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3 Strategies for Recruiting Top Talent in Today’s Hiring Space

Caliper

As society begins to recover from the impact of the pandemic and life starts to return to normal, recruiters are faced with attracting and recruiting top talent when the competition over candidates is fierce. In today’s hiring space, a lack of available and qualified talent means hiring managers need to enlist new strategies for beating out other recruiters. .

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Why Screening Contingent Hires is Crucial

Cisive

A Gartner survey of more than 800 HR leaders showed that 32% of organizations are replacing full-time employees with contingent workers as a cost-saving measure. That number is likely to increase as the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues and more companies ramp up hiring for a post-pandemic marketplace, depending on how economic recovery plays out. The economic uncertainty of the pandemic caused record unemployment levels in early to mid-2020.

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Why Strategic HR Leaders Will Stay in the Spotlight Post-Pandemic

Visier

Through our stormiest days, effective HR leaders have empathy, courage, strategy, vision, and connection. We highlight one of these superpowers below, and you can learn about the rest in the summary article : Top 5 Superpowers of Effective HR Leaders. If you work in HR, you have likely gained an appreciation for what it truly means to be an adaptive leader.

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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

It may not be surprising that during 2020, social and political conflict —along with ongoing challenges due to COVID-19—helped position the employee relations (ER) function as a vital factor in shaping positive employee experiences. Advertisement Yet, without a strong focus on analytics, reaching those ER objectives will be an even tougher challenge, according to HR Acuity’s fifth annual Employee Relations Benchmark Study.

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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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updates: the terrible attitude, the lack of real world experience, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, updates: the terrible attitude, the lack of real world experience, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager, where all month I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are five updates from past letter-writers. 1.

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5 Tips to Improve Post-Covid Retail Hiring

Accurate Background

As the pandemic appears to wind down (for now, at least) and the economy gets back to its bustling self, retail businesses are in a post-Covid retail hiring frenzy. A frenzy that’s only exacerbated by the fact that one in three Americans do not want a job that requires them to be onsite full time, according to a new study. And more than a quarter of U.S. workers plan to change careers once the pandemic subsides, the study says.

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SMBs, People Strategies, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Time of Rapid Growth

Visier

At our recent Outsmart panel, Accelerating Growth Through People Strategies , Visier’s Chief Strategy Officer Dave Weisbeck , interviewed four experts, Cecilia Haag , Southeast Regional Account Executive of Middle Market Solutions for Insperity , Stephen Bruce , Managing Director of PeopleFluent , and Chris Bovard , Vice President of Product Strategy at Paycor.

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HR Trends: The Key Reads of June 2021

Intoo USA

Welcome to our summary of June’s best reads on HR trends! As more people return to the office, there is increased discussion about burnout and wellness. In addition, violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pride Month surfaced concerns about lack of diversity and inclusion of all groups in the workplace. HR Trends for June 2021. Companies not considering employee feedback when requiring employees to return to work may face revolt.

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7 Compliance Questions That Keep HR Professionals Up at Night

Sterling Check

7 Compliance Questions That Keep HR Professionals Up at Night. Navigating the complex and evolving compliance landscape poses significant challenges for HR professionals and staffing agencies. That’s why Sterling tapped Angela Preston, our Senior VP and Counsel for Corporate Ethics & Compliance, for a recent webinar — now available on-demand — addressing top-of-mind questions about shifts in FCRA compliance requirements and more.

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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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4 Ways to Gain Team Input

The People Equation

So I’m sitting at a large round table, talking with a team of eight senior-level leaders who work for a large corporation. These are smart, sophisticated people, who have both street cred as field operatives and many years’ experience leading various types and sizes of work groups. We’re discussing the best ways to gain team input. Their comments start to flow: “We need to be more open-minded” “Our younger workforce expects to be part of the conversation” “How do we invite more participation?

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Vision is an HR Superpower You Can Cultivate—Here’s How

Visier

Through our stormiest days, effective HR leaders have empathy, courage, strategy, vision, and connection. We highlight one of these superpowers below, and you can learn about the rest in the summary article : Top 5 Superpowers of Effective HR Leaders. Using layoffs only as a last resort, giving employees extra days off, and finding more ways to provide learning and development opportunities even as budgets were cut and the world raged with uncertainty.

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Recognition: A Top Measurement of Employee Engagement

Achievers

Employee engagement is crucial; not just for its own sake, but because it is directly connected to business outcomes. Companies with engagement levels in the top 25 percent experience nearly double the rates of success across a wide-ranging set of metrics including “financial, customer, retention, safety, quality, shrinkage and absenteeism.” Employee engagement brings numerous benefits — it can drive an organization, make all the difference in teamwork, and yield quantifiable effects

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Limited Labor Supply Shapes Workforce Trends in North America

Allegis Global Solutions

Just over one year has passed since the devastating impacts of COVID-19 jobs losses hit the US, and many companies find themselves in a very different situation than they had anticipated. A high-demand talent environment spurred by a post-lockdown recovery shows that companies face historical challenges in retaining and securing workers. In most places, the pressures of emerging workforce trends have created conditions of significant talent scarcity.

