Right there in between cultures of blind obedience and self-governance lies the most common category in company culture. These workers aren’t ignorantly following the leader, but they certainly aren’t shot callers either. They’re stuck in that corporate status quo, limbo. The Boston Research Group conducted a very popular recent study of thousands of US workers at every level. Company Culture

“From giant companies with multiple levels of corporate hierarchy to small startups just implementing a scalable culture, the transparency question lingers large. It’s hard to know what the best form of transparency is, and when your company is stepping over the privacy line. With transparency being a tough corporate tightrope to walk, many companies abandon the balancing act altogether.” - Ilya Pozin ( @IlyaNeverSleeps ), Founder of Pluto TV, Open Me, and Coplex. Goal Transparency Management

A-players are coveted employees for every organization. While they tend to have exceedingly impressive records, (i.e., employment history, successful projects, high-level training program participation) individual performance is not necessarily an indication of team success. These organizational superstars are statistically smarter and more productive, giving companies the edge they need to be competitive in their respective industry marketplace. If superstars are so wonderful , then why don’t superstars make a super team? Team Collaboration Teamwork

The candidate. experience matters. Whether employees know it or not, there’s a right and wrong way to hire and reject employees. If your. hiring. process makes everyone feel as though they don’t matter, they’re going to have a bad. experience. And of the candidates who have a bad. experience , 42% would never apply for any other job opening again , and 22% would convince their friends not to. Employers need to start thinking about how their. hiring. process affects candidates, because it could help them hire. better people. Applicant Tracking System

Everyone talks about the candidate experience and how we should improve it, but actually taking the time to analyze, review and improve takes more than just writing a blog post about it. Nearly 60% of candidates have had a poor candidate experience when applying for jobs. Courting candidates is not easy, but it certainly becomes even more challenging if candidates are having poor experiences. Candidate Experience

As you have likely heard, the Department of Labor recently made a final ruling on the Fair Labor Standards Act regarding overtime standards. This ruling will affect about 4 million employees and in turn, the organizations they work for. So how might you be affected by this new standard? We’ve compiled a few articles and resources to help you get caught up on the news and learn what lies ahead: Employment Leadership

As a recruiter, you get to see the most dreadful, surprising and sometimes hilarious candidate interview mistakes imaginable. The workforce might be evolving, but the mistakes of today pretty much line up with the interview mistakes people have been making for decades. Here’s what some of today’s recruiters have endured throughout their careers in recruiting. Interviews

Building better job ads for mobile. When it comes to job boards, 31% of midsize businesses devote more than a third of their recruitment budget to job boards. That means, the companies with some of the greatest hiring challenges are turning to these avenues to find their next great hire. Midsize or not, chances are your company is allocating some of your hiring dollars to online job boards and career site postings. Job Ads

New employees can bring a slew of new ideas to the table. Integrating the best of these ideas into the company’s processes can only happen after the new employee fully understands the culture and values within the organization. Everything from onboarding new employees to 360 performance reviews should have an underlying theme of team alignment and tie in company values. It’s a cyclical, give-and-take relationship. Employee loyalty thrives when workers understand their place in organizational goals and how they play a part in company values. Onboarding.

Feedback is such a crucial part of the work environment and so effective at improving performance culture when done right, that it seems downright crazy that people are so darned scared of it! Performance Management

Video interviewing, a sign of the death of traditional interviewing or simply the way of the future? Video interviewing is a useful tool many recruiters use to screen potential employees. The system works like this: interviewers propose a set of questions, next they send it out via a video interviewing platform to potential interviewees and wait for replies. Tips Video Interview

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. Video Interview

Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of tripling the size of a team over the course of only 8 months. This was the first time in my career I had ever done something like this, and I can tell you it’s no walk in the park. In fact, it was straight up overwhelming at first; how could I possibly find so many talented people who not only knew the work, but fit in with the company in such a short time frame? I’m incredibly attached to my work and this company , so I refused to allow myself to compromise on quality. Time Management

We’re back with the final installment of the ClearCompany goals series. Hopefully, you’ve learned a great deal over the last few weeks and we’ve given you plenty to think about when it comes to aligning, setting and monitoring goals in your company. We’ve also addressed some of the reasons that goals can fail within the enterprise. If you haven’t had a chance to read the entire goal focused series, you can get all the posts here and learn more about building a goal-focused organization. Today, our goal (see what I did there?) is to discuss how to incorporate goals into performance management.

