my dad says I shouldn’t have asked for time to think over a job offer

Ask a Manager

MARCH 1, 2016

A reader writes: Recently I had a second interview with a company where I met with the other owner and learned a lot of new information, including salary and schedule. At the end of the interview, I was offered the position and I said I would like a day to think it over and talk about it with my family. They said of course and that they would always expect that. Later, when I was talking with my parents, my dad got mad that I would even think about asking them for a day. Ignore your dad. It’s very, very normal to ask for some time to think over an offer (and a day is nothing).

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my office smells like a corpse, my fired coworker blames me, and more

Ask a Manager

MARCH 1, 2016

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My office smells like a corpse. My office is an older building and half of it is up on a small crawl space. Every winter around this time (late February to early March) is what we call the dead animal season. Something (rat, feral cat, mouse) ends up finding its way into the crawl space and perishing – for whatever reason. And then the smell begins to permeate the office. The smell will last for 2-3 weeks. And nothing is done about this. What are our options? And we can’t always take vacation then! What?! Are one-page resumes the new trend?

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how can I make sure my team meets deadlines?

Ask a Manager

MARCH 1, 2016

A reader writes: If you’re a (much younger millennial) project manager contractor managing non-contractor long-term (much older) folks, and they say they’ll get something done but the deadline’s in less than 48 hours and they have nothing sent to you yet (after an earlier reminder), how do you remind them and get things done without: 1) panicking. 2) nagging them. 3) getting neurotic? Another person used to be on the team but missed some deadline(s) and was sacked awhile ago. giving them the info, and they edit/add/or ok it. Is there anything additional I can do?

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should you get rid of all the managers?

Ask a Manager

MARCH 1, 2016

On days when being a manager or dealing with a manager is making you tear your hair out, you might wonder how things have been going at Zappos in the two years since the company famously announced its transition to “holacracy,” a system without managers or titles. But if you’re tempted to wonder if a flatter, manager-less structure might work in your company, proceed with skepticism. At Intuit QuickBase’s Fast Track blog today, I talk about why you probably shouldn’t throw out all the managers. You can read it here. was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

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MARCH 1, 2016

The world is changing and so is how we work. When it comes to the field of HR, leaders and professionals need to be on the cutting edge of what is happening in today’s workplace, not to mention being flexible to that change. leadership HR Trends Change

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Dice

MARCH 1, 2016

In October 2014, Dice published a list of 5 programming languages marked for death. Older languages can go one of two ways,” author and developer Jeff Cogswell wrote at the time. Stay in use, despite fading popularity, or die out completely.” He predicted that five languages would soon disappear: Perl, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET, Adobe Flash and AIR, and Delphi’s Object Pascal.

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Dice

MARCH 1, 2016

Even as more organizations buy and implement Big Data architecture, many aren’t considering how many people they’ll ultimately need to mine insights from all those datasets. Analyst firm McKinsey & Company predicts that, by 2018, there’ll be a shortage of 1.5 million data experts. One route to mitigating that potential shortfall: train more tech pros in the minutiae of data analytics.

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Switch and Shift

MARCH 1, 2016

In the first quarter of 2015 Millennials became the biggest demographic in the American workforce. The oldest Millennials are 36 now – head towards 40. GenX is so much smaller than GenY that it was inevitable that we would end up with a younger demographic pushing into management in large numbers. Many of them are […] Read more. Blog Leadership Millennials new management new managers

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MARCH 1, 2016

Hello, everybody. Just a quick note to tell you that I’m behind on blogging. It assumes two things: you read my blog and give a s**t. Thank you. Here’s the deal. I had to run up a skyscraper on Sunday morning. Later that night, I attended a memorial service. It was terrible and troublesome and complicated and also very nice. Then I got on the plane and sat next to a Ted Cruz supporter.

