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Pay Equity Begins With Awareness

Namely

Today, April 2, 2019 is Equal Pay Day in the United States. Last year, it was on April 10. In 2017, it was April 4. Why does the date change each year? Well, Equal Pay Day is held every year on the day that women have to work until they earn the income that men earned in the prior calendar year. In other words, women had to work from January 1, 2018 until April 2, 2019 (today) to earn what men earned in the calendar year of 2018.

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Now is the Time to Start Upskilling your Workforce

HRExecutive

A high-tech client of Accenture approached the global management-consulting firm about reskilling its workforce and, within two years’ time, Accenture was able to help transform this company’s curriculum from 100 percent classroom-based learning to 75 percent digitally based. The result? Ellyn Shook, chief leadership and human resources officer at Accenture, says the client saw a 92 percent average increase in the number of people being trained per year.

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Ultimate Software’s Dream Big #UltiConnect Conference: A Recap via @HRmarketer

Advos

Note: I was invited by Ultimate Software to attend their Dream Big user conference #UltiConnect to get a better understanding of their product. There a number of HR vendors that offer either our VP of Sales Rhonda Taylor or me this opportunity. We are never paid (nor would we accept, if offered, compensation) to attend an event, and we are not required to do anything in exchange for accepting these types of invitations.

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Planning for Succession

Manatal

Imagine one day your top worker decides to resign, retire, or take extended time off for personal reasons. Or how about this scenario: you need to fire an employee, but nobody else knows how to do their work. What should you do to cope with these painful situations? In order to fill empty positions fast and well, companies should be aware of the importance of succession planning.

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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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HR as a “Prediction Machine”

Visier

A web search on “AI in HR” reveals a mind-boggling array of possibilities. For example, AI can choose candidate sources, predict candidate performance, offer coaching and learning, and even suggest employee pay levels. Yet, a recent IBM survey suggests that only 66% of CEOs believe cognitive computing can drive significant value in HR, and only 50% of HR executives recognize that cognitive computing has the power to transform key dimensions of HR.

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How to Invest in ALL Employees, Not Just #Millennials

UpstartHR

While there may be some minor generational differences in workplace preferences, the truth is ALL your people want to learn, grow, use their strengths and be recognized and appreciated for their efforts. I’ve written extensively about the myth that Millennials are fundamentally different than other generations. The real point is that someone at that life stage has different needs.

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How to Make an Online Recruitment Process More Candidate Friendly

Hppy

Sit down with any recruiter and they’ll be able to tell you a story of a high-quality candidate dropping out of the recruitment process unexpectedly. If this happens too often, it’s the responsibility of the recruiter to rectify the problem. There’s no way to completely eliminate candidate dropouts, recruiters have learned it’s less likely to happen if the candidate experience is positive.

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Busting Implementation Myths

Trish McFarlane

Have you ever been tasked with making a technology selection for your organization, then leading that implementation? For many HR leaders, this scenario plays out at some point in their career. I’ve long said that this is not something that HR professionals are trained to do while at the university level, so it falls to learning how to do this while on the job.

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Unconscious bias in recruitment: How can you remove it?

Workable

There’s a lot of talk around diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Companies try to get rid of any form of discrimination from their hiring process. Some of them are actively looking to attract diverse candidates, e.g. by applying blind resume screening methods or by hosting female-only career days. But what happens when the final hiring decision is distorted by unconscious bias?

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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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Q1 2019 Global HR Tech Venture Capital Review

WorkTech

If you thought 2018 was an amazing year for global HR tech VC, get ready to pick your jaw up from your desk. Q1 2019 surprised us on a few levels: There’s the sheer dollar volume: $1.741 Billion USD. To put that in perspective, it’s significantly more than any quarter in 2018, and $677 million […]. The post Q1 2019 Global HR Tech Venture Capital Review appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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#WorkTrends: Limitless: A New Framework for Employee Engagement

TalentCulture

When Laura Gassner Otting was working as an executive recruiter, she had a revelation: success does not always equal happiness. Over time, she’s come to see that the people who are happiest in their jobs have achieved what she calls “consonance.” “It’s people who have carved their own path, who have figured out, ‘This is the one that I really want to do,’” she says.

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Putting the “Human Touch” Back Into Human Resources

Workology

With the moniker of “Employment Therapist”, as much as I would like to think that I am warm and fuzzy, my approach tends to be “tell it like it is”; so brace yourselves. Let me start by saying I love. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Talent attraction: Why Maslow thinks your job ads suck

Workable

Are you a recruiter in a terrifyingly drab business park 30 minutes from the “cool” downtown core or city center? Getting crickets when you’re trying to fill those crucial developer roles in your non-tech firm, knowing that talented developers are constantly being wooed by software giants or exciting startups? Struggling to attract candidates to your mid-sized “everytown” locale when they’re moving en masse to Silicon Valley, NYC, London or another über-fantastic metropolitan hub?

