Sat.May 21, 2016 - Fri.May 27, 2016

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Meet the Top 30 + HR Pros on SnapChat at #SHRM16

Workology

Check out our SHRM16 VIP Party Guide by clicking here. We get you the parties and must attend SHRM events first. . Snapchat is the fastest growing and most popular social network right now, and it is absolutely something that human resources professionals need to be considering. The highest percentage of Snapchat users is h among adults who are 18-24, with 25-34 years not too far behind with an adoption rate of 26%.

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How to Get Job Seekers to Join Talent Networks—And Why It's So Important

TalentCircles

Current talent networks are kind of like the 2.0 version of the old talent pipeline. Now, technology enters the picture and provides electronic options for collecting and maintaining endless amounts of data about potential job candidates and job opportunities. Talent networks are not just a list of names and resumes. They are powerful communities that bring supply and demand together.

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Getting Over the Hump: Why BLR Was Lucky Enough to Survive

HR Daily Advisor

From Dan: As a way to honor the individuals who have taught me critical life lessons about people and business, I’ve invited several to write guest columns to run in this space over the next few weeks. Today’s voice of experience once again is Robert L. Brady, the founder of Business and Legal Resources (BLR ® ). This week, Bob talks about BLR’s early years and lessons for success that apply to all work situations. by Robert L.

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28 Questions Every Talent Leader Should Have in Their Pocket

ClearCompany HRM

5 Best Questions for Screening Candidates. Screening candidates will never go out of style, but doing it via the phone or in-person… will. With video interviewing, a series of predetermined questions can be asked of each applicant to help make better decisions of who to invite to the next round. If you’ve already adopted video interviewing into your candidate screening process, congrats!

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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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The 2016 #FLSA Overtime Changes: What #HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

I’m not going to write a big long explanation for this post. If you’re in the HR world, you know that the much-awaited final ruling came from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) about changes to the overtime rule in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA.) Last summer, I spoke with Jonathan Segal , a partner with the law firm Duane Morris LLP regarding the proposed overtime rule changes to the minimum weekly salary requirement and the primary duty test.

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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. Hiring Managers: Stop Insulting the Job Candidates -- By Brian de Haff. 2. You’re Like Me, I Like Me, So I Like You – And You’re Hired -- by Daniel Vacassin . 3.

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Ignore these Performance Management Stats at Your Own Risk

ClearCompany HRM

Chances are you want to improve your talent management strategy. Some employees succeed with flying colors while others never quite get enough velocity for lift off and in between the rest of your duties, you need to make sure you’re communicating with them correctly. You probably have employees who meet their deadlines, give decent work and pretty much fly under the radar and these people also need development, coaching and recognition.

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Recruiting Success: Try a Student Loan Benefit Program

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by EdAssist, one of the pioneers in providing education assistance programs that drive employee growth, retention, and engagement. They manage tuition and student loan programs for approximately 160 large employers, handling more than $500 in tuition and loan payments each year. Enjoy the post!). During this year’s SHRM Talent Management Conference, SHRM CEO Hank Jackson talked about five trends reshaping work.

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Clean Your House Before You Head To Social Media

The Aristocracy of HR

010000000010 There are still companies who are tardy to the social media party. It’s not a bad thing. Businesses have either thought social media was going to exit as a one-hit wonder or they were laying-in-wait until it became absolutely apparent that they needed to jump in. What fascinates me is that the companies who […].

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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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Working in Flow – The Secret to True Workplace Happiness

EmployeeConnect

It’s 1:00pm, you’re with your work colleague and they’re trying to converse with you, waiting for your response. The words are gradually going through your head, in one ear, floating in your brain for a bit, and out the other – “What’s for lunch today?”, “Pasta again?”. As much as you want to answer, need to answer and know how well you know the answer, you don’t, because you’re too focused on wanting to perfect that EVP (Employee Value Proposition) you started working on earlier that morning.

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Stop Taking Employee Engagement Surveys as Gospel

Pomello

Employee engagement surveys have been around for decades, but executives constantly tell us that they don’t know what to do with the information they receive from them. One CEO recently said to me, “We get the same score every year, and I don’t know how to make improvements based on a generic set of survey results.”. What good is having the data if you can’t use it to your company’s benefit?

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Working Remotely: How to Increase Productivity Outside the Office

Justworks

With the advent of coffee shops, wifi, and laptops, the 21st century has presented us a beautiful gift: the advantage of working remotely. Remote work offers plenty of positive benefits for both employers or employees, whether daily or occasionally. At Justworks, I’m lucky to have a flexible work schedule that enhances my productivity. In fact, I’m writing this piece in a coffee shop right now; it’s arguably the most productive I’ve been all week.

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How Mobile HR Can Help Your Business Create a Happy and Productive Workplace

Trinet

The mobile trend is revolutionizing human resources management. In fact, research shows that HR applications are twice as likely to be used on smartphones as on computers. Not surprisingly, mobile HR. Visit site for full story.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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An Experienced Mentor on Building a Successful Partnership

Everwise

Frank Dreier attributes a great deal of his success as a senior executive at Fortune 500 companies to mentorship. Though Frank never got paired with an official mentor, his supervisors early on filled the role in an unofficial capacity. “Every boss I had was also a mentor, so I got some outstanding business advice,” Frank says, looking back. This advice was usually given over a casual post-work beer or during an impromptu chat in the break room.