We’ve talked about Millennials and the Baby Boomers, but what about the near-forgotten Gen X? These employees have much to give in terms of experience and industry knowledge. The fact that those between the ages of 40 and 49 have the lowest levels of engagement is disconcerting because they are the next (if not current) organizational leaders. As the current leadership of your company, it’s your responsibility to not only understand why they are disengaged but also how to fix the problem

The average time-to-hire is at a 5 year high, and the skill gap is widening; employers are having a harder time than ever managing the balancing act that is compensation. With 52% of employers ranking hiring and retaining talent at the top of their business challenges, it is vital to get compensation right. Talent Lifecycle Compensation

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn’t want a high performer , as long as they were amicable and weren’t too high maintenance. But what defines a HiPo? What makes them work better than everyone else? How can you keep these high performers from leaving and make sure their performance qualities infect the whole company? Performance Reviews

There’s really no other way to say it: if you’re not adapting to mobile, you’re falling behind. Phones and tablets are taking over, and if you’re still looking for candidates the old-fashioned way, candidates are going to gloss over your job ads or, even worse, never see them at all. With 72% of candidates looking at career sites on their phone, you’d think companies would wise up and deliver career sites that take advantage of smartphones. But just how do you optimize your job ads for mobile? It’s simpler than you might think.

Companies need diversity. It helps them think with a wider breadth of perspectives, makes them look better to the public eye, and gives them access to the potential revenue gains from employing people who can contribute different things to the companies they work for. Still, many hiring managers and people in charge don’t see hiring diversity as an issue. For those who think it’s not a problem, here are ten reasons why they need to change their mind about diversity hiring. diversity hiring

Do middle managers define your organization’s success? Your HR pro might think so. In fact, HR rates middle managers as the most critical level of management. 48% of HR executives rank mid-level managers as the role that needs to be the most up to speed, while only 25% rank senior-level managers as the most important. Why the emphasis on middle management? Hiring Managers Micromanager Management Middle Management

Class is back in session as we bring you part 2 of Talent Management University. In this series we are explaining how to properly train, manage and successfully move your talent within your organization. As part one focused on the new hire and the onboarding process , we’re moving on in part two to discuss keeping employees engaged. Talent Management

Mastering. new employee onboarding. is far from easy. Managers have to craft job offers, organize employee documents, perform background checks, facilitate training, set up payroll and the list goes on and on. Keeping all those things organized, let alone making the process efficient, is enough to make managers want to pull their hair out! It’s not the most exciting part of the job, but it’s one of the most important. Employee Onboarding

Recently there’s been a bit of backlash against the rising tide of mobile recruiting. When hearing about mobile recruiting trends , some have argued the whole thing is a sham. They talk about how companies are simply profiting from the idea of mobile recruiting but recruiters aren’t. According to pundits and thought leaders, the numbers are promising, but they’re used to promote products that don’t need to exist in the marketplace. Companies and users will adapt to these mobile trends eventually, without the need for concerted efforts.

Good performance management can help your employees work at their best consistently, help align their goals with the company’s business strategy, and build better teams through tracking and collaboration. It can give a business key insights into their best business practices , see what works, and what needs to change. Despite these benefits, many businesses have yet to fully leverage it, and many who have aren’t using it to its full potential. Only 3% of organizations say their performance management is top-notch, while 48% say their performance management needs some work.

Sometimes the interview process gets stale, sometimes it just doesn’t fit. You’ve spent some time researching new questions to ask, contemplated a new recruitment strategy, but you’ve quickly discovered those aren’t the right solutions. You can change the way you think about the interview to improve the process. Whatever the case may be, you need ways to spice up your hiring life, and we have three ways to switch up your interviewing process to get you on the right foot. Video Interview

Recently, happiness has become something employers aspire to. It makes sense. Very few of us want to be the manager who makes employees miserable, even if it results in higher productivity. Happiness is so important, in fact, that Japanese tech conglomerate Hitachi is introducing a new happiness badge, which tracks each employee’s well-being by monitoring how they move around and sit at work. The details of the badge are still murky, but its existence highlights a key point about work: happiness is now seen as intrinsic to productivity.

