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Gamifying Employee Engagement

HR Daily Advisor

Renowned game designer Jane McGonigal describes gamers as super empowered, hopeful individuals, attributes that she believes can be channeled into real-world contexts. The business world today really needs a lot of super empowered and hopeful employees, given that 85% of them are currently either lacking in engagement or actively disengaged. And gamification can hopefully help businesses motivate and empower a mostly listless workforce to reverse nearly $7 trillion in lost productivity. .

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Contingent Staffing’s Place in Healthcare HR’s Strategy

Precheck

Contingent Staffing’s Place in Healthcare HR’s Strategy Nov. 13, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. For healthcare organizations facing a hyper-competitive market and an aging customer base that requires more care, contingent staffing, also known as supplemental staffing, can play an integral role in HR's strategic planning process as a means to acquire on-demand, qualified healthcare talent.

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How to Improve the Speed of Your Hiring Process

HR Digest

The current candidate-driven market is affecting how hiring managers must work to access top quality talents. Job openings continue to outnumber the qualified talents available as the unemployment rate hit its lowest point. However, there has never been a better time to find the right candidate easily. But will giving in more time be beneficial? Based on the recent workable data, hire rates is at 51 days for IT roles and 60 days for engineering roles.

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Making the Case For—and Against—Hiring Overqualified Candidates

Cornerstone On Demand

We've all seen it before—you get an application from a candidate that is simply overqualified for the position that she's seeking. After all, why would an applicant with over twenty years of experience be vying for a mid-level role? But here's the problem with calling someone "overqualified." At some companies, the term has become an easy way to reject someone without saying "you're too old.

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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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6 Tips for a Successful Culture and Digital Transformation

HR Daily Advisor

Digital transformation is at the top of every organization’s agenda. Every department from marketing to customer success is being pushed to become data-driven. But is HR keeping up? This summer’s edition of HR Tech Meetup addressed a major challenge many HR departments are facing, but few are actually prepared for. Speakers Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Talent Intelligence Manager at Philips, and Marelle van Beerschoten, Founder of Digital Shapers, highlight one key element most companies are gettin

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Employees Don’t Respond to Perks, They Respond to Culture

DecisionWise

A few days ago, Jordan Yadoo at Bloomberg reported that employees will give up big pay raises in exchange for job perks. The reported statistics were eye-catching, with the headline teasing that “Americans Are Willing to Forgo a 56% Pay Raise for Best Job Perks.” At the end of the day, I agree with Mr. Yadoo’s findings, but not his headline. Employees do not give up pay for perks!

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Challenge Your Assumptions: Three Steps to Better Decision-Making

Cornerstone On Demand

Assumptions are often an inevitable part of quick decision making, but accepting assumptions as fact can be harmful to your business and employees. I learned this the hard way years ago when I was part of a performance management platform implementation at LandAmerica Financial Group. The platform was “state-of-the-art," and we were excited to have access to data about performance, given that up until that point, we had no quantifiable way to measure it.

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Lucky 13: Reflektive Ranked #13 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500

Reflektive

Just a week after our 5th birthday as a company, we are happy to announce that we were ranked 13 th in the Nation and 3rd in the Bay Area on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 ™, recognizing the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Fueled by our mission to help employees and managers work better together, our business grew a total of 8,240 percent from 2014 to 2017 as over 500 companies such as Comcast, Instaca

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Why Did SAP Pay $8 Billion To Acquire Qualtrics?

Josh Bersin

This week was a big one in the world of enterprise software: SAP announced plans to acquire Qualtrics , a fast-growing scrappy provider of survey and feedback software, for $8 billion. And this was not a small deal: Qualtrics’ revenues as of Q3 were $372 Million, and the company is growing at 42% YTY. This. Read more» The post Why Did SAP Pay $8 Billion To Acquire Qualtrics?

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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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Why People Value Culture More Than Compensation Now

15Five

Culture is a marathon, not a sprint. But in recent years, a trend has developed around treating culture as a commodity — one that can be purchased and distributed. Like a well-stocked mini kitchen and weekly happy hours. In many ways, it makes sense to the C-Suite. Competition for top talent has become increasingly fierce, and cool perks and rewards , high salaries, and unlimited PTO seem a simple way to win people over.

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my employer fined me $90 for being late

Ask a Manager

A reader writes. My company has a ridiculous late fine policy: you will be fined $2 for every minute, starting from 9:01 a.m. So if you come in at 9:05 a.m., that’s $10 you gotta pay up in cash. (This is not somewhere where down-to-the-minute coverage would be essential. It’s just typical deskbound, back-end work. I can see why the receptionist who gets the calls will need to be there smack on the dot, but the rest of us — not really.).

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6 Tips for Creating a Perfect Recruitment Video

TalentLyft

Creating recruitment videos is an important part of every successful talent acquisition strategy. Even if you have no budget and no previous experience, in this blog post you'll learn useful tips that will help you create a perfect recruiting video! Read More.

