Sat.Jul 04, 2015 - Fri.Jul 10, 2015

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Why Staffing Firms Should Incorporate Video Interviewing

Spark Hire

Video interviewing has become a powerful tool for staffing firms, as it saves these companies both time and resources, while allowing them to serve their clients more effectively. In the past, staffing firms had to bring candidates in for a conversation (or sometimes multiple conversations) and then try to effectively place that individual. Today, that’s all changed.

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fielding complaints from an employee’s husband, bringing gifts back from vacation for coworkers, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Employee’s husband emailed our boss to complain about his wife’s working conditions. This situation happened over a year ago, but I wonder what your take is on the situation. Our corporate office manages several apartment complexes owned by The Boss in other cities, many in other states.

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Why You Should Focus on the B Players

Evil HR Lady

Companies always talk about having a great A team—these are the go-getters, the ones who are looking to climb the ladder as fast as possible. Businesses invest a tremendous amount of time and money developing these people. But what about everyone else? What about your B team? Should you work to develop them? Krisi Rossi O’Donnell, Vice President of Staffing & Recruiting at LaSalle Network, thinks you should focus on your B players and there are many reasons why.

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10 Diversity Hiring Statistics That Will Make You Think

ClearCompany HRM

Companies need diversity. It helps them think with a wider breadth of perspectives, makes them look better to the public eye, and gives them access to the potential revenue gains from employing people who can contribute different things to the companies they work for. Still, many hiring managers and people in charge don’t see hiring diversity as an issue.

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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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4 Ways to Speed Up the Hiring Process

Spark Hire

Throughout my recruiting career, I have been involved with job openings that can be filled anywhere from a few days to a few months. The vast majority of these deals took 3-6 weeks to close, depending on the position requirements and available candidate pool. Regardless of the type of position being recruited for, a sense of urgency and speed is of utmost importance if you want to be successful in the staffing industry.

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4 Ways to Use Your Onboarding Technology For More Than Onboarding

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a leading global provider of cloud-based talent management solutions. SilkRoad recently launched an online resource center showcasing how Human Resource Management Systems can benefit your bottom line. You can check it out here. Enjoy the post!). I must admit, I was a bit surprised by this conversation.

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7 Things You Need to Know Before Onboarding New Employees

ClearCompany HRM

Any business which grows large enough will need to start thinking about how they introduce their hires to the ways they work. Many companies assume pitching a powerful culture will attract great candidates who will work hard no matter what, and that the rest will take care of itself. This is unfortunately not the case. Companies need to create better programs for onboarding new employees if they want to make great hires and keep them too.

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4 Ways to Create a More Personal Candidate Screening Process

Spark Hire

One of the most important parts of a recruiter’s job is to foster strong relationships with candidates. Without a good candidate-recruiter relationship, a deal can quickly fall apart. There are four key ways we can create a more personal candidate screening and interviewing process in order to build those strong relationships with talent: 1. Be honest.

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Bring on the Ping Pong: Why We Should Have More Fun at Work

Cornerstone On Demand

Roll your eyes all you want at startup headquarters filled with ping pong tables and plastic ball pits, but there's reason to believe that silly office playthings aren't all distraction and fluff. New research from the University of Konstanz in Germany shows that employees who feel young at heart get more done in the workday than those who act their age.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Company Refuses to Reimburse Expenses – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I’ve always said never mess with an employee paycheck. Especially final paychecks. But do the same rules apply to expense reports? That’s what today’s reader question is all about – expense reimbursements. I left my employer to take a position in my field. Now they are refusing to reimburse expenses which I incurred during the final month of my employment.

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A Day in the Life of a Human Resources Director (HRD)

UpstartHR

This is another installment in our “Day in the Life” series, this time focusing on the HR directors out there. In case you missed one of the previous pieces, here is the full list: The average HR manager’s day What it’s like to be a recruiter The life of an HR analyst Read on below to learn about what those HRD’s do all day, including some funny comments, in-depth descriptions, and other helpful details.

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Mid-Size Business Owners, Your EEO-1 Report is Due in September. Are You Ready?

Trinet

We know many of you are concerned, confused and maybe even going crazy trying to stay in compliance with all the government regulations. Don’t worry – TriNet is here to help. EEO-1 Report? Do I. Visit site for full story.

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Kick Your Cookie-Cutter Hiring Strategy to the Curb

Cornerstone On Demand

Companies are at the crossroads of "flourish" and "flounder" when it comes to filling open jobs—because much to the dismay of many managers, hiring isn't cut and dry. In fact, it may be the defining difference between business success and failure. As the complexity of work grows and talent shortages increase, talent management vulnerabilities are being laid wide open.

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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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Make Sure Your Employees Know the Plan – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

We’re officially in hurricane season here in South Florida. That means we need to dedicate some time to reviewing our annual disaster recovery plan. Regardless of the size of your business, it’s important to be prepared. And your employees need to be prepared as well. From the hurricane perspective, I can’t emphasize enough developing an inclement weather plan.