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Not everyone sees winter as the beautiful transformation of nature that it can be. For recruiters, the winter season can throw up some roadblocks, but you have a choice. Are you going to let the storm outside hold you down, or are you going to recruit in a winter wonderland? You decide. Recruiting Paperless Onboarding

At ClearCompany, we take goals seriously. We understand just how pivotal they are to the entire infrastructure of a business and because of that, we have worked hard to provide a great deal of information around setting and attaining business goals so your team can tackle projects, large and small. Knowing the steps to creating a goal-oriented business model is great, but what are the facts under all those steps. Why do they approach work? Setting Goals

Nobody has the perfect hiring process. The key to improvement on the matter, is constant reevaluation of the practices at hand. How does your company hire new employees? Is your recruiting process tired? Burned out ? Gasping for air? If so, consider incorporating a video interviewing process. Need some proof

The hiring decision assesses three components: knowledge, skills and competencies. Candidates must possess professional knowledge and institutional knowledge to perform on the job, and they must have the functional and technical skills required of the role. Recruiting & Sourcing

Remember the professors you had in college? Most of them were probably headed towards (if not already on) the tenure track. That’s not the case anymore; education has changed. More and more universities are hiring less tenure track employees and opting for part-time professors. Higher education is going through a transformative shift and so too, is the way universities and colleges are hiring. Colleges can have problems retaining top educators, which has resulted in the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ findings. Education Industry Hiring Applicant Tracking System Hiring Cycle

If you’re looking to make better hires, get them in the door more efficiently, and do it all on budget, you should first recognize one of the biggest ways employers aren’t reaching applicants: Mobile. mobile website, complete with a career page and a mobile job application process handled entirely on a phone or tablet is something candidates have consistently made clear they’re looking for. As of last year, 59% of candidates use phones or tablets to search for jobs , 52% use them to apply. What’s more, 90% of people are predicted to have a smartphone by 2020. Mobile Recruiting

Employee engagement is often attributed to the work environment, the work itself, and even a lack of communication. What has a tendency to fly under the radar, however, is the managers who supervise them. poor manager can leave the team disengaged and unmotivated to strive beyond the bare minimum. Unfortunately, some managers aren’t prepared enough to feel comfortable leading their team. In order to increase employee engagement, companies have to educate managers in the art of… well, managing. Talent Management

“One of the most important (yet often least respected) parts of business is corporate training. businesses spend on average over $60 billion per year in this area supporting an industry that includes hundreds of thousands of training professionals, content and tools providers, and technologies.” - Josh Bersin , Senior Analyst, Bersin by Delloite. Employee Training Performance Management Performance Management System

Within any given day, you are probably confronted with a myriad of business decisions, and even more data culled to help you make the right choice. With new software options and data collection methods at an all time high, compiling and analyzing big data is incredibly simple. Performance Management

There is no one perfect way to lead. There are leaders that excel because of their impeccable communication skills, their charisma or even the respect their presence demands. But when your leadership techniques aren’t working time and time again, what are you supposed to do? Switch it up. Try new approaches. Fact: No one’s right 100% of the time and if you really truly think you are then working in leadership is likely not the place for you. How do you switch up the way you lead, though? Leadership Workplace Communication

Talent management is a difficult process to implement alone. How do you judge the work of the employees of your small business? You can keep up with tasks completed up to a certain point, but people can only manually track so much at a time. It’s tempting to keep as many aspects of your business lo-fi to save money, but talent management is likely one aspect you will eventually want to use software for, especially as your business develops. small business hr software Small Business Recruiting Small Business Performance Management Small Business Hiring Small Business Concerns

Hiring a new employee can be a rigorous task. Simply finding the right candidates , narrowing them down and then choosing the best from the bunch isn’t enough. Understanding whether or not you have hired a person of high caliber is absolutely essential to the quality of your workforce. Here’s how to tell if your new hire is unmotivated and how to handle each situation ethically. Quality of Hire Unmotivated Employees

Ah, onboarding: the breakfast of employment. No new hire should begin their position within a company without a balanced and well-planned onboarding program. Unfortunately, just like the most important meal of the day, onboarding is often overlooked, rushed or simply forgotten all together. Many HR administrators seem to agree as 56% feel their onboarding solutions are only “somewhat structured” to “not at all structured.”. Paperless Onboarding Employee Onboarding

