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When to hire a recruiting agency

Workable

Recruitment agencies save your company time and effort by sourcing and shortlisting candidates for your open roles. Why you should use a recruitment agency: There are many benefits of using a recruitment agency, especially when you: Have short-term hiring needs. A recruiting firm finds employees fast, since they have a network of candidates with whom they have built relationships.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Next Insurance raises $29 million for online platform that targets small businesses with tailored plans.

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4 Ways the Public Sector Can Incorporate Learning Into Performance Reviews

Cornerstone On Demand

Bacon and eggs. Peanut butter and jelly. Chocolate and peanut butter. Learning and performance? Some things are just better together! Certainly you have heard of the trends going on in performance management; specifically the move towards doing away with ratings and focusing in on how best to truly develop employees. Some companies, like Amazon, T-Mobile and Deloitte, are foregoing the ratings part of performance reviews all together.

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It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Union Organizing Campaign Anymore

Compensation Today

Unions used to be at the forefront on employee issues. They bargained for wages, paid leave, staffing models, and used measures such as boycotting brands to bring attention to workplace issues. Perhaps ironically, in today’s uncertain and competitive market, some companies are taking up the mantle in the name of culture and winning top talent. It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Union Anymore.

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Investing in HR Software: How to Get Internal Buy-in

Buying HR software is a major decision. That’s why finding the right provider based on your needs and ensuring key decision makers are on board is vital. Download Paycor’s guide for tips to address common concerns across your buying committee.

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What Does Your Employer Brand Look Like?

ClearCompany HRM

You are exposed to a multitude of brands every single day, whether they be the billboards you pass on your way to work, the ads and posts you see all over Facebook or your favorite social media site. With brands becoming more recognizable thanks to technology, it’s important to make sure your employer brand stands out amongst competitors. This becomes a daunting task for employers as candidates can be easily attracted to the many alluring brands on the market.

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Four Ways Company Culture Can Support Women in Leadership

Cornerstone On Demand

While more than 75 percent of CEOs say gender equality is part of their top 10 business priorities, women remain underrepresented across every level of the corporate pipeline—comprising just 37 percent of management positions and 19 percent of C-Suite positions, according to a recent study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org. This gender disparity doesn't stem from the inability of women to perform at top levels.

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Why Great HR Strategy Shouldn’t Be About Making HR Better

Visier

(Editor’s note: Our annual user conference, Visier Outsmart, is underway so expect some future content summarizing all the great insights shared at the event. In the meantime, enjoy this “Back by Popular Demand” post about a past Outsmart keynote delivered by the father of modern HR and leading business consultant, Dave Ulrich ). In December 2014 Dave Ulrich published the article Why Chief Human Resources Officers Make Great CEOs in Harvard Business Review, in which he shared the res

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8 Methods To Reduce Costs During Slow Season

nettime solutions

All businesses have a slow season. It’s within this period that companies have a tendency to place urgency on reducing costs. In most cases, it’s a good way to tackle costs by trimming the fat. Unfortunately for some organizations the presumption is that managers will take the right actions to control their department costs. Or perhaps follow their CFO’s suggestions to delay critical investments, shift costs from one accounting category to another, or reduce overhead.

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5 Deskercises to Keep You Active at Work

HR Bartender

One of the things I love about my health insurance company is that they offer webinars and workshops to both members and the community. I’ve been able to get the latest info from a doctor about the Zika virus. They also hold nutrition workshops. Recently, I attended a Deskercise workshop (aka activities we can do at our desk). Because I work from home, I’m very conscious of the need to get active.

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Secrets to the Switch: Choosing the Best HR Software in 2023

Speaker: Patrick Sayers - President, Newcastle Research

Does your organization need more productivity (and less pain) from your HR software? With the increase of technology-dependent remote work and highly sophisticated cyber threats on the rise, it's critical to successfully implement an HR platform that can help your organization see actionable information in real-time to hit all your key workforce KPIs.

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Cartoon Coffee Break: Let's Talk About Your Facebook Post

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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What Kind of Company Culture Do You Have?

CultureIQ

Company culture has made headlines as the HR director’s topic of choice for years now. And because of what we know about the impact company culture has on internal statistics like turnover and retention and external statistics like profitability , … The post What Kind of Company Culture Do You Have? appeared first on CultureIQ.

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3 FAQs on stratustime Mobile

nettime solutions

With 90% of American adults owning a cell phone and 58% of those using a smartphone, it’s no surprise that stratus time’s mobile module is a hot topic among our clients (Source: Pew Research Internet Project ). As a technical sales engineer for nettime solutions, I demo stratus time’s mobile interface daily, and frequently hear the following questions from our clients and prospects in the HR and IT industry: 1.

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The Key to Employee Engagement: Your Net Promoter Score

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Workify , an all-in-one people management software platform. Workify is a technology-enabled service that helps companies measure and trend employee engagement over time through continuous feedback loops. Enjoy the post!). It’s sad to say but businesses don’t appear to be really moving the needle when it comes to employee engagement.

