March, 2017

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Your Hiring Process: A Trip Down the Red Carpet or an Episode of Survivor?-

TalentCulture

There’s no doubt that hiring qualified people is important. Having top-notch talent who do quality work will help your organization reach its goals. Unfortunately, in an effort to get hiring right, some organizations have made their selection process an obstacle course. Take, for example, a prominent company in Seattle. It’s a great place to work. However, a less prominent employer in town, with whom they compete for employees, is winning the war for top talent.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Applied Business Analytics Leader Visier Closes $45 Million in Financing to Meet Growing Demand for its People Strategy Platform.

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10 Strategies for Recruiting In a Highly Competitive Job Market

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Alongside , a company that bridges the communication gaps to create a better hiring experience for both employers and job seekers. Check out how they help companies like Motörleaf showcase their team dynamic to active and passive candidates. For a free trial or demo of their product , visit their website.

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"Name Your Job": Why You Should Hire People Who Write Their Own Job Descriptions

Cornerstone On Demand

In 2007, Sarah Feingold had just graduated from Syracuse University Law School. While in school, she'd petitioned to take a graduate-level metal smithing class around her passion outside of law: jewelry-making. That's when she discovered Etsy —an eBay-type, startup marketplace for handmade goods. Today, the company has nearly 1000 employees and $2.39 billion in revenue.

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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 Help Leaders Effectively Manage Today’s Human Capital

ClearCompany HRM

What are today’s key human capital management challenges, and how will they be addressed in the future? To answer these questions, ClearCompany partnered with HR.com to conduct a survey of nearly 400 Human Resource professionals.

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How To Take Employee Appreciation To The Next Level At Your Company

15Five

Building a vibrant workplace requires a foundation of trust, respect, and honest communication. It also requires employee appreciation. Over 200,000 global employees were studied by the Boston Consulting Group , and the top reason they reported enjoying their work was, “feeling appreciated”. Number 2 was having a good relationship with their supervisor, and number 4 was that they had a good relationship with their colleagues.

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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 Job Interview Will Soon Be Dead. Here's What the Top Companies Are Replacing It With -- by Marcel Schwantes. 2.

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Companies Should Include Feedback Training in Onboarding

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a global leader in Talent Activation. SilkRoad recently announced that Carey Lohrenz, the first female to pilot an F-14 Tomcat Fighter jet for the Navy will be the keynote speaker at their annual Connections conference taking place in May. Hope to see you there! Enjoy the post.).

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3 Examples of Evidence-Based HR in Action

UpstartHR

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop based on metrics, evidence-based HR, and change management. The session was a lot of fun, because we were able to tie the three topics together in a variety of ways to help reiterate not only why each of them matters, but how each of them can really build value when used in conjunction with one another.

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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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What is Talent Success™ and How to Drive it

ClearCompany HRM

An "A Player" is a top performer that has measurable impact on your business and whose traits and competencies are desirable in being applied to the hiring and talent management process. Simply said, an A Player has the DNA you want to replicate to create organizational success. In most cases, companies believe that hiring A Players comes few and far in between, and that this top talent will only be a small minority of their workforce.

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Why Your Toxic Employee Could Be Costing You Millions

ATD Human Capital

Have you heard of the 80:20 rule? Eighty percent of your energy is spent on 20 percent of your relationships. Most often this energy is wasted in drama. Then there are toxic employees, who epitomize the 99:1 rule; 99 percent of the negative energy in the workplace is caused by 1 percent of the people. Toxic employees consistently seeking drama by playing one or more of these three roles: victim, persecutor, or rescuer.

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7 More Fascinating Employee Engagement Trends For 2017

15Five

It’s no surprise that employee engagement numbers have been abysmal for the last few years (and if that is a surprise, you need to read our blog more often.) According to Gallup, engaged employees comprise only around 30% of the workforce. No wonder this post on 2016 engagement trends was so popular. . Until engagement numbers dramatically increase, we are going to continue presenting these trends.

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Forget Interview Questions: 4 Fresh Tactics to Screen Candidates for Emotional Intelligence

Linkedin Talent Blog

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a hot topic right now. So hot that it caused a lot of controversy on ABC’s The Bachelor, where one contestant told another that she “lacked the emotional intelligence” to be with this season’s bachelor. Burn. However, most discussions about emotional intelligence are happening beyond such high quality TV (wink) in relation to job skills.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Reduce Turnover: Develop an Employee Experience Strategy – #WorkInspired

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos was named one of the 2017 Best Workplaces for Giving Back by Fortune Magazine in conjunction with consultancy Great Place to Work. Congrats to them! Enjoy the post.). I know the phrase is well-worn, but the reality is that “the war for talent” is on.

