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What’s the purpose of human resources (HR)?

Insperity

Have you or any of your peers in the business world ever asked yourselves: What’s the purpose of human resources (HR)? And why should we value it? For starters, the purpose of HR is to provide the structure for your organization and serves as the engine that keeps it running smoothly on a daily basis. It governs important aspects of your business, such as: The people on your team Workplace culture Policies and procedures Compliance with employment laws.

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25 HR Conferences & Webinars in 2021

Ongig

In 2020, human resources conferences saw a big disruption as a result COVID-19. Most conferences were forced to move virtual/online which is where we’ll see most HR conferences in 2021. This year is projected to have fewer conferences so we decided to include some human resource webinars to our list. We also added an HR Conference table for a quick reference.

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5 Ways to Engage Passive Candidates

RChilli

A few years ago, passive candidate recruitment strategy wasn’t at the top of the agenda for all of us because there weren’t many jobs floating around, meaning candidates couldn’t be too picky.

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Why Organizational Culture Is a Competitive Differentiator 

Achievers

“You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your organizational culture and propel you forward.” — Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO at The Muse . Organizational culture doesn’t mean that you own the trendiest or coolest business — it means that you operate a positive workplace with a strong values and an even stronger identity, a place that drives business success. .

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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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New! Kazoo-ADP Integration Makes Data Even Easier

Kazoo

At Kazoo, we love our HR administrators. As a small token of our affection, we’ve released a new ADP Workforce Now® API integration for ADP® clients. This new integration makes it easy-peasy to sync your HRIS employee data with the Kazoo Employee Experience platform. The Kazoo and ADP Workforce Now® integration is available for all shared Kazoo and ADP customers through the ADP Marketplace.

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Performance Reviews in 2021

Reflektive

Performance reviews have a meaningful impact on employee motivation. In fact, people who like their company’s review processes are 2.9X more likely to work harder than they have at past organizations. So how can companies make performance reviews better in 2021? Read below for helpful information on how reviews can do more for you. What is a performance review?

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Why Employee Recognition is Important and Key Benefits

Achievers

Employees are struggling with burnout, disconnection, and low morale more than ever before. But there’s a clear solution: recognition. Recognition is the number one ask from employees in this new normal. The vast majority — 82% — wish that they received more recognition. And meeting this desire can have a huge effect on key contributors to your bottom line, like employee engagement and retention.

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Realigning Recruiting

Engage2Excel

History shows that resilient organizations recover quickly in changing market conditions and fast-moving disruptions. Updating your talent acquisition strategy to be more resilient is key for optimizing a bounce back. Our Trendicators survey of HR leaders revealed that 43% of organizations planned on ramping up their hiring efforts in Q3 and Q4 of 2020, with 47% expecting their talent acquisition budget to increase to support these efforts.

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Job Seekers Aren’t Patient Enough to Complete Your Whole Job Application

ExactHire

Do you struggle to find balance when it comes to gathering the right amount of information about job candidates during the employment application process? If you ask too many questions, your application conversions plummet and you’re left scrambling to find talent. If you ask too few, then it can be difficult to screen candidates well enough. After all, you’d rather avoid lengthening your interview process because you’ve advanced under-qualified individuals too far into the sel

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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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Evolution of Reflektive: We’re Now Part of PeopleFluent and LTG

Reflektive

In 2014, Rajeev Behera, Erick Tai, and Jimmie Tyrrell founded Reflektive to bridge the feedback gap between managers and employees. Reflektive has since become a recognized leader in performance management by G2 , Brandon Hall Group , TalentCulture , and Gartner. Forward-thinking companies such as Allbirds, FabFitFun, Grubhub, and Protective now depend on Reflektive to align goals and scale constructive, ongoing conversations that increase their employee engagement and productivity by 2X.

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ACA Improvements to Expect from the Biden Administration

ACA Times

3 minute read: The inauguration welcoming president-elect Joe Biden to the White House is imminent and with the recent shift in majority control of the Senate, we can expect a number of advancements to the Affordable Care Act to follow. With the recent Senate runoff race in Georgia resulting in victories for Democrats, a shift in control took place in the U.S.

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How remote work is creating a new role for managers

HRExecutive

Given the pandemic-driven shift to remote work, managers have had to be a lot of things in the last year—a source of information, a model of organizational culture, a counselor, even an IT assistant—as employees look to their supervisors to navigate the quickly changing world of work. As more organizations build remote or hybrid work into their long-term strategies, the very role of the manager is being redefined.

