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WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A TALENT ANALYTICS TEAM

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The widespread use of data analytics has been transformative because it gives companies a way to dig into large datasets (e.g. Big Data') and pull out the information required to make better decisions rather than relying on gut feelings or instinct alone. It brings quantitative power into business conversations and allows for better decision-making and repeatable results.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A TALENT ANALYTICS TEAM

Hoops

The widespread use of data analytics has been transformative because it gives companies a way to dig into large datasets (e.g. Big Data') and pull out the information required to make better decisions rather than relying on gut feelings or instinct alone. It brings quantitative power into business conversations and allows for better decision-making and repeatable results.

THE REAL COST OF HIRING WRONG

Hoops

Companies spend a significant amount of time and money filling open positions. Regardless of the position, the benefits of finding and hiring the right person for the right position are self-evident. But what about the cost of hiring the wrong person? And the impact of a bad hire goes well beyond the monetary. SALES. That’s because every opportunity lost is a direct hit to the bottom line.

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THE REAL COST OF HIRING WRONG

Hoops

Companies spend a significant amount of time and money filling open positions. Regardless of the position, the benefits of finding and hiring the right person for the right position are self-evident. But what about the cost of hiring the wrong person? And the impact of a bad hire goes well beyond the monetary. SALES. That’s because every opportunity lost is a direct hit to the bottom line.

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Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance

Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

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The Top 3 Misconceptions About Organizational Fit

Hoops

The concept of fit is talked about incessantly in the context of hiring, for good reason. It is a key indicator of employee retention and productivity, and, as Katie Bouton ( @katiebouton ) writes in the Harvard Business Review, in many instances it is as important as job knowledge or skill set in determining the measurable benefits companies get from their employees. FIT IS NOT ABOUT CONFORMITY.

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The Top 3 Misconceptions About Organizational Fit

Hoops

The concept of fit is talked about incessantly in the context of hiring, for good reason. It is a key indicator of employee retention and productivity, and, as Katie Bouton ( @katiebouton ) writes in the Harvard Business Review, in many instances it is as important as job knowledge or skill set in determining the measurable benefits companies get from their employees. FIT IS NOT ABOUT CONFORMITY.

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THIS IS WHY THE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE MATTERS

Hoops

If you’re responsible for filling open positions, your top priority is finding the best fit for the job, period. The actual experience candidates have working their way through your pipeline may not seem as important as just getting them through it, but believe it or not, it matters. The position is the reward, no matter what it takes to get it, right? Wrong. Here’s why. CANDIDATES TALK.

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THIS IS WHY THE CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE MATTERS

Hoops

If you’re responsible for filling open positions, your top priority is finding the best fit for the job, period. The actual experience candidates have working their way through your pipeline may not seem as important as just getting them through it, but believe it or not, it matters. The position is the reward, no matter what it takes to get it, right? Wrong. Here’s why. CANDIDATES TALK.

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Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]

Is your company ready to move beyond the annual performance review? Where do you start? What are the keys to success? In this guide, you’ll gain an understanding of: the forces driving change, three foundations of success and take a deep dive into the skills gap many managers have that will sink your efforts before they start and how to address them.

Hiring Great Is A Team Sport

Hoops

When it comes to filling open positions, the relationship between hiring managers and HR is equal parts exhilaration and exasperation. Hiring managers want the best people available and they want them identified, screened, interviewed and hired yesterday. Meanwhile, HR is hard at work posting the position, sorting through resumes, and setting up interviews. TREAT HIRING LIKE A PROJECT.

Hiring Great Is A Team Sport

Hoops

When it comes to filling open positions, the relationship between hiring managers and HR is equal parts exhilaration and exasperation. Hiring managers want the best people available and they want them identified, screened, interviewed and hired yesterday. Meanwhile, HR is hard at work posting the position, sorting through resumes, and setting up interviews. TREAT HIRING LIKE A PROJECT.

3 things your recruiters will never tell you

Hoops

Please, have a seat, and welcome to corporate recruiting! In the spirit of “walk a mile in another man’s moccasins,” I thought today would be a good day to have you visit the recruiting “pit.”. How are you doing?” you ask? We’re quite fine, thank you. It’s a beehive, and the energy is palpable. Hidden Talent is Everywhere – We can’t afford the luxury of looking at every single CV.

