Sat.Jun 16, 2012 - Fri.Jun 22, 2012

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Unique Job Specific Screening Questions Part 2 – Nonprofit Leadership

ExactHire

For those of you who read my first Unique Job Specific Screening Questions blog, then you know that many of the deal-breaker and essay questions sampled in this piece are especially common to high-volume positions for which one may recruit frequently. But what about your organization’s leadership roles? While you may not be creating these types of job listings in your applicant tracking software very often, it is still critical to identify the make-it-or-break-it questions for these high-l

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Why you should recognize great ideas

Achievers

Legendary organizations started from one great idea or vision. Corporate giants and start-ups alike prospered from unexplored ideas that shared one commonality: passion for innovation. Would Google be successful today without the great ideas like Gmail or Google maps that built their culture of innovation? A culture of innovation means that employees are committed to raising the bar and reaching new heights to be successful.

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Sometimes We Just Don't Realize

NoExcusesHR

'I get fired up about Human Resources work. Not because I''m supposed to.and not because it''s my job.but because it matters. Doing HR well can actually make a difference. We all see the obvious examples: great changes to a benefits program, maintaining merit increases when competitors have stopped giving raises, and creating more and more opportunities for employees to participate in decision-making across the organization.

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Making Sense of BigData in HR (aka Talent Analytics)

Bersin with Deloitte

I'm going to start a series of blogs on the topic of BigData in HR (aka Talent Analytics). In this installment I want to help you make some sense about what is going on. This is a preview of some of the topics I will be discussing on next week's webinar on BigData in HR (Tuesday […]. The post Making Sense of BigData in HR (aka Talent Analytics) appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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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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How to Feel Better About a Job You Hate

45 Things

I think we've probably all had jobs we didn't like. We dreaded going into work, and huddled miserably at our work stations, wondering why everyone else seemed to be OK. Couldn't they see how horrible the place was? I've certainly had a couple of those jobs in my life. When I was younger, I went home and cried at night, complaining bitterly to anyone who would listen how unhappy I was.

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Do You Fear the Data?

NoExcusesHR

'The following post is another in the #NoFearHR series between Mike VanDervort and me discussing human resources, social media, and professional life. Hey Mike , I loved your last #NoFearHR post about the critical role data plays in any social media strategy ( or any meaningful strategy for that matter.) I''m back from a fantastic week away and realized that one of my downfalls about the use of data played out every day last week.I never thought about it!

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Will Low-Cost, Online Universities Transform Corporate Learning?

Bersin with Deloitte

In the mainstream and business press, there has been a lot of recent buzz about low-cost, online universities. But I've seen surprisingly little buzz coming from the corporate learning community, aside from one good report from the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG). So I took special notice when Chief Learning Officer ran a short piece […].

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The engaged listening equation: Listening for employee engagement

David Zinger

The Engaged Listener Equation. Introduction. Are you an engaged and engaging listener? Have you leveraged the power of listening to draw more engagement out of the people you work with? Here is a cogent formula to help you capitalize on the 3 main elements of engaged listening. The equation. Listen for content, emotion, and intention. This skill is based on your ability to hear what is being said and to find an engaging way to respond to what was said.

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Warning: Recruiters are back in full swing

Achievers

“At this year’s Recruiting Innovation Summit six companies competed for a $10,000 grand prize for building cutting edge recruiting technology. This is a tell-tale sign that recruiters are back to work! So what is your organization doing to keep their talent? With new recruiting technologies and an increasingly connected workforce, keeping your best performers is harder than ever.

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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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Social Gravity - Read and Learn!

NoExcusesHR

'I was fortunate to take last week off for a vacation. Finally some family time (almost) disconnected from email and twitter (at least from an obligation standpoint), and really unwound from the pace that consumes us all in everyday life. One of the perks of having so much downtime is the chance to read a book that you want to read, not one that you have to read.

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Is Your Fear Sapping Your Passion?

The Bamboo Project Blog

This morning I'm re-reading Steven Pressfield's Do the Work. It's become a go-to-book when I need to remind myself how to start creative projects and move through the massive resistance I face whenever I want to bring something to life. . Lately, I've been sifting through various options for where I want to go next, noticing that I've lost some of the passion that had fed what felt like awesome ideas only a few months ago.

