April, 2024

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Want to boost employees’ perception of HR? Look at your benefits strategies

HRExecutive

As followers of Sapient Insights Group know, we place a lot of emphasis on helping HR teams elevate the awareness of their work and their contributions to the business. Our annual research allows us to identify the HR practices, technologies and other factors that correlate to high business and talent outcomes—information that HR leaders can use to make an impact.

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How HR can help safeguard their organization’s reputation amid layoffs

HR Brew

Warren Buffett once said , “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” He may not have been talking about layoffs specifically, but the sentiment still applies. Layoffs can damage an employer’s reputation, Neil Costa, founder and CEO of recruitment marketing agency HireClix, told HR Brew, making it harder for HR to recruit and retain employees.

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Streamlining Staffing Agency Operations with Integrated ATS and Time and Labor Software

COATS Staffing Software

Seamlessly connect staffing agency front-and back-office operations For staffing agencies, managing time and labor is often a complex puzzle. From Excel spreadsheets to handwritten notes, the traditional methods of tracking employee time are filled with inefficiencies and a high probability of potential errors. These outdated processes create stress and additional manual workload for agency staff and significantly impact margins.

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Performance Appraisal and Feedback: Building a Culture of Growth

EmployeeConnect

Performance appraisal and feedback are integral components of effective talent management. They provide opportunities for employees to receive recognition for their contributions, identify areas for improvement, and align individual goals with organisational objectives. However, traditional performance appraisal processes often fall short in delivering meaningful feedback and fostering employee development.

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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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How Employee Feedback Surveys Boost Health Care Performance

DecisionWise

The Challenge of Burnout in Health Care Burnout is a serious issue that affects many health care workers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Burnout is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sense of accomplishment. It can lead to lower quality of care, higher turnover, and increased risk of errors and patient harm.

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The post-hire work HR has to do for skills-based hiring to succeed

HRExecutive

The landscape of talent acquisition is undergoing a seismic shift. According to recent data , 40% of employers on LinkedIn are now using a skills-first approach to fill open roles—up 20% year-over-year. However, while the chatter around the value of skills-based hiring continues to rise, recent research from the Burning Glass Institute shows that for roles where degree requirements were dropped, companies saw just a 3.5% increase in hires without a bachelor’s degree.

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Technically HR: LinkedIn to offer ‘verified recruiter’ badges for…verified recruiters

HR Brew

Many moons ago, the blue checkmark was a coveted badge on a popular social media platform with a cute bird mascot. This was a simpler time. The landscape has since been upended by an eccentric billionaire, but back when humans “tweeted,” the blue checkmark noted to other users that the person communicating on the platform was indeed who they said they were.

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Hiring? Here are 2024’s big recruiting challenges

Bob

It should come as no surprise that the hiring market is tough. It has gone through its ups, downs, and 180-degree changes, all while HR and TA teams try to keep up. While remaining flexible and agile amid these changes can seem impossible, these changes also bring opportunities and new ways for employers to gain an edge in the war for talent. It’s an important edge, too, as the link between hiring and organizational success is crystal clear.

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Termination and Off-boarding: A Guide to Graceful Transitions

EmployeeConnect

Employee terminations and off-boarding processes are sensitive yet inevitable aspects of workforce management. Whether due to performance issues, organisational restructuring, or other reasons, handling terminations with professionalism and empathy is crucial for maintaining morale, preserving employer reputation, and facilitating smooth transitions for departing employees.

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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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20 Expert Tips For Executives On The Job Hunt

Forbes Coaches Council

A job hunt presents both challenges and opportunities for those in the top tiers of leadership who are seeking a change via a new role, organization or career focus.

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16 Good Skills to Put on a Resume With No Experience

The Muse

Struggling to craft your entry-level resume? Check out our list of 16 good skills to put on a resume with no experience (plus, tips on how to list them).

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Here’s what employees think the future of work will really look like

HRExecutive

Given rapid advancements in tech and pandemic-driven transformations in recent years, much has been said about what business leaders think the future of work will look like. But what about employees? - Advertisement - To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Monster.com recently polled workers to see how they think the next three decades in the world of work will play out.

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Starting Up: This startup founder wants to make the HR function as nimble as a gecko

HR Brew

Each week, we get into the weeds with the founders of HR tech startups. Want to tell us about your company? Get in touch here. Jay Polaki has been an HR professional for about a quarter century, starting her career in HR back when paperwork was completed on paper, before the “dot-com revolution.” “I’ve seen the whole gamut of how technology has not just changed how we work and our relationship with work, but how it has changed our workplace in general,” Polaki told HR Brew.

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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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Does AI Improve Job Satisfaction? Here’s What Leaders Say

TalentCulture

We’ve all seen the headlines. Dystopian predictions about the long-term economic impact of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to dominate the news. But what do people think who already work with AI on a daily basis? What kind of effect does it have on their job satisfaction and performance? To answer questions like these, our team […] The post Does AI Improve Job Satisfaction?

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Inside NFI: Jerrice’s journey as a female trucker

WEX Inc.

