October, 2019

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Mental Health Needs To Be Destigmatized In The Workplace—Here’s How To Do It

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Today is World Mental Health Day, and it’s important to reflect that the tens of millions of people nationwide who deal with mental health issues can face serious stigmatization on the job.

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Boss’s Day is a crock and we need to kill it off

Ask a Manager

Boss’s Day is tomorrow, and it’s time to kill it. Sorry, bosses. But the day is a crock. Here’s why: 1. The power dynamics are all messed up. It’s not appropriate to solicit recognition from people below you, especially when they feel it’s obligatory! Plus, many offices have started doing celebrations that involve money – employees’ money – to buy gifts and meals.

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Talent Mobility: Why it Matters to the Future of Your Organization

TalentGuard

Talent Mobility: Why it Matters to the Future of Your Organization. Talent mobility was identified as a key emerging trend in Deloitte’s 2019 Human Capital Trends Survey and has already been embraced by best-in-class, high performance organizations who understand the value of developing a culture focused on their people. For companies new to talent mobility, it is rapidly becoming a priority for 2019 and beyond.

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Holiday Hiring Best Practices

SHRM Resources

?As the holiday season rapidly approaches, employers need to ensure that they have adequate bench strength to cover demand and provide excellent service—and that they're adhering to all applicable laws and requirements governing seasonal employees. UPS announced that it expects to hire 100,000 workers for the peak holiday season this year, mostly nonpermanent but some full time, and all with access to health care and retirement benefits.

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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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Driving Innovative Business Models through Workforce Planning

hrQ

Workforce planning is one of the most critical competencies for an HR organization. It is the foundation of the partnership between the business and HR and provides the organization with critical information about how to meet its staffing needs and how to allocate its HR resources to meet business goals. Workforce planning can help a business answer questions ranging from how many people it needs, where they should be located, what jobs they should do, how much they should be paid, and even whet

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AI and Healthcare: How HR Can Leverage the Future of Medicine

Precheck

AI and Healthcare: How HR Can Leverage the Future of Medicine Oct. 8, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. As in every industry these days, healthcare organizations are being touched by the influence of artificial intelligence. In fact, AI is projected to become a $190 billion industry by 2025. So what are some of the changes we can expect to see, and what steps can healthcare HR teams take to prepare?

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7 Career Lessons Learned from Attending a NASA Social

HR Bartender

Over the summer, Mr. Bartender and I attended NASA’s Ascent Abort flight test. The Ascent Abort flight test was a simulation designed to ensure that NASA can maintain astronaut safety in case of an emergency. The test flight was done as part of the preparations for next year’s Artemis launch. We’ve lived in Florida a long time and believe it or not…we’ve never been to a launch!

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Workday Fires A Cannon Into The HR Technology Market

Josh Bersin

This week was Workday Rising, the annual confab of 14,000+ Workday customers, partners, and fans. And as always, it met expectations. Not only did Jerry Seinfeld remind us that “we’ve lost interest in life, now we’re only interested in battery life,” but Workday unleashed a torrent of new talent applications, many of which are going.

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how to get better at using a coworker’s nonbinary pronouns

Ask a Manager

The question earlier this month about how to get better at using a coworker’s nonbinary pronouns (they/them) attracted hundreds of suggestions in the comments. I’ve compiled some of them here for easy reference (and to share with others if you’d like). While most of these suggestions are for nonbinary folks, some of them also apply to people switching from he/his/him to she/hers/her and vice versa.

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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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HR Tech 2019: Five takeaways from this year’s conference

HRExecutive

Although the jam-packed 2019 HR Technology Conference and Exposition ended Friday, the lessons learned and the connections made will continue all year. And so will coverage of related topics and trends from the Human Resource Executive team that spent last week covering all aspects of the Las Vegas event. But for now, here are five quick conference takeaways from the HRE team.

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Recruiting in the Age of AI

TalentCulture

I’m really looking forward to this upcoming webinar on recruiting in the age of AI. Together with SmartSearch on Thursday, Nov. 7, I’ll be diving into one of the keys to empowering recruitment today: using the latest AI technology. We all know that to be successful, any organization has to place a high value on finding and retaining the best possible human capital to drive its growth.

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The 5 Most Desirable Employee Training and Development Opportunities

Quantum Workplace

Attracting employees who bring the righ t skills and experience to the workplace often feels l i ke searching for a needle in a haystack. That’s why companies are investing more in employee training and development.

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Learning culture: why we must champion curiosity and cultivate critical thinking

HR Zone

Development Champion curiosity and cultivate critical thinking.