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How to Forgive

TheHRBlog

It’s hard to forgive. The hardest part is not knowing where to start. We know that we should forgive those who have hurt is. Not necessarily because they deserve to be forgiven but more for our benefit. Forgiveness leaves the past behind and allows us to move on once and for all. This post will […].

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Give before you take: 3 ways to win employee loyalty

Achievers

According to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of loyalty is being faithful to a cause, ideal, custom, institution or product. In everyday life, loyalty is found in sports fans that cheer for their teams even when they’re losing or in a dog that never leaves its owner’s side. Loyalty is important in relationships between friends, family, co-workers, and loved ones.

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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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What If I Say I'm Not Like The Others

NoExcusesHR

'Ahhh.behold the excitement around the arrival of a new leader. The department has been struggling, and now that Knight in Shining Bureaucratic Armor is on the horizon. Woo hoo! Everything will certainly be " fixed " once the new champion of all that is right about management walks through the front door. Seriously! Is That You? Have you ever taken a job where you knew there were some "issues" that needed to be addressed?

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Top 50 HR Blog ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM)

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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9 Simple Ideas for Employee Engagement

QAspire

My last post emphasized on balancing processes and practices with emotion when leading projects. HR folks know this as “employee engagement”. In simplest terms, people have a choice to do a great job or a mediocre one. They exercise this choice based on the emotional connection with purpose of project/team/organization. Why all this buzz around [.

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Moving from "Or" to "And"

The Bamboo Project Blog

I've noticed that for many of us, careers are binary things--we do this job OR that one. I can work for someone else OR I can work for myself. . Twenty years ago, even ten years ago, this either/or thinking made a lot of sense in a more stable world with relatively limited options. For good or ill, that world has changed though. There is little place for binary thinking.

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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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Want to stay on track with your New Year resolutions?

TheHRBlog

Last week I met up with a former client who I had not seen for some time. He was disappointed with himself because, although he had set himself some career goals for the New Year, everyday stuff had taken over and he had done absolutely nothing about them. I persuade him that all was not […].

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#ECTalent – Net Gen Leadership

Strategic HCM

'I’ve already posted on some of the morning session’s from last week’s Economist Talent Management Summit. After lunch I was due to moderate a panel featuring Ryan Blair but he didn’t show up, so Lucian Tarnowski stepped into Ryan’s shoes, I stepped into Lucian’s, and Robert Guest, the Economist’s business editor stepped into mine. The session was designed to consider how organisations can build, manage and retain leaders from gen y / the net generation who are more mobile and eager to self-deve

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The Myth of the “Skills Gap” and How Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Can Help

Insperity

Earlier this month the U.S. Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate crept back up to 8.2 percent, which means that some three years after the recession officially ended, millions of people are still without work. On the other side of the issue, employers are clamoring for qualified talent , citing a “skills gap” as one of the primary reasons they can’t fill open positions.

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This is Your Brain on Information Overload

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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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Paper Kills! New Hire Paperwork Kills Productivity

ExactHire

Advances in technology over the past few years have allowed organizations to streamline a variety of functions. Accounting, inventory control, payroll – these areas, and others, have seen significant advances in efficiency due to automation. Human Resources departments have also felt the positive impact of automation, although perhaps not to the extent of other organizational areas.

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New research reveals the business case for employee recognition

Achievers

Do you understand the power and ROI of “thank you” in the workplace? The latest research from Bersin & Associates proves companies that say “thank you” to employees far outperform companies that do not. The data comes from ” The State of Employee Recognition in 2012 ” report, revealing the secrets of employee recognition and the business results achieved from these programs.

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Competitive Employee Benefits Key During Tepid Economic Recovery

Insperity

For businesses looking to grow and get ahead in the wake of the Great Recession, offering competitive employee benefits is key. Workers nationwide have seen their net worth, home equity and retirement plan values drop at an alarming rate, and are likely to appreciate their benefit packages now more than ever. According to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finance —a detailed look at American wealth undertaken every three years—the median American family had the same amount of money in 201