Sat.Jun 13, 2015 - Fri.Jun 19, 2015

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5 Qualities of a Top-Notch Recruiter

Spark Hire

When looking for an A-player in recruiting, it can seem like an uphill battle. However, you can make your hiring decision much simpler by searching for 5 key skills in each recruiting candidate. . 1. Drive and Motivation. One of the most important things to look for in a recruiter is drive and motivation. A top-notch recruiter will be persistent and be driven to succeed.

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dealing with a work crush, our boss lied about a family emergency to skip a meeting, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Our boss skipped a meeting for a family emergency — but we saw on Facebook that it was a party. I work part-time at a pool (I do have a professional IT job) and each month there are required staff meetings. Last month, our boss stated in a letter that she would not be there because of a “family emergency.” During the meeting, those of us who are friends with her on Facebook observed her updating her status about a birthday party an

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The Value of Tracking Turnover—And How to Do It Right

Cornerstone On Demand

Turnover reports. Let's be honest—they're kind of boring. But, if you want to be a business that's responsive to employees and boasts a great company culture, you need to track your turnover. People in small business often say, “I don't need to track anything! I know the names of everyone who works here and I can give you a list of everyone who has left, along with their reasons for leaving!

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4 Ways the Workforce is Changing

ClearCompany HRM

The changing workplace isn’t the office of your parents anymore. Three-piece suits ever so neatly accessorized with the perfect tie and skirt suits coupled with the perfect pair of pumps aren’t staples of most work wardrobes anymore. The ideal employee isn’t a “yes man,” they are the team members that question convention and even (wisely) challenge the opinions of their supervisors.

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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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Slow It Down … Hurrying Can Result in a Bad Hire!

HR Daily Advisor

It’s undeniable that the caliber of the people in your organization—their integrity, intelligence, experience, and commitment—is critical to your success. Give great people the opportunity to do meaningful work, and there’s no telling what they can achieve. So, if the people in your organization are the most critical factor in your success, do you spend enough time identifying, recruiting, and (don’t overlook this one) retaining top-caliber people?

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Does Kindness Have a Front Seat at Your Company?

Cornerstone On Demand

Kindness often takes a backseat in the workplace, as organizations prioritize the pressure to achieve financial success. Yet, the extent to which businesses are ignoring kindness is still surprising: An astonishing 98 percent of employees report experiencing uncivil behavior at work. And whether it's verbal abuse from a manager, passing blame on mistakes or talking down to others, even the smallest incivilities can foster a culture of disrespect.

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Making a Human Connection With HR Tech

ClearCompany HRM

Go to any HR conference and take a look around. You’ll see product after product for everything from proactive sourcing to employee engagement, from Applicant Tracking Systems to performance management. In essence, you’ll see a lot of very sophisticated systems dedicated to helping companies recruit, manage and “handle” their employment problems. And where do employment problems come from?

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Why Experienced Managers Make Bad Talent Decisions

Visier

It seems no one in HR has escaped the story of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. For those few who haven’t, however, it is the story of how Billy Beane, as the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, challenged conventional methods of player evaluations. Supported by carefully interpreted statistical data, Beane focused on landing talent the “old school” experts had overlooked.

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Travel Reward Points Are An Employee Perk [poll results]

HR Bartender

We recently ask HR Bartender readers who keeps the reward points accumulated during business travel. Honestly, this one didn’t even come close. Maybe that’s why we received a lower response rate than usual. When it comes to business travel, employees get to keep the points. It made me wonder if part of the reason is because employees have to pay for travel then get reimbursed.

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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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3 Ways to Avoid Playing Succession-Planning Jenga

Cornerstone On Demand

There's more to succession planning than identifying the next wave of senior managers or VPs. While it's important to groom future leaders for your company, a singular focus on finding "leadership" often comes at the cost of missing talent for lower-level positions. When this happens, your succession planning strategy can feel a lot like a game of Jenga: take a piece from the bottom, put it on top and hope the tower doesn't crumble!

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Step it up! 5 ways to make healthy lifestyle part of your company culture

Achievers

Corporate wellness programs can lead to better employee engagement , greater productivity, and fewer long-term health care costs. However, you don’t need enterprise-level resources to support your employees in leading a healthier lifestyle. Even small and mid-sized businesses can introduce changes that will support a culture of health and wellness, and many of them don’t cost anything. “The workplace is too often an overlooked but important part of the employee well-being equation.

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A Few Thoughts on Pre-Hire Predictive Analytics

Something Different

<labs.sogeti.com> …So I recently came across an interesting press release from a firm called Talent Analytics. The release says that the Company can feed its cloud platform into your ATS/HRIS/LMS etc., assessing how likely each applicant for any given position is to be a flight risk by looking at its current employee population and historical turnover data.

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Paying Attention To People

All Things Workplace

Last week I was discussing the Hawthorne Effect during a speech on performance. It led to a lively Q&A, so I thought I'd re-visit this post from December, 2009. The original experiment and its impact on management and human behavior are timeless. . In the 1920s, physiologist Elton Mayo conducted experiments at the Hawthorne Electrical Works in Chicago.

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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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Don't Fear the Machines—Even Supercomputers Need a Human Touch

Cornerstone On Demand

Amidst the frantic warnings that automation may take the jobs of human workers, it is vital for talent management leaders to be a voice for a more nuanced approach. The advance of technology is inevitable, but rather than an "either-or" choice between humans and machines, innovative talent leaders are finding creative and optimal combinations of human and machine interaction.

