November, 2016

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Too Many Recruiting Tools Are Killing Your Recruiting Efforts

The Tim Sackett Project

You’ve heard of this concept of the Inverted-U Curve, right? It’s fairly straightforward. In the beginning, you have nothing or very little. As you increase the resources you begin to become more effective. Eventually, as you add more resources you’ll actually reach maximum potential. In the attempt to go even higher, you keep adding more resources, but you don’t see an increase in effectiveness or output, you actually see a decrease.

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An Emerging Trend For HR’s Data: Analytics-as-a-Service

TLNT: The Business of HR

The current trend is for companies to build in-house departments staffed with data scientists to do advanced analytics. However, this is probably only an option for large, sophisticated firms. Luckily an option is emerging which we might call “analytics-as-a-service,” where vendors and consultants provide analytics horsepower on demand. Click To Tweet.

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HR Department of One – You DO Have Time to Source Candidates

Acacia HR Solutions

A few months ago I was asked by a CEO to come in and teach his HR Manager who ran an HR Department of One how to source candidates as well as staffing agencies. He was tired of spending so much money on candidates he wondered if the HR Manager could find herself. I had.

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AI Won't Replace Recruiters, But It Will Make Them Better

Cornerstone On Demand

Similar to how technology has created efficiencies in operations, marketing and sales departments, human resources is being transformed by emerging AI technology. AI is getting a lot of attention in recruiting specifically due to the huge potential to automate some of the low-value, high-volume recruiting tasks that continue to monopolize time and attention.

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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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8 Ways to Deliver Training that Employees Retain

HR Bartender

The biggest concern organizations have when they invest in training is retention. By this, I mean having employees retain the material once they leave the class. No company wants to create a program and take employees out of the operation only to have the same issues occur repeatedly. It’s important for training programs to be designed and delivered in a way that increases retention of the content.

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What 4,000 Talent Leaders Believe About the Industry (and Why They are Wrong)

Linkedin Talent Blog

I’ve just taken a deep read into LinkedIn’s Global Recruiting Trends 2017 research report. LinkedIn surveyed more than 4,000 talent leaders from around the world to uncover their challenges, thoughts and future plans. However, I just went to LinkedIn’s Talent Connect 2016 in Las Vegas in October and what I heard and learned there was at odds with some of the more important survey findings.

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S.H.E. Summit Recap: Succeeding on Your Own Terms

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000000I had the privilege of attending S.H.E. Summit two weekends ago as press. My attendance at the event was the culmination of a two-year promise I made to myself to get there. I stumbled upon this event a few years ago while on Twitter. I saw the hashtag trending and it immediately peaked my interest. […].

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How To Fit OKRs Into Your Company Mission and Values

15Five

In Simon Sinek’s Ted Talk entitled, How Great Leaders Inspire Action , Sinek refocuses companies away from thinking first about what they do, and instead advises them to figure out WHY they’re doing it. This not only impacts their services and products, but also the people who build out and fulfill the company vision. No matter how great your vision, the world will always be pulling your company away from fulfilling your higher purpose.

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3 Tools to Improve Communication with Your Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

Professional development guru and philanthropist Paul J. Meyer once said, “Communication—the human connection—is the key to personal and career success." As the tools that make up this “key" have evolved, businesses have invested time and money in staying on top of popular trends like text, mobile apps and social media. But these trends aren't only for communication with customers.

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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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Where Is the Talent of Tomorrow – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the second consecutive year, Great Place to Work has put Kronos on its list of the 50 Best Information Technology Companies to work for in India. Congratulations! And enjoy the post.). “I’m looking for the talent of tomorrow.”.

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The Future of Human Capital Management

EmployeeConnect

HR managers face great challenges such as managing attrition, encouraging retention and meeting ever-increasing demands from employees, customers and executives who want greater efficiency and HR input on achieving business objectives through hiring strategies and people management practices. HR departments often find their duties expanded to deal with empowered customers, key business suppliers, business associates and customers.

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3 Ways to Maximize Your Staffing Firm's Budget in 2017

Linkedin Talent Blog

According to LinkedIn’s 2017 Global Staffing Trends Report , more than half of staffing industry leaders expect their firms’ budgets to grow within the next year. Meanwhile, 79% expect the volume of candidates placed to increase, too. The result is one of the most competitive recruiting climates ever: recruiters need to focus on filling roles with quality candidates, faster.

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Managing HR Compliance in the Age of Technology

Hppy

Compliance may not be the rock star of HR tasks, but it is the one that is necessary to keep the band together. In every country, laws and regulations exist to make sure that companies are conducting business with a certain level of standards. Without compliance, businesses are at risk of fines, lawsuits, bankruptcy, and closure. Research by Forrester concluded that businesses who do not effectively manage risk or implement compliance policies are at risk of losing billions of dollars.