It’s officially spring and you know what that means? Time to spring clean your talent management processes. From sourcing to onboarding to performance management, it’s the perfect time for lean, efficient processes to set your company up for success for the rest of the year. Take a look at our new infographic and motivate your company to jump start spring cleaning your talent management house now! Spring Cleaning Hiring Process

Research shows only about 1 in 10 people possess the traits needed to be a good manager. Couple that with the fact that one of the most important decisions a company can make is selecting its managers, and they get it wrong 82% of the time, and you have yourself a recipe for talent management disaster. Talent Management

Oh, the employee referral program – perhaps the strongest tool in any talent acquisitions specialist’s belt. great referral program will help you identify top talent that might not have even been open to looking without a nudge from someone they trust. well-designed employee referral program will also help ensure a solid cultural fit and at least a preliminary assessment of soft skills. Beyond that, the referrer is likely to do the selling for you. Referrals are a win-win for a myriad of reasons, but we think these 10 are enough. Employee Referrals Employee Referral Program

This week, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson made history when they completed the first successful free ascent of. the hardest climb in the world , the Dawn Wall route in Yosemite. They lived on this massive vertical face for 19 days with no break, attempting the difficult sections countless times before finally making it to the top. This success came after many aborted attempts - these two climbers have tried the route over and over again for seven years but were met with failure each time until now. Success often depends on taking risks and. thinking bigger and bolder than the competition.

The wonderful part of cleaning the old means there is room to introduce the new. When it comes to business and team processes, creating the new can be just as daunting as it is exciting. Change can make employees a little uncertain or confused when approaching tasks they were confident doing before. Whether you are implementing an onboarding process or introducing a new performance management system, keeping your people motivated and upbeat throughout the change can be just as difficult as explaining the new approach. Goal-Setting Motivation

The hiring process can be nerve-wracking for candidates. They can wait weeks to hear back about jobs, if at all. Good employers make the hiring process as easy on candidates as possible , and this means more than creating automatic forms. It means developing a more personal experience from start to finish. Make yourself a better employer, find better candidates, hire better employees by keeping these few things in mind. Recruiting Interviews

Owning or being an important part of business is about the little things. At first, the big decisions will take up most of your time: what is our business going to be? How will we lead our employees going forward? However, what separates good leaders from bad is how they deal with the decisions employees may not know they make, like their succession planning program. It may not define your vision as a business, but it will define how your business is run. Unfortunately, because these decisions often go unnoticed, it’s hard to know if you’re making them correctly. Succession Planning HR

No one likes an overbearing manager. They’re too imposing at work, too obsessed with perfection and making sure nothing goes wrong, and you can tell they’re only in the job for themselves. Somehow, it’s possible for them to be watching your every move and tweaking your work while never being around when you need them. Overbearing managers are the worst kind , but even worse than that is that managers themselves often don’t know how imposing they’re being. If you think you might be one of those managers, stop and read these tips and see how you can avoid becoming a manager employees hate.

We’re just a few days away from the end of 2015! Recruiting experts have made their 2016 predictions , and it’s becoming clear that companies will be (or already have been) revamping their digital recruitment marketing efforts.The recruitment marketing landscape is changing so fast it’s going to be hard for companies to catch up if they haven’t already become adept to the trends of 2015. This is the perfect time to start preparing for the near future by examining your current strategies and planning for the big, inevitable changes that are coming. recruiting trends

We’ve been talking a lot about goals lately. If you missed our 4 part series for the month of February, you should definitely check those out! They’re full of juicy details and. tips on goals and performance management. But today, we’re more interested in how your company views goals. Equipped with answers and tips, take our quiz to see how goals focused your company is! Goal-Setting

“The employee performance appraisal is an underperforming, periodic business process that is loathed by both employees and managers alike. Historically linked to the annual salary review, performance appraisals often focus on HR-driven criteria for skills and competencies rather than business outcomes. The human resources management (HRM) technology solutions offered by leading vendors are typically built around this dysfunctional paradigm.” - Forrester Research, Inc. report, “ Disrupt the Employee Performance Process to Align with Business and Customer Outcomes.” July 2, 2014).

