September, 2016

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5 Signs It's Time to Fire Your Employee (And How to Do It with Respect)

Cornerstone On Demand

Every manager and every HR person has to fire someone at some point. It's generally unpleasant—and rarely similar to the movies, where the employee has done something so spectacularly wrong, you can just yell "You're fired!" and everyone feels good about the decision. Instead, the signs of an unfit employee are often more subtle, making it hard to know when to take that final step.

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3 tips for recruiting recent college grads

Ceridian

By Maurice Fernandes, Manager of Employment Brand & Social Media at Ceridian. As the generations making up the majority of today’s workforce begin to shift, so must the recruiting strategies of employers. Staying up to date on emerging staffing trends helps ensure businesses are positioning themselves as attractive companies to work for. And today more than ever, it’s so important that organizations are able to effectively tap into the talent pool of recent college graduates.

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165,000 reasons to remember that associational discrimination violates the ADA

The Employer Handbook

165,000 reasons meaning 165,000 dollars. But, you probably figured that out. What the heck is associational discrimination? Well, funny you should ask because, last Summer, I had a post about it. In the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act , associational discrimination occurs when a company excludes or otherwise denies equal jobs or benefits to someone because he or she has a relationship with or associates with someone else who has a disability.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Five Reasons Not To Hire Someone -- Even If They're Qualified -- by Liz Ryan. 2.

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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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Everything #HR Needs to Know About HR Technology

HR Bartender

It totally makes sense to recognize the thing that makes our businesses unique. Our people! People also make your business productive. So I thought I would round up a series of posts on something that people just can’t live without these days – technology. Employees use technology to find a job, get onboarded, receive training, and much more. HR technology solutions are getting more complex by the minute.

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How Technology Will Transform the HR Organization

Everwise

HR professionals are ultra savvy about employees’ needs and how companies can use technology to increase retention, and down the line, boosting corporate profits. Indeed, the proliferation of HR tech startups gives a sense of how mainstream this use of technology is becoming. Arriving technologies will also be used to change how the HR function itself will be undertaken.

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Invisible L&D

Bersin with Deloitte

Our jobs as L&D professionals was easier 10 years ago. Information flowed from the top of the organization to the bottom. Managers and facilitators had the most information, which they then imparted to employees like benevolent overlords. But that is no longer true. Technology and frustratingly self-sufficient learners often means that employees know more than […].

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A Strengths-Based Culture Drives Performance

ExactHire

Why are sports analogies commonly found in business? Because nurturing talent in sports is all about finding out what someone is good at and then making them really great at it–strengths-based culture. Coaches rarely focus their effort on developing the weakest part of an athlete’s game or ability. They will always find their best attributes and strengths and apply those–hence the term positional player.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. The One Interview Question I Ask Every Potential Hire -- by Moira Forbes. 2. Text-Interviewing — The Next Big Thing In Recruiting?

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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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Culture Fit Is the First Step to Successful Onboarding [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

If you haven’t seen it, there’s an interesting article over on the Harvard Business Review blog titled, “ Don’t Let Your Company Culture Just Happen. ” My big takeaway from the article was that in order for employees to be engaged, they have to fit with the culture. Meaning that cultural fit needs to be an important part of the recruiting process. There are lots of companies that do this – hire for attitude and fit, train for skills.

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Disruption–The Biggest Concern for CHROs and Talent Leaders

Lighthouse

CHROs, like other CxOs, recognize that the barriers between previously separate industries are collapsing, as companies in one sector apply their expertise to others. For example, electric carmaker Tesla is entering the power sector with a new line of zero-carbon batteries for homes, businesses and utilities. That quote from a report by the IBM Institute for Business Value has been top of mind for me lately.

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Employee Performance Depends On These 3 Critical Factors

15Five

For decades, business leaders believed that simply focusing on performance management was the key to building a successful company. If they just had the right vision and strategy, clear objectives, people with the skill sets to achieve those objectives, and alignment toward their goals throughout the entire organization, they’d achieve high employee performance, financial success, and live happily ever after.

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6 Ways HR Improves Employee Experience

Reflektive

A study based on Glassdoor data found that culture, values and career opportunities are the most important elements in determining whether an employee would recommend her company as a place to work. With job seekers behaving like job shoppers — choosing an employer based on all these elements rather than salary alone — it is important for modern companies to build a brand. 84 percent of employees would leave for a company with an excellent corporate brand Click To Tweet.

