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Retro Pay 101: Payroll Lessons From the Government Shutdown

Namely

The absolute worst feeling that a payroll professional can have is finding out someone didn’t get paid. While that stings for us, it’s even worse for the ones who wake up to an empty bank account on payday. Last week, roughly 800,000 federal employees experienced that due to a partial government shutdown. Eventually, most of these employees will be paid for their time.

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I did pre-hire assessments: What’s next?

HR Management

Having selected the candidates — which we talked about last time – then come the interviews. And, these can now be “behaviorally smart,” using questions based on the outcomes of the pre-hire assessments you’ve completed. Well-structured resumes are not difficult to produce, with or without a professional writer. We also know that performing well at an interview might fall into the category of acting out a role.

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Analytics Matter: How Reporting and Dashboards Can Change Your Temporary Staffing Business

Sirenum

When your business relies on people for its operations, knowing what to measure can be overwhelming. Human behaviour can be seen as unpredictable, serendipitous, and impossible to control, but what if we told you that this isn't entirely true? While a higher human factor can lead to a higher number of mistakes, it's no secret [ ] The post Analytics Matter: How Reporting and Dashboards Can Change Your Temporary Staffing Business appeared first on Sirenum.

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LinkedIn Talent Insights Gives Staffing Firms the Edge They’re Looking For

Linkedin Talent Blog

Tight labor markets and competition for candidates. Soaring attrition. Increasing time to fill. Underdeveloped client accounts. Sounds like a recipe for recruitment indigestion. It’s a hard time to hire, for sure. Which is both the challenge and the opportunity for staffing agencies. Firms that can regularly and effectively deliver talent to clients in the current market will thrive.

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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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Diversity and Inclusion Fatigue: The Hidden Barriers to a Successful D&I Program

Reflektive

Many companies want to make diversity and inclusion a priority within their organization, but few know how to successfully to do so. Those that attempt to implement D&I programs eventually face fatigue in their efforts and often end up neglecting either the diversity or the inclusion aspects of said program. Candice Morgan and Adam Ward of Pinterest, and David Hanrahan and Trinidad Hermida of Niantic spoke on a panel, “Diversity and Inclusion Fatigue: The Hidden Barriers to a Successful D

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3 Times I Was Inspired by WorkHuman 2019 Speaker Viola Davis

WorkHuman

By Sarah Payne —. If I could synthesize the WorkHuman movement into a few words, I would say it’s about humanity, inclusion, and belonging. When you aspire to create a human workplace, you must first acknowledge that your business would be nothing without your people. And second, your people are human – and more often than not they just want to be a part of a team where they belong and feel inspired by a sense of purpose in their work.

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Helping Unemployed/Underemployed People Is Part of Your Job.

The HR Capitalist

If you're like me in the world of HR and recruiting, you get asked for career help as a normal rite of passage. For me, it's tough because there's only so much you can do to help people find opportunities outside of the company you work for. That process can make you jaded in the world of HR. People think you're more connected than you are, and as a result, you're going to get more of these inquiries than the average person.

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How to Build a Coaching Culture at Scale

Reflektive

Coaching/mentoring has historically been the least used but is the most effective training modality. This is important to keep in mind, as 40 percent of employees with poor training leave their jobs within the first year. Leadership coach and HR consultant Stacey La Torre, Desiree Therianos from PeopleTech Partners, J.Ryan Williams from SalesCollider, Joe Dunn from Cloudbreak, and Christine Tao from Sounding Board spoke on a panel, “How to Build a Coaching Culture at Scale” at Reflektive’s Illum

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Which Employees Should You Invest in? 3 Strategies on How to Make That Choice.

Entrepreneur

With unemployment low, you need to enrich and empower your company's existing leaders so they'll stick around. Here's how.

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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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Why Colleges Aren’t Preparing Students for Work – and What Employers Should Do About It

TalentCulture

Danny Iny dropped out of school at 15 to start a business. He also got an MBA at a top business school in Canada. Guess which decision he considers the mistake? “My own experience was that quitting school was a great choice. I had a ton of opportunities, experimented with things that I never otherwise would have been able to,” says Iny, author of “Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and […].

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One Way To Turn an Unexpected Resignation into a PR Win.

The HR Capitalist

If there's one cool thing about my career, it's that I'm surrounded by masters. People doing great things. Leaders. wait for it. leading. Innovation everywhere. And when required, the best people I'm surrounded by aren't afraid to play a little hardball. The kind of hardball that's not afraid (when you're out of line and the company might get hurt) to throw a 105 mile per hour fastball at someone's upper extremity.

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The Next Big Thing for People Management

Reflektive

If people are a company’s most precious resource, why are so many of the tools in today’s HR tech landscape so slow to identify why your employees are disengaged? According to Gallup , disengaged employees cost the U.S. between $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Engagement is not only key to a company’s bottom line, but also to their overall culture and performance.