3 things your recruiters will never tell you

Hoops

Please, have a seat, and welcome to corporate recruiting! In the spirit of “walk a mile in another man’s moccasins,” I thought today would be a good day to have you visit the recruiting “pit.”. How are you doing?” you ask? We’re quite fine, thank you. It’s a beehive, and the energy is palpable. Hidden Talent is Everywhere – We can’t afford the luxury of looking at every single CV.

Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation

Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

The Resumé Abyss

Hoops

There’s a great line towards the end of Oliver Stone’s  Wall Street ? Bud” (Charlie Sheen, perhaps giving us a glimpse of the future) is being led out of his brokerage, cuffed and crying, strung out on coke, greed, and stupidity – basically what he would call “Thursday” now. At that moment, man finds his character. What we have here is an unintended consequence of technological advancements (?).

How's Your Backside?

Hoops

Pardon ME????!? No, no, no - not that backside. I’m talking the “marketing life-cycle” backside. Think in terms of your job search; if you’re in the category of “long-term” unemployed, you have a branding issue – how do you continue to promote and differentiate a brand (you) that is way past the honeymoon stage? What is your strategy for keeping that brand profitable in the mature stage?

Overwhelmed Recruiter

Hoops

Anyone filling seats for a living can tell you that there are days when you can’t remember your own name, much less the specific applicant they may speaking with at any given time. typical impromptu phone call may sound like this: Recruiter : “ Hi Mrs. Candidate, I’m John Whitaker with HoopsHR and I’d like to speak with you about a Brand Manager position I’m actively sourcing.

3 Things.

Hoops

When a company is in an uproar, it's estimated that employees will lose as much as 2 additional hours  per day  in productivity. The anxiety associated with change or even the  possibility  of change puts people into a distracted state beyond the norm.  . But would you be surprised to know that there are other activities your employees are doing every day that can directly impact productivity?

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2016 Training Program Best Practices

Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

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The Resumé Abyss

Hoops

There’s a great line towards the end of Oliver Stone’s  Wall Street ? Bud” (Charlie Sheen, perhaps giving us a glimpse of the future) is being led out of his brokerage, cuffed and crying, strung out on coke, greed, and stupidity – basically what he would call “Thursday” now. At that moment, man finds his character. What we have here is an unintended consequence of technological advancements (?).

How's Your Backside?

Hoops

Pardon ME????!? No, no, no - not that backside. I’m talking the “marketing life-cycle” backside. Think in terms of your job search; if you’re in the category of “long-term” unemployed, you have a branding issue – how do you continue to promote and differentiate a brand (you) that is way past the honeymoon stage? What is your strategy for keeping that brand profitable in the mature stage?

Overwhelmed Recruiter

Hoops

Anyone filling seats for a living can tell you that there are days when you can’t remember your own name, much less the specific applicant they may speaking with at any given time. typical impromptu phone call may sound like this: Recruiter : “ Hi Mrs. Candidate, I’m John Whitaker with HoopsHR and I’d like to speak with you about a Brand Manager position I’m actively sourcing.

3 Things.

Hoops

When a company is in an uproar, it's estimated that employees will lose as much as 2 additional hours  per day  in productivity. The anxiety associated with change or even the  possibility  of change puts people into a distracted state beyond the norm.  . But would you be surprised to know that there are other activities your employees are doing every day that can directly impact productivity?

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Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success

Is your organization thinking about moving towards a performance development culture? What are the elements to succeeding and keeping managers and employees engaged? Download “A Road Map for Change” to find out and gain insight into making the transition as smooth as possible on your journey into this brave new world.

HR from the Outside In: Learnings from Dave Ulrich, Father of Modern HR

Visier

Earlier this month we were fortunate to host an interactive HR Leadership workshop for Visier customers, led by father of modern HR and leading business consultant Dave Ulrich. In this workshop, Ulrich focused on the top questions of the group, the first of which was focused on, “What is blocking HR’s progress?” Here are some key takeaways. They understand the general business conditions (e.g.,

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The (New) Definition of Employee Engagement

Grovo HR

Employee engagement has been one of the most talked-about topics in human capital management for twenty-five years. And yet, despite the attention of professionals from every area of the business world—or maybe because of it—the term itself has never gained a universal definition. There’s no reason it couldn’t, though. What it’s not. Engaged employees are more motivated than disengaged employees.