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12 Tips to Turn Employee Engagement Survey Results into Increased Organization Performance -

DecisionWise

The key to increasing employee engagement is to accurately measure it and use the results to make changes that impact organization performance. We’ve created a list of 12 recommendations to turn employee engagement survey results into increased performance based on our experience working with hundreds of organizations over the years. Download Your Employee Engagement Survey Sample.

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Should You Get Citi Bike Perks for Your Team?

Justworks

In celebration of Bike to Work Month, Justworks gave six companies free Citi Bike memberships for a year to encourage the happiness and health of their employees. With all the buzz around biking to work this month, you may wonder if the perk is the right fit for your team. Kristy Zoshak, Director of Sales and Marketing at Citi Bike, spoke with us on Bike to Work Day about why Citi Bike is such a great perk for both employers and employees.

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Offering Retirement Plans May Soon Become Mandatory For Employers

Trinet

If you don’t currently offer your employees a retirement plan, you may want to pay attention. At both the state and federal level, the government is continuing to push legislation to make mandatory. Visit site for full story.

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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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5 Characteristics of a Powerful Goal-Setting Process

Reflektive

Increasing profitability by 20 percent, losing 15 pounds, putting 50 percent of your earnings in savings—everyone knows how difficult achieving important and significant results can be. Fortunately, research proves goal-setting is a highly effective way of making progress towards achieving desired outcomes. Those who write goals down and gather social support are over 25 percent more likely to succeed at achieving their goals.

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[Infographic] A Lesson On Workplace Motivation

Hppy

Workplace motivation is a strange creature that all business owners must learn to understand and tap into. This is vital to improve workplace motivation and, therefore, productivity. Yet drive is something that is alluding some business owners. In fact, only 31.5% of Americans are engaged in their jobs. This information is important for all companies, since disengaged employees cost the US 450 to 550 billion dollars a year (due to low productivity).

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How to Help Managers Avoid Burnout and Stay Productive

Everwise

Managers lead teams and product development, project deadlines and communicate between departments, all while working to “meet the bottom line.” And in an age where technology has made the line between home and work life imperceptible, it’s difficult to disconnect and decompress. They are faced with a laundry list of tasks, meetings, and projects – it seems inevitable that managers will face getting burnt out.

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Three Techniques to Make the Perfect Intern Onboarding Experience

UrbanBound HR

Onboarding is more than a stack of paperwork and an office tour. It is the entire transition time from hiring someone to when they are working at 100% capacity in their new role. It’s not dissimilar to acclimating to a higher altitude. The first few days, your body has to adjust to the thinner atmosphere, and some people even get altitude sickness. Just as you would take a little extra care of yourself to avoid altitude sickness, you should help your new hires and interns acclimate to their new

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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[WEBINAR] 3 Universal Drivers of Employee Happiness

WorkHuman

Soren Lockwood, CEO of SEB Pension in Denmark. I wrote a post a couple of weeks back about how to kill happiness at work. It’s quite simple, really, and it happens all too often. What’s interesting about the whole “happiness at work” discussion is that people either become immediately skeptical or they overthink the concept to death. Soren Lockwood, CEO of SEB Pension in Denmark, perfectly illustrated this in a recent talk posted by Woohoo inc.

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Compensation Cafe: What is the Right Culture for You?

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Figuring out the right culture means balancing high-level goals alongside assumptions about how best to achieve those goals. One of the few remaining areas of competitive advantage available to businesses is unleashing the potential of human performance at work. More often than not, doing so requires establishing a strong culture that reinforces employees’ collective ability to improve themselves and do their best work.

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Cross-Generational Mentorship: Why Age Should Be No Object

Everwise

You just started work at a fast-paced, growing company. You have some solid experience under your belt, you feel good about your career prospects, and you’re excited to network with people inside and outside the company. You run into a rising star in your field at several networking events. You’re struck by the person’s ideas, connections, rocket-ship career trajectory, and willingness to talk to you about your new position and the things you hope to accomplish.

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The Way Forward: Transforming Performance Management

ATD Human Capital

It’s been a slow, painful death, but it seems that the old performance management (PM) approach is breathing its last. I mean the PM that converts numbers to paychecks and career decisions, and is equated with appraisal and evaluation. The PM that HR drives, sometimes against the wishes of busy managers. The PM that reinvents itself into new forms and rating systems every few years, just to keep some energy and relevance in it.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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The Art and Science of Coaching

WorkHuman

People at Google love data. They measure everything. A few years back, they launched a research initiative called Project Oxygen, in order to measure and improve key management behaviors at Google. This initiative is highlighted in a 2013 Harvard Business Review piece by David A. Garvin, professor at Harvard Business School. Garvin writes, “Compared with leadership, managing remains understudied and undertaught—largely because it’s so difficult to describe, precisely and concretely, what manager

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Need a New HR System? What Leaders Need to Know

Trish McFarlane

This has been a big month for the HR Happy Hour show. First, we are THRILLED to welcome our new partner and sponsor, Virgin Pulse to the HR Happy Hour show! Virgin Pulse, part of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, designs technology that cultivates good lifestyle habits for your employees. This is especially important if you want to better engage your employees and help them participate in ways to improve their well-being.

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HR Should Deliver Value and Build Trust

Laurie Ruettimann

Lots of HR professionals want to know how to deliver value and build trust in organizations. (Like there’s a ten-step plan for being a better human being, too. Whatever.). People are always looking to experts when the answers reside within themselves. Drives me crazy. In as much as a blog post or a conference can inspire you to live better, well, that’s great.