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Adam Grant’s Tips for Hiring & Developing Original Thinkers

WorkHuman

Lots of companies say they want to be innovative and push beyond commonly accepted boundaries in their industry. But is your HR strategy truly supporting this endeavor? Are original thinkers flourishing – or being stifled – in your organization? Are you taking the right steps in hiring, developing, and recognizing the next generation of original thinkers?

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3 More Things to Learn from Google About Recruiting Budget

ClearCompany HRM

Running a business is difficult, especially for startups. Depending on the type of business you run, it could take years to become profitable. Restaurants, for example, have to be open for an average of 4-5 years before they turn a profit. For them, budget is king.

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AI, Robotics, and Cognitive Computing Are Changing Business Faster Than You Thought

Josh Bersin

The digital world of work is here, and organizations are struggling to adapt. JPMorgan Chase & Co now uses software to perform the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial loans, reducing. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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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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Infographic: 10 More Proven Ways To Boost Employee Job Satisfaction

15Five

What matters most to your employees? This is the third time we are asking that question, because what could be more rewarding and fruitful than fostering a supported and thriving workforce? Every year we review the Society for Human Resource Management’s Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report , an enormous undertaking that produces nearly sixty pages of data on what employees want most, how responsive their employers are, and what they need to be engaged in their work.

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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. Why References Are Important and How to Ask for Them -- by Jessica H. Hernandez. 2.

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Being a Nice Person Could Be the Source of Your Stress

HR Bartender

I just finished a super interesting read from the Harvard Business Review (HBR) titled “ Generosity Burnout ”. I would highly recommend that everyone download a copy. The idea behind generosity burnout is this: our best career advice for others is to be a servant leader , pay it forward, be nice, help others, etc. However, if every time someone asked, we said “yes”, we could be placing ourselves in a position where we’re sacrificing our own well-being and goals for others.

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Guest Post: Harnessing the Power of Relationships

WorkHuman

When was the last time you thought about gravity? It plays a pretty important role in our lives, doesn’t it? It keeps us from floating off into space. It literally holds our solar system together. Gravity is vital to our survival. And yet, unless you are a physicist, you probably haven’t thought about gravity since your last science class. It just works in the background of your perception, affecting you in so many ways you don’t notice.

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2024 HR Calendar of Important Dates

64% of HR managers lack the time and resources to meet HR compliance challenges and 50% of HR professionals lack confidence in their ability to keep up with ever-changing rules and regulations ( UpCounsel ). This free calendar from Paycor can help.

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The Most Effective Model to Assess Quality of Hire

ClearCompany HRM

In 2015, 39% of companies said Quality of Hire (QoH) was their most valuable recruiting performance metric. It’s what makes spending so much time and effort in the recruitment process worth it in the end. It’s the reason that cutting corners and saving money isn’t a good idea when it comes to recruiting. Quality of Hire is one of the most important and, unfortunately, one of the most difficult hiring metrics to track.

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How This Leader Is Helping More Women Find Their Voice

Everwise

Jennifer Hedding, SVP of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, shares how she leverages her role to encourage women to be bold, connect with others and to use their voice in the workplace. And to good effect. As SVP of HR, Hedding leads the human resources team that is responsible for HP Enterprises 40,000 technical and services talent, or better said as, “the engine that drives a 28 billion dollar business”.

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Hiring Interns, The Legal Way

Justworks

Hiring an intern at your company is a great way to give a college student or new professional some hands-on experience in your industry. Companies often hire interns to do lower-level work in exchange for the opportunity to get a foothold into a new industry and learn from behind the scenes. However, many companies have historically hired interns on an unpaid basis in order to save costs on jobs that would otherwise go to entry-level employees.

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Killing Anxiety at Work

Trish McFarlane

“There is anxiety, but it comes after you’ve finished filming because it’s out of your hands; people are editing it, they’re cutting it, marketing it. And it’s… part your career sort of rides on that. But when you’re actually filming it’s a team thing and it really feels good there for me.” ~Hugh Jackman.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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How to Make Your Employees Happy – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. They were named one of the Top 50 Best Workplaces for Women by the Great Place to Work Institute. Many congrats! Enjoy the post.). We spend a lot of time talking about employee engagement and that’s not a bad thing.

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Calling All Students: 3rd Annual WorkHuman Fellowship Essay Contest

WorkHuman

Submit your essay and win a trip to WorkHuman in Phoenix in May! Do you know an undergraduate or graduate student with a passion for building a more inclusive, human workplace? Are you a student who would love to learn from thought leaders like Susan Cain and Adam Grant at WorkHuman 2017? We are thrilled to announce the third annual WorkHuman Fellowship Essay Contest.

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How to Read Body Language During a Video Interview

Spark Hire

While the responses a candidate delivers during an interview matter, their non-verbal cues also help to paint a picture about who this individual is as a professional — especially during video interviews. Decoding a candidate’s body language and coupling this knowledge with what you gain from their verbal replies allows you to gather crucial insight about whether this person might be an appropriate fit for your open role.