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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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A Working Learner Is a Modern Learner

ATD Human Capital

A recent study by the ACT Foundation uncovered a rise in the number of working learners: “Individuals who work for pay and learn toward a credentialing at the same time.” This education can take the form of formal training or personal skill development. Individuals pursuing education while working may do so to: gain financial support for living and school expenses. learn or maintain new skills and experience. build or maintain professional networks. reinforce classroom training.

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The Best Strategy to Achieve True Innovation

Cornerstone On Demand

In your organization, does innovation mean finding new ways to exploit what you already do well, or exploring arenas where you're unfamiliar and will make mistakes? Or both? If you simply tell your employees and leaders that you want them to "innovate," then even the most motivated and intelligent employees might steer their efforts in the wrong direction.

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Should HR Be Autonomous From the Operation – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I’m sure you’ve seen articles – and we’ve written a few here – about the role of human resources. Today’s reader note wants to know about a different aspect of the role of human resources. What’s your opinion on HR managers “directly” supervising a department within a company, where other departments in that organizational structure are autonomous from HR?

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The Darwinian Nature of Candidates Seeking Remote Work.

The HR Capitalist

We've noticed something interesting on the recruiting trail at Kinetix. We're a recruiting company and from time to time, we seek to fill remote-based positions, both for ourselves and our clients. That's not unusual, because I'm sure a lot of you have remote-based roles you have to fill. What's interesting is the way people talk about the expectations of a remote-based role when they're interviewing. .

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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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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 Recruitment Industry to Die in 2018 -- by Simon Young. 2. The One (and Only) Question You Need to Ask to Measure Cultural Fit -- by Lou Adler. 3.

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[Infographic] Top Skills Recruiters Must Have in 2017

Hppy

Over the past few years, Millennials have dictated the pace of the recruitment landscape: fast, and dynamic. This generation has completely vacated the classic recruiter-job seeker relationship. The advent of the Internet also amplified this change by introducing tools like job search sites and apps to easily put themselves in the job market through uploading their resumes online and building portfolios.

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Participate in the High-Impact Learning Survey!

Bersin with Deloitte

We are excited to announce the 2016 round of the High-Impact™ Learning Organization survey! This research will help us to create maturity and core metrics related to the experience workers have with development, digital learning, learning technology, the future of worker development, and more. Details and a link to the survey provided below. or […].

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Cartoon Coffee Break: The Importance of Hustle

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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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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Can social media platforms enhance organisational democracy?

HR Zone

Innovation. Performance management. Social. Can social media platforms enhance organisational democracy?

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Remembering Lincoln Via "Team of Rivals" on This Election Day.

The HR Capitalist

Election Day 2016. I offer up those quotes from Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin's unbelievably good book on Abraham Lincoln. I suspect they have more to do with how we'll need to come together as citizens than the potential of either candidate to lead in the way that Lincoln did: “This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with men who had previously opposed him; to repair injured

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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. 7 Dangerous Character Flaws Recruiters Often Miss -- by Bernard Marr. 2. What We've Learned from Hiring 10,000 Veterans at Hilton -- by Chris Nassetta. 3.

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Workplace Bullying and Effective Mentoring

Hppy

A percentage of my time is spent addressing various behaviours as we go on our mentoring journey. At times I have to ask myself what era are we living in as the behaviours are antiquated and inappropriate for today’s business climate and for world as a whole. One of the behaviours that I see and have commented on before is bullying. I have heard of some tragic outcomes that have come from people being subjected to bullying both in and out of the workplace.

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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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How To Start Salary Negotiations Off On The Right Foot

Spark Hire

There’s a slight disagreement about whether or not employees are being paid fairly. A 2016 report from Payscale found that while 73 percent of employers feel they offer fair pay, only 36 percent of employees agreed. As a recruiter, you’re in a unique position to help close that gap because often you’re the first person to begin discussion about salary negotiations with candidates.

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What Science Says About Designing Better HR Surveys

Cornerstone On Demand

Every year, human resource professionals distribute the dreaded employee satisfaction survey. Oftentimes, it's the same questionnaire emailed through SurveyMonkey, year after year. But HR workers should scrutinize their surveys, improving questions to make the ordeal worth everyone's while. Usually, employees worry that their tell-all responses will be read by the boss, so they share a sanitized version of the truth.

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6 Reasons Why Business Leaders Should Implement Official Mentor Programs

Entrepreneur

Mentorship programs benefit employees as well as company culture and profits.

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