December, 2014

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How Video Interviewing has Taken International Recruiting to the Next Level

Spark Hire

'International recruiting efforts have expanded and become easier over the years. No longer do we face huge challenges as before when it comes to doing business overseas. One of the recruiting tools that has simplified the task is video. When looking at the evolution of international recruiting and the changes over the recent years, it is clear to see that video is the future of international hiring. .

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10 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Retain Your Employees

TalentCulture

'Hands down, the most important investment you could possibly have in your company is your employees. Are you investing a large percentage in hiring the right employees? Do you have a winning team? If so, employee retention should be your top priority. Here are 10 surprisingly easy ways to achieve it. Develop an employee retention strategy. Don’t leave this to the last minute, or go into it unprepared.

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Whether Employers Realize It Or Not, It’s Now a Candidate-Driven Market

TLNT: The Business of HR

'The candidate-driven market is here to stay and the pace at which candidates are rejecting offers is quickening. MRINetwork’s most recent Recruiter Sentiment Study says that 83 percent of the 333 responding recruiters describe the current employment market as candidate-driven. In three years, the percentage of recruiters who say candidates are in the driver’s seat has risen 29 points.

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How to Create a PTO Program

Insperity

'In the past, many companies gave employees a certain number of paid days off for vacation, then some for sickness and a few more for personal time. These days, many employers are giving a lump sum of paid-time-off (PTO) days per year to cover any type of absence. But now, there’s a new trend gaining some traction. Unlimited PTO. Made popular by Virgin founder, Richard Branson , unlimited PTO lets people take off as many days as they want – no questions asked.

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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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Business Lessons from the Fictional Elite

Cornerstone On Demand

'What does it take to be a good leader? A few standout qualities are accountability, resilience, and compassion. What does it take to be a thriving entrepreneur? Creativity, courage, and an infallible spirit can make the difference between freedom and free fall. That being said, fostering these traits is far easier said than done. We need examples and inspiration so we can shape our own experience.

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Partner Q&A with JobAdder

Spark Hire

'We’re very excited to announce that a Spark Hire and JobAdder integration is coming soon! Utilizing the upcoming integrated solution, JobAdder customers can reap the benefits of Spark Hire’s video interviewing solutions from within their applicant tracking system. Not only are we pumped to soon offer this integrated solution to our customers, but we’re also happy to be working with a great team of people led by Brett Iredale, CEO of JobAdder.

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Busting The Burning Myths About Job Hopping

TalentCulture

'A relatively recent term, “job hopping” is now used in mainstream society as a way to describe the phenomena of hopping from one job to the next job, rather than maintaining one job or career throughout the course of a lifetime. Here’s what you need to know about job hopping, as well as some myths we will dispel about it. Classically, as children we are taught to be loyal, hardworking, and dedicated.

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Here’s Why Talent Analytics Must Be a Part of Your Talent Strategy

TLNT: The Business of HR

'Anyone who has experience with recruiting and hiring talent of late understands that talent acquisition is as much a science as it is an art. The exciting potential behind talent analytics is that it has fueled the science side of power recruiting and hiring – using data, metrics and analytics to understand who you should be sourcing and from where, for example, instead of making decisions solely on gut instinct.

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How to Identify Bottlenecks in Your Recruitment Process

HR Bartender

'(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at iCIMS , a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions for growing businesses. NJBIZ recently ranked iCIMS 18 th on the list of New Jersey’s Fast Growing Companies. Congrats to them! Enjoy the post.). We all know what a bottleneck is, right? It’s the stage in a process that causes the entire process to stop, slow down, or be less effective.

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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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Forget the Cash: 5 Thoughtful Ways to Reward Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

'The ineffectiveness of traditional performance reviews is yesterday's news. But as the season of giving approaches, smart HR pros realize the traditional end-of-year cash bonus — while of course accepted and much appreciated — also needs a reboot. Simply showing employees the money may not be the most effective motivational and engagement tool for today’s changing workforce.

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7 Areas to Improve Your Talent Management

ClearCompany HRM

'The state of work, as it relates to company culture and professional growth, has been weighed and certainly found wanting. As Gallup revealed, only about 13% of the current worldwide workforce are fully engaged in their work. So, it is apparent traditional talent management is not as effective as it could be. Because there is some confusion around the difference between talent management and performance management, here is a definition from talent management strategist, Dr.

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3 Ways Online Video Interviewing has Transformed the Staffing Industry

Spark Hire

'The staffing industry is always evolving, adjusting to new trends and technology in order to attract the best talent and the best clients. If your staffing business has been staying up to date with the latest technology, you are likely using video interviewing in your processes. If not, there are several reasons why you should consider implementing video into your staffing business. 1.

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What Do Employees Want Most? Appreciation and Good Relationships at Work

RecognizeThis!

'Recognize This! – Research from the Boston Consulting Group and The Network show employees around the world most need to know their work is valued and appreciated. “They are different in [insert country other than your own.] They want different things than we do.”. How true do you believe that statement to be? Do you wonder if anyone’s recently tried to quantify those perceived differences or, better yet, find the commonalities?

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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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The Five Reasons That Your Job Postings Just Aren’t Working

TLNT: The Business of HR

'Although this articles about the handful of reasons why your job posts just aren’t working, there is really one real reason: The best candidates always come through referrals. As a matter of fact, referrals are where we get roughly 80 percent of our candidates from. That being said, sometimes you’ve simply tapped out your networks and you find you need to advertise your job opening across the Internet.