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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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Recruiting trends in 2020: 6 tactics you’ll want to sharpen up on

HR Morning

Business success depends on a variety of factors, and the recruiting trend landscape is no exception. An analysis of today’s market suggests an economy shaped by several factors, including a gig economy that continues to expand, and a skills gap bemoaned by many HR professionals. What’s shaping recruiting trends? The unemployment rate hovers at a record-low of 3.5%, a number that has steadily decreased every year since the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

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my coworkers make orgasm sounds while I’m on the phone

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My office prides itself on our fun, casual culture and how we are all a “family.” I’m not a fan of this, but I’ve been working there for almost three years and it’s been okay, if slightly annoying at times, until now. Two and a half months ago at an after-work happy hour event, a bunch of us were discussing movies when the conversation turned to When Harry Met Sally and from there to the scene where Meg Ryan simulates an orgasm.

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Surprise! The skills of the future aren’t technical

HRExecutive

The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed approximately 5,670 executives across 48 countries to learn more about the skills needed to execute business strategies. The top finding of the research is that approximately 120 million workers may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation. Yet, the research also revealed that, while technical and digital skills were still in high demand, executives are placing highest priority on behavioral—or soft—skil

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How to Optimize the Candidate Journey to Hire the Best Talent

TalentCulture

New job candidates with new preferences mean that employers must adapt their recruiting approach. Lorenz V. Esposito of Potentialpark suggests four steps for optimizing the candidate journey to hire the best talent. The post How to Optimize the Candidate Journey to Hire the Best Talent appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Why CEOs Should Care About Their Online Reputation

Take It Personel-ly

A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the face of their company’s brand. Many CEOs (think Elon Musk and other dynamic technology executives) have become celebrities in their own right. Their “star power” has the potential to drive the business forward — but one misstep can bring it all crashing down. Gone are the days when […].

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Employee feedback: your secret weapon for business success

HR Zone

Employees Stop ignoring employee feedback.

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7 things employees get wrong about ‘wrongful termination’

HR Morning

A wrongful termination claim can be filed in a court of law if an employee believes he or she has been ‘illegally’ fired from the job. Such claims result from an alleged violation of federal or state anti-discrimination laws, employment contracts or labor laws, including whistle-blower laws. A wrongful termination claim can also be filed when an employee believes the termination was due to sexual harassment or in retaliation to a complaint or workers’ compensation claim.

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my male boss won’t have closed-door meetings with me because he’s married

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work directly with our CEO and lately I have noticed that whenever we are having a meeting (I am a woman and he is a man) that he will randomly open the door. I thought it was odd and so yesterday I asked him if there was an issue or was it just in my head. He responded by saying he is sensitive to the fact of opposite gender closed door meetings and that he and his wife have rules.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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This is why you have to take employee experience seriously

HRExecutive

One of the five key takeaways from the recently concluded HR Technology Conference & Expo in Las Vegas involved the employee experience. According to HR technology guru Josh Bersin , for example, vendors are focusing their attention on “employee-centric tools” that operate within Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Salesforce and other widely used workplace tools.

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Why Automation Won’t Fix Recruitment Inefficiency

TalentCulture

Automation undoubtedly makes life easier for recruiters. From sifting through dozens of resumes in microseconds to sending candidate-rejection emails, automated software and processes streamline operations. But all the manual configuration and repetitive performance in the world can’t eliminate recruitment inefficiencies without a little help from AI.

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7 Ways for Reducing Employee Turnover at Your Business

6Q

While sales managers know that it costs more to gain new customers than to keep loyal ones, some business leaders struggle to fully see the impact that employee turnover has on their organisations. This article explains. According to statistics from Organisation Science magazine, a retail worker who makes $8 per hour costs a company several thousands of dollars when he leaves.

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World Mental Health Day: achieving equality between mental and physical health in the workplace

HR Zone

Change World Mental Health Day: the fight for equality.

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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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How to Create the Perfect Work/Life Balance?

Take It Personel-ly

One of the most challenging things of “adulting” is making that transition into work life. You’d see most elders keep telling young adults to find that work/life balance, to just do it somehow, and while we nod our heads listening to their advice, thinking that it makes sense. But how are you supposed to find […].

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10 Strategies To Fine-Tune Your Business Statement And Clearly Convey What You Stand For

Forbes Coaches Council

It's often easier said than done to write a clear, succinct business statement. Here's how to effectively summarize who you are, why you exist and what you stand for as a brand.

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65 Creative Employee Reward Ideas (2019 Update)

Bonusly

There are all kinds of employee rewards out there. To help you out, we’ve scoured the internet and wracked our brains for the very best and most creative employee reward ideas, and put it all into one big list for you. ?? In fact, this list has been so popular that we've updated and expanded it multiple times—and we’re happy to say that this time around, we’ve rehauled the entire list and its categories!