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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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Improving Candidate Experience Is Top Recruiting Goal for 2019

SHRM Resources

Employers say they will boost their use of video and chatbots to make the job application experience better for candidates, according to new research from the Talent Board.

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How to Make Sure HR Tech is Driving Change in Your Organization

Digital HR Tech

For the past decade if not longer, companies have been part of a rush to digitization that has not left HR untouched. Purchase and implementation of HR tech have been rife, but when looking at adoption rates the story isn’t always successful. According to research by Sierra-Cedar, only 27% of respondents said HR invested heavily in change management efforts , despite knowing it’s key to supporting the adoption of new technologies.

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How the Workforce Learns in 2019: User-Generated Content

Degreed

Traditional L&D isn’t obsolete, but it is incomplete. According to a soon-to-be-released survey of nearly 800 workers, managers, and leaders we’ve just done with Harvard Business Publishing (stay tuned…), people give their employers’ learning and development opportunities an overall Net Promoter Score of -25. So we’re here to fill in the gaps by honing in on the data and insights that impact how people — and companies — learn, so you can make smarter decisions in your most valuable ass

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12 Ways to Get Fired as CHRO

HRExecutive

These are challenging times for chief human resource officers. Blizzards of new technology cloud their vision of what’s possible and where to head. Industrial disruption raises the specter of a mismatch between the workforce and the work. Changing social norms create unpredictable moment-to-moment crises. Consumer technology seems to create a demand for a qualitative difference in employee experience.

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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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Elements of A Good Digital Transformation Framework

Take It Personel-ly

In the world of IT and business, some of you may be surprised that not all organizations transform digitally as quickly as it should. Although, when we reflect on efforts of the past, we can see to why this is the case: insufficient structuring, lack of sharing of industry best practices, bad storytelling, or getting […].

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What Employees Really Want From Their Managers

TalentGuard

What Employees Really Want From Their Managers . Employees don’t quit organizations, they quit managers. . It’s a frequently made claim but one that today’s organizations cannot afford to ignore. Re peated studies show that poor management performance is a major reason people leave their jobs. . In fact, employees who rate their line manager’s performance as poor are four times more likely to be job hunting – and 40% are likely to have interviewed for a new job in the last month

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Avoid These 3 Reasons for H-1B Denials

SHRM Resources

Understanding which factors USCIS uses to judge visa eligibility is critical. Here are the top three reasons the agency issued requests for evidence to employers for H-1B petitions; employers can use this information to try to anticipate issues that adjudicators might raise.

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5 Performance Review Tips That Improve Employee Experience

Engagedly

Employee experience is something organizations should pay a lot more attention to. Employee experience is the sum of all the things the employee experience at work. This could encompass a wide variety of factors such as feedback, performance […].

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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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Employee Recognition: The Key to Employee Satisfaction

TalentLyft

Employee recognition is the key to employee satisfaction. Employee recognition is a very effective and easily implemented, yet often overlooked strategy for improving employee’s satisfaction. Only 35% of employees haven’t received any form of recognition for good work in the last year. Read More.

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5 ways to make your content oh-so much easier to read

Take It Personel-ly

We talk simply. We use normal words, and are sentences are usually quite straightforward. But put someone in front of a keyboard, and there’s no telling how complicated they can write. So much business communications comes out as gobbledygook, whether it’s an internal memo, a job description, an instruction manual or a letter to customers. […].

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More Jurisdictions Are Banning Salary-History Inquiries

SHRM Resources

To address the gender pay gap, a number of states and localities have prohibited employers from asking about job applicants' salary history. Here's how these laws are affecting HR professionals around the country.

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3 Crucial Performance Review Tips for First Time Managers

Engagedly

There are many things that can be terrifying for first-time managers, such as managing people, sharing feedback but one of the most terrifying things might just be performance reviews. For many first-time managers, they have plenty of experience […].

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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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Top 6 Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace Every CEO Should Know

GroSum

We all know that diversity matters and workplace diversity is something that is unavoidable. Yes, workplace diversity is more than a fad, since it guarantees direct and tangible benefits to a business. In fact, businesses with better workplace diversity outpace their competitors whilst generating higher profits. Workplace diversity is proven to drive ROI, help spur […].

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Ep 175 – Where to Get Started with Recruitment Marketing?

Workology

I am what many people call a trailblazer especially in the area of what is now referred to as digital recruiting and/or recruitment marketing. In 2001, when I first started in HR and recruiting, I. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. I am what many people call a trailblazer especially in the area of what is now referred to as digital recruiting and/or recruitment marketing.

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#STRIVE19 Speaker Spotlight: Adam Godson

Yello

Name : Adam Godson. Your current role/title: Senior Vice President, Global Technology Solutions at Cielo. Favorite place you’ve traveled (or would like to): I took a few days in Denmark last year which I very much enjoyed. Everyone was happy and friendly. Fun fact about you people may not know: Early in my career, I worked in HR during the day and was an EMT and firefighter at night.