Sat.Apr 05, 2014 - Fri.Apr 11, 2014

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Which Recruitment Metrics Are Right For You – Cost Per Hire?

ExactHire

In the age of Big Data, we have access to crunch numbers and draw insightful conclusions in many situations. The recruiting and human resources realm is no exception thanks to ATS, HRIS, LMS…and many other alphabet soup acronyms. But sometimes having that much information at our fingertips can be disabling and intimidating if we aren’t sure which metrics are worth our attention for our specific company.

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Strategic Workforce Planning is the Way Forward

Cielo HR Leader

'Thought Leadership Discussion: Steve Hunt, Director of Resourcing, Thales Group. While McKinsey’s famous ‘war for talent’ may have dwindled to little more than a skirmish in many markets over recent years, it never died out completely and has remained hard fought in many of the emerging nations in the east and the south. And now, with signs of recovery in the U.S., UK and other established economies, it seems set to erupt again around the globe in all its past fury.

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Aligning Your Workforce: One, Two, Three Strikes – You’re Out

Achievers

Picture this: it’s the bottom of the ninth and bases are loaded. Two outs and you’re down by three. Batter up! That’s you. The worst thing you can do right now is strike out. You look up at your coach for your play, but … wait, your coach isn’t there. You glance out the field and realize that your team has no idea what to do next. Okay. You think. Now what?

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My Personal Board of Directors

NoExcusesHR

'Until Charlie Judy wrote about having a personal board of directors several years ago I had never heard of the concept. Kudos to Charlie for being so far ahead. At the time I thought it was a fabulous idea, and in the '' old '' Jay Kuhns style I moved on. No follow up.no call to Charlie to explore it further.no email shout out. Nothing. Not This Time Recently I saw another piece about the value of a personal board of directors and I realized it was time to do something.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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The Five Elements Of A ‘Simply Irresistible’ Organization

Bersin with Deloitte

New Deloitte Global Human Capital Research shows that organizations today must work hard to create a meaningful, humanistic work environment to drive engagement, performance, and a magnetic attraction in the market. And this is good business. The Great Place to Work Institute has published studies which show that the “100 best places to work” outperformed the S&P 500 by […].

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Five Strategies to Develop the Modern Manager

Achievers

Bad managers are the number one reason employees quit, but good managers have the power to drive results. Performance is 35 percent higher when teams are led by strong management; moreover, engaged employees are also much more likely to stay with the organization, reducing turnover costs. With these kinds of results on the line, who wouldn’t want to give their managers the tools they need to become great at their jobs?

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The Importance of Branding In Hiring

Effortless HR

'Companies know they have to maintain a certain level of branding when dealing with consumers – but what about with prospective employees? Company branding is becoming a major element to the hiring process. In an age where social media has personified businesses to a level not experienced before, human resources must understand the company’s image must also correspond to the way it presents itself to candidates.

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Why Companies Should Not Keep Salaries A Secret Anymore

TheHRBlog

Employee salaries and the process of giving pay raises remains a secret and few are privy to the closely guarded process, sadly it remains archaic even in the modern day age. Disconnect between compensation and performance is one of the biggest contributors of employee angst and subsequent employee disengagement. Due to lack of transparency, most […].

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I Can't Go Back Now (There Is No Retreat)

NoExcusesHR

'Life is stormy at times. Often overwhelming. Hopefully when the storm comes it hits either in our work lives, or our personal lives, but not simultaneously. When it slams into our world we feel the pressure.and sometimes it can feel like it is too much. But it''s not. Noise Each of our lives is filled with noise. That noise often tells us what we''re supposed to do.or think.or who we''re supposed to be.or what choices we should make.

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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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Employee Engagement Saskatchewan Style

David Zinger

'Coming back to Saskatchewan. (Reading and viewing time = 2 minutes, 30 seconds). I look forward to returning home to Saskatchewan near the end of April to conduct two sessions on engagement in both Regina and Saskatoon. There is a lunch session on employee engagement and an afternoon session on engaged well being. I am doing this in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Association of Human Resource Professionals (SAHRP).

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3 Keys for Surviving a Terrible Boss

45 Things

'Anyone who has ever worked for a bad boss knows that, despite such lighthearted looks at these people through comics such as “Dilbert” and television shows such as “The Office”, it really is no laughing matter. I’ve had two really bad bosses in my life, and I can tell you it is truly a painful experience, both physically and emotionally. At times I was depressed, at times angry – and suffered from headaches and stomachaches, not to mention waking at 3 a.m. every night and re-running every horri

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How To Do Brainstorming For Problem Solving

TheHRBlog

Chances are that you would have come across the concept of using Brainstorming at one time or another in your corporate career. Brainstorming is the most used and abused word in the corporate corridors. If done in a fit and proper manner, the benefits of using brainstorming for problem solving are immense. What is Brainstorming? Brainstorming is a conference technique by which […].