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HR Gazette

MARCH 1, 2016

There’s a lot of talk in the market about “Employee Engagement” and all these tactics and tools an organization can use to improve in this area. The fact is – engaging your employees is much easier to do than you think and doesn’t cost a penny. The problem many companies – and even volunteer groups – are facing is that employees have lost that “drive” that they once had when they first joined. 

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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 1, 2016

In yesterday’s Advisor , we learned how more jobseekers are using their mobile devices to search for jobs and apply to them. That works great if a company’s employment site is mobile-friendly. But, what if it isn’t? Today we’ll explore what to do if that’s the case. What Can Be Done? Including who we are, what we do, and an invitation to “join our talent network”. Automated tech. Balance. Central).

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David Zinger

MARCH 1, 2016

MARCH into Employee Engagement: Be a Player. It makes a world of difference in employee engagement when we know we are a player not a pawn and when we realize we never work for an organization, we work with an organization. Take control of your work. Employee Engagement: Be a Player. You are not a Pawn. You are a Player. You don’t work for an organization. You work with an organization.

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MARCH 1, 2016

In modern business, there is no area of the earth that is off limits. Businesses are always looking to expand into new markets, or take advantage of others. For this reason many people working in human resources can expect to be dealign with employees as expatriates in foreign countries. There is an importance placed on the HR department to train up employees who are expected to work as an expat.

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Spark Hire

MARCH 1, 2016

If you want to appeal to the modern job seeker, you need to retire outdated hiring practices. The text-heavy job ads, impersonal phone interviews, and routine interview questions of yesterday aren’t going to do a great job at attracting and securing today’s top talent. When it comes to scoring top talent with updated interview processes, these hiring professionals have the right idea: 1. dying out.

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UrbanBound HR

MARCH 1, 2016

People, in general, are apt to get swept up into sweeping, grand-scale changes. We see the need to make a gigantic change in order to right the ship when we feel we’ve gotten on the wrong course or caught in rough seas. Pantries are scoured and cleansed of unhealthy food, gym membership contracts are signed, new running shoes are bought, and we’re gonna get healthy, until motivation breaks and our extreme change is dialed back to where it was before, or to a set of manageable, minor parts. This isn’t an effective way to induce positive change on a problem. Policy Relocation HR

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HR Gazette

MARCH 1, 2016

Rocky Ozaki is Director of People & Culture at Rise (formerly Paysavvy). Rocky argues that the mainstream way we lead our employees needs drastic change and its inevitable that new solutions with continue to change what HR used to represent. Technological advances, the “connected generation” and an unavoidable shift in workplace demographics are just a few reasons for this inevitability.

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The HR Capitalist

MARCH 1, 2016

Get ready. You're a candidate for a white collar, professional job. You know the type of job, the one that your mom can indirectly brag on you about. You're already doing this type of work, so she's already bragging. But it would be cool to do something bigger and better, so here you are. You're interviewing with me for the better job. There's more money. Our people are higher end. You're here.

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O.C. Tanner

MARCH 1, 2016

We’ve compiled 10 fun and creative ideas you can try for Employee Appreciation Day this year. Take a look and get inspired! 10 Fresh Ideas for Employee Appreciation Day from O.C. Tanner.

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Don’t Have an HR Technology Strategy? Four Tips for Building One

TalentCulture

MARCH 1, 2016

Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School professor, author, and expert on competitive strategy defines strategy as “the creation of a unique and valuable position involving a different set of activities” (1996). 2012 article published in strategy + business explains that strategy is, “the result of choices executives make on where to play and how to win to maximize long-term value.”

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FingerCheck

MARCH 1, 2016

Green initiatives – are they compatible with payroll needs? Unless you’ve been off the planet Earth for the last few years, you know that Americans, in their homes and at work, have heard the call to reduce, reuse, and recycle.  In all aspects of our lives, we’ve heard the words “Go Green” somewhere. Have you wondered how you can apply that at work?  How to do that?  Here’s a link. link]. manually. 