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2023 HR Technology Trends: What's New and What's Next

Speaker: Ben Eubanks - Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory

The world of HR has changed so much in recent years, and so have the technologies and tools that support HR and talent leaders. But frankly, keeping up with the ever-changing HR tech landscape can feel like another full-time job. That's why we're sharing with you this webinar session with Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer for Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

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Introducing “10 Places to Find US”

Ultimate Software

In addition to Ultimate Software’s official blog, there are many places you can find US online and throughout the HR community. Our new series features topical coverage of Ultimate’s cloud technology and workplace culture from the perspectives of various thought leaders, industry analysts, and people-first organizations. Here are 10 Places to Find US: Recruiting Daily —RecruitingDaily.com published a 300+ Women in HR Technology That You Should Follow and Support list on its blog to support Women

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Employee Retention: Tomorrow’s Recruiting Metric

Lighthouse

As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for discussing how it is actually performing. Recruiting, in some ways, is actually easier to measure because it is very similar to sales: you either have results or you don’t. This is evidenced by our recent study on talent acquisition priorities , where half of talent leaders said that they were focused on improving the recruiting process over

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Hey, Can You Cover My Shift Today?

nettime solutions

If you’re in the service industry – managing a busy restaurant or a retail store – some of your biggest challenges center around employee scheduling. Keeping track of who’s available to work, setting your shifts for a full week, and covering for last-minute absences or surges in customers. We designed stratustime’s new Advanced Scheduling capabilities based on client feedback to address these challenges and help you: Create and customize shifts and capacities.

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Stop Doing These 6 Things that Slow Organizational Momentum

HR Bartender

Momentum is the strength or force that allows something to continue to grow stronger or faster over time. We tend to think of momentum in the context of objects – such as the rock gained momentum as it rolled downhill. But it occurred to me that momentum applies to activities – support for a project can gain momentum. If workplace activities can gain momentum, then we need to be focused on how to increase it.

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The HR Leader’s Guide to Recruiting & Hiring

62% of Paycor survey respondents say we’re in a permanent talent shortage. By 2030, we’ll see more jobs than workers (BCG).

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Global Employment Laws: Do You Know Your Stuff?

UpstartHR

Did you know, in some countries it is illegal to email employees after normal work hours? This is just one example of the interesting global employment laws that can catch an unsuspecting employer at an inopportune time. For instance, several years ago I was sending some workers to Saudi Arabia, and we found out at the last minute that we had to abide by the “Saudization” requirement, which forced us to hire local workers to support the contract, even if they were not qualified to do

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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. Why Hiring Managers Shouldn’t Be Making the Hiring Decision -- by Lou Adler. 2. The Recruitment Industry to Die in 2018 -- by Simon Young. 3.

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4 Tips For Planning Your Time and Attendance Implementation

nettime solutions

Software implementation can be tricky. If you’re not a computer programmer, it’s enough to make your head spin. Yet in today’s technologically advanced workplace, software conversations often bubble to the surface, regardless of whether your role is in payroll, IT, or even finance. Below are four tips to help your time and attendance implementation go smoothly: 1.

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My Job Could Have Been Great

WorkHuman

It’s easy to remember the bad boss. The person who didn’t give you feedback or coaching. The leader who wouldn’t engage in ongoing conversations or feedback because she was too busy with her own job to stop and spend time recognizing good performance in the trenches. I’ve had that boss. Early in my career, I worked as a recruiter in a bustling HR department.

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Upskilling HR: Future-Proof Your HR Career

Speaker: Jeanne Achille - CEO, The Devon Group

Is your HR department running around barefoot like the shoemaker's children? If so, you're on a collision course with the ever-changing realities of the workplace, which necessitate strong HR tech skills. In this webinar, we'll look at why HR should invest in learning to ensure organizational resiliency and employee retention. Consider it self-care as we discuss how to future-proof your own career through the opportunities provided by upskilling.

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Output Over Hours: How to Think About Remote Workers

Hppy

Arguably the biggest concern that employers and managers have with remote work is how to make sure their employees are really spending the full 40, 50, 60 or whatever it may be hours per week working. If they can’t see their employees, how do they know if they’re actually at their desks? . But what if this is the wrong way to look at it? What if what matters most is output?

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How Organizational Culture Can Help Bring Out the Best in Employees

ATD Human Capital

It’s easy to look at a company’s balance sheet and attempt to gauge its success based on the numbers, but dollar amounts can’t tell the whole truth about the actual state of an organization. The true “health” of a company lies with the health and well-being of its employees. This doesn’t mean that every employee needs to smile all the time.

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Convert to a Point System – a Simple and Effective Employee Productivity Tool

nettime solutions

On paper and according to the Black’s Law Dictionary, the term employee is defined as “a person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed.”. To be practical, employees are what make, build and grow a business.

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What is Employee Value Proposition? (Examples)

EmployeeConnect

Try to visualise a situation where you have to sell jobs for your organisation to individuals who have a lot of lucrative job opportunities in hand. In such a situation, what would you sell the job for or would you be able to attract the right talent towards a certain position? It is a fact that every organisation wants the best talent on board, but how many of them succeed in acquiring such talent?

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor created an open enrollment sample letter (and a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today.