We’ve already discussed the benefits of using competencies to evaluate candidates in the 5 Unique Benefits of Competency Based Recruitment and Selection , but what about using them internally to evaluate each other? Recruiting & Sourcing

If you ’ve never had the pleasure (or discomfort) of watching the television show Hoarders , you may not know how unsettling clutter can be. Stacks of newspapers, shelves collapse under canned goods. Furniture, pets and even people can find themselves disoriented and hidden under piles of old items that are no longer useful. It’s impossible to find anything, enjoy anything or use the homes featured on the show for their intended purpose. Spring Cleaning Hiring Process

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. Now, you probably already use data, in fact, I know you do. However, when you look at the information… how accurate is your performance management data ? It’s not.

No matter how much time passes, older generations will always complain about younger ones, and vice versa. But often it’s managers who get stuck in the middle; 75% of managers say they find managing a multi-generational workforce challenging, and 77% say they struggle with the different work expectations among generations. But you’d be surprised at how similar the working generations actually are, as well as the steps you can take to make the workplace a better environment for everyone. Tips Social Outreach Gen X

The changing workplace isn’t the office of your parents anymore. Three-piece suits ever so neatly accessorized with the perfect tie and skirt suits coupled with the perfect pair of pumps aren’t staples of most work wardrobes anymore. The ideal employee isn’t a “yes man,” they are the team members that question convention and even (wisely) challenge the opinions of their supervisors. The way we think of work and the traditions that go along with it are changing with a digital separation of work and life and how employees are motivated to perform their best. Workplace

“Why aren’t they doing their work?” At some point in their career, every manager has asked themselves this question. Common as the question might be, it’s a much pricklier problem to actually tackle. Many businesses become so absorbed with productivity and numbers that they don’t attempt to root out the common problems of their workplace and instead compensate with short-term solutions. Or they fire and forget instead of getting employees back on track. Both of these methods are akin to putting a bandaid on a broken leg… it doesn’t work. Productivity Progress Tracking

Fourty-nine percent of Millennials agree they would like a better onboarding process for new employees. That's about half of the largest group in the workforce, so the beginning of the year is the perfect time to completely overhaul your onboarding process. Below we have curated a test (with answers don’t worry) specifically to help you get your new employee onboarded successfully in the first 90 days! Employee Onboarding

Even if video interviews make your hiring process go much more smoothly, you still need to interview at your best or risk losing interested candidates. Video interviews don’t improve your interviewing skills , they are simply a medium to easily conduct otherwise costly or difficult interviews. Your team might need to brush up on their skills, and we have a few things you could try to take your process from good to great. Video Interview

As a small business owner, each of your hires matter, and you want every new person you hire to have as large an impact on your business as possible. And while you’re worried about finding funding, keeping your business afloat, or the rigors of advertising, recruiting can get lost in the shuffle. You shouldn’t ignore recruiting, either: talent acquisition is the single most important driver of growth for many businesses. small business hr software Small Business Recruiting Small Business Performance Management Small Business Hiring Small Business Concerns

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”. Allen Saunders. You have plans for sales and plans for products and probably even plans for seating arrangements, but are you planning the future of your company? According to Software Advice , 62% of employees say working for a company with succession planning would make them feel “significantly more engaged,” and it’s not uncommon for companies to be missing an actual talent roadmap in place. This is a huge missed opportunity. Succession Planning

When a market leader implements a model , others follow. After seeing how pay-for-performance has worked out at Apple, for example, other companies may want to follow suit. Pay-for-performance in particular is a tempting model because it promises maximum pay for minimum investment. You’d pay for good work, and not pay for bad work. Tips Strategy Employment Workplace Compensation HR Emplyee Retention

The future of a business can be scary, even when that business is successful. Sometimes, organizations that are doing well feel an even more overwhelming pressure to get the right plan in place and avoid any succession problems. The good news is, for every CEO and business owner who develops a succession plan, there is a talent management team thrilled to see it. Goal Alignment Succession Planning

You’ve decided you need a better mobile application experience , have your employee branding and job ads where you want them, and have a good social media recruiting and sourcing strategy. Now it’s time to build your site and make sure you’re ready to process mobile applications. If you want to attract mobile candidates, your site needs to work well. The 43% of job applicants looking for work on mobile don’t want to find a computer to apply; 27% of them expect to apply directly from their mobile device. Candidate Experience Mobile Recruiting Mobile Application