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Dice

MARCH 1, 2016

Thanks to the shortage in data-science talent , more organizations are relying on analytics-as-a-service offerings. This trend has set off something of an arms race between traditional providers of IT services and cloud-based vendors. Cloud-based analytics services live and die by the data and tools they offer. All that information is stored in the (digital) cloud. Cloud Analytics Data IBM

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Workforce Software

MARCH 1, 2016

Real-Time Visibility Improves Strategic Workforce Insight LIVONIA, Mich. March 1, 2016) – WorkForce Software®, the leading cloud-based provider of enterprise workforce management solutions, today announced that Nebraska Furniture Mart®, part of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, has selected its EmpCenter® solution for their retail, warehouse, and corporate home office locations.

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QAspire

MARCH 1, 2016

Change does not always mean transformation, but transformation by itself changes everything fundamentally. At a time when a lot of people use terms “change” and “transformation” interchangeably, it helps to know the difference between the two (and my sketch note on the same topic may be helpful). What do real business transformations look like? Do read the original article at HBR.

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MARCH 1, 2016

It's time once again for the SuccessFactors maintenance release. Q1 2016, b1602, strengthens the mobility, learning and user experiences, with other tweak to e nsure it continues to provide the best support to HR and payroll professionals. SAP SuccessFactors does so many things well including its schedule of quarterly feature updates. The practice is often very different. The majority are opt-in.

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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.

HR Bartender

MARCH 1, 2016

I’m sure the thought has crossed many people’s minds – is it better to quit or get fired? That’s what today’s reader wants to know. I am going through a work suspension while been investigated for fraud in terms of ordering goods from a supplier which I was not entitled. I am guilty of the offence and will be dismissed from my employment. They admit what they did was wrong.

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TalentWise

MARCH 1, 2016

Following trends in modern consumerism, the talent acquisition landscape demands transparency to deliver a great candidate experience from recruiting through background screening

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SAP Innovation

MARCH 1, 2016

Science fiction writer William Gibson is credited with saying, ”The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” Such is the case with the Internet of Things (IoT). Digital business requires both data and the equipment to capture, store, manage, and analyze that data before enterprises can better inform their decisions, automate actions, and improve operations. Utilities. Healthcare.

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Mangrove Software

MARCH 1, 2016

Achieving Positive WorkFORCE Results Through Smart WorkPLACE Initiatives. By Mike Kinney, Global Vice President of Marketing & Sales Enablement. The business landscape is ever-changing. Although cliché, that statement could not be truer than in today’s work environment. We are in the middle of a workplace revolution. would like to suggest there is one strategy that has a very meaningful ROI.

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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory.

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5 Tips To Hire Right The First Time

TalentCulture

MARCH 1, 2016

HR lesson for 2016: Pay attention. Interviewing and hiring is never simple. Just like loving someone for all the wrong reasons, you can hire — or not hire someone — and err in judgment. Some of it has to do with them, but a lot of it has to do with us. Bottom line: Even if you’ve got the perfect candidate, creating a positive takeaway in terms of interviewing and the hiring process is critical.

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Terryberry

MARCH 1, 2016

Guest Post by Lisa Ryan, founder of Grategy. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” William James. A few years ago, I incorporated thank you notes in my programs and workshops. For most of my keynotes and shorter programs, I would simply give everyone a thank you note as homework to complete after our session. The response has been immediate and incredible.

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HR Gazette

MARCH 1, 2016

This article was originally posted here and was written by By Rocky Ozaki, Director of People and Culture at Rise. People. From a very young age, I knew my calling was to empower, inspire, and generally help as many people as I could. Nurturing babies was more interesting to me than playing with a GI Joe figurine. Turns out, it would be Human Resources. My eye-opening observations? There is a 0.1%

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ClearCompany HRM

MARCH 1, 2016

Tis the season for spring cleaning and we’re not talking about the growing pile of junk currently residing in your garage. Let’s talk HR! More specifically, taking time out of the new season to tighten up your company’s hiring process. The new year isn’t so new anymore, making this a great time to get a head start on setting hiring goals, determining areas to. improve the hiring process.

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