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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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How Rapid Digital Transformation Is Shifting Cybersecurity Priorities

Hppy

Digital transformation has become a new normal due to the COVID-19 crisis in the 21st century. As far as the concept of digital transformation is concerned, it is the process by which organizations or companies can change their current business processes as per the changing business requirements. Furthermore, it allows organizations to develop new business processes and cultures that help them cater to their customers’ needs appropriately. .

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Why Empathy is an HR Superpower

Visier

Through our stormiest days, effective HR leaders have empathy, courage, strategy, vision, and connection. We highlight one of these superpowers below, and you can learn about the rest in the summary article : Top 5 Superpowers of Effective HR Leaders. “I need support.”. It’s a phrase that many HR leaders encountered as the effects of the pandemic reverberated through workplaces around the world.

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The Salient Features to look for in an Expense Reporting Software Solution

SutiHR

It is quite strenuous to work with manual expense report tools, which usually involve paper receipts. If you are still working with manual expense reporting, this is the right time to make a move to an automated platform. The ever-evolving technological landscape makes it mandatory for organizations to reevaluate their expense management strategies.

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4 Ways to Modernize Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

In the digital age, operating a successful business increasingly requires a touch of modernity. The traditional business tactics and operational standards of the 20th century are rapidly being overshadowed by new technology and new methods of communications. In order to keep your business on top of its game, and keep up with the times, here […].

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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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How Planning Regular Company Events Helps Employee Engagement 

Hppy

Much of the organizational psychological literature over the past year has touched on the noticeable drop in employee engagement and how to get it back. People want to feel engaged by what they are doing at work and those that do typically end up working much more productively. One way to help build this engagement that strengthens the organization in a variety of other ways is through planning and hosting regular company events. .

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Making Talent Acquisition’s Job Easier with Analytics Lessons from Global Brands

Visier

As the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey shows, there continue to be more job openings than hires. To find the best talent, companies must look internally to adjust their talent strategies, rethink jobs and align the employee journey with business priorities. This is where talent acquisition analytics comes in. Our new white paper, Talent Acquisition Analytics: Best Practices from Visier Customers , outlines the talent acquisition strategies and real-life lessons learned of organizat

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6 Ways to Help Employees Feel Valued

TalentCulture

Nurturing employees’ sense of value is important for running a successful business, especially in 2021. With the ongoing shift to remote work, professional responsibilities are just a click away. The […]. The post 6 Ways to Help Employees Feel Valued appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Walmart’s solution to teaching workers kindness: virtual reality

HRExecutive

It’s no secret that the past year has been a balancing act of emotions. COVID-19 , a contentious election and civil unrest have made empathy and hard discussions imperative and have caused emotions and polarization to run high. It also has been a difficult year for employees who work at brick-and-mortar locations like Walmart and interact with customers—whether those conversations are good or bad.

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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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Five ways HR can better leverage people analytics

HR Zone

People Five ways HR can better leverage people analytics.

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Adaptive Leadership and Human-Centered Design: What the Future Holds for HR

Visier

“People analytics is here to stay,” declared Lexy Martin, Principal, Customer Value and Research at Visier, during a recent Outsmart Global Digital Summit panel. “Organizations are successfully using it, but where do we go from here?” . Clearly, data-driven decision-making for HR leaders is not a passing fad, but part of a permanent transformation. In the panel, Where do we go from here?

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Interviewers Are Looking for Emotional Intelligence—So Be Prepared for These Questions

The Muse

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is one of the most in-demand skills in the workplace. Here’s how to answer questions about it—and demonstrate it—in a job interview.

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3 remote work lessons Zoom is building into its post-pandemic workplace

HRExecutive

On March 4, 2020, Zoom Chief People Officer Lynne Oldham was driving on Route 101, heading to a meeting in San Francisco, when she got “the call.” Company leaders were brainstorming how to keep employees safe amid the growing coronavirus crisis. At the time, 85% of “Zoomies” worked in the office, and Oldham started strategizing for how to get them home safely and effectively over the coming week or so—but the leaders on the other end of the call suggested they make the move that day.

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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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Recruitment: Three ways to attract talent in a candidate-driven market

HR Zone

Acquisition Three ways to attract top talent in 2021.

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Top 5 Superpowers of Effective HR Leaders

Visier

If you are an HR leader, give yourself a moment to exhale. Now, reflect on what you experienced over the past several months: a massive work from home experiment, the largest reallocation of labor since WWII, and a major reckoning with social injustice. Through all of this, it was your job to maintain employee morale while making complicated–and sometimes heartbreaking–staffing decisions.

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Employee noncompete agreements: 7 considerations

Insperity

Using an employee noncompete agreement could help prevent your staff from going to work for a competitor. But asking employees to sign one isn’t something you should rush into. There are many nuances about noncompetes from their legal enforceability to employee perceptions about them that you need to carefully consider. Here are seven factors to consider as you decide what’s best for your business. 1.