HR Bartender
OCTOBER 2, 2015
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF). As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, the NRAEF works to attract, develop and retain professionals for the restaurant industry. Enjoy today’s post!). I recently answered a reader question about developing HR competencies.
The People Equation
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
I’m a sponsored blog partner with Spherion (a staffing and recruiting organization) and am participating in the release of findings from Spherion’s Emerging Workforce ® Study (EWS). All opinions are mine. When I was a kid, the cartoon The Jetson’s featured flying cars. Decades later, we still aren’t flying around like George Jetson. All that time ago, humans could envision individual air transport, but it’s not a reality yet.
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Spark Hire
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
The most successful recruiters are the ones who are proactive versus reactive. Proactive recruiters are always on top of the game and because of this they are able to fill positions with the right talent and with the speed that hiring managers need. There are three easy ways to know if you are a proactive recruiter: 1. You recruit BEFORE the jobs are available.
Ask a Manager
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Interviewer wants me to bring $350 to the interview. Today I received a call from an armed security company for an interview. I was excited, but when he mentioned I needed to bring my driver’s license, social security card, AND $350, I started to become skeptical. The interviewer received my application from Indeed, where my resume is posted, and after doing research I could not find any info on the company he called from.
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Cornerstone On Demand
OCTOBER 2, 2015
Back in the 1960s, when the Baby Boomers were embarking on their careers, everyone dreamed of getting hired by one of the iconic American corporations: Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Lever Brothers, just to name a few. But that all changed during the dot-com boom in the mid-1990s. Startups — with stock options in lieu of high salaries and promises of get-rich IPOs — suddenly became the companies where young employees aspired to work.
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ClearCompany HRM
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Screening candidates will never go out of style, but doing it via the phone or in-person… will. With video interviewing, a series of predetermined questions can be asked of each applicant to help make better decisions of who to invite to the next round. If you’ve already adopted video interviewing into your candidate screening process, congrats! If not, make sure to check out our offer for 2 months free of video interviewing.
Ask a Manager
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Getting an employee to sign paperwork when she’s always too busy. I’m in HR and have an employee that gives me a very hard time when it comes to signing any new policies or procedures, evaluation forms, or notes. It is draining to constantly follow up with her regarding her signature, and she always says “I will do it later, I am so busy right now.
Cornerstone On Demand
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Bureaucracy tends to be a dirty word in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, a place where startups and their admirers value the efficiency of a lean team. As a result, Human Resources—a department associated with process and compliance—often ends up on the back burner. Antipathy toward HR can leave startups woefully unprepared to handle typical workforce challenges, such as rapid growth or harassment (situations recently faced by Twitter and Github , respectively).
HR Bartender
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
There continues to be a lot of chatter about performance reviews. Love them or hate them. Keep them or ditch them. We’ve written about performance reviews before – here’s one of our faves. Performance reviews aren’t a one-size-fits-all process. They have tremendous flexibility and, what might seems like a small detail (like when the review is conducted), can actually have a big impact.
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ClearCompany HRM
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Good leaders are assertive. They take charge, cut through the clutter, and make key business decisions with authority. While there may be conflict from employees about what the best path forward might be, the only thing worse than making a bad decision is not making one at all, which can happen when you’re too intent on hearing all sides before making a decision.
Trinet
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Guest post by Pomello Making great hires usually involves evaluating a candidate’s hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills, of course, usually take priority when assessing a potential employee’s. Visit site for full story.
Cornerstone On Demand
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
This is the third post in a series about how to thrive amid shifting workplace demographics. The U.S. freelance workforce is currently 53 million strong and growing fast, according to a recent report from the Freelancers Union and Elance-oDesk. In fact, freelancers make up 34 percent of our national workforce. As Sara Horowitz, executive director of the Freelancers Union, writes , “This is an economic shift on par with the industrial revolution.
HR Bartender
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Based on the title, you might think today’s reader question seems like a one-in-a-million situation. The thought crossed my mind too. But after thinking about it, overpaying employees is a serious issue. Hi Sharlyn. I currently work as a manager at a nonprofit organization. Before this job, I worked in the government sector from 2006 to 2010. I left in 2010 because of an illness.
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All Things Workplace
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Note: I was prompted by the recent political debates to re-publish this popular post from the 2012 archives. Hope you enjoy it! Graphic designers know how to focus your attention. They frequently communicate through the use of white space. Less is more. The message is clear. There's no clutter. Use Verbal Whitespace. You can increase your verbal impact the same way.
