Sat.Mar 31, 2012 - Fri.Apr 06, 2012

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How to Use Applicant Tracking Software to Source Internship Candidates

ExactHire

It’s that time of the year…the grass is green, the birds are chirping, and many new faces are popping up as potential employees (and perhaps as new LinkedIn followers) for your organization as students dive full throttle into the internship search process. Let’s say you are pretty satisfied with the questions asked on your employment application, and it helps you capture appropriate, job-relevant information from experienced job seekers and recent college graduates.

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5 tips to improve productivity, morale, and happiness

Achievers

Do your employees enjoy coming to the office? Are you looking for tips on how to improve productivity, morale, and happiness? At A chievers, we believe that a working environment should reflect a company’s culture and values, influence productivity, and evoke success. Organizations are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to keep their employees engaged; however, the answer is right in front of you.

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Lose the Fear and Get to Work

NoExcusesHR

'This is another post in the #NoFearHR project Mike VanDervort and I have kicked off. Mike , I like the way you''re moving this conversation.and you''re absolutely right. If HR still isn''t on board with social media it''s their fault. The proverbial train has left the station. Now onto putting social to work in business. As you mentioned, we are integrating social media into everything we do here , and it is much more than a facebook page.

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Being Honest With Yourself and Starting from Where You Are

The Bamboo Project Blog

A post from Chris Brogan has me thinking this morning: . Jacqueline brought me iced coffee a few weeks ago, and I commented that it tasted especially delicious. She said, “I used two sugars instead of one or none, the way you usually say you like it.” As is often the case with me, I ended up thinking about a bit more than how many sugars I take in my coffee.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Myth of Work-Life Balance

TheHRBlog

Work- Life Balance is one of the most debated topic in today’s world. Some believe that this is not being looked at holistically and may not be doable. Jack Welch, former GE CEO says that -“There’s no such thing as Work- Life Balance. There are work- life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” […].

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Don't Be Fooled

NoExcusesHR

'I hate looking foolish. No, that''s not strong enough.I loathe looking foolish. The reason I know this is that I''ve done it so many times, I''ve come to understand just how much it bothers me. How Are You Being Fooled? Have you convinced yourself you''ve figured it all out? Or that you''re making the right choices? Or you believe without you the organization will fail?

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How to Develop Your Charisma

45 Things

People known for their charisma must have been born with it — because if charisma could be learned everyone would have it, right? Olivia Fox Cabane says charisma can be learned, but many people don't understand how to go about it. They make attempts that fall flat or use strategies that make them seem fake, annoying and arrogant. "You can be born with a predisposition for charisma," she says.

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Employee Engagement and Anthropology: A Dialogue with Jasmine Gartner

David Zinger

An Engaging Dialogue on Anthropology and Employee Engagement. It was my pleasure to share a dialogue with Jasmine Gartner on employee engagement. Here are a few of the snippets that stand out in my mind: dozens of drivers, which can be really confusing because if every employer has to start thinking about dozens of drivers they’ll never get their work done, let alone engage people.

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Choose your own story: recognition Mad-Libs

Achievers

Have you ever experienced long wait times? do you know that ‘on hold’ elevator music all too well? We’ve all been there… Chris tells his story here, add your own fun twists and turns to create your unique customer service nightmare story! WE ARE EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR OUR $100.00 CONTEST “TELL US YOUR BEST RECOGNITION STORY” TO APRIL 10TH!

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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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April 2012 Carnival of Leadership Development: Earth Day Edition

QAspire

Namaste! Welcome to the April 1st 2012 Carnival of Leadership Development. I’d like to dedicate this edition of Carnival to Earth Day 2012 , celebrated every year on 22nd April as a movement to protect the beautiful planet we all have inherited. This month, we again have a great line up of posts on leadership, management and talent development. BIG Thanks to carnival leader Dan McCarthy from Great Leadership for allowing me to host this event.

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Is Working 24/7 the New Normal?

45 Things

Achieving work/life balance has been credited with making workers more productive, more loyal and less stressed, and yet a recent survey from Harvard Business School shows that even global executives feel the need to be on the job 24/7. One even commented that his own inability to delegate means that subordinates should “be prepared to get emails at night.