Startup culture is leading the business world zeitgeist and even big companies are starting to take notice. Startups are changing the way we handle money , how companies talk to customers and how they’re thinking about company culture. One aspect that goes unnoticed in the emergence of startups, however, is transparency. From the ways companies make themselves look good when they share to how being open is better for business, companies looking to adapt to the flexibility and nimbleness of startups stand to gain a lot from transparency. New Hire Hiring

If you’re just now starting your quest for the best applicant tracking system out there, we feel for you. There are hundreds of applicant tracking systems out there, and many of them come short. Some of them don’t have basic features every ATS should have. Some are just software made by someone on the side and sold to small businesses that don’t know any better. So if you’re just now starting your journey, we have a few criteria you should always keep in mind when looking for an applicant tracking system. Applicant Tracking System

Improve Candidate Experience and ROI By Screening Applicants Faster. Show candidates you mean business with an innovative, tech-savvy hiring process. Video interviews can be used to screen applicants 10 times faster than a typical phone interview so you can identify the best candidates to invite to the interview. Plus, you’ll open the door to candidates outside of geographical boundaries which means more people to spread the good word on your brand. Think of all the money you’ll save on recruiting traveling costs! Video Interview

The Quantified Self movement is enormously popular in an increasingly data-driven world. More than ever before, people are driven by self-improvement and looking for ways to quantify their efforts. Self-tracking devices and applications make it possible to measure things like calorie intake, spending patterns, and sleep patterns. There’s even apps that track your happiness. This trend in personal accountability was bound to be explored by corporate entities eventually and, with the emerging field of “ people analytics ,” that time is now. Talent Management recruiting trends

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs establishes a hierarchy of basic human needs. Formatted like the food pyramid, the table distinguishes fundamental means of survival from the more sophisticated incorporeal necessities. The same concept is applicable to the workplace. What does your team need to survive in the office and what do they want? These are two very distinct assertations for your workforce. Tips Onboarding Goals Workplace

People of all ages and from all generations spend their days working. From the very beginning stages of a career to the golden days nearing retirement, (most) people work for a living. They may work the same, but they’re at different steps in their lives. As such, compensating the college grad and the executive, and everyone in between means taking on few different steps in the process. Not everyone wants the same thing from their benefits package. This means tailoring your approach to your employees is crucial if you want to keep employees around for the future.

Job seekers essentially “shop” around for the right job. They look through job ad after job ad to find the position that sounds just right. Candidates are the customers of your recruitment department; recruiters have to fundamentally sell the role to acquire their desired talent pool… their target market. In order to build a better candidate experience, think about the candidates as customers. Look for yourself at some stats that indicate how important calculated recruitment efforts are. Recruiting Interviews Employment Employer Branding Workplace Candidate Experience HR

More than ever, candidates want to use the technology they’re surrounded by to better their lives, and the hiring process is no exception. Around 51% of best-in-class companies use video -enabled applications. This suggests interviewing with video will be an inevitable advancement in recruitment technology. But that doesn’t necessarily mean your candidates are familiar with this facet of corporate technology just yet. Video Interview

The Old Rules are dead, long live the new rules. Business magazine and website FastCompany recently highlighted how work is slowly encroaching into the off-hours of employees’ time. No longer can someone simply work 9-to-5 and maintain the illusion that work and life are separate, or find time to truly break away. While on vacation, 44% of people check their work messages , and 34% of people end up working one weekend day per week. But should your employees really be this focused on their work? Performance Management

In this space, we are uniquely (and sometimes falsely) positioned between upper management and frontline employees. It’s not your job to play mediator between disgruntled employees and frustrated managers, but it likely feels like it. Your role in the grand scheme of organizational needs is much larger. HR simply can’t make everyone happy; to compensate, it’s imperative to balance immediate and delayed needs throughout the company to develop employees and leadership appropriately. Creating happy employees may be a great side benefit but the work must come first. Employee Management