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Calling In Sick: What To Do When Employees Lie

Insperity

Poor Gloria. She had a horrible case of the flu and spent Friday and Monday in bed – or so she said when she called in sick. But, not according to her coworker John, who says he saw pictures on Facebook of Gloria with a group of women on Friday celebrating and preparing for a friend’s wedding. What is an employer to do? The most important thing is to not jump to conclusions.

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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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Art of HR global conference

Strategic HCM

'You''ve not heard much from me recently and one of the reasons for this is that I''ve been working hard designing a new global HR conference, Art of HR , taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia in November. We''ve got a great focus (there are no other proper conference which focus on global HR), a provoking theme (the importance of art as a supplement to the more popular developments around science ), a brilliant venue and some great speakers: Dave Ulrich, Professor at the Ross School of Business Pa

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Clarifying the Job Landscape: Trends and Issues Impacting Your Career

The Bamboo Project Blog

'For the next 12 months, I''ll be working with career counselors and employment specialists who provide services through the public workforce system. You probably think of them as the people at the "unemployment office." . We''re starting out by taking a look at the work landscape and the various trends that are impacting workers. These are issues I''ve talked about a lot here, but I wanted to bring them all together for this group. .

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How to Go Paperless and Save 15 Hours per Month

AccountSight

How businesses and independent consultants can reduce their paperwork, cut costs and save time.

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How Employee Engagement Affects Your Business’s Bottom Line

Insperity

Think your employees are happy to have a job? Think that means they’re helping your business grow? There’s a difference between workers who maintain your business and those who are committed to making it thrive. The latter are more engaged. By developing a highly engaged workforce, you can keep the talent you have, keep your customers coming back, and keep your company in the black.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Research: Spur Workers Through "Do Nothing" Option

45 Things

'Want your team to get more done ? Then give them the option of doing nothing. While you might believe you’re giving them free reign to goof off, a new study shows that by giving people the option of doing nothing, you’re actually spurring them into reaching their objectives. Wharton University marketing professor Rom Y. Schrift and Jeffrey R. Parker , a marketing professor at Georgia State University, found that by introducing a “do-nothing” option, people become even more committed to accompli

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The Impact of Personality on Leadership

DDI

'A leader may possess the skills to engage and mobilise people when times are good. But, if their perfectionistic derailer rears its ugly head, they are more likely to micromanage than mobilise.

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How to Go Paperless and Save 15 Hours per Month

AccountSight

How businesses and independent consultants can reduce their paperwork, cut costs and save time.

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Do People that Exercise Need Extra Anti-Oxidants?

Revolutionary Wellness

Every time we walk, talk or even breathe we create reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS is a normal part of the body’s chemistry, but too many can cause cellular damage! Research and class lectures explain that exercise increases both anti-inflammatory and inflammatory pathways. 1,2,5 Regular exercise, in sum, lowers total levels of CRP, TNF-A, IL-6(inflammatory) and increases IL-4 and IL-10 (anti-inflammatory). 1,2 Eating foods that are high in antioxidants will help lower inflammation, but what

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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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Agents of Work-Life Imbalance

Cielo HR Leader

'Workplace stress is the most frequently cited reason U.S. employees want to leave their jobs, and this mental toll is often believed to be a result of long, grueling work days. Yet, since 1950 the number of hours worked by U.S. employees have actually decreased from 1,900 per year to less than 1,790. Only 11.13% of U.S. employees work more than 50 hours per week (a decrease of 0.4% since 2004), while innovative technologies have dramatically increased productivity and efficiency.

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The Impact of Personality on Leadership

DDI

A leader may possess the skills to engage and mobilise people when times are good. But, if their perfectionistic derailer rears its ugly head, they are more likely to micromanage than mobilise.

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Donuts on Fridays

Nobscot

'We always say that Donuts on Fridays won''t retain employees But these ones might! Lovely photo: Chocolate donuts and milk by Brkati Krokodil | Stocksy United [link].

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One Bad Reason Good Employees Jump Ship

Reviewsnap

'LinkedIn’s Talent Blog recently offered a highly educational infographic, Why More Employees Are Considering Leaving Their Companies. The infographic contains a variety of useful insights and data—but one of the key story lines is this: LinkedIn surveyed employed individuals worldwide, asking what would convince them to leave their employer; their top response was “better compensation and benefits.

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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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2014 HRPS Global Conference: Empower Your Talent with Purpose

Cielo HR Leader

'The changing economy is rapidly altering how organizations view talent. Challenges such as the impending retirement cliff, an increasing skills gap and talent shortages, as well as the persistent difficulty of retaining top employees—who are creating havoc across all companies and industries. These challenges demand the status quo for talent acquisition and talent management strategies be modernized, updated and transformed in an effort for to stay competitive.

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Searching for Potential – On the Basketball Court and in the Workplace

DDI

'Evaluating talent—especially leadership talent—is fraught with vague ideas and lack of agreement about what leadership “potential” is.

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Searching for Potential – On the Basketball Court and in the Workplace

DDI

Evaluating talent—especially leadership talent—is fraught with vague ideas and lack of agreement about what leadership “potential” is.

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