Sat.Dec 15, 2018 - Fri.Dec 21, 2018

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You Can’t Fix What You Refuse to See

TLNT: The Business of HR

“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.”?—?Mickey Mantle. Understanding what lies ahead is critical to making the right decisions. Accepting reality requires to remain open to new information?—?especially the one that challenges what we know for sure.

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Out-of-the-box recruiting strategies: Talent in the unlikeliest of places

Workable

What if we could take the unemployed and soon-to-be unemployed and prepare them for a new career? What if your accountant was once a coal miner? Or your computer programmer was once an auto-line manufacturer? It doesn’t make a difference to you so long as they do a good job. To remain adequately staffed, employers must turn to out-of-the-box recruiting strategies, but they’ll need to rewrite industry best practices and welcome input from communities and the government.

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Nexxt Welcomes an Industry Pro as the Newest VP of Sales

Employment Metrix

Nexxt is excited to welcome our newest member, Wade W. Pierson, as the Vice President of Sales. Wade has worked in the human resource and staffing space for over two decades, and plans to use this experience to lead Nexxt’s sales team to success through exceptional customer experience. “Wade’s passion, business acumen and dedication to his clients’ success make him the perfect addition to the Nexxt family,” said Andy Katz, COO of Nexxt.

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HR’s 2018 year in review part two

cipHR

We look at how the working world has been changing in 2018, from the impact of the political climate to changes in attitudes towards HR technology. In part one of our 2018 review , we explored the legislative, compliance and regulatory changes that affected the UK HR profession over the past 12 months. Here in part two, we assess wider macro factors and trends within the profession itself, including the political climate, the launch of the CIPD’s new profession map, changes in how HR teams are d

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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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21 Top Talent Management, People Ops, And HR Conferences In 2019

15Five

Human Resource professionals understand more than most why learning and development opportunities are vital. One study found that a whopping two-thirds of employees actually changed jobs due to a lack of L&D. Perhaps this is because many companies don’t know how to create a learning and development program internally, or lack the resources to provide what they see as a perk, via external learning experiences like conferences and seminars.

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We’re Only Human 46: New Methods for Educating the Future Leaders of HR

UpstartHR

Today, everyone is fascinated with talking about the “future of work.” But who is the future of work? That’s right–students. The kids (we’re old enough to call them kids, right?) that are coming up behind us are going to truly BE the future of the workplace. In today’s episode of We’re Only Human, Ben takes the opportunity to sit down with a long-time friend, Matt Stollak, to talk about these ideas.

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Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Your Remote Workforce

Engage2Excel

Did you know that 43% of employees work from home at least some of the time? And that doesn’t include contingent workers or freelancers who contribute to your team as independent contractors. Many people view flexibility in work arrangements as a desirable perk, but how engaged are remote workers with the organization? In our recently released Trendicators Report on Remote Workers , our research suggests that along with the appeal of setting their own hours and working from anywhere, remote work

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Announcing Reflektive’s 2018 Year in Review

Reflektive

After 5 years as a company, we finally decided it was time to get to the bottom of important feedback trends. We sought to find answers to questions such as “What is the most popular day to give feedback?”, and “Which day of the week people are most likely to give feedback?” We combed through our vast pool of data and we were finally able to come up with some fascinating stats for you to enjoy.

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Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market? Microsoft.

Josh Bersin

Over the last few months, I’ve been spending time with Microsoft, and the company is doing some interesting things in the HR Tech space. In this article I’d like to give you some background, and share why I believe Microsoft is going to have a big impact on the market. First point: Microsoft is on. Read more» The post Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market?

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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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Using Employee Feedback to Guide Decision Making

UpstartHR

Almost every conversation our team has with business leaders touches on today’s pace of change. That pace often prompts employers to make quick decisions, but the problem is those are not always made with the right data on hand. For example, you’re looking for ways to educate your workforce and provide them with the information they need to excel. But you’re using last year’s employee feedback survey as the basis.

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What We’ve Learned About Engagement

DecisionWise

The following is an excerpt from “ENGAGEMENT MAGIC: Five Keys for Engaging People, Leader, and Organizations.” In the fall of 2014, we released the book MAGIC: Five Keys to Unlock the Power of Employee Engagement. But the book didn’t start there; it began nearly twenty years prior, as our organization, DecisionWise, conducted our first employee engagement survey.

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4 Examples of How to Use People Analytics Success to Inform HR Strategies

Reflektive

HR leaders no longer need to rely on instincts or past experience to make decisions. Through the use of people analytics, they can make better-informed decisions based on people-centric data. Plus, data helps measure the success of programs to advocate for budgets. Here are four examples of how you can use people analytics to improve processes and strategies.

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6 Mind-Blowing Stats on Employee Engagement

Achievers

If you’ve been casual about the topic of employee engagement or figured that your employees are probably doing fine (because you’d know if something wasn’t working, right?), it’s time to take a second look. Employee engagement can seem like a vague topic since it doesn’t show up as a line item on your end-of-quarter financials, but it actually has a significant impact on how nicely those numbers stack up.

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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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3 Must-Have’s for the Modern Employee in 2019

Kazoo

This week’s TLNT article, 3 Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Work , painted a clear picture of just how much the state of work has changed. The authors point to a new future shaped by the gig economy and technological advances and, in this except, the implications of each: “The result of these trends is an even tighter labor market with new demands for developing and retaining top talent.