If there’s one thing I know about HR Professionals, it’s that they’re incredibly busy people. In fact, most HR Managers or HR Generalists have to recruit, hire, onboard, select, schedule, purchase, mediate and plan on any given day at their jobs. From the monthly recognition dinner to the meeting where product tells them they need 20 more service reps by Halloween, the skills of an HR Pro are varied and touch many departments. Recruiting Tips

Businesses spend approximately $164.2 billion dollars on learning and development programs , and for good reason. Employee development programs have a bigger effect on business than you might think; learning programs affect employee retention (it's 25% higher for employees who have engaged in company sponsored mentoring ), active engagement, and productivity rates. Performance Management

As the web continues to dominate every waking second of our lives, the proliferation of job titles and entire departments under the umbrella of “user experience” has grown dramatically. After all, if we’re going to spend most of our time on a computer or a mobile phone, or engaging with some sort of device, it’s crucial to work with people who can make that experience, simpler, more effortless, and easier for the user. Candidate Experience

The season of giving is fast approaching, so what better time to talk about Corporate Social Responsibility? After all, employees are in a festive and charitable mood and wise companies are looking for ways to align employee and company values. Until recently, social responsibility has generally been viewed as a way to enhance employer branding or to offset the effects that business has on the community, society or environment companies depend on. talent solutions

Though 9 out of 10 job seekers are looking for jobs on mobile, not everyone is implementing a strategy for mobile recruiting. Not everyone knows what it means to really recruit through mobile, either. In fact, there seems to be a lot of confusion about what mobile recruiting really is; some think it’s interchangeable with social media recruiting (it’s not, though the two are complementary in many ways). Others think it’s not worth pursuing at all, and that candidates who want jobs will find their way to you if they’re really interested.

There’s a lot of information out there that supports telecommuting for both employers and employees. Allowing employees to work remotely helps recruit and retain top talent, increases productivity and is also environmentally conscious. 86% of those surveyed said they preferred to work alone to “hit maximum productivity.”. Talent Management

Sourcing candidates is an art, and like all art forms, it’s as difficult as it is rewarding. How do you know which avenues are working, and which aren't? What’s the line between sticking with good sources and trying new ones? When you’re trying to build better methods of finding great hires, it can be difficult to know the best practices and what to avoid. With that in mind, we’ve culled together 8 quick tips to get you started on your next sourcing campaign with your applicant tracking system. Applicant Tracking System

Millennials… Glued to their phones, posting everything to social media and spending more time on the internet than their preceding generations. Yes, these are quasi-negative stereotypes, but that doesn’t mean you should engage them any less than other workforce generations; nor are they the only generation to use their mobile device frequently. Use this stereotype to your advantage in recruiting. Some companies use interviews as an opportunity to reach out to candidates , others use surveys during the recruiting process. Other organizations, take candidate engagement to a whole new level.

We’re glad you joined us on our ClearCompany goals series. Last time, we discussed just how to align goals with your employees. If you haven’t read the goal alignment post: Why Goal Alignment is About More Than Just Software , we covered understanding employee goals through transparency, how to collect and track that information with a culture of transparency and how to communicate the organizational goals to employees to give their daily work meaning and increase productivity. Goals

It’s tough to promote professional development when your company doesn’t have the funding to back growth, even if employees have the drive to improve. Obviously, you want your employees to grow professionally, but there are other areas of the company that need money as well and it’s not like you can take from the electric bill funds. Talent Management

Across the U.S., depression is costing employers billions. $44 billion, in fact, according to a survey by the Employers Health Coalition. That’s a large chunk of change, and it’s not coming back unless employers start to do something about it. Depression at large is a huge societal problem, and one we don’t often acknowledge. Of the 40 million people who have depression in the U.S., only a third receive the proper treatment for the disease. Depression is costing employers in productivity, engagement, time off and in employee retention. Here’s how: Workplace Communication Workplace

Interviewing is like trying to find something to watch on Netflix. You spend all this time, energy and brainpower perusing the endless list of shows and movies and every once in awhile something catches your eye, but you’re too afraid to commit because you don’t want to be disappointed. You wish someone could just make up your mind for you! By the end of it, you’ve started the first season of some obscure sci-fi show, wondering if you’ve made the right choice.and you didn’t. Add other people into the mix and it gets even more complicated. Enter interview scheduling.