Trinet
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Guest post by OnDeck The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports that the average small business owner spends roughly 33 hours looking for a small business loan. That’s a significant time away from. Visit site for full story.
Cornerstone On Demand
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
I have had an iPhone since the 3G. I love the device. Apple has made it easy to stay with them and they create great continuity in their upgrade stream. They have excellent functionality and peace of mind with iCloud backups. A recent experience made me realize just how dependent I am on the way that Apple rolls things out. As usual, with no warning, I got a notice that the new release, iOS 9.0.01, was ready on my phone.
RecognizeThis!
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Employees are telling us what would engage them more in their work. We simply need to listen. Want to know how to engage employees? Perhaps the best (and obvious) answer is to ask the employees. Oracle did just that. Results of their survey were recently published in Personnel Today. Here are the key excerpts. Who has greater influence on employee engagement: 42% say peers. 21% say line managers. 7% say unit managers. 3% say HR.
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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?
Something Different
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
…So this evening I came across a really interesting article on HBR about how younger people managers (under age 30) are perceived. It outlined common blind spots and challenges that said managers face. I am a people manager and under age 30, so naturally this was interesting to me. You can read the full article here , but some highlights are below: ~ Because of their shorter tenure, they lack in-depth knowledge that others in the organization possess.
Justworks
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Bringing a new employee into the office is an exciting and also somewhat intimidating day for both parties. At Justworks, we have welcome swag packages waiting for our new hires. We also send out a company-wide e-mail introducing the new addition to our team, with a photo. Whatever your team decides to do, just make sure to implement a clear strategy for welcoming new hires.
Cornerstone On Demand
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest in HR. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular stories every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for September's top stories! 5 New Titles to Replace "HR" "Human resources" is drastically different from what it represented even 10 years ago, thanks to big data, digitally savvy job applic
China Gorman
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
I’m not sure where I ran across this report from Interact Authentically , Disengagement and Separation of the Virtual Worker. But I’m glad I found it. What actually caught my eye as I was reading it, were the last two sentences: “We cannot forget our most basic core goal in business: to create connections and relationships. Today’s frontier is not the technology required to run a global company – it is applying technology while bringing along the nurturing, engaging aspect of human communi
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.
Something Different
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
…you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. – Jim Carrey. <imdb.com> For this week’s quote we can thank Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and film producer Jim Carrey. It is timely for me as I continually become more comfortable with who I am, and am starting to cherish each moment for what it is – now – as opposed to where it can potentially take me.
Justworks
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
At Justworks, we consistently hear from our customers that they want to provide their teams with great healthcare. We listened. So we’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Aetna, one of the largest health insurance carriers in the US with a massive national network. Aetna shares our vision for providing a next-generation HR platform to the next generation of companies and their teams. [ Click to Tweet ].
Trish McFarlane
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Join Steve Boese and me in an episode we recorded LIVE at the ADP Analyst Day in New York City. We were thrilled to have Mollie Lombardi as our guest to talk about her project… HR Gives Back. HR Gives Back to a Future without Parkinson’s is an idea started by Mollie Lombardi, Mike Pauletich, Teresa Thieme and Jeanne Achille. It is a way to help raise money and awareness for the fight against Parkinson’s Disease.
nettime solutions
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
If your older family members can rely on their mobile device to communicate, you should be able to access your labor attendance system mobily as well. Effective communication between employees and managers is essential to resolving tasks quickly and accurately. With an advanced time and attendance system that has a mobile functionality feature , you can easily respond to shift requests, PTO requests, view department schedules as well as view key performance indicators in case you need a quick up
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.
Something Different
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Check out this great infographic from Adecco highlighting some of the biggest salary trends from 2015. Looking at popular jobs in STEM, marketing, and industrial fields, I found it extremely informative. Whether you’re struggling with hiring top talent or just curious, check out today’s infographic below. And as always, if you like it then follow its author on Twitter here.
ExactHire
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Is the old adage, “Less is more.” really true? Nowadays, new jobs are posted EVERYWHERE! You can find them on job boards, social media, industry specific sites, and even in the newspaper still…I think. This means that MORE applicants are likely seeing your openings, which can also mean MORE applications to review. Hiring can be super stressful when there are too many applicants to review for a position.
UrbanBound HR
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Preparing to relocate is a lot more than a list of tasks. It’s a complex web where each decision can affect a handful of other decisions, and feels more like trying to spin plates while surfing. It’s easy for an issue to get put on the backburner or worse, forgotten. The last thing you want is to have a transferee flapping in the wind in a new city, and in the dark as to how solve this problem they didn’t even know they had until it was too late.
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