Sat.Oct 31, 2015 - Fri.Nov 06, 2015

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4 Reasons Why Analytical Skills are a Must for Every Recruiter

Spark Hire

When hiring recruiters, it’s not always such an easy job. While you can find many “recruiters” in your searches, to find a great recruiter can seem like searching for a needle in a haystack. One of the biggest things you need to pay attention to when interviewing recruiters is their analytical skills. Sure, people skills, sales skills, and marketing skills are all important, but without analytical skills a recruiter will often be subpar versus the Allstar recruiter you are looking for.

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How to Make Meetings Worth Everyone’s Time. #TChat Recap

TalentCulture

Do you feel like meetings are the bane of your existence? We have all grown tired of scrambling to get real work done after sitting through countless meetings. It is frustrating and expensive to waste time and money this way. This week the TalentCulture community discussed how to drastically improve meetings, changing them from energy-zappers to energy-boosters.

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The Ultimate Subjective Thought Leader List

marenated HR

So, thought leader is a pretty weird thing to call someone, as many have pointed out. Giving someone the permission to control your thoughts doesn’t sound like something anyone would willingly sign up for… yet, we laud these people, vendors and speakers come to Red Branch hoping to turn into a thought leader and we build lists and guides to who to approach, how to approach them and more.

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October 2015 Product Release: Save Time, Boost Productivity, and Make Smarter Decisions

Cornerstone On Demand

The HR function is moving beyond automating processes, reducing costs, and managing compliance – to a more strategic role focused on driving people decisions that grow the business. This requires a shift from focusing on reporting to offering more strategic advice about critical people matters – such as recruitment, retention, development, etc.

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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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WWW: New Labour Intermediaries, Critical Talent and Work Conditions

New to HR

A flat world economy cannot exist without technology! Computer systems are allowing us to work collaboratively on an international scale, presenting us with valuable talent and transforming the traditional standards of work conditions. The international workforce has allowed for a new form of talent, referred to by CXC Global in the whitepaper “ Engaging the World Wide Workforce ” as “ critical talent. ”.

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CEO Lessons: Culture, Values and Profits are Intertwined

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries – including more than half of the Fortune 1000 ® – use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.

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5 Reasons HR Needs a Seat in the C-Suite

Cornerstone On Demand

As Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin Group, said , “a company's employees are its greatest asset.” Branson is one of a growing cohort of leaders who understand that a company is no greater than the talent it employs. And who owns responsibility for managing the needs of corporate talent? Human resources, of course — a department that rarely has influence in the C-Suite.

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Is Performance Management Data Completely Backward?

ClearCompany HRM

Ever since Deloitte announced their revival of better performance management, the subject as a whole has been under fire. People hate performance reviews, but they need the ratings. The ratings aren’t accurate, but they need to promote. The people they promote aren’t qualified, so you end up hiring new people anyway. The truth is, the poor cycle of performance management blunders can be solved with a simple word: data.

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Performance and Rewards: Differentiate Only When It’s Worth It

Visier

Should you encourage managers to differentiate performance and rewards among workers? The typical assumption is that more differentiation is better. Merit-based rewards are seen as a hallmark of a “high performance culture.”. 91% of companies linked pay to performance in 2011 , up from 78% in 2009. 89% of companies differentiated performance using numerical ratings in 2014-2015.

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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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Employees With Benefits [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

We’ve all heard the phrase that there’s more to compensation than our paychecks. Meaning that perks and benefits play a huge role in total compensation. Benefits are usually defined as non-wage compensation. In some places, they are mandated by law (examples include health insurance, sick pay, vacation, etc.) Perks are typically non-standard benefits that might be unusual in nature or limited to certain positions.

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Changing is NOT Transforming!

Cornerstone On Demand

So let’s say you are helping a child with their science homework and so you reach for Google. The assignment is simple, to talk about how a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. One website says, “The caterpillar starts to change", and then you go to another website and it says, "The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most exquisite in the natural world" Both are reputable websites, one is a university and another is National Geographic for good

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5 Reasons Compliance is Easier with Video Interviewing

ClearCompany HRM

In Human Resources, we’re constantly managing risk. New technologies, while they introduce convenience into our lives can often bring worries of compliance, new risks and fear that our highly protected employee information could be misused or mismanaged.

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7 Smart Ways to Reinvent Your Recruiting Strategy

Trinet

Guest post by BankOpening.co.uk In a competitive hiring environment, successful recruiters take advantage of various novel trends to build a robust working culture and attract top talents to their. Visit site for full story.

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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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Self-Management Success: Learn How to Learn (Part 5)

HR Bartender

Even when you work in an office full of people, self-management involves doing a lot of things independently – resolving your conflicts, figuring out the solutions to your problems and creating your most productive work. Self-management also involves thinking about your future and generating your own professional development plan. In a traditional office environment, your boss might tell you what skills to develop.

