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5 Employee Soft Skills Your Remote Teams Need

Caliper

As organizations begin to see signs of recovery from 2020’s disruption, hiring demands are scaling up. The fight for top talent will only get fiercer, and without a clear plan in place for your hiring practices, your competitors will reach the best candidates before you do. With many organizations continuing to adopt a remote work or flex-work format, understanding the competencies and skills that remote workers need for success is crucial.

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What is workforce planning, and why is it important?

Workable

Table of contents: What is workforce planning? What is involved in workforce planning? How to create a workforce plan. What is workforce planning? Workforce planning is the people side of planning, but some businesses skip it, thinking that people will just appear when needed. Workforce planning aligns core business goals with people strategy. It makes no sense to plan on a new product launch next year without thinking about R&D, supply chain, and sales staff.

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Get to Know the ACA’s Rule of Parity

ACA Times

3 minute read. Without the proper tools or subject matter expertise, tackling the responsibilities of the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Mandate on your own can be overwhelming. . This is especially true if you are an employer in an industry which relies on employing large numbers of variable-hour employees, such as restaurants, staffing organizations, and home healthcare facilities. .

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Boese: 3 HR technologies that can help employers struggling to hire

HRExecutive

One of my geeky interests is following the monthly labor market reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The most prominent of these is the Employment Situation Report , better known as the Jobs report. This is where we learn about job gains and losses for the prior month, the overall unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate and more.

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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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Recruiting Talent in a Post-Pandemic Healthcare Workforce Shortage

Precheck

Recruiting Talent in a Post-Pandemic Healthcare Workforce Shortage Jun. 1, 2021. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. In 1991, Congress declared the first Tuesday in June to be National Healthcare Recruiter Recognition Day. Now, after 30 years, a pandemic, and a healthcare workforce shortage , healthcare recruiters are more important to hospitals and healthcare systems than ever before. .

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HR Trends: The Key Reads of May 2021

Intoo USA

Welcome to our first monthly summary of the best reads on HR trends! May featured a lot of discussion on returning to work post-COVID, emotional intelligence in the workplace, reskilling, and more. Let’s dive in! HR Trends for May 2021. People have mixed feelings about returning to the office. Cathy Merrill, chief executive of Washingtonian Media, worries whether recreating the positive office culture her team had before the pandemic is possible.

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Why hiring tech is necessary but can have dangerous implications

HRExecutive

After a year of tragically high unemployment rates, 2021 is expected to experience a huge hiring boom. According to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of job openings reached a series high of 8.1 million on the last day of March. Although the April jobs report ended up being slightly lower than expected, many experts are forecasting that unemployment will continue to decline as vaccination efforts ramp up and states reopen.

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How to Engage in Healthcare Workforce Planning

Precheck

How to Engage in Healthcare Workforce Planning May. 25, 2021. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. The COVID-19 pandemic put an immense strain on healthcare workers and exacerbated the ever-growing healthcare workforce shortage. Even contingent labor pools, a common go-to for healthcare organizations to bolster staffing, were stretched thin last year. In the pandemic's early months, one travel nursing organization saw their order volume jump more than seven times year-over-year levels.

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How to Ensure Candidate Retention and Happy Staff 

Hppy

As the owner of a business, you know how important it is to have happy employees. Employees who are content with their work and enjoy coming into work every day will always be more productive than those who feel unhappy or unmotivated. . Apart from this, the company needs to understand how to motivate every individual on their team, no matter what their strengths are.

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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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someone keeps farting in important client meetings

Ask a Manager

This post, someone keeps farting in important client meetings , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in upper-middle management at a large business and entertainment events company and recently we got back to regular face-to-face client meetings. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been having some intense and lengthy meetings in our office with a potential local client, which could really take our company to the next level if it works out.

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Tips for Onboarding New Hires in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

Perceptyx

COVID-19 ushered in a new way of working. Employees proved they could remain productive while working from home, and have expressed they want workplace flexibility to continue in the future. Data collected by Perceptyx indicates employees prefer a hybrid workplace model —a policy that gives them the option to work in a physical workplace or at home.

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How and Why Human Resource People Can and Should End Ageism

SHRM

HR and DEI people have the opportunity and responsibility to end ageism. It is hardly news to report that the American workplace is not friendly towards older people. For as long as it has existed, in fact, our corporate culture has been less than welcoming towards people of a certain age. Even in today’s litigious climate, where many lawyers are happy to take a case in which a company appears to have illegally discriminated against a person based on a physical attribute, blatant (although har

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Job Openings Reach Record High, But Where Are the Applicants?

SHRM Resources

The number of available jobs in the U.S. is at a record-breaking high while unemployment remains significantly elevated, leading employers in need of workers to wonder, where are all the job applicants?