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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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Cerner: Using Progressive Onboarding Programs to Launch Employee Performance

ATD Human Capital

It’s difficult to underestimate the importance of learning to the success of Cerner, one of the largest health care information service providers in the United States, with $4.4 billion in annual revenues and over 23,000 associates. The company supplies customers with a variety of solutions and services developed and delivered by associates who must be equipped with the most up-to-date knowledge of information systems, software, and industry expertise.

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7 Things Every Staffing Recruiter Should Do to Stay Competitive

Linkedin Talent Blog

At every recruiting conference I address, there is one complaint more prevalent than any other : “It’s really difficult to find qualified candidates.” But the truth is, this is actually a good thing for staffing and recruiting professionals. If it was easy to find great candidates, there would be no need for your services. However, that doesn’t mean that the challenge of finding top talent doesn’t get tiring.

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Retaining Talent Means Retraining Talent

Hppy

Millennials are educated; by some accounts, they are the most educated generation in history. But all too often, they are not well-trained. It might be crossing the bridge from theory to practice: classrooms can be sterile places of learning without doing. In many situations, it seems that Millennials lack the soft skills that would make them effective workers.

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Trending: Vendors Drinking Their Own Champagne

Lighthouse

I’ve talked to several technology companies in the last few weeks that are drinking their own champagne, and it’s one of the most interesting “meta” conversations I’ve had of late. To back up a bit, I have always wondered if these firms used their own technology and services to manage internal processes. After all, that would demonstrate some level of credibility and also allow an opportunity to see things from the user perspective, right?

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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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Mindfulness on the Job

Everwise

In these shifting times that encompass the new Aquarian Age , more and more people are drawing inward and committing to practices such as meditation and yoga to help them find greater fulfillment in this lifetime. What can employers do to support this mindfulness shift within the workplace? What do employees really need from their employer to live full lives both in and out of the office, to keep them productive, happy and striving for what we as human beings all ultimately want: a life well liv

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How to motivate employees, whatever their age

HR Zone

Employees. How to motivate employees, whatever their age.

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What Happened to the Human Side of Your Recruiting?

Entrepreneur

Can job-seekers at your company get in touch with an actual person? If not, it's time for a change.

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9 Books Every Recruiter Needs to Read at Least Once

Linkedin Talent Blog

Sadly, summertime’s coming to an end. But, just because you’re no longer lying on a sunny beach doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take some you time and settle into a good read. For many, deep diving into a text can answer our grappling questions, allow us to explore new ways of doing things and leave us more insightful, a bit more introspective and a little wiser on living.

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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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3 Key Steps To Implement A Feedback Habit In Your Workplace

Hppy

The strongest way to make a new culture stick is by transforming new behaviors into regular habits. To really make feedback a part of your culture follow these steps: 1. Trainings. First, really make sure the behaviors your employees are forming are the right ones. You don’t want people to get into the habit of giving feedback that isn’t actionable, or only giving feedback when there’s a problem.

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What your business can do NOW to prepare for the DOL ‘Blacklisting’ rules and guidance.

The Employer Handbook

In 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. Folks like me on the management-side refer to this Order as the Blacklisting rules. In general terms (I’ll get a little more specific below), the Blacklisting rules require prospective federal contractors and subcontractors to disclose anything that may appear on a laundry list of labor-and-employment-law faux pas.

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Introducing: Our new High-Impact Leadership Research

Bersin with Deloitte

Last summer, we asked ourselves: “Why do organizations still struggle to grow leaders?” We knew that organizations’ efforts and spending on leadership development was increasing every year, but we also knew that many companies are left wondering about why their efforts in identifying top talent, developing leaders’ capabilities, or pumping up their leadership pipelines don’t […].

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Breaking the mafia: what organisations can learn

HR Zone

Change. Breaking the mafia: what organisations can learn.

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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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Tackle more with our smarter mobile recruiting app

Workable

So you write a list. To really focus, you need a second list, the first item of which is ‘complete everything on previous list’. The smart people know that it’s easier to be productive with the right kind of help: productivity is a team sport. Our aim at Workable is to make sure that your recruiting process runs as smoothly as possible, so we go the extra mile to provide the help you actually need.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. How the Former CEO of Campbell Soup Used a Skill We All Learned as Children to Inspire Teamwork and Affection in His Company -- by Shana Lebowitz. 2.

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Perks Vanish as Funding Recedes for Startups

Entrepreneur

A large number of lucky millennials joined the workforce when fast-growing startups were awash with investor cash, confusing them about how much austerity is normal in business.

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