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Beg, Steal and Borrow: Building an HR Analytics Team

Cornerstone On Demand

Analytics is HR's ticket to boardroom respect and business clout — by becoming data-driven, HR can provide the hard evidence and figures that chief executives and finance directors love. Analytics has become a driving force between both marketing and finance in recent years, so why should human resources be any different? The majority of senior HR professionals "get" this message.

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Stop Wasting Time Measuring HR Data

UpstartHR

Please. For goodness sake, please stop measuring HR data. See, I know why you’re doing it. You heard this “ big data ” thing it was a good idea, and you started gathering information. Then you realized how easy it was, so you started pulling together even more from a variety of sources. You’re hitting up your applicant tracking system, payroll system, and other data feeds to get what you want.

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4 Ways to Leverage Performance Management to Empower Your Workforce

Trinet

This post originally appeared on the TriNet Cloud blog In a competitive market, an empowered workforce can provide a competitive advantage for your company. It can encourage innovation, catalyze. Visit site for full story.

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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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Competitive Partnerships Powering the Future of Business

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000010 I was at IBM Insight last week and as per usual it was an awarding experience. There is a shift going on in business and technology that I find both interesting and exciting. It is a shift that is about partnership over competition. Big name technology companies are partnering with new school app developers […].

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ICYMI: It's Time for HR to Put on a 'Sales' Hat

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest in HR. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular stories every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for October's top stories! 4 Ways HR Needs to Think Like Sales.

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ITIN, SSN, or EIN Number – What's the Difference?

Justworks

The Internal Revenue Service announced in 2014 that effective immediately “Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will expire if not used on a federal income tax return for five consecutive years.” [ IRS Newswire IR-2014-76 ]. Does that mean that an individual's Social Security Number (SSN) or a business's Employer Identification Number (EIN) will expire if it is never used?

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Your Disengaged Employees Don’t Trust You

ATD Human Capital

Employee engagement is a good news/bad news proposition. On the bright side, employee engagement is at its highest level since 2000, and overall employee engagement was up 2 percent from 2013 to 2014, per a January 2015 Gallup poll. Overall, 31.5 percent of U.S. employees are engaged at work. This is a good statistic, but only in the “sort of” sense.

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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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Is meditation magic? It can quiet the brain, lower job stress, and increase focus

Achievers

Imagine having a panic attack : a sudden feeling of terror that can strike without warning, even during sleep, and that can make you feel like you are having a heart attack or going crazy. Now imagine having one on live television with 5+ million people watching. That’s just what happened to Dan Harris, ABC news correspondent, co-anchor and author of 10% Happier: How I tamed the Voice in my Head, Reduced Stress without losing my Edge, and Found Self-Help that Actually Works. .

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How to Motivate Millennial Employees: 5 Proven Tips

UrbanBound HR

Millennials sometimes get a bad rap, and they don’t necessarily deserve it. There are some obvious differences when you compare the younger people entering the workforce to the previous generations. Technology has improved, information spreads faster than ever, and values are changing. Younger employees have been shaped by modern times, and this affects their work style.

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4 Ways Small Teams Can Streamline Content Creation

Justworks

Kelsey Meyer is the president of Influence & Co. , a content marketing firm that specializes in helping companies showcase their expertise through thought leadership. Influence & Co.’s clients range from venture-backed startups to Fortune 500 brands. Before we grew our team to more than 60 awesome employees, my co-founder, our first hire, and I ran every department.

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6 Questions You Need to Ask to Hire the Best Intern

Spark Hire

You have extra work that needs to get done, and your top performers are in need of leadership training. It’s time to hire an intern. You set out on the hiring process as you would for any position — but interns are different. They don’t have much experience in the workplace nor the job search, so you’ll need to evaluate their application materials accordingly.

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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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Today’s workforce mindset – employees want a human experience

Achievers

In today’s competitive economy, if two organizations are both doing a great job engaging their workforces, what makes one of them better than the other? Aon Hewitt recently surveyed 2,539 employees at companies of 1,000 or more across several industries, and Raymond Baumruk, partner and leader in the firm’s Next Practices/Employee Research & Insights group, shared top findings with attendees of Achievers Customer Experience (ACE) 2015.

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More Human Workplaces Can Get 70%+ Engagement Levels

RecognizeThis!

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – The best competitive advantage available to all organizations lies in building a powerful, positive, WorkHuman culture. I hosted a webinar with Newsweaver (internal communications experts and software) recently. My topic was how social recognition can contribute to driving a company culture and creating better employee communications.

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Know the Basics: LLC Advantages & Disadvantages

Justworks

One of the most common forms of corporate structure is the Limited Liability Company (LLC). As we’ve already covered, if you’re aching to get your business started and don’t need much liability or potential tax optimization, the sole proprietorship is your best bet. But if there is going to be more than one person owning the business, you want to ensure that you’re not held liable, and can take advantage of certain business friendly taxes, the LLC might be the next best step for you.