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How Assessments Create Successful Manufacturing Hires

TalentCulture

Want to make the right manufacturing hires? A 2016 MRI survey on recruiting found that 80 percent of all hires are mistakes that cost companies time and money. In manufacturing, according to research by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, nearly 3.5 million jobs may be needed over the next ten years. Some 2 million are expected to go unfilled due to the skills gap, however.

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Recruiters Talk to Candidates, Right?

NoExcusesHR

No, I'm not joking. There are some organizations out there that believe a recruiter's job is to wander around in the ATS, find applicants that match minimum job requirements, and forward those resumes to various hiring managers. Well, friends, that is not recruiting. That is simply embarrassing. (extra long pause here for those of you frantically wondering if this is how your recruitment team operates) Seeing It Differently For many traditional human resources departments, and in particular #Hea

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Setting the [Employee] Record Straight

Collage

Employee records management may seem like one of the easier aspects of running a business: collect your employees’ names, addresses, and banking information, get them to sign a few forms, and then lock that dossier up for…wait, what is the legal requirement again? Five years? Seven years? Am I supposed to keep this stuff forever? Clearly, it’s not as easy as it would seem.

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How To Link Recruiting Metrics To Business Outcomes

Cornerstone On Demand

According to LinkedIn's 2017 Global Recruiting Trends Report , "quality of hire" is the top recruiting metric that hiring managers care about—and for good reason. Employees are your most valuable resource, and with 40 percent of today's Fortune 500 companies predicted to go out of business over the next 10 years, hiring the right people is crucial for your survival.

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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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7 Reasons HR Needs to Learn About Unretirement

HR Bartender

Years ago, people just retired. They announced to their boss that they were going to retire. The company threw them a party, gave them a gold watch, and wished them well. Then, they spent their time traveling, working on their hobbies, etc. I don’t know that those days exist anymore. And if they do, it’s only for a small handful of people. There’s an emerging conversation about unretirement.

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11 Stats You Should Know If You are Recruiting Contractors in the U.S.

Linkedin Talent Blog

Co-authored by Christopher Lawrence Recruiting contractors has become a popular way to hire: 20% to 30% of the workforce in the US and the EU-15 are independent workers, according to the McKinsey Global Institute , 42% of U.S. executives plan on hiring more of them in the coming years, and some experts are estimating they will make up fully half of it a decade from now.

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Top HR Analytics Articles: Spring 2017 Edition

Visier

According to the Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends 2017 report, “People analytics, a discipline that started as a small technical group that analyzed engagement and retention, has now gone mainstream.” This year, the focus is on applying analytics beyond HR and leverage people data to drive better business outcomes , such as sales productivity, customer retention, and product innovation. .

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HR Audits: What Are They and Why Should You Conduct Them

HR Bartender

Businesses want to know that they’re operating effectively and efficiently. So, they regularly review processes and procedures to ensure that they are. Similarly, every HR department wants to know they’re operating well. So, they do the same in the form of HR Audits. An HR Bartender reader recently asked me about HR audits. To give us a thorough explanation, I asked Mike Haberman SHRM-SCP , co-founder of Omega HR Solutions , if he would share his expertise with us.

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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

EmployeeConnect

Emotional intelligence has a significant bearing on our professional lives. Hence, it is imperative that we understand what it signifies and its role and importance in the workplace. Every individual has a unique personality , emotional strength, different capabilities, and all these facets can have a significant impact in the way they function at the workplace.

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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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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Employees From All Generations Want This One Thing From Employers -- by Phil Strazzulla. 2.

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Why Personal Branding Is the Recruiting Secret You're Missing

Entrepreneur

Don't let competitors scoop up the best talent. Instead, build and market a strong personal brand, broadcast it consistently on social media and back it up with business decisions.

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Customer Service Engages Employees With Their Job

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. To learn more about designing and managing a company culture that drives bottom line success, check out The Workforce Institute’s latest anthology, It’s All About Bob(bie): Strategies for Winning with Your Employees.

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4 Steps to Building a Successful Company Culture

EmployeeConnect

Have you ever wondered what actually happens when and employee arrives at work? How would you want them to feel and how would you want them to think about the organisation? It is a fact that how your employees feel about the company reflects directly on you as an employer and the company culture that you have established. The million dollar question is how can you resuscitate a company’s culture?

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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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4 Liberating Truths the KonMari Method Taught Me About Life and Work

ExactHire

Let me assure you that I’m not the kind of person that is going to end up on the TV show Hoarders. I’m not afraid to clean and I generally put stuff away when I’m done with it. So, when my sister told me about recently reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, I told her “that sounds interesting, I’ll check it out on Scribd” but I didn’t think it would radically change my current outlook.

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Money (really!) isn’t Everything — What Benefits do People Want?

Hppy

Understanding what potential employees desire in their benefits package is crucial when recruiting top candidates for any position. It is a complex business that requires a comprehensive look at what competitors are offering, but perhaps more importantly, what applicants really want. Benefits often get shorter shrift than salary considerations, but in the modern marketplace they really should not.

