Sat.Mar 10, 2018 - Fri.Mar 16, 2018

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These 3 words just cost an employer $50K

HR Morning

A recent lawsuit taught managers what not to say as the EEOC showed, once again, that a small comment can end up costing an employer big. . Diverse Lynx, an IT staffing firm in Princeton, NJ, was slapped with an age discrimination suit after rejecting a older applicant. ‘Age will matter’ According to the EEOC , after learning how old a job applicant was, the company emailed him saying he would no longer be considered for the position because he was born in 1945.

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Top 3 Initiatives for Healthcare HR in 2018

Precheck

Top 3 Initiatives for Healthcare HR in 2018 Mar. 13, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. The challenges in healthcare HR are clear: an ongoing talent crunch, shifting regulations and reimbursement models, and ongoing mergers and acquisitions. To meet these challenges, HR leaders must focus on their core strengths and roles to implement talent strategies that support the bottom line.

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Sterling Talent Solutions Receives Stevie Awards for Customer Service and Global Sales Teams

Sterling Check

We are very proud to announce that Sterling Talent Solutions was recently awarded a Gold Stevie Award for Global Sales Team for the second year in a row and the Bronze Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year-All Other Industries. The Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service honors “the achievements of contact center, customer service, business development and sales professionals worldwide” Winning a Stevie Award is a terrific way to benchmark an organization̵

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Recruiting Technology: How Video Can Attract Active and Passive Jobseekers

HR Daily Advisor

Is your company using video in the recruiting process? If not, you may want to consider incorporating this technology into your recruiting strategies, as we are living in a digital age that is currently faced with a competitive candidate-driven market. Talent acquisition professionals are “mining for gold” it seems when searching for top talent. Really, there are two groups that you are looking to attract when searching for qualified candidates: chombosan / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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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 Support the Creative Process of Ordinary People

HR Bartender

I loved this Harvard Business Review white paper by Teresa Amabile titled, “ In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity ”. From a business context, we’re constantly focused on creativity and innovation. We place value on it. My takeaway from the white paper is that we tend to label people as “creative” versus looking at a creative process that anyone could use successfully.

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Why Having HR Measurements is No Longer Enough to Grow HR's Strategic Role

Cornerstone On Demand

When Google Analytics debuted in 2005, the ability to look under the hood, and see who was viewing your website (and for how long), was all at once foreign and exciting. In fact, it was so exciting there was a waitlist to access it—for nearly a year. Over a decade later, our collective obsession with metrics and analytics remains: data reigns supreme across industries with promises to improve strategic decisions.

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Thinking of Changing Performance Reviews? Focus on These Core Components

Lighthouse

Performance reviews are dead, or so we have been told. The data shows a shrinking support for the traditional method: only 15% of companies have not adjusted their annual performance management process and do not plan to. But the data from our Performance Management, Culture, and Business Results study shed a different light on the subject as well. High-performing companies, those with increases in revenue, retention, and engagement, are more likely to prioritize multiple goal-setting and review

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Employee Engagement Roadmap: It Is Not Too Late to Create Yours for 2018!

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Workify , an all-in-one employee engagement platform that makes it easy for companies to understand and take action on what’s motivating and demotivating employees throughout the employee experience. Enjoy!). Over the course of last year, we talked a lot about employee engagement.

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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. Upskilling Talent Acquisition: The 21st Century Recruiter -- by Amber Grewal. 2.

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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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Want Your Recruitment CRM to Be Effective? Focus on Relationship Building

Cornerstone On Demand

While applicant tracking systems (ATS) have enabled companies to organize applicants in one system, magnified reach from digital advertising and job boards have created other challenges. In our effort to get more applicants, we've moved away from quality—HR teams simply can't evaluate 250 applications per job posting. Because of this, relationship building between company and candidate is often lost.

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How to Ask for Constructive Feedback

Reflektive

Imagine that you were going to an optometrist and you weren’t able to tell them when the lens they applied worked best – do you think they would be able to write a prescription that would actually work well for you? During your visit to an optometrist’s office you will normally get asked, “can you see it now…. how about now,” by doing this, they are changing lenses to better understand your vision needs, but in order to do this they need to know what isn’t working.

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Know When to Upgrade Your Technology – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of quality workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the fourth consecutive year, Kronos has been named one of the Best Workplaces for Women according to global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work. Congrats to them!

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How To Focus On Employee Experience (And Sell It To Your CFO)

15Five

Don’t get me wrong– your CFO isn’t the bad person here—most likely, your finance guru wants the same thing you do—an organization that runs at its peak efficiency, with employees who are productive and committed to helping the company succeed. It’s just that you may come at that goal from different directions. You believe that intentionally creating a positive employee experience (EX) is necessary to make the organization competitive—and to do that, you may need to invest in organizational

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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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Employee Engagement — Capturing Hearts, Spirits, Minds, and Hands - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

We see more and more organizations working to “get employees engaged.” On the one hand, it’s good to see most organizations today recognize that the employee experience is at the core of organizational success. Unfortunately, often these “employee engagement initiatives” consist primarily of throwing perks at engagement woes. Visiting trade shows—Human Resources, in particular—will quickly provide proof that the terms “employee engagement solutions” and “employee experience” have been usurped by

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How Authentic Leaders Inspire Employee Growth

Reflektive

Where does employee growth come from? As human resources leaders see their best talent leaving for growth opportunities, this question is top of mind. In an article for HR Daily Advisor article I covered where leaders play a part in the growth of employees. There’s no question that executives influence – for better or worse – the next generation of leaders.