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The Best Way to Honor Veterans Is to Hire One

Entrepreneur

Hiring veterans and helping them acquire the skills they need to accelerate their careers is patriotic and smart business.

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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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Here’s a Summary of Key Labor and Employment Laws Taking Effect In 2019

TLNT: The Business of HR

As 2018 draws to a close, employers are looking to the next wave of labor and employment laws and regulations that will take effect in 2019 and beyond. On January 1, and throughout the coming year, employers across the nation must address a host of new or amended federal, state, and/or local obligations. This article summarizes the laws and regulations taking effect in 2019 that will impact most employers, and highlights some anticipated activity in the coming months.

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Stanford, Harvard, MIT Are The Top Colleges For 30 Under 30 2019 Honorees

Forbes Steve Cadigan

America's youngest game-changers don't need to go to the highest-ranked colleges to shine—but it doesn't hurt. Stanford University, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology top the list of schools with the most members of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2019 list.

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20 Mistakes to Avoid When Interviewing a Job Candidate

TalentLyft

Here are 20 mistakes you need to avoid when interviewing a job candidate. These are common mistakes most interviewers are guilty of. However, if you want to be a good interviewer and provide a great candidate experience, you should stop doing these mistakes! Read More.

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Instagram for Recruiting: Why Instagram Should Be Your Brand’s Secret Weapon

Spark Hire

As recruitment marketing shifts to target a younger demographic, finding candidates becomes even more challenging. We live in an increasingly visual world, where attention spans are dwindling. According to recent research , Millennials have an attention span of about 12 seconds, while Gen Z’s tops out at 8 seconds. For recruiters and brands looking to attract new candidates, it’s incredibly important to not only make a visual impact on new candidates, but also be able to clarify their message an

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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 Create a Human Resource Strategy

Digital HR Tech

Whether you´re working in a large corporate or a smaller enterprise, a Human Resource strategy forms the basis of everything you do in HR. In this article, we will give a definition of the HR strategy, explain how the HR strategy impacts daily HR practices, and we will end with a Human Resource strategy example. What is a Human Resource strategy? How to create an HR strategy.

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Lessening the Impact of Employee Turnover

Workology

In recent years, turnover rates have steadily increased due to lower unemployment, skills shortages in the labor market, and an increasing number of Baby Boomers reaching retirement age. While some turnover can be healthy, the costs associated with high turnover levels can accumulate quickly. Widespread factors such as a retiring population may be beyond your […] Source.

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30 Under 30 2019 Social Entrepreneurs: Leveraging Business Smarts To Save The World

Forbes Steve Cadigan

From a duo that wants to take the cows out of dairy to a fourth-generation beekeeper that's putting beehives on corporate campuses, meet the honorees on this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs list.

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Bullying in the workplace: how to monitor and manage unacceptable behaviour

HR Zone

Culture. How to deal with bullying in the workplace.

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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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Here’s What You Need In a People Analytics Leader

TLNT: The Business of HR

You need the right People Analytics Leader in order to build an effective and strategic people analytics function. This person is the key evangelist and visionary for data-driven decision making, and ensures the use of people analytics always delivers values to the business.

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5 Tips for Studying in Preparation for the SHRM Certification Exam

Workology

Join us on 12/6/18 for a webinar on how to prepare for the SHRM certification exam. Click here to register. When you’re preparing to study for both the SHRM Certification exams, it’s important to understand that it’s not the same as the LSATs or even a college exam. You can use the same methods that got most […] Source.

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Emotional Intelligence In Business And Leadership

Forbes Steve Cadigan

In recent decades, the definition of leadership has been changing, and an emphasis on emotional intelligence has emerged. Emotional intelligence has become recognized for its correlation to success in work and personal life, to motivation and to overall well-being.

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5 Reasons To Start Using A HR Management Software For Your Business!

Engagedly

HR is one of the most crucial functions for any business whether it is a startup or an established brand. Managing employees requires a lot of effort and is time-consuming. Using an automated HR management software smoothens the work-flow […].

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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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Around the Bonfyre: Andrea Gregoire’s Formula for Effective Employee Communication

Bonfyre

Andrea Gregoire first came to understand the principles of effective employee communication on Canada’s Parliament Hill. Today, Gregoire is the President and Owner of Ottawa-based Vision2Voice Communications , providing creative internal communications programs and services, but some 25 odd years ago, she cut her teeth as a researcher and communicator in the heart of Canada’s government.

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you need to write a better cover letter

Ask a Manager

For employers, picking the best candidate for the job isn’t just about skills and experience. If it were, they wouldn’t ask for cover letters at all — hell, we might not even need interviews. We could just hire based on resumes alone. But of course, other things matter, too — things like personal traits, work habits, communication skills, people skills, intelligence, drive, and enthusiasm for the job.

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Hacking The Human Side Of Digital Transformation

Forbes Coaches Council

Understanding and acknowledging that our unconscious minds drive much of our conscious thoughts can help leaders and teams feel safe and stable, even during uncertainty

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