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Degrees of Reality

NoExcusesHR

'I think sharing information is the right thing to do. You probably do too. Maintaining a transparent environment is often a precursor to a workplace that actually values trust. Values trust. What About Timing? So what happens when there is news to share; or a plan needs to be rolled out; or there is the possibility that something new is on the corporate horizon?

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10 building blocks for success

Achievers

What does it take for managers to motivate employees to achieve powerful results? Developing a strategy for employee engagement is the formula for an organization’s success, which starts with several initiatives geared towards strengthening the employee-manager relationship. We’re pleased to share The Employee Engagement Pyramid by David Zinger, which illustrates the most important fundamentals of employee engagement, thanks to The Globe and Mail’s recent post on the 10 building blocks for emplo

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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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Physician, Heal Thyself

The Bamboo Project Blog

For the past several months, I've been advising the clients I work with to use a career journal to record and explore their ideas about the work they are doing, what inspires and drives them and what they want to experiment with in their work lives. . I've also been telling people to quit thinking and start doing--to experiment and then reflect on what happens.

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Ruminations on the Final Four and the Myth of Chicago Jerry

True Faith HR

'Thanks to the graciousness of my good friend Kelly and the kind people at the CBS television network, I just returned from New Orleans where I attended my 11th Final Four in the last 15 years. In many ways, the Final Four is much like the SHRM Annual Conference : Lots of talk about talent - Like SHRM, there is a lot of discussion of talent. In this case, the teams playing.

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Lifelong Learning: Lesson From A Cab Driver

QAspire

There was a sparkle in that cab driver’s eyes. A slim, young and enthusiastic fellow who drove me from airport to home while returning from a business travel. His greeting was cheerful and conduct, professional. As the wheels started moving, he initiated a conversation with me about economy, the state of jobs and why he [.

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Accepting Yourself Will Boost Your Self Confidence

TheHRBlog

Look around yourself and you will find people constantly struggling with their identity, their life remains a constant process of adjusting to everyone’s feedback. They keep on doing this, hoping to be perfect – they suppress their originality and never reach the worldly desired image. You will also find these individuals immersed in self-help books […].

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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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Social Screening or Social Sleuthing? Why Recruiters Should Stay Away From Facebook

Insperity

It’s no secret that recruiters often use the internet to screen potential new hires. But with tight privacy controls on social media sites allowing users to lock down their information, there is often little “dirt” to be dug up. In recent months some employers have begun asking for applicants’ Facebook log-ins and passwords as part of the interview process; a practice that has stirred up quite a bit of controversy.

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Reviewsnap’s Latest White Paper Helps Your Company Move Ahead with Performance Management — Without Any Dread!

Reviewsnap

'Reviewsnap , the leading cloud-based performance management software solution, today released its new white paper, “From Dread to Moving Ahead — Take the Pain Out of Performance Management.” Download a complimentary copy now. Cue the shaking of heads, the rolling of eyes, and the murmurs of “not again” heard up and down the office corridors. How could a process so ingrained in organizational culture cause so much anxiety?

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Challenges & Opportunities for Talent Managers / 1: The Truth About.

Strategic HCM

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.

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Understanding Millennials and the needs of the future workforce

Achievers

Millennials, Gen Y and Generation Me. These are just a few ways that Millennials have been described over the years. Do you wish you had some tips for understanding the needs of the future workforce? Many employers view the Millennial generation as an enigma, but you can’t afford to be uneducated about Millennials, as they are the future employees and leaders.

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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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Don’t Let Rising Health Care Costs Sink Your Business

Insperity

Health care costs, already a significant drain on many small businesses, may increase further following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, expected this summer. The central question of the case examines the individual mandate, which is set to go into effect in 2014 and will require most Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

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Calibrating Performance Appraisals

Reviewsnap

'Calibration, according to Webster''s Dictionary, is a set of graduations to indicate values or positions. In the realm of performance management, calibration can be important to getting performance appraisals as accurate as possible by introducing graduated review of the performance appraisal to help ensure it is as accurate as possible. Because of inherent individualized bias that we all tend to have when it comes to how we perceive the behavior and performance of those who work for us, having

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Toppled: 21 Signs Employee Engagement is Broken

David Zinger

Questioning Engagement. A participant at a mining conference I presented at in South Africa asked what happens when the Pyramid of Engagement is broken. It was an excellent question that created a small epiphany for me about an inverted pyramid. Here is an upside down picture of the pyramid of engagement. It represents employee engagement falling away or draining out of an organization.