpful.

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10 top traits of great bosses

Insperity

You could probably pinpoint the top traits of a rotten boss at the drop of a hat, right? Everyone’s had one of those. The arrogant show-off who takes credit for your hard work. The obsessive perfectionist who has to re-do everything you just did, twice. And then the one who’s just plain mean. You can’t change how they manage. But you can make sure you don’t repeat their mistakes when you’re in charge.

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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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What Will You Do When One of Your Employees Is Outed Online For Their Activism??

TLNT: The Business of HR

It should be no secret to anyone that political activity and tensions are currently high in the US. And by now, everyone in HR has heard about the Top Dog restaurant employee who resigned as a result of his participation in the Charlottesville turmoil and the Google employee who was fired because of his controversial “diversity manifesto.”.

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6 Tips To Build Influence And Get Your Ideas Heard

Unbridled Talent

As a speaker and leadership coach, my passion and purpose in life is to help leaders to embrace the future of work, and leverage their influence to create positive lasting change. If you’re a leader of people in your organization, and you likely are – even if you don’t have people reporting to you on an organization chart – your role provides huge opportunities for you to step up and drive business growth in your organization.

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What Will You Do When One of Your Employees Is Outed Online For Their Activism?

TLNT: The Business of HR

It should be no secret to anyone that political activity and tensions are currently high in the US. And by now, everyone in HR has heard about the Top Dog restaurant employee who resigned as a result of his participation in the Charlottesville turmoil and the Google employee who was fired because of his controversial “diversity manifesto.”.

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Forget paternity leave, ‘paw-ternity’ leave is the recruiting benefit of the future

HR Morning

Many employers don’t even offer paternity leave to employees, but one organization offers this benefit for both human and fur babies. The latter is called “paw-ternity” leave, and it’s a benefit in a class all its own. It’s also a perk one Scottish brewery recently opened up to its 1,000 employees. BrewDog offers new dog owners one week off with pay to get their pet acclimated to their new homes.

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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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3 #Compference17 Networking Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss

Compensation Today

This year’s Compference — the modern compensation event for comp professionals, HR professionals and business leaders — is positively packed with educational and informational events. We’ve got keynotes from top industry thought leaders; expert-led, hands-on product workshops; instructional topical sessions; and insightful panel discussions. So much info!

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Generation 'Leadership-Do-Your-Job'

NoExcusesHR

"Parents [and leaders] often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it." - Haim Ginott The People I'm not a big fan of focusing exclusively on one generation or another when I think about job satisfaction, leadership behavior, or strategic workforce planning. However, there are some realities to the world we live in that can not be ignored.

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Are You Training the Way People Want to Learn?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Traditional LMS solutions are failing to deliver because they can’t provide what your employees want.

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Don’t Let Your Workplace Culture Boil Over

Energage

You’re Only One Frustrated Employee Away From a Scandal. Organizations face a real threat to their stability when employees’ frustrations boil over. Very public takedowns of an organization’s workplace culture throw them into the court of public opinion, catching leadership teams off guard. So how can organizations protect themselves in a media-driven society that feeds off cultural scandals?

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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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What the Google Guy Teaches Us About Free Speech at Work

Workology

When Google fired James Damore, the engineer who wrote and circulated a ten page manifesto on how to approach workforce diversity “rationally,” many people cried that it was a violation of his right to free speech. The funny thing about the First Amendment, though, is that it doesn’t guarantee you freedom from consequences or free […] Source.

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3 Areas to Consider As You Grow Your Contingent Workforce

TLNT: The Business of HR

America works far differently today than it did a century ago.

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How to Be a High-Performing Healthcare Organization

Precheck

How to Be a High-Performing Healthcare Organization Aug. 16, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. While outcomes have always been important in healthcare, the increasing focus on them to determine revenue has inspired organizations to make improvements across the board to become high-performing organizations. Healthcare HR can serve as the foundation for creating a high-performing healthcare organization.

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Three Reasons Why Resumes Are Unreliable

Criteria Corp

Resumes are one of the most common ways to assess job candidates. They’re designed to boil down an applicant’s accolades and accomplishments into one, easily digestible page of information, so it makes sense that we rely on them as a critical part of the hiring process. But do resumes really give employers the information they need to make informed hiring decisions?

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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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Engagement Ambassadors: How to Leverage the Backbone of Your Employee Engagement Strategy

Quantum Workplace

A successful employee engagement strategy is centered on utilizing employee feedback to uncover meaningful insight, make positive change, and create a better employee experience. But why do we insist on collecting employee feedback only after we’ve developed said engagement strategy? Why not ask employees for advice on how to best communicate our plans, drive and promote the initiative, and follow-up after a survey?

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From conference calls to unconferencing: The importance of meeting and gathering in person

CultureAmp

When Culture Amp’s own Steve Hopkins and I met over coffee two years ago, we had no idea an annual conference on the future of work would result. That day, we were sharing our mutual interest in building out the loose community that persisted after the founding members of Responsive Org had moved on to next projects.

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How Technology Can Help to Prevent Workplace Stress

Cronofy

We spend over eight hours a day, five days a week at work. Some of us may even spend more of our waking hours with our colleagues than our families. It’s therefore important that our working lives leave us happy and fulfilled. Sadly, studies show that one in four of us will suffer from a mental health condition in our lifetime. Spending so much of our waking time at work, it’s inevitable that work will affect our mental health.