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What End Of Year Forms Do Small Businesses Need To File?

Justworks

With the year nearly over, it is important to be prepared for what forms you need to gather, file, and send to your employees and contractors for the coming tax season. While most have to do with taxes, some are meant to assess whether you’ll need to pay penalties to the IRS. In all cases, failure to timely file these forms can lead to late filing penalties.

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How to Simplify Day-to-Day People Management

Reflektive

Bad management costs the U.S. economy nearly $400 billion annually, according to the Harvard Business Review. Much of this has to do with employee engagement—a study from Dale Carnegie Training found that nearly 75% of employees are not fully engaged at work, and the number one factor that contributes to engagement is an employee’s relationship with their immediate supervisor.

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New to Your Company? 5 Things that Will Help Sell Your Ideas

The People Equation

Imagine this scenario: About two months ago, you landed a new gig as a leader at a respected company. You’ve done all the right things to set yourself up for success by priming the pump with these activities before Day One on the job. For the first month, you listened, networked, took copious notes and asked lots of questions. And wow, there are so many opportunity for improvement; the list of ideas is a mile long!

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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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How to Boost Employee Confidence and Morale

Hppy

As a leader, you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders. It’s not enough to simply oversee the daily operations and work in the office—you also have to ensure that employees feel confident, respected and empowered. High team morale is key to optimal productivity, and it can be surprisingly fragile—there are lots of conflicts and complaints that can easily bring a team’s morale crashing down.

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How Will The Recruitment Industry Change Over The Next 10 Years?

TalentLyft

The recruitment industry will change a lot over the next 10 years. In this blog post, you will learn about the top 5 ways recruitment will change over the next decade. How will we hire in the future? Read on to find out! Read More.

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vote for the worst boss of 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s time to vote on the worst boss of the year! We’ll crown the worst boss of the year later this week, based on your votes … so please vote below. (Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. EST Wednesday night.). You may also like: the worst boss of 2017 is… the worst boss of 2016 is… the worst boss of 2015 is… vote for the worst boss of 2018 was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

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Future-Proofing Your Talent: How Agile Talent Practices Can Drive Digital Transformation

TalentCulture

What kind of talent will your organization require in the next five years? In today’s volatile and complex world, digitization, artificial intelligence and automation have moved the goalposts for workforce development. Make no mistake: These factors are disrupting the world of work. The skills required to succeed in organizations are shifting — and this is having a profound effect on workforce planning and on the career paths of employees.

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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 IBM’s Watson is taking the hiring bias out of interviews

HR Digest

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the most promising digital impacts set to transform various models in the talent economy. While it offers an unbiased system to attract and develop the right talent, many corporate bodies are yet to give the technology a chance to offer its promised solution in hiring, including some giant multinationals. IBM is stepping up its commitment to assist organizations in deploying this trending HR tool towards talent management and hiring structure advancement.

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7 Key Advantages of Diversity in the Workplace and Why it Matters

Vantage Circle

If you are not living under a rock or have cut yourself out of this social world, then you must know the importance of diversity in the workplace. Bringing diversity in the workplace is not a trend to follow nor a quota a company needs to meet. It is also not only a social responsibility to practice diversity in the workplace. We intuitively know that it’s a pathway where every corporate need to walk along.

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4 Mindsets Needed for a Better Talent Pipeline

Julie Winkle Giulioni

As leaders face the most volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business conditions ever, one thing is clear: Talent is an organization’s most powerful and sustainable competitive advantage. As a result, improving the talent pipeline by attracting, developing and retaining the best possible employees is among a leader’s most fundamental priorities.

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The Best of #WorkTrends 2018

TalentCulture

Happy holidays! To celebrate the end of the year we’re looking back to our favorite #WorkTrends conversations in 2018. We put together out first ever Best of #WorkTrends, with excerpts from our favorite conversations throughout the year. As we sifted through the conversations we’ve had in 2018, two big themes stuck out to us. I’d argue they’re the most significant challenges we face in HR today: building better connections at work and the future of […].

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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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Gamification in recruiting: How and why to give it a shot

Workable

{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com. This, Google’s famous billboard mathematical riddle , is a sensational example of how useful gamification in recruiting can be. In 2004, Google invited people to solve a series of equations thinking – correctly – that those who had the brains and the motivation to reach the end would make great candidates.

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What a Difference a Workspace Can Make

TLNT: The Business of HR

When it comes to attracting new employees and retaining our top talent, we tend to roll out the red carpet in terms of pay and benefits. But what about the office itself? Workplace design has a role in making an impression on candidates and in retaining your employees, especially when it comes to the largest generation in the U.S. labor force — millennials.

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Over 80 HR Laws Take Effect on Jan. 1

Namely

Forget the champagne and confetti—HR teams have a different kind of New Year’s tradition. Every January, states and cities across the country enact laws impacting company policies and employee wages. While the Trump administration has slowed regulations at the federal level, local activity has remained fast and furious. Over 80 new employer requirements will take effect on January 1, 2019, involving workplace issues ranging from overtime exemption to criminal history access.