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Quick Shots for #HR and #Recruiting Pros – Military Employment Edition

HR Bartender

According to Futurestep, only 20 percent of employers have veteran recruiting initiatives. In addition, seventy percent (70%) do not provide training to recruiters or hiring managers on veteran hiring. Veterans are a HUGE untapped source for organizational talent. So, I wanted to share with you some resources you can use to develop your military employment program.

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Talent Mobility Maturity Framework: Connecting Skills with Business Needs

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is currently in the midst of some research on talent mobility , and it has been exciting to see how the philosophy around mobility is changing as more research comes out to illuminate the impact. We’re working on two key pieces of research currently, one is a maturity framework and the other is a value chain. I discussed the maturity framework briefly during a recent webinar with IBM and the Human Capital Institute, but I thought I would explore it more fully 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 to Influence: Persuasive Techniques

EmployeeConnect

Change is intimidating for most of us, and hence people usually hesitate whenever they are asked to follow someone or something that they are not sure of. This makes the task of persuading people a challenging one, irrespective of the fact that your process, or concept, or product may be the best bet that they can think of if adopted. If you can understand the psychological principles that rule the process of influencing others, you will be in a better position to apply the tactics of persuasion

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[Infographic] Spring Clean Your Résumé With These Simple Tips

Hppy

Progress is essential if companies and their employees are to thrive in today’s business environment. Of course, there are advantages to maintaining a strong, consistent team over a period of time, but a bit of give and take within that team can help to keep everyone on their toes and working towards fulfilling their potential. Any employee that gets stuck too long in the same position is bound to become stale; as humans, we need to be challenged, to constantly improve ourselves, and to feel tha

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How Does Unemployment Insurance Work? And Why Does My Company Need It?

Justworks

If you run a company with employees, you are legally required to have unemployment insurance. We're here to walk you through a crash course about what it is, why you need it, and how it's billed. Looking for a comprehensive overview? Download a free guide on unemployment insurance to make sure you're staying compliant. How Unemployment Insurance Works SUI = State Unemployment Insurance State Unemployment Insurance (SUI) is an employer-funded program required by both state and federal

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Everything You Think You Know About Culture & Employee Performance Is (Apparently) Wrong

15Five

Back in the day, culture was something you became exposed to when you traveled to a foreign country. And employee performance was as easy to manage as uttering the words, “work harder or you’re fired!” But modern employees and workplaces are far more complex. Counterintuitive management theories now tell us that annual reviews do more harm than good , and people must make space during the day for naps and meditation to enhance productivity.

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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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A Brief History and Future of HR Technology

Achievers

By: Iain Ferreira. Contnent Marketing Manager, Achievers. If the Terminator film saga (and to a lesser extent, Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive ) taught me anything, is that it’s better to welcome the evolution of technology than be on the other side. Similar to the technical enhancements made to the cybernetic endo-skeletal T-100 in the first Terminator that begat the liquid alloy T-1000 of T2 fame, HR technology has seen a number of improvements in recent years that have made a world of differ

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama Will Join Globoforce’s WorkHuman 2017 Conference

WorkHuman

Don’t miss Mrs. Obama at WorkHuman 2017 this May 30 – June 1 in Phoenix, Arizona. When I was chatting with a Globoforce customer recently, I asked her what she is most looking forward to at WorkHuman this year. She said, “I’m learning to expect the unexpected. That’s what I’m looking forward to. I know the speakers are going to be great, but there will be something unexpected in there that’s going to delight me.”.

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The Powerful Impact of Aligning Organisational Goals to Strategic Objectives

EmployeeConnect

For any small and mid-scale organisation, the employees are its biggest line item expense and of course the organisation’s most valuable assets. In other words, a company’s productivity and profitability largely depend on the performance of its employees and organisational goals and strategic objectives. Studies have proved that there is a significant increase in both business and the performance of the employees in an organisation, an organisation has set effective individual employee goals and

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3 Mindfulness Tools to Improve Meetings

ATD Human Capital

I have several friends in corporate who look forward to meetings at work with the same level of enthusiasm as they would a root canal. This mindset is unfortunately common because without proper framing and structure, meetings can fall apart in one (or all) of these ways: They turn into complaint sessions in which team members identify problems without ever identifying solutions.

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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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Develop Your Company’s Next Generation of Leaders with Mentorship

Everwise

According to the 70:20:10 learning model , 20% of knowledge should come from interacting with others. Which isn’t surprising when you consider most executives cite on-the-job experiences, stretch projects and mentors as key elements for developing leadership qualities. These types of interactions that help employees grow can be categorized in two ways: strong mentorship and engaging management.

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Empowerment … You Keep Using That Word

WorkHuman

In today’s workplace, businesses are trying to do everything they can to wring the last bit of “engagement” out of their employees. Not that every business really understands what engagement means, but they know they want it. And they think they need it. And let’s face it, most employees say they want to feel connected to their work – to feel like they’re making a difference.

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Work Fearlessly With Justworks' Free Resources Library

Justworks

Here at Justworks, we’re always trying to find ways to help your small business run smoother. That’s why we’ve blogged and written eBooks: to share what we’ve learned on growing a business and a team. After years of blogging regularly, we’ve published hundreds of articles and it may be hard to choose which ones are most relevant to you. With that in mind, we’ve optimized our resources page to help you find relevant content quickly.

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