7 Things We Learned From Deloitte’s “Meet the Modern Learner”

Grovo HR

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is a snapshot of the challenges facing learning professionals today. For those of us who seek to create high-quality training for 21st century brains, “Modern Learner” is more incisive a presentation of the way modern workers learn than most lengthy research reports. Learning needs to be micro. Mobile learning is essential.

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5 Best Questions for Screening Candidates

ClearCompany HRM

Screening candidates will never go out of style, but doing it via the phone or in-person… will. With video interviewing, a series of predetermined questions can be asked of each applicant to help make better decisions of who to invite to the next round. If you’ve already adopted video interviewing into your candidate screening process, congrats!

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HR's Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces

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.

The New Recruiting Metric: First Year Retention

UpstartHR

As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for discussing how it is actually performing. Recruiting, in some ways, is actually easier to measure because it is very similar to sales: you either have results or you don’t. So I decided to try something. gathered information. Are they working?

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HR Can be Dangerous with the Right Technology!

PeopleStrategy

HR is under a lot of pressure these days. That is a lot, especially when your job requirements also include making sure day-to-day employee management tasks (i.e. onboarding, payroll, benefits administration, time and attendance, performance) are completed accurately and on time. Ditch the bad rap and arm yourself with technology to make you dangerous. That’s because she loves her HR solution.

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5 Candidate Screening Questions You Should Always Ask

ClearCompany HRM

We know you’ve seen them, the 10,000 articles out there about candidate screening questions. The “how to’s” the “dos and don’ts” and, of course, the “best practices” articles that flood the internet. It can almost convince you to believe that interviewing a new applicant is simple, or at least easy to follow given this “quick recipe to interviewing success.”. Screening Candidates Video Interview

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Why Candidate Experience is Least Important for Many

UpstartHR

One of the most common terms around recruiting these days is candidate experience. If you’re late to the game, it’s basically a look at how candidates are treated as they enter your recruiting funnel all the way to getting an offer, if they move that far. Think about it. In addition, you’d probably be unsure just how to make that a reality. And to actively court them. The pay-off?

Learner motivation explained! Learn how to use an LMS to motivate your learners to upskill

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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Data integrity and security: What you absolutely cannot overlook as you evaluate employee engagement solutions

Kanjoya

Few things could be worse for a company that is aspiring to build the best employee experience than a breach of employee data. Not only would it cause employee anxiety, anger, and frustration, it would also jeopardize employee trust. Moreover, the company would likely incur the hard and soft costs of legal fees, compensatory damages, and lost employee productivity. If so, how frequently? 3.

The Missing Executive Skill Set That’s Hurting American Business

ej4 HR

For the past few years, just about every senior executive has had the words “skills gap” on their lips. In fact, a report released last year by Adecco Staffing US found a whopping 92% of executives felt that there was a skills gap in their worker pool. And so thousands of jobs go unfilled every [.]. The post The Missing Executive Skill Set That’s Hurting American Business appeared first on. Leadership Training Management Training Training & Development Executive training executives soft skills training

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Employee Engagement: Pay Attention to These

All Things Workplace

The notion of Employee Engagement has been with us for a while now. noticed in a meeting last week that everyone was passionate when we started discussing "engagement". But the longer we talked, the less I was convinced that we were talking about the same thing. In fact, we all had a personal, sensible, gut level idea of what it meant. Predictable, actually. How Do You Define Employee Engagement?

How to Coach Employees and Managers on Career Options

UpstartHR

As I look back on the past five years and all of the people I’ve met, I have made some interesting conclusions about career choices. My background as an HR pro has helped to expose me to a wide variety of experiences, people, and career options. I was talking with a friend a few days ago about some of the HR positions I have had over the years. Think about it. So, what’s the answer?

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The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change

Needed: A shift from traditional performance management systems (organized as an annual review process) to newer performance development systems (organized around real-time dynamics). Download part one in a series to gain insight into why this shift must happen and why it needs to happening now