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The Best HR Leaders are Data Driven, People Oriented

UpstartHR

One of the phrases I’ve found myself repeating more and more often of late is this: data driven, people oriented. . When I’m speaking to audiences, I share the story about how I *accidentally* insulted my wife during childbirth to illustrate this concept. Yes, really. It makes a great point that we can’t just be data driven or we lose sight of the people behind every metric and number.

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Top 7 Ways To Help Employees Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed At Work

15Five

This time of year, it’s common to feel overwhelmed at work. Whether it’s the push to complete work projects by year-end or the desire to meet the unrealistic expectations that surround the holidays, stressors from personal and professional life can intersect, impacting employees’ productivity, motivation, and health. Employees: burned out and stressed.

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Are You an Employee Engagement Dinosaur?

Jason Lauritsen

This week, I somehow found myself in a conversation with a colleague about breaking the habit of putting two spaces behind a period when I type. Since he is roughly my age, he understood this challenge completely. For some of you reading this, the idea of putting two periods beyond a sentence when you type sounds completely ridiculous (who would ever think that’s a good idea?).

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Your roadmap for hiring highly skilled workers

Insperity

Do you have an open position with super-specific criteria that you’ve had a difficult time filling? If you’ve been trying to pinpoint the right candidate awhile without any luck, one reason could be because you’re hiring highly skilled workers. So, who is this, exactly? A highly skilled worker is anyone with qualifications that are rare to find and difficult to obtain – and, at this moment, very much in demand.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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What’s Lurking In Their Background?

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

What Would You Do? You drove through rush-hour traffic, grabbed your first cup of coffee and sat down at your desk at Acme Staffing, only to have your door darkened a few minutes later by the boss. “I think we’ve got a problem, maybe. We’ve been getting some complaints.” Her face reflects the doom-and-gloom in her voice. She closes your door and sits down.

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5 Biggest Challenges for HR Leadership Teams

Achievers

Human Resources (HR) is a complex profession (but that’s what you like about it, right?) and the challenges you face come from many directions. Some of those challenges, like tight labor markets and economic volatility, are beyond your control. Others may arise perennially but can be affected by how you approach them. As a seasoned HR professional and the Chief People and Culture Officer at Achievers, I understand the challenges that come with being an HR leader.

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What You Need to Know About New York State's New IVF Mandate

Justworks

About 9% of men and about 11% of women of reproductive age in the United States have experienced fertility problems. Infertility affects many people and is often a misunderstood condition. While there are a number of alternative methods of reproduction, these alternatives can be very costly. One of the most frequently used fertility treatments is in vitro fertilization (IVF).

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4 Reasons You Need Data-Driven Recruiting

TalentCulture

Data offers vast strategic benefits to your organization's recruiting and hiring processes. Read this post to learn the top 4 reasons you need data-driven recruiting in your company. The post 4 Reasons You Need Data-Driven Recruiting appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Five Recruiting Trends for the New Decade

SHRM Resources

?Traditional job interviews leave something to be desired. Relying on hiring managers to handle them without injecting some level of personal bias is fraught with risk, and the fact that many busy managers would rather not spend time interviewing candidates in the first place only compounds the problem.Enter the Tengai HR robot. This 16-inch-tall robotic device gets right to the task without stopping to engage in small talk with each applicant.

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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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Qualities of a Good Manager: 13 Soft Skills You Need

Fond

You’ve put in the effort, you’ve honed your skills, and you’re finally a manager. While this is great news, being proficient at your job doesn’t necessarily equate to being a great manager. When you manage people, you are responsible for inspiring, motivating, and encouraging them. It’s no longer just about you and what you bring to the table — you need to get others to bring all they can to the table, too.

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Engaging Your Remote Team: 9 Tips to Avoiding Isolation

Bonusly

In the modern workplace, employers are becoming more flexible when it comes to schedule and location. It’s no longer necessary to sit in the same office next to all of your coworkers from 9 to 5 each day. The remote workforce is growing and doesn’t show signs of slowing down any time soon. In order to retain remote employees, leaders need to take an active approach to engagement. 9 ways to prioritize engagement within your remote team.

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Being Human

HRGem

Yesterday I sent a tweet about a conversation I’d been in that morning. It briefly described a situation that had been told to me, relating to a large UK organisation the name of which would be familiar to many.

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my coworker wants “pawternity” leave

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a middle-aged woman who works in an office with other women in the same age range as myself. Half of our office are parents, the other half are not. One of my coworkers is fairly open about being and remaining child-free. She’s spoken about donating to abortion access funds, and in her personal life has counseled younger women who are on the fence about children to delay or remain child-free.