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13 Signs That You Should Walk Away From Your Startup Business

Forbes Coaches Council

When a startup business is faltering, it may be time to decide whether to carry on or walk away. Members of Forbes Coaches Council offer their insights on the signs that show it's time for an entrepreneur to cut their losses and move on from a startup.

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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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#WorkTrends: Why Social Media Has Failed Recruiting

TalentCulture

Imagine a world without hashtags, friend requests and cat videos. Pretty difficult, right? That’s how much social media has transformed our lives. However, there’s something social media hasn’t transformed: recruiting. Even though companies have more opportunities to reach qualified candidates than ever before, the results have not come anywhere close to fulfilling the potential of the power of social media.

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The HR Capitalist Is Back In Business.

The HR Capitalist

I'm back. After taking 3 months off to finish a book that will be out in mid-2019 (The 9 Faces of HR), I'm returning to a normal schedule at the HR Capitalist. Some of you noticed I was gone. Some of you didn't. Good thing I'm low sensitivity and didn't expect you to beg. The conversation - with snark, pro-business moderate views and a certain level of detachment to protect my fragile emotions - continues. starting now.

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Make Your Job Candidates Happier in 2019

SHRM Resources

An employer may choose only one applicant for the job, but many are taking steps to ensure the contenders who didn’t get hired feel good about the process and the company.

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Onboarding in 2019: What a Knock-Out First Day Should Look Like

HR Morning

The first days and weeks when new employees come to work are a make-or-break time for their success with you. . A positive welcoming experience puts them at ease and reinforces that joining your company was a good choice. That breeds loyalty – a key component of a stronger workforce, and an essential characteristic of what keeps organizations going strong.

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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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West African Financial Institutions Hit by Wave of Attacks

Symantec

Attackers using commodity malware and living off the land tools against financial targets in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo (DR), Ghana, and Equatorial Guinea.

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Nothing Says "Sell Your Stocks" More Than Corporate Events That Feature This.

The HR Capitalist

You know you're living in a peak economic cycle when you go to a corporate event, and the entertainment rivals old Rome in the Coliseum. . Lions. Tigers. Potential loss of life. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Email subscribers, click through to the site if you don't see the Instagram video embedded below. OC Tanner, by all counts a fine, outstanding recognition firm (trying like everyone else in the game to become a cloud-based technology firm) had an analyst event last September in Snowbird, UT.

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7 Tips to Achieve a People-First Culture

Quantum Workplace

A people-first culture is something that differentiates an employee’s trust, satisfaction, and engagement from one company to another. While few organizations stress the importance of improving their cultures, it is evident that happier employees work harder and smarter to achieve personal, departmental, and organizational goals. So, the question is not why a people-first culture is important and effective, it is how to achieve it.

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What is a Teal Organization?

Workology

A few months ago, at the 2018 ATD Austin Applied Learning Summit, a panelist, Dr. Ryan Schoenbeck, asked the audience whether anyone had heard of Frederic Laloux’s research on Teal organizations. I. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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How to Recruit Like the Big Guys on a Small Business Budget

BambooHR

Like any human relationship, bringing on a new employee is part strategy, part serendipity. But for a small business, there’s a third challenge in the mix: your time and budget are both limited. Smaller organizations don’t always have an HR team like large companies do. Your recruiting strategies may be undefined (or scribbled on a […].

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Call Up The Co-Worker or Boss You Used to Hate and Tell Them You Understand.

The HR Capitalist

We've all had alpha personality co-workers or bosses we couldn't connect with. . They were overbearing. They had to do it their way. They were too far in the weeds and hyper-critical of your work. You didn't like them. Hate's a strong word, dislike is not. So you ran away and got the hell out. Time to do your own thing. . Then a funny thing happened.

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Getting 360 Degree Reviews Right

Engagedly

360 degree reviews when done well can render insightful results and improve overall employee engagement as it allows for comprehensive feedback and not just managers feedback. But, more often than not managers and HR administrators who attempt to […].

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What the Government Shutdown Teaches Us About America’s Financially Stressed Workers

Payactiv

Blog › Financial Stress Epidemic What the Government Shutdown Teaches Us About America’s Financially Stressed Workers. By Safwan Shah on January 16, 2019 People living paycheck to paycheck pay a cost, a Fin-Tax, to access their own money when needed between paychecks. And an emotional cost from the financial stresses they experience. This can be fixed.

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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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Change Management Lessons From Spilled Coffee on the Train

Workology

It can happen to any of us and this morning it happened to me. I spilled coffee on a crowded train. The folks on the train reacted somewhat similar to the way they might if a colleague or teammate. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How women can succeed: changing gender perceptions

HR Zone

Culture. How women can succeed: changing gender perceptions.

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10 One On One Meeting Questions You Should Ask Your Team

Engagedly

One on one meetings are a great way to encourage frequent and straight-forward conversations between managers and their teams. One-on-ones can be simply defined as standard scheduled time for managers to check-in with their direct reports. These meetings […].

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