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6 Reasons to Attend the 2018 SHRM Talent Conference – #SHRMTalent

HR Bartender

I know there’s a lot of conversation right now about the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference taking place June 17-20, 2018 in Chicago. I’m excited to be attending this year. But I want to talk about a conference that happens before SHRM Annual. It’s the SHRM Talent Conference & Expo. This year’s event will be taking place April 16-18, 2018 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.

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Are Your Supervisors Focused on the Right Customer?

Achievers

87% of millennials say their development in a job is essential. As a new generation of employees is promoted to their first supervisory or management role, organizations continue to fail to set them up for leadership success. One of the first lessons I learned as a new supervisor at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company was that my customers were no longer my most important priority—it was now my employees (or my internal customers).

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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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7 Definitions of Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Have you ever wondered why there were so many definitions of employee engagement? Organizations around the globe are striving to build a culture of engagement, yet the various definitions often cloud their efforts. Rewards and recognitions, learning and development, health and fitness, perks and benefits are all categories that commonly use employee engagement to describe their initiatives.

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Breaking Down the Difference Between HMO and PPO

Justworks

When choosing health insurance for your company, there are many decisions to make. One of the first may be what type of plan to choose. If you’re shopping for health insurance, you’ve probably come across the acronyms HMO and PPO. HMO stands for Health Maintenance Organization, and PPO stands for Preferred Provider Organization. Knowing the difference between HMO and PPO is an important first step to determining which kind of plan is right for your company and employees.

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HR: Handling tough conversations with employees

PeopleStrategy

At some point in your career as an HR professional, you will need to have challenging, awkward or uncomfortable conversations with employees. It’s part of the job. Sometimes employees behave inappropriately, do not perform as needed, or butt heads with co-workers. Skilled HR professionals are able to talk to employees about these issues in ways that are clear, direct and productive.

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The Shift from Years of Service Awards to a Culture of Recognition

Achievers

We’ve all been there. Your coworker Sam is moving on to a new opportunity. Goodbyes are being said. Personal email addresses are being exchanged so everyone can “stay in touch”. Sam’s cardboard box is filled with the usual suspects: family photos, a mousepad with the Dallas Cowboys logo, the chrome stapler he secretly lifted from the supply closet and a Ziplock bag full of client business cards he has gathered over the years.

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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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Employee Feedback That Matters: Ask These Three Questions to Advance Your Career

Kazoo

By now many organizations are realizing the value of moving from one annual performance conversation to a continuous feedback loop. But it’s much more than a simple process change. Real-time feedback is a culture shift taking place across companies of all industries and sizes. It’s turning managers into constructive coaches and employees into proactive listeners.

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[Infographic] 10 Tips To Stop You From Missing That Deadline

Hppy

Author Douglas Adams once famously said: “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” If that sounds familiar when it comes to your own project management skills, it tends not to be something you can actually joke about, as missing deadlines can cost you in your career and you don’t want to get the reputation as someone who can’t be trusted to get work done on time.

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With #MeToo, WorkHuman 2018 Takes on New Sense of Urgency

WorkHuman

By Laurie Ruettimann. Did you know the #MeToo movement is more than 12 years old? Tarana Burke changed the world when she used the phrase “me too” back in 2006 to help women who had survived sexual violence. Since that time, conversations have evolved. Real change is happening all over the world. Journalists have written about abuse of power in Hollywood, major corporations, and restaurants.

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Evernote's Head of 'People' Explains How the Company Employs Tech Tools to Reinforce Its Values

Entrepreneur

Technology and data can help make work productive, fulfilling, supportive and inclusive when proclaiming company values only goes so far.

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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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Allies in the Workplace: Engaging men in the conversation

Everwise

Engaging Men in the Conversation about Women. It’s no secret that companies with diverse leadership teams and inclusive cultures perform better. And yet, despite an all-time commitment to gender diversity, women continue to be underrepresented at all levels in organizations of all sizes across all sectors. According to the Women in the Workplace Report from McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, women face hurdles on every rung of the corporate ladder.

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How to Identify and Hire Servant Leaders

Hppy

Ever heard the term “service leader?” It’s what it sounds like — leaders who make service their priority. For them, leadership centers around the “one for all” musketeer mentality without the “all for me” in return. Servant leaders strive to do more than your typical do-gooder. Despite human resources education, many professionals still carry around the idea that leaders tell employees what to do, the staff falls in line and that’s the end of it.

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Welcome to the Hoops Coaches Absolutely Losing their * Conference Room.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note - March Madness starts today. I'm re-running a post from a few years back on a conference room theme I think would absolutely rock. Survive and advance, people. Survive and advance. At Kinetix , we have some themed conference and breakout rooms. There's Boiler Room, Tommy Boy, Moneyball, etc. I think it's time to have a room - to be named later - which includes portraits of basketball coaches absolutely losing their *.