Team building is one of those aspects of work culture most find difficult to define. How do you rate the cooperation different employees display with each other? Is the failure of a team to perform the result of poor individual participation, a lack of chemistry between members, or bad direction? Performance Management Performance Management System Team Building

“You will never get good work out of anyone if you hand over a brief and go, ‘We have no clue what we want, but why don’t you just do it for us.’". Talent Management

You already use data in a number of ways and places throughout the company, but just one thing is missing. Employee referrals are no different than your traditional recruiting methods, but instead of recruiters you have eager employees, and instead of job descriptions you have relationships. So although it might make it a bit easier to find the best talent for the role, it’s often difficult for recruiters to measure because it’s much harder to control a referral program. Employee Referral Program

As the web continues to dominate every waking second of our lives, the proliferation of job titles and entire departments under the umbrella of “user experience” has grown dramatically. After all, if we’re going to spend most of our time on a computer or a mobile phone, or engaging with some sort of device, it’s crucial to work with people who can make that experience, simpler, more effortless, and easier for the user. Candidate Experience

Offboarding is essential for all exiting employees, whether their exit is voluntary, mandated or the employee is entering retirement. Sad to say, according to Aberdeen’s 2013 Offboarding research, only about 29% of organizations have a formal offboarding process in place. In this process, the employer has a few goals; check out what the other 71% are missing: Performance Management Performance Management System Offboarding

The performance appraisal isn't the most popular part of an employee’s job. Though companies around the world commit to them every year, 45% of employees think they are a complete waste of time. Performance Reviews Performance Review Performance Management Performance Appraisal

Good candidate sourcing helps you find talent in avenues you may not have considered, whether it’s finding new methods of reaching out to candidates or cultivating a more diverse talent pool to source. Because the world of recruiting is a fluid, ever-evolving entity, your sourcing platform could probably use an update. Candidate sourcing, like most aspects of recruiting, changes fast, and if you’re not keeping up, you’re falling behind. If you don’t think you need a better candidate sourcing platform , consider these three reasons it might be time for an update. Recruiting Talent Sourcing

Companies are made of people, and people don’t always get along. Studies show that 60 to 80% of all difficulties at a company arise from the strained relationships employees encounter with each other on a regular basis. Even the low end, 60%, is a ridiculously high number when you think about what it means: if a company could get all of its employees to get along, they could cut out most of their problems. Now, this may never happen (people are like that), but talent management sometimes means getting your hands dirty. Improve Productivity

There seem to be a lot of ancient corporate ideas hanging around the workplace. Some leaders are clinging on to tradition for dear life, while others are tossing it all out and determining a new plan. Instead of doing something because that’s the way it’s always been done, what about innovating, evolving, striking a balance and getting comfortable… I’ll explain that part later. Company Culture Productivity Corporate Culture

The state of work, as it relates to company culture and professional growth, has been weighed and certainly found wanting. As Gallup revealed, only about 13% of the current worldwide workforce are fully engaged in their work. So, it is apparent traditional talent management is not as effective as it could be. Because there is some confusion around the difference between talent management and performance management, here is a definition from talent management strategist, Dr. John Sullivan ( @DrJohnSullivan ): Talent Management Talent Management System

Between the endless mobile apps, system platforms and now wearable technology - just to name a few - there are a multitude of “helpful” tools for your employees to get their jobs done. The perfect tech solution to create the best team just isn’t a reality; and there is such thing as too much technology in talent management. Leaders must create a balance between human interaction and technology for effective talent management leadership. Talent Management

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HR Pros have heard for years that it’s their turn for a “seat at the table” and that they need to “get strategic” about people management. And while some might argue that HR Pros have been strategic and own people management already , there’s finally a study that makes it official. XpertHR’s latest research into HR roles and responsibilities has for the first time in the last 14 years of doing the survey, found that the role of HR data and HR software is a key priority, particularly for private sector organizations. Talent Management

The guts, the glory, the gold. Olympics junkies everywhere will be keeping tabs on the Americans in Rio starting August 5th. The summer Olympics are dominated with major team events in sports such as soccer, basketball and beach volleyball as well as mixed individual-team sports like gymnastics, swimming and track & field. In events such as these, athletes compete for the team - as well as in individual events - trying to bring back as much hardware as available. Talent Management