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Your Role in Building Trust on a Remote Team by @KevinEikenberry

Take It Personel-ly

One of the presumed “facts” about working remotely is that trust will be reduced the longer people work remotely. While reduced trust is possible, it isn’t inevitable if people are aware of and take actions to maintain and build trust on a remote team. Here are some things you can do. It Starts With You […].

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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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The psychological pandemic: an opportunity for employers to aid recovery

HR Zone

People Don't overlook the psychological pandemic.

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You’re an Idiot if You Still Check References!

The Tim Sackett Project

One thing really hasn’t changed in hiring in like fifty years. Before we hire someone, in certain higher-up levels within our organizations, we do this little dance. The dance is us asking you for “professional” references, that we must check before we can “officially” hire you, and you giving us such references, which are basically your friends.

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Enough of the Red Tape: A Return to Common Sense

TalentCulture

When is enough red tape and bureaucracy enough? Is it time to return to the days where common sense prevailed? Don’t you just love the glossy annual report, no matter […]. The post Enough of the Red Tape: A Return to Common Sense appeared first on TalentCulture.

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5 Simple Ways to Make Positive Change in 2021

Take It Personel-ly

As 2021 gets off to a new start, finding a way to start fresh is very important. As the prior year had many challenges and negativity, finding a way to change and improve yourself and the world around you is very important. There are five simple ways that anyone could make a positive change in […].

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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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The four capacities of purpose-led leadership

HR Zone

Change Four benefits of purpose-led leadership.

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How Human Resources Automation Software Helps Manage Teams Effectively

6Q

No matter which industry your business operates in, one fact remains: Having an efficient and reliable human resource (HR) management solution is a must. From recruiting and onboarding new employees to handling tedious paperwork and ensuring labor law compliance, HR professionals play a very important role in keeping your business running smoothly. Of course, HR departments face some unique challenges that could also be costing your business money.

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How The Best Employers Will Support Employee Health in 2021

TalentCulture

As 2021 begins, human resources professionals are well-positioned to consider the actions they can take this year to help employees stay healthy. Here are five excellent ways employers will support […]. The post How The Best Employers Will Support Employee Health in 2021 appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How to Improve Work-Life Balance While Working From Home

Take It Personel-ly

As the US transitioned to a work-from-home economy in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many were unprepared for how to manage the blurred lines of work and home life. Suddenly the home became office space, unseparated by a commute or even a morning routine, leaving many to feel like they live at […].

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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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Employee wellbeing: The seven characteristics of conscious leadership

HR Zone

Culture Becoming a conscious leader in 2021.

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President Biden's Immigration Plan Legalizes Millions of Undocumented Workers

SHRM Resources

Newly sworn-in President Joe Biden unveiled legislation Jan. 20 that would create a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 10-12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, offering expedited green card eligibility to “Dreamers”—undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children—as well as those under temporary protected status (TPS) and farmworkers.

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[#WorkTrends] How to Plan a Successful Job Search During the Pandemic

TalentCulture

Planning and executing a successful job search has never been easy. Add the impact of the pandemic, and the degree of difficulty increases exponentially. Last week alone, more than 1 […]. The post [#WorkTrends] How to Plan a Successful Job Search During the Pandemic appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Job Seekers! Hiring Managers are Only Judging You on Two Things!

SHRM

If you’re out looking for a job it usually feels like you’re being judged on every little thing you do, have done, or potentially will do in the future. Interestingly enough, a Harvard professor discovered you’re actually only judged on two things: “People size you up in seconds, but what exactly are they evaluating? Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy has been studying first impressions alongside fellow psychologists Susan Fiske and Peter Glick for more than 15 years and has discovere

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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 wellbeing: how to support workforce resilience during a crisis

HR Zone

Culture How to support workforce resilience.

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Class of 2021 Uniquely Prepared to Join the Workforce

SHRM Resources

?With the COVID-19 pandemic poised to continue deep into 2021, the next generation of professionals faces substantial challenges when entering the workforce. But their unique perspective may also give them an advantage.A Different Work EnvironmentAs the class of 2021 finishes its last semester and prepares to begin the job hunt, students must face the reality that even if they land that ideal position, they may very well be working from home.

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I Just Got Laid Off. Why Did I Get a List of All My Co-Workers’ Titles and Ages?

Evil HR Lady

I was told this week my position is to be transitioned to Poland and part of my severance agreement is that I need to train my replacement (I’m an international/global benefits manager with more than 12 years of experience); anyway, I received my severance package along with a list of the job titles and ages of all people that are either being let go or retained?