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Leadership Is the Answer, But What Is the Question?

ATD Human Capital

Leadership development is faltering most organizations. However, ATD 2015 made one thing clear: people development—especially leadership development—is the answer. Perhaps what we’ve lost is the question. Define that first…then develop and empower leaders at every level to address it. Click here to read full version.

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Infographic Thursday: The Evolution of Job Interviews

Something Different

Check out this great infographic from Spark Hire outlining the history of the job interview and selection process. And as always, if you like this infographic follow Spark Hire on Twitter here. Best, Rory.

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What It Really Means To Humanize Work

WorkHuman

Mindfulness, values, play, and other themes from the inaugural WorkHuman Summit. By Tim Leberecht. It was about time. As Derek Irvine, Vice President, Client Strategy and Consulting at Globoforce , pointed out in a quick historical office tour stretching from the Ancient Greeks to the knowledge age, we have “2,000 years of experience in removing humanity from the workplace.

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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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Monitor Time and Attendance to Improve Business Profit

nettime solutions

Today, perhaps you're hearing the slamming shut of Fiscal Year 2015 as financial books are closed on in companies around the world. Ask yourself, if your company’s finances are no longer recorded in leather-bound ledgers –– why are you still using paper timesheets or manual methods to track your employees attendance? With an advanced time and attendance software in the cloud, workforce data updates in real time on the Manager Dashboard.

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6 questions every recruiter should ask to determine cultural fit

Achievers

Savvy hiring managers have shifted their thinking about how to vet prospective candidates: they’ve realized that they have better long-term success when they focus on cultural fit moreso than work history and experience. While many job skills can be taught through on-the-job training, there’s almost nothing a manager or HR person can do to change an employee’s personality, work preferences, and sources of motivation.

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Tips for Overcoming Employee Inaction

Something Different

<english12aphamlet.weebly.com> Encouraging employees to participate in total rewards programs or take necessary actions can be challenging for organizations. Stephen Wendel, Principal Scientist, HelloWallet, discusses the use of incentives and provides tips to overcome inaction including communications best practices. Happy Friday, Rory.

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(Webinar) How The Hershey Company transformed its global recognition strategy

WorkHuman

Sweet Success at Hershey. Tuesday, June 23rd at 2 p.m. ET | 11 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. CT | 6 p.m. GMT. Register now to attend. How does your company recognize employees? Do you have disparate programs or one comprehensive strategy? The Hershey Company grappled with the same questions. From 2012 to 2013, the recognition and reward category in their “Many Voices” employee survey dropped 8 percent.

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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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Why Applying Important Life Skills at Work Matters

RecognizeThis!

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Expressing your appreciation to others is a skill and muscle that requires practice and exercise, in all avenues of life. I’ve many sources for inspiration for this blog, but one that has rapidly become a favorite is LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become a powerful resource for far more than recruiting leads. The amount of knowledge, insight and wisdom shared by people from across industries, jobs, roles, and functions is simply astounding.

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Tips for Maintaining Your Focus as a Leader

The People Equation

In the new book The Disciplined Leader , John Manning writes about the importance of focus—and how it drives leadership success. After reading the book, I had the opportunity to ask John some follow up questions. What follows is an edited version of our conversation. Jen: In the book’s introduction, you write that leaders must learn to focus on the “Vital Few” in order to achieve results.

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Trends in Employee Recognition 2015

Something Different

<www.csc.com> Rose Stanley, CCP and Practice Leader for World at Work provides highlights from a recent survey highlighting trends in employee recognition programs. Happy Friday, Rory.

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WorkHuman 2015 Reading List

WorkHuman

One of the breakout hits of WorkHuman 2015 last week was the element of the conference that was perhaps closest to my own heart–the WorkHuman Bookstore. We put the bookstore right into the center of the event for a reason. The ideas and research of our WorkHuman speakers are critical takeaways for us to bring back to our organizations. If you visited the WorkHuman Bookstore, you probably met Anne Marie and Sarah–who did such a fantastic job as first-time-out booksellers.

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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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What to Share on Social Media to Attract Talent

Spark Hire

Cat videos, music prodigies, gold dress vs blue dress…this is the kind of content many of us have increasingly been seeing on social media within the last few years. While this kind of content goes viral (sometimes very unexpectedly) it doesn’t scream “Come work for us!” or “Look at our company culture!” to the top-notch talent many organizations need.

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16 Discussion Questions to Help You Lead Better Meetings

The People Equation

Does leading meetings frustrate you? Maybe you have someone in your meeting who has ideas— lots of them—who can’t seem to shut up. Or perhaps it’s the opposite issue: meeting participants are shutting down good discussion in the interest of “keeping things moving.” If either of the scenarios sounds familiar, then you will want to read my latest post on Smartblog on Leadership.

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Quote of the Week: “Life begins at the end…

Something Different

…of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch. <en.wikipedia.org> As American author Neale Donald Walsch reminds us in today’s quote, change is hard. This simple fact is the reason that – despite employee engagement being at 8 year lows – 1. 3/4ths of employees say it would take a lot for them to leave their current company in today’s cited survey. retention is relatively stable 1.

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