August, 2013

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Aurico Joins the American Staffing Association

Aurico

'As a supplier to the staffing industry, Aurico’s listing in the ASA Marketplace provides a breadth of services recruiters need in order to get the job done. This strategic alliance allows Aurico to further support the staffing industry with background screening and drug testing services. Members of the ASA can expect the best products, customer service and turnaround time when partnered with Aurico.

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Strategic Workforce Planning in APAC: Dream or Reality?

Cielo HR Leader

'Thought Leadership Discussion: Bianca Wong, Human Resources Director, Jebsen. Despite all the enthusiastic talk about strategic workforce planning (SWP) in the established economies of the West, few organizations have managed to successfully implement it in any meaningful way. But what is happening in the emerging markets of the Asia Pacific region?

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What Is An Applicant Flow Log Report?

ExactHire

What’s an applicant flow log? Many of our clients are required to comply with Affirmative Action and OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) regulations. While these regulations are wide-ranging and very comprehensive, they typically apply to organizations that have government contracts (or sometimes subcontracts). At their core, these programs help to ensure that organizations don’t discriminate in their hiring processes.

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10 Ways to Give Recognition

Kazoo

What does good recognition look like? We get that question a lot. If you think the answer should be obvious, try to think back to the last time you gave someone recognition that mattered, that moved them, and that actually connected to them in the way you had hoped. It’s more difficult that you think! I can recall a time that I wanted to tell a co-worker that they really mattered to me, that their contribution was so important, and to PLEASE NEVER LEAVE ME!!!

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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What if there was a Net Promoter Score for employee engagement?

Achievers

A company is only as good as its Net Promoter Score, or so the popular wisdom goes. Evangelists like the Harvard Business Review claim it’s “the one number you need to grow:” an objective, numerical representation of just how much your customers like you. Administered periodically, the Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys a random sample of customers and asks how likely they are to recommend your company to a friend.

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21 Contemporary Employee Engagement Tools and Concepts

David Zinger

'I recently wrote a post that was very popular on 19 antiquated employee engagement tools and concepts. It is always easier to attack, criticize, or rip apart than to offer suggestions and useful tools. So this post offers 21 contemporary employee engagement tools and concepts than can make a difference in employee engagement in 2013 and beyond. The image below is the pyramid model of employee engagement (Click on the image to download a document outlining a model demonstrating that employee eng

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Generation Hexed

NoExcusesHR

'"She''s been here forever. I thought she was going to retire soon. We can''t count on her to come up with any innovative ideas.we''ll need to look outside the company for help on this project." "We better make sure we don''t hire too many millennials onto this team. Everybody knows they never put in extra time.it''s all about them." "I wish the baby boomers would just get over themselves.

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7 Ways Human Resources Can Use Application Management Software

ExactHire

When you purchase software, it’s always nice to learn everything about what the software can do right away. However, we all know this is not always a realistic possibility depending on the extent of available features. Sometimes, you have to “grow” into the application. With ExactHire’s applicant application management software we are occasionally asked for ideas on other ways this employment application software can be used.

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Career Resilience Tool: The Small Wins Journal

The Bamboo Project Blog

'Small Wins Journa -. . The other day I had a good conversation with a manager about my post Six Positive Professional Development Strategies for the Toxic Workplace. He''s dealing with a lot of work drama and interested in how you can address these issues. . One of the things I recommended in that post was to do a daily debrief with yourself to provide a sort of "reality check" on what''s happening and to focus on learning.

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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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[SlideShare] 19 signs of disengagement (and what you can do to avoid them)

Achievers

Have you ever felt like you’d rather put a pencil in your eye than attend your monthly team meeting? If not, then you’re probably an engaged employee (congrats!). But perhaps you know someone that feels this way. After all, disengaged employees tend to harbor feelings of animosity towards their employer. This is because disengaged employees are disconnected from business objectives, receive little to no recognition or constructive feedback, and worst of all—feel like they’re invisible to their e

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How to Have an Inspired Career

45 Things

'Years ago, Tama Kieves was a Harvard University graduate, working as a successful lawyer on the partnership track. Big money and big success were on the horizon. "I was miserable," she says. As someone who dreamed of being a writer when she was in high school, Kieves certainly was good at laboring as a lawyer. But she says she felt as if the job were sucking the life out of her.

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Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story?

David Zinger

'Why strategy needs to be a story. Shawn Callahan from Anecdote wrote a fine post on the potential for organizational leadership to be disengaged from strategy because they don’t really understand or feel the strategy. If this is true for leaders it is frightening to think about how disconnected or disengaged other employees may be from the strategy of the organization.

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Through Hell

NoExcusesHR

'Sometimes it is all simply too much to handle. The stress of the job, home, school, relationships, deadlines, and the reality that stress breeds more stress. When that happens, what do you do? Winston Churchill''s famous quote has served as a reliable and motivational support throughout my career. But sometimes a catchy phrase or helpful message on a sticky note next to your computer doesn''t do enough.

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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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How Does Hiring Software Reduce Time To Hire?