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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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#WorkTrends: Taking Stock of the Global State of Work

TalentCulture

Our guest on #WorkTrends today is Mr. Hung Lee, the co-founder, and CEO of the recruiting firm Workshape.io. He’s also the founder of the mega-newsletter, Recruiting BrainFood. We discussed the global state of recruiting and the workplace, how the upheaval of Brexit will affect European and British tech firms and workers, and my new favorite subject — the passion economy.

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Employee wellbeing: building a psychologically safe place for all

HR Zone

Culture Building a psychologically safe place at work.

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The Pragmatic Recruiting Framework: A lesson from marketing

Workable

I’m not a fan of the tired rhetoric of “Recruitment is just like X”. But let’s face facts: every discipline can learn something from others. So I’ve been thinking about what recruitment can learn from product marketing and this is what I came up with – the Pragmatic Recruiting Framework: This is as yet unfinished, because: You can customize as needed for your own purposes.

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Employee Appreciation: No Two Ways About It

Engagedly

There are two ways of doing employee appreciation. Either you break the bank or you go budget-friendly. But there is no reason not to do it. Employee appreciation is a great way to humanize work and let your […].

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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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Ep 51 – Accenture Sets Goal to Achieve Gender Balanced Workforce by 2025

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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2020 trends: More employers offering paid parental leave

HR Morning

The 14th largest private company in the U.S. announced Nov. 7 that it now offers six weeks of paid parental leave to most of its 28,000 employees following the birth or adoption of a child. Pilot Flying J’s “gender-neutral” leave benefit is available to all new parents working at its rest stops, retail locations and service centers who have at least one year of service and who’ve worked at least 1,250 hours in the past 12 months. “We strongly believe that paid paren

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Planning your recruitment budget for 2020: expert advice from a finance VP

Workable

Being in finance, you, of course, know how to calculate budgets. But when it comes to recruitment, do you have a deeper understanding of planning your recruitment budget for 2020? With the new year just around the corner – and your higher-ups expecting you to fine-tune the money going into and out of the system – the first thing to do is look at what you’ve done in 2019.

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5 Employee Mental Health Initiatives For Your Organization

Engagedly

Managers work really hard to improve their workplace culture by addressing various issues like work-life balance, workplace bias, bullying etc., and establishing intact policies against these issues but mental health is one of the most underrated workplace issues […].

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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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Tips For Women In Leadership #TXConfWomen Exclusive

Workology

Tips For Women In Leadership #TXConfWomen Exclusive The Texas Conference for Women sparked a fire inside thousands of women that will continue to burn as we are paving the way in leadership. Names. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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5 BEST PRACTICES FOR CANDIDATE VETTING IN 2019

Owiwi

Recruiters are getting smarter about how they filter out applicants during the hiring process. Scary stats like the cost of making the wrong hire motivate in-house recruiters to be more careful about whom they extend job offers. The cost of hiring the wrong fit can be up to 2.5x the salary – as much as $240,000 , according to one report. In a job market where roles require specialized technical knowledge, vetting processes must keep up.

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Wellbeing: how employers can support a social wellness culture through benefits

HR Zone

Culture Social wellness at work.

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Initiatives to Boost Employee Engagement At Your Organization

Engagedly

There is a constant need to improve upon employee engagement levels, instead of letting them stay as-is. This is not to do with playing the numbers game, but rather because it is important to keep switching things up. […].

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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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There's No Such Thing As Weak Leadership

NoExcusesHR

Have you ever heard the comment." oh, he's a weak leader." Maybe you've said it yourself. Candidly, I have too. Ouch. Expectations We all talk about.or should talk about.setting proper expectations with our leadership teams. What should they focus on? Where should they put their development time? How will their success be measured? What can they expect from us as their senior leaders?

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“Okay, Boomer” in the Workplace Can Get You Fired

Evil HR Lady

As a Gen Xer, I sit back and watch as the Baby Boomers and Millennials battle it out on the internet. And, to be honest, it’s also the Gen Z’s, some of whom think everyone over 40 is a baby boomer. Let’s remember that (if we go by the years 1981-1996 for Millennials) that the oldest Millennials are sneaking up on 40 themselves. Remember that the oldest Baby Boomers (1946-1964) are only 73.

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Women Like Technology Work. It’s Time to Hire More of Them

SHRM Resources

If women have the chance to stay in their tech jobs and advance in their careers, many of them will find they’ll enjoy the work they do, reap the rewards of their labor and find a suitable work/life balance, reveals a Capital One survey that examines why women stay in tech jobs and why they bolt.