Welcome back to our series, diving into the world of trucking, where we continue to explore the stories that shape the transportation and logistics industries. Check out part one , which explores truck driver empowerment and recruitment with insights from NFI’s Recruitment Marketing Team. Meet Jerrice Jerrice, a trucker based out of South Bend, Indiana, defies convention when you imagine who is out there driving the big rigs.

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Leading With Empathy: A Tale Of Executive Coaching, Compassion And Workplace Well-Being

Forbes Coaches Council

A perceptive leader acknowledges employee distress without judgment, fostering an environment where team members feel seen and valued beyond their professional roles.

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What Are Transferable Skills? 10 Examples for your Resume

The Muse

Wondering what transferable skills are and why are they important? Learn about their definition, some examples for your resume, and how to effectively list them.

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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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Don’t forget internal talent in workforce planning and recruiting

HRExecutive

Internal hiring helps organizations fill roles more quickly and often in a more cost-effective way while providing opportunities that keep employees engaged and satisfied. However, internal hiring requires the right resources to work effectively and isn’t always the most strategic choice for filling vacancies. After breaking down cross-industry data on internal hiring, we provide guidance for how to benchmark this measure and think critically about your use of internal hiring. - Advertisem

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What HR needs to know to better support their Asian workers

HR Brew

Discrimination against Asian Americans is still a problem in the modern workplace. But experts like Jane Hyun, a global leadership strategist and founder of professional training and coaching firm Hyun & Associates, work with employers to create better diverse workplaces. In her forthcoming book, Leadership Toolkit for Asians: The Definitive Resource Guide for Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling , out April 30, Hyun shares how Asian and Asian American workers can ascend into leadership positions wit

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Popular health insurance alternatives

PeopleKeep

Small businesses often face challenges when providing health insurance for employees due to the high costs associated with traditional group health insurance plans. However, small businesses can consider several popular health insurance alternatives to provide their employees with access to healthcare coverage. In this article, we'll explore some popular health insurance alternatives for small businesses that can help you provide your employees with the coverage they need without breaking the ba

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FTC Effectively Bans Workplace Non-Compete Agreements

HRWatchdog

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final rule that effectively bans workplace non-compete agreements. The final rule includes: Prohibition of New Non-Competes: Employers will not be allowed to enter into new non-compete agreements with any workers once the rule goes into effect. Exception for Senior Executives: Existing non-competes will remain enforceable only for “senior executives” — defined as those earning above $151,164 annually and in policy-making roles.

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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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17 Ways Leaders Can Determine The Best Method To Train A New Manager

Forbes Coaches Council

It is crucial for company leaders to select the most effective onboarding method to ensure a new manager’s smooth and successful integration into the organization.

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BizLibrary to bring modern learning content to Vinsys’s Digital Learning Platform, DigiLearn 

BizLibrary - HR

St. Louis, 4/16/24 – BizLibrary, a leading provider in online learning for growing organizations, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Vinsys, a global leader in offering a wide range of technical and business training with robust digital learning solutions. BizLibrary will bring its extensive library of video-based on-demand content to the Vinsys platform […] The post BizLibrary to bring modern learning content to Vinsys’s Digital Learning Platform, DigiLearn appeared fi

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The future workplace: Perspectives from 16K employees & HR leaders

HRExecutive

Industry players and HR leaders who hope to plan ahead in today’s quickly changing world of work can use fresh insight from a study of over 16,000 employees, managers and human resource decision-makers called Global Futures: The Workplace of Tomorrow, as Told by the Workforce of Today. - Advertisement - In partnership with YouGov, Indeed conducted the survey across 11 countries—Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the

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What HR should know about the TikTok workplace trend ‘QuitTok’

HR Brew

Employees aren’t just quitting their jobs—they’re filming themselves quitting, and posting the videos on TikTok. The trend, dubbed “ QuitTok ,” has resulted in over 2,500 videos with 82 million views. Some videos are creator’s covert recordings of conversations with their managers, while others are post-resignation reflections. Most show that when workers are fed up with their employment experience, they’re not afraid to go public.

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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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Guide to MEC plans

PeopleKeep

Some employers must provide a health insurance plan with minimum essential coverage (MEC) to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ensure employees have access to essential healthcare services. In some cases, these employers may consider a type of group plan called a MEC plan. However, simply providing a no-frills MEC plan instead of a more comprehensive health benefit may not be enough to meet the needs of your employees.

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5 Effective Tools to Enhance Employee Engagement and Retention

HR Digest

Employee retention is crucial for the success of any organization and the tools you use to enhance employee engagement are just as important. Engaged employees are more productive, loyal, and motivated, leading to improved business outcomes. In today’s competitive job market, businesses need to invest in the best employee engagement tools to attract, engage, and retain top talent.

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16 Key Reasons To Be An Ecocentric (Not Egocentric) Leader

Forbes Coaches Council

Ecocentric leaders recognize that their long-term success hinges on the health of the planet and its communities, and that businesses can help (or harm) in this domain.

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