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Employees Need to Own Their Success

HR Bartender

'During the HR Technology Conference , I was chatting with someone about job titles. She had heard the most interesting title – Vice President of Employee Success. It didn’t sit well with me then and the more I think about it…it still doesn’t. My apologies if this is your job title, but I do have to take exception to this one. When a person has the job title Vice President of Employee Success, that takes responsibility for achieving success away from: 1) The organization. 2) The managers, and mo

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Q&A with Laura Carstensen: Why You Can't Afford to Ignore Senior Talent

Cornerstone On Demand

'For reasons both financial and personal, Baby Boomers are working later into their lives. While workplaces often focus on recruiting younger talent, they’re ignoring the opportunities that seniors bring to their businesses, says Laura L. Carstensen, founding director of Stanford’s Center on Longevity. Here Carstensen explains how balanced, multigenerational teams can be more resilient and productive than lopsided ones.

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The 4 Leadership Issues You Can’t Ignore Anymore

ClearCompany HRM

'Bad bosses take the blame for a lot of what goes wrong in the workplace. Low engagement rates, high turnover, employee dissatisfaction and even poor employer branding will often get placed squarely on the shoulders of supervisors. A constant passing of the buck, and probably some not so fair statistics have lead to the idea that a bad boss epidemic is at the core of business issues.

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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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Recruiting: How to Start 2015 on the Right Track

Spark Hire

'As we near the end of another year, many of us begin to think about our resolutions and goals for the New Year. We decide that we will eat healthier, exercise more, spend less money, etc. However, it’s important to realize that New Year’s resolutions do not have to be only for personal goals. You can also set resolutions for your recruiting goals.

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Newsflash: HR Creates a Policy

UpstartHR

'Breaking news. Anywhere, USA – This morning we got word that someone in HR created a policy. We’re not sure what the policy was as of the time of this report; however, we were assured by our sources that it was “highly necessary” for the business to continue functioning. Our resident HR expert, Stu Pidhead, had this to say, “I have been a long-time believer in policies.

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Why It Makes Perfect Sense For You to Hire a Hustler

TLNT: The Business of HR

'Hustle ( via Merriam-Webster ): “ To sell or promote energetically and aggressively.”. Hustle (via Urban Dictionary ): “ Anything you need to do to make money.” Hustle (via Sackett): “ Getting sh*t done with a smile.”. I’ve been thinking a lot lately on what really makes someone successful. I know folks who are completely brilliant, in a way most of us can’t even comprehend, both intellectually and creatively.

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The Capabilities of HR Technology – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

'Technology plays a huge role in our personal and professional lives. That being said, because there is so much technology on the market, it can be a challenge to figure out what’s available. Reminds me of the idiom “ It’s Greek to me ”. That’s the challenge in today’s reader question. I would like to find out what kind of technology is available for new employees in terms of helping them adjust to their job, work environment, and manager.

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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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#MillennialMatters: How to Get Your Coworker Fired

Cornerstone On Demand

'My coworker once discovered that our colleague was blogging about us on his Tumblr account. He wasn't writing anything scandalous — the morning meeting was dull, he timed our bathroom breaks — yet it was in violation of our corporate policy. So as gossip spread through the workplace, we debated whether or not to turn him in. It turns out this predicament is common among my Millennial-aged friends.

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The Most Common “I Quit” Motivators & What You Can Do About Them

ClearCompany HRM

'There are many different types of turnover; some are welcome, and some aren’t. When a consistently poor performer with a bad attitude is replaced with an employee who excels, that’s the kind of turnover you want to see. However, that’s not always what happens. Very often, turnover can have some seriously negative effects on the organization. Financially: Every time a business replaces a salaried employee , it costs an average of 6-9 months’ salary.

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Helping Your Employees Manage Holiday Stress

Spark Hire

'As fun and exciting as the holidays are, they can also be extremely stressful, particularly when work-related deadlines loom. Add in the fact that employees may be vacationing and that holiday-related days off are a-plenty and it’s no surprise that holiday cheer often feels like an oxymoron. Help your staff stay on-task without feeling frazzled by using these strategies to manage holiday stress: Know exactly what the coming months look like.

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If You Can’t Be Sincere, Don’t Recognize at All

RecognizeThis!

'by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Without sincerity, appreciation and praise fall flat. When we consult on social recognition , a common (and important) question is, “Yes, I understand and agree with the value and importance of recognition, but how do I recognize well? How do I coach others to do the same?”. There are many principles of good, effective employee recognition that we’ve written about elsewhere – timely , frequent , aligned with core values and objectives, calibrated to leve

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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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Taking a Supply Chain Approach to Solving the Skills Gap

TLNT: The Business of HR

'It’s an issue that organizations seem consistently faced with today: A lack of skilled workers that can further their growth, success, and ability to compete with competitors. This “skills gap” is explained by the U.S Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Center for Education and Workforce ’s new report titled Talent Pipeline Management: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap , as a result of education and workforce systems in the U.S that are failing to keep pace with the changing needs of the ec

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Guest Blog: The Reason Work Anniversaries are Important

WorkHuman

'One of the most important events in an employee’s career is their first day of work. There’s a constant conversation about making sure an employee is welcomed and made to feel a part of the company on Day One. Every year, employees remember their work anniversary. Anniversaries are special and important events in a person’s life. Whether they are personal anniversaries or professional ones.

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Weekly Must Reads: What’s Your State’s Most Distinctive Job?

Cornerstone On Demand

'The top stories HR pros need to know this week. Florida is loaded with motorboat operators, and Kansas is chockfull of. Home Ec teachers? Vox Media analyzed Labor Department Statistics to uncover the most disproportionately popular jobs in each state. Read more at Vox. Recession’s Over. Employers, Pay Up. Employers will soon have to start paying more to attract talent, according to the data crunchers at The New York Times' Upshot.