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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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my boss liked my work — until we met in person and she saw my weight

Ask a Manager

This post, my boss liked my work — until we met in person and she saw my weight , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: After losing my job due to Covid-19 a year ago, I spent months job hunting and interviewing. As an overweight woman, sometimes I suspected that I was facing weight discrimination, but of course it is almost impossible to know for sure.

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How to Tell if a Remote Only Job is a Scam

Evil HR Lady

100 percent remote jobs are a hot ticket. After a year of working from home, some people have decided they never want to go back to the office, and, unfortunately, scammers are preying on them. When you interview for an office-based job, you go in for an interview and can see their situation. You meet actual humans and see their office space. Scammers can (and have) go to great lengths to scam people, but they are not likely to rent office space to get a copy of your social security number and d

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Things You Need to Think About When You Start to Expand Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

When you’ve reached a point in your business where you can begin to expand and scale up, you’ll face a series of new and exciting challenges. While it’s a lot of work, expanding your business can be massively rewarding in both personal and financial ways. Here are four things you need to think about as […].

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HR Tech Number of the Day: digital employee experience

HRExecutive

Employee experience has gained steam as a top HR priority in recent years—and it is primed to become even more integral, as employers strive to retain workers who may be eyeing a post-pandemic change. Given the rise in remote and hybrid setups, it’s not just EX that HR leaders need to keep their focus on, but also digital employee experience (DEX). A new report from DEX management company Lakeside Software found significant gaps in how employees and the C-suite perceive DEX.

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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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Why Behavioral Interview Questions Provide More Insight for Healthcare Hiring

Hospital Recruiting

123RF.com/andreypopov. A revealing new trend in interviewing physicians, advanced practitioners, and nurses is a shift from the typical yes/no questions to those that offer more in-depth look into the candidate. Two main types of questions posed can uncover what motivates the jobseeker, where their priorities lie, and how they respond to problems that occur.

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Didn’t Get an Internship? Here Are 10 Things You Can Do to Boost Your Career Anyway

The Muse

Try one or more of these internship alternatives to make the most of your summer and boost your career anyway. (You can also use these ideas any time of year!).

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Interview Icebreakers Can Land You in Hot Water

SHRM Resources

Breaking the ice during job interviews without breaking the law is tougher than it sounds. Personal questions at job interviews are risky, legal experts say; they recommend interviewers stick to job-related inquiries.

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Research-based tips for helping your workforce recover, reconnect and re-engage

HR Zone

Change Research-based tips on managing change.

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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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The Gravitational Pull of Weaknesses

Julie Winkle Giulioni

Image by Comfreak from Pixabay. In many organizations, the bulk of a leader’s performance management efforts focus on improvement opportunities (aka ‘weaknesses’.) And this parallels the tendencies that many of us have to place considerably greater emphasis on our weaknesses rather than our strengths. In response, some people advocate for focusing exclusively on talents and superpowers – to balance out the equation.

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The Complete Guide to Writing a Role Description

6Q

Writing a role description is essential to help you recruit the most skilled applicants for your work. With over 25 million positions listed, an excellent role description will help to make your jobs outstanding compared to the rest. Your role description is where you advertise your business and the task for your potential recruit. The trick to writing a successful role description is to strike the perfect balance between including ample information so that applicants appreciate the role and you

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Weekly Jobless Claims Fall for Fourth Straight Week

SHRM Resources

States reported that 406,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending May 22, a decrease of 38,000 from the previous week’s revised level and the lowest level of initial claims since Mar. 2020. Claims have fallen significantly in recent months but remain elevated.

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Optimizing the Onboarding Process for a Remote World

Cisive

Onboarding is the most important phase in the employee life cycle, but it often doesn’t receive the attention needed to drive your retention strategy. Historically, onboarding has been confused with orientation and focused almost exclusively on reviewing rules and regulations (75% in one survey) and not on setting up employees for long-term success.

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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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7 Countries with the Best Paternity Leave

Global People Strategist

Parental leave across the globe ranges from a total of three years to nothing at all. Paternity leave is an important topic to address as there are still several countries that do not offer fathers the same benefits as mothers. Many countries make the leave flexible by offering it as parental leave and open to utilization by either parent. Depending on your geographical location, company, and employment laws, paternity leave can vary.

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15 Tips for Conducting a Job Interview—So You Can Make the Right Hire

The Muse

Use these 15 tips to help you prepare for and conduct a job interview that’ll get you all the information you need to make the right hire.

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Tapping ERGs During the Recruiting Process

SHRM Resources

Job candidates are expressing growing interest in learning about an organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) stance and practices prior to accepting a job.