February, 2016

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6 Best Practices for Hiring Right

Paycor

U.S. organizations spend $130 billion annually on hiring new employees. With a price tag like that, businesses can’t afford to make mistakes! Yet 43 percent of employers say they’ve made bad decisions by hiring too quickly. Paycor organizational development specialist Allison Flynn led a webinar in which she offered six tips for hiring right to reduce turnover and cut costs associated with recruitment, training and filling job gaps when employees walk out the door. 1.

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Meet Aylin Basom, VP of Sales and Strategic Channels

Outmatch

Aylin is responsible for growing the business through direct sales and global partnerships. Since joining Assess Systems ( now called OutMatch ) in 2008, she has held several positions in the company, creating strategic client relationships and channel alliances. Where did you grow up? I was born in Turkey, stayed in England for a short period of time, then came to the U.S. during high school.

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Yelp and a missing piece of HR Tech

Steve Boese

By now I am pretty sure you've heard the story of the call center rep at Yelp who was summarily fired after posting an 'open letter' to the CEO claiming (among other things), that the company's failure to pay a living wage was placing her and her colleagues under tremendous financial pressure. Here's a quick two paragraphs from coverage of the letter and the firing from the Washington Post : The Yelp employee who said she was fired after she blogged about the financial pressures she felt while w

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Each week, with the help of HRmarketer Insight software, our researchers compile a sampling of mergers & acquisition, funding and partnership announcements from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. Sign-up for our weekly What’s Hot in HR newsletter to get these weekly updates via email. . M&A.

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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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22 HR Twitter Lists You Should Be Following

cipHR

Twitter is one of the top resources on the internet when it comes to the latest news and updates from all over the world on every topic imaginable. Brands use Twitter to reach customers, engage with their followers and ensure that they stay up to date with industry news. Individuals can use the service to increase their professional knowledge, engage with influencers and remain aware of whats happening in their profession, in real time.

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Go Back to the Beginning to Understand Organizational Goals

ClearCompany HRM

“Clear organizational goals can drive employee efforts throughout the organization. But if employees do not know what the organization's goals are, those goals lose the ability they have to energize employees towards their achievement. Communicating organizational goals to employees is essential for achieving those desired outcomes.” - OPM.gov. Organizational goals must be communicated to employees before they’re even employees.

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The Untouchables: Why you should stop salvaging bad employees at every level

The Aristocracy of HR

041050021150 Are you one of those companies that would rather preserve everyone than let them go? Right now, I know of at least one organization -where despite lackluster performance, poor behavior and the disbanding of their team of direct reports- a leader is being salvaged beyond their time because no one has the balls to […].

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ExactHire Named a Nominee for 2016 TechPoint Mira Awards

ExactHire

It was a big year for the ExactHire team in 2015, full of many exciting developments including the addition of brand new positions and a steady stream of product enhancements. The positive momentum is continuing as we’re thrilled to announce that the Indiana technology growth initiative, TechPoint , has named ExactHire a nominee in the Innovation of the Year category for the 2016 Mira Awards.

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3 Keys to Protecting Your Brand During Layoffs: Lessons from HR Leaders

Intoo USA

Guest Post | By Yair Riemer, CMO, Intoo | @YairR – View Yair’s #TalkHR Webinar “ 3 Keys to Protecting Your Brand During A Downsize: Lessons from the Tech Industry.”. The stock market just posted its worst January since 2009. There’s a bit of uncertainty in the air. But regardless of the macroeconomic climate, in boom or bust, all companies experience turnover – and all HR leaders need to be prepared to act as the stewards of their employer brand during these volatile times.

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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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5 Tips for Setting Achievable Professional Goals

Kazoo

Its goal-setting season and I’m sure many of us are putting off establishing them until the deadline arrives and it’s finally time to have a conversation with our managers. I personally have found this process to be arduous at times, so I am here to tell you that you are not alone. Here is what happens to me. The week after I have set goals, I am all gung-ho, giving myself a pep talk every day about how I can achieve them and acting as my own personal cheerleader.

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Why 360 Feedback?

DecisionWise

Why 360 Feedback? Without feedback, we tend to invent our own reality. Using 360-degree feedback is a vital part of performance, growth, and development. Understanding ourselves and how we interact with others helps us understand the impact we have on those around us. The perceptions of others within our circle of influence, whether those perceptions are accurate or inaccurate, often impact our level of success.

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Why Aligning Corporate Goals Takes More than Just Software

ClearCompany HRM

Most of the time when we approach goals, we do it from a corporate angle. After all, that makes the most sense. The reason you hire people is to reach the organizational goals of the company. It’s why they get a paycheck, says traditional thinking. But we know today that engagement skyrockets and employees are more fulfilled (and productive) when they understand those organization goals.

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Keeping up with disruption: Why every trend isn’t for your business

The Aristocracy of HR

001040001130 There is nothing but trouble to follow when we believe that we can be all things to all people. We also endanger any good we have the potential of doing by feverishly jumping on every fad. I can remember so many days in HR reading articles about the trends for the year the next […].