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How to Level the Playing Field For HR and Finance

Visier

It’s time to put HR on an equal footing with Finance. Who decides what is the right budget to cover the people resources or how many resources are affordable within the budget? Typically it’s Finance. Still, because people are hard to define only by numbers, CEOs want the CHRO to be a strategic talent advisor who can also speak the language of the business with hard data.

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How to Control Unemployment Costs with a By-The-Book Approach

Trinet

Each year, employers pay thousands of dollars into state unemployment tax accounts for unemployment benefits. While some of these costs cannot be avoided, there are several ways in which employers. Visit site for full story.

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Is Two Weeks’ Notice an Outdated Standard?

Cornerstone On Demand

In high school, my friend and I strategized exactly when to quit our mall jobs in order to enjoy our summer break. We may have been entitled brats, but we knew that 14 days' notice was a standard courtesy—and it was unthinkable to leave our managers in the lurch. The professional workforce tends to mirror my teenage mindset, taking the standard two-week departure for granted.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Infographic Thursday: Workforce Analytics 101

Something Different

Check out today’s great infographic from workforce analytics and planning firm Visier , which defines and outlines the value proposition of workforce analytics. As always, if you like today’s infographic you can follow Visier on Twitter here : Happy Thursday, Rory.

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Grieving at Work- Strategies for Coping

Trish McFarlane

I worked in the HR trenches for most of my career and at every job, the trusty EAP brochure was not far from reach. The only trouble is, employees just don’t tend to use the EAP (Employee Assistance Program) benefits and resources as often as we would hope. Honestly, more employees would rather have a chat with someone in HR or a colleague and tell us their most personal troubles than to search online or through a brochure for something to help whatever ails them.

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Do personality assessments really help with hiring?

Achievers

In the interests of efficiency, the hiring process is becoming increasingly automated. Hiring managers and recruiters are continually developing new ways to save time, reduce manual effort, and identify the best possible candidates for each open role. One outcome of this shift is that hiring managers are relying to an ever-greater extent on personality assessment tests.

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What Your Company Culture Could Learn from Burning Man

WorkHuman

In late February, when tickets went on sale for Burning Man 2015, they sold all 40,000 passes in less than 45 minutes. That, I think we can all agree, is very high affective commitment to a culture. In case you’re new to the Burning Man phenomena, it is the annual art and performance community that creates, overnight, a self-governing virtual city in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Let’s Talk About the Importance of Great Talent Assessment Ability

Something Different

<www.franklincoks.org> This evening I had the pleasure of reading a great Harvard Business Review piece by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz highlighting the importance of great talent assessment skills. It’s a really fantastic read, and I recommend checking it out here. With that said, there is one particular aspect of the article I want to talk about.

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The Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act – Filling the Talent Pipeline

EDSI

Written by Terri Kaufman - Workforce Development Specialist with EDSI& tkaufman@edsisolutions.com & & Congress and the President recognized the challenges and risks that employers face without a sufficient pipeline of workers to meet current and future needs. It is estimated that by 2022, the United States will be facing a shortfall of 11 million workers with postsecondary education.

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5 Ways to make life easier for your temps and interns

Achievers

Many businesses follow specific procedures when they welcome new employees aboard. Typical activities include tours of the workplace, meeting fellow employees, and completing paperwork. These types of activities can improve employee engagement within the first few weeks, and they help employees understand what is expected of them. However, some businesses skimp on those welcome procedures with temps and interns, thinking: “Well, they won’t be here long, so we don’t need to inve

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8 Candidate Red Flags You Need to Watch For

Spark Hire

It’s only natural for candidates to want to put their best foot forward during a job interview — even if that means stretching the truth or holding back potentially game-changing information. For hiring professionals, the mask that job interviewees tend to wear can make it tricky to really get to know the candidate and evaluate their ability to perform well in any given role.

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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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The Impact of Financial Wellness Programs

Something Different

<www.moorebenefits.com> Check out this WorldatWork video featuring Steve Ulian (Head of Institutional Business Development, Bank of America) as he discusses the need for a personal approach to financial wellness, the prevalence of programs in different sizes of organizations, measuring the impact, and employee communication. Best, Rory.

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Three Persuasive Ideas

All Things Workplace

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.--Abraham Lincoln. We never outgrow our need to be persuasive. Managers have to persuade employees to "get on board" with a new idea or change; salespeople get paid to persuade customers to buy; and potential customers persuade salespeople that a change in the "deal" just might make them a paying customer.

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The Microeconomics of Human Capital

ATD Human Capital

Let’s consider human capital a branch of microeconomics, a study of how the scarcity of workers impacts your company’s decisions about operating performance and expansion of market share. In other words, it’s time to examine how your remaining workers, after the economic downturn, are your only “supply and demand” option for filling the skills gap with fewer workers.

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