ExactHire

Moving to a paperless hiring process can offer many compelling benefits to a small business, such as the ability to access data in a web-based environment, easy accessibility to social recruiting, and a reduction in the time it takes to hire employees. In this blog, I’ll outline ways in which hiring software implementation can improve recruiting and employee onboarding efficiency by and reducing time-to-hire.

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Why You Need to Diversify Your Networking Circles

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Are you making one of the most common networking mistakes? . On a call the other day, a long-time client shared with me his criteria for accepting requests to connect on LinkedIn. Like most people I know, when he receives a request, he checks the person''s profile to see if they are in his industry and/or occupation. If they are, then he accepts the request.

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An unexpected competitive edge: Global rewards and recognition

Achievers

Whether your organization is already entrenched globally or on the verge of explosive growth, you realize that business scalability is the difference between failure and success. As your international organization scales, it’s challenging to push through the obstacles that result from expansion, like employee retention and maintaining productivity. That’s why engaging a global workforce remains a top challenge for employers today.

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The Schema of HR

True Faith HR

'One of my favorite terms in the organizational behavior literature is "schema" - "a person''s mental picture or summary of a particular event or type of stimulus (Kreitner & Kinicki)." When you hear the word "professor," what is the schema that comes to mind? My guess is that image contains one or more of the following characteristics: male older (45 or older) gray hair tweed jacket with patches on the elbows has facial hair (mustache and/or beard) carries a pipe If you do a google image se

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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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Employee Engagement in Reverse: 25 Ways Employees Disengage

David Zinger

'Here is a playful list of 25 ways various employees disengage from their work: Dentists feel they are going through the same old drill patient after patient. Surgeons who can no longer cut it. Truckers lose their drive. Bankers continually losing interest. Florists who fail to bloom. Jewelers who lose their sparkle. Firefights who are burnt out. Pilots who just take off.

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It's All About Me

NoExcusesHR

'Giving feedback to others is something I do on a regular basis. Whether it is a member of my team, another leader in the organization, or a peer, I am regularly interacting with others and sharing my perspective on their performance. That probably sounds a lot like your job, particularly if you are in a human resources leadership role. But what happens when the feedback is about you. or me ?

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5 Reasons Why Companies Need Human Resources

ExactHire

I was talking with a friend yesterday who does “life coaching,” and she asked a great question … “Why do you like your job so much?” My answer was simple…ExactHire is a small company so everyone here has to wear many different “hats” and no day is ever the same. We have fun together and work as a team! The more I thought about it, I was struck by the ironic fact that we work in the Human Resources (HR) industry but don’t have a specific Human Resources department or even

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When You Can't Change What You Do, 3 Steps to Change How You Do It

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . I''m aware that for many people, a job change just isn''t in the cards right now. They know that they are unhappy--or at least restless--but for a variety of reasons, changing jobs or changing careers just can''t happen for awhile. . This is OK. In fact, it can be a good thing. Your current job can be the home base from which you experiment with some new possibilities.

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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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Achievers named top recognition program provider by HRO Today

Achievers

Results are in and HRO Today named A chievers the top recognition program in its Baker’s Dozen rankings. Thirteen recognition providers were ranked based on customer survey results, and A chievers was the top overall in recognition. For the 2013 Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings, feedback was collected from program subscribers of each of the services’ buyers in an online survey.

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“Going Social:” Not so Much?

Bersin with Deloitte

Few human capital management concepts today are getting more attention than that of “social.” The rapidly increasing use of social networking techniques within many areas of talent management software has the potential to change the way employees interact with each other at work, creating more collaborative, supportive communities and increasing collegiality in the workplace.

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Tips to Overcome Fear

TheHRBlog

Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. “ He was very right we fail to live because of one or another fear. Facing and overcoming your fears will make you live a happier life. What is Fear? Fear is a natural and practical response to danger, but for […].

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Will HR Have A Legacy When It's Gone?

NoExcusesHR

'Legacies are often framed in a personal context. What will be left behind when we''re not around anymore. The lives we''ve touched, the communities we''ve lived in and the work we''ve done. What will people say? Will we be so incredibly impactful that something might even be named for us: a street, a library, a park? Probably not without a sizable donation to local government or a charity.

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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 Turn at Internships Into a Job Offer

45 Things

'Most summer interns are now about halfway through their stint, and the tension may be building for many who hope their hard work will pay off with a full-time job. More companies are using internships to test drive recent graduates, says Yair Reimer, vice president of marketing for the CareerArc Group. And his company''s Internships.com lists 75,000 to 80,000 active internship offers, a boost of 50% since last year, he says.

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Morning Ritual: The Soft Startup

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Usually when I wake up, I make a pot of coffee and then make my bleary-eyed way to my computer to begin my work day. I get my best work done in the morning, so I try to capture as many of those minutes as I can. . For the past week, though, my husband and I have been trying something different. After the coffee is made, rather than beginning the work day, we take a few minutes to crawl back into bed and spend some time talking to each other.

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Ask Achievers: How do I keep our growing office happy?

Achievers

In this week’s Ask Achievers, Melissa Young takes on one of the biggest side effects of growth: office crowding. Melissa is the office coordinator in the A chievers San Francisco office. She is responsible for growth and operations in SF, in addition to her many other Employee Success roles. Dear Ask A chievers, Good news: our company is growing, and growth means new hires!

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