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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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[Infographic] The Benchmark of Successful Internal Email Campaigns

Hppy

Even though social communication is on the rise, email remains a reliable ally for most workplaces and it can be a powerful channel for employee engagement. We recently discussed business transparency practices and how internal communication can drive this transparency, making employees feel empowered, informed and engaged. A detailed analysis into how internal email campaigns are performing across workplaces revealed that: The average open rate of internal emails across organizations around the

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Recruit Better By Thinking Like a Marketer (Free eBook)

UpstartHR

Recruiting has been changing for some time. It’s no longer about simply tracking candidates–not if you’re trying to beat the competition, anyway. Sourcing, or seeking out candidates, is a powerful part of a recruiting strategy, but there are also elements of recruiting that have changed in recent years as the recruitment marketing field has grown into its own discipline.

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What HR Can Learn from the Grammy’s and Oscars

Kazoo

It’s awards season, which means that we’ll soon be inundated with red carpet interviews, bad fashion choices and of course, winners’ speeches. And with those things also comes news that a few of the oldest awards shows around – the Grammy’s and Oscars – are making big changes. The Grammy’s, first held in 1959, recently announced that this year’s winners will receive the iconic gramophone trophy with a GoPro camera inserted at the base.

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Send recognitions for Employee Appreciation Week!

Achievers

Happy Employee Appreciation Week! At Achievers, this is one of our favorite times of year. While we believe strongly in appreciating our employees all year long, there is something special about a week when companies across North America realize that it’s time to do something extra special. For those of you who aren’t using the Achievers platform, we wanted to give you an easy way to send recognition cards to your hard-working colleagues.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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5 Business Lessons I Learned From Being a Member of a Motorcycle Gang

Entrepreneur

Let's face it -- your bowling league is a business, your place of worship is a business, your family is a business -- and yes, an outlaw motorcycle gang is a business.

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Engaging your company alumni beyond the resignation

The Aristocracy of HR

020030000120 A study released in the Employee Engagement Series developed by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated and WorkplaceTrends.com, states that the boomerang employee is being reevaluated by employers. To be clear, boomerang employees are the alumni of your organization. They are people who worked for you at some point, that would rejoin your company […].

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9 Things To Consider When Recognizing Remote Employees

Hppy

Even if managing remote employees is becoming a more widespread phenomenon, many leaders stills struggle with one of its key aspects – employee recognition. It doesn’t matter whether employees work on-site or remotely – obviously, they need to be engaged and motivated all the same. Unfortunately, without the opportunities for spontaneous ‘Good job!

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Creating a Culture that Recognizes “Originals”

RecognizeThis!

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — Recognizing cultural contribution instead of cultural fit is a valuable way to reinforce the contributions of “Originals.”. I recently caught a piece on the Marketplace Morning radio program, interviewing Adam Grant (one of our WorkHuman speakers from 2015!). He was sharing some of the interesting findings from his new book, Originals.

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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 3-Step Process to Writing Your Personal Social Constitution

The People Equation

When you’re clear on what you stand for, it’s easier to weather a sea of distractions. Most people are fairly clear about their personal values, but sometimes it’s difficult to stay true to those values, especially at work. When I interviewed Hyrum W. Smith for his latest book The 3 Gaps , he described a simple process he uses to help people keep their values first and foremost in their mind.

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2016 social recruitment trends forecast

Workable

Social recruitment seems to have almost slavishly followed the stages of the Gartner Hype Cycle. We’ve trekked over the “peak of inflated expectations” and waded through the “trough of disillusionment,” pretty soon the “slope of enlightenment” should rise ahead of us. We know that social recruitment isn’t going to replace everything else we’ve been doing but promoting your jobs to your most engaged audience makes sense.

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Contingent RPO - what does it mean for APAC?

Allegis Global Solutions

A look at the advantages of deploying a contingent RPO solution in APAC.

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A Perfect Union: Talent Management and Predictive Analytics

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000000I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Human Capital Institute on the HCI Podcast. The focus for our discussion was: The Future of Predictive Analytics in Talent Management. It’s interesting to think about the future of this union- yet it would seem that we are getting ahead of ourselves to be so forward-thinking. One […].

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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9 Employee Engagement Archetypes, The Best Employee Benefits And Perks, and HR Trends in 2016 #FridayFinds

Hppy

Throughout the week, we come across some truly memorable articles that bring us fresh information, “Aha” moments and some HR and engagement wisdom. In this new #FridayFinds series, we’re going to round-up these articles and share them with you, with a special thanks to the amazing people behind the content. So here they are, this week’s greatest employee engagement articles: 9 Employee Engagement Archetypes.

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Should You Make Everyone a “Winner”?

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Social recognition is about creating “winners” who are strong contributors to the organization, not about creating “participation trophies.”. As recognition consultants, a question we sometimes hear is whether social recognition is just another flavor of the “everyone gets a trophy” or “participation medals” mentality.

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Make first impressions that last…

HR Tech Girl

After a competitive and time consuming recruitment process, you’ve (read recruiter) finally selected the best candidate for the job. The hiring manager is relieved, and you’re on to the next role to fill. Time is ticking, and the hiring manager usually has anywhere between 1-4 weeks wait before this new hire commences their role. The […].