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Best HR Software Providers: Standard-setters in performance tracking to 401(K) management

HR Digest

Finding a suitable software provider that meets your organization’s needs is tricky. Human Resources Management Systems (HRMS) these days manage a wide variety of tasks ranging from assessment to learning and strategy planning to payroll management. Luckily, not all of them are actual HR software providers, but you get the idea, right?

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Ending the phony war for talent

Workable

The theory, posited in a study in 1997 and followed up in a book of the same name four years later, was that smart companies needed to aggressively hire, promote and reward talent, while ruthlessly culling those perceived to be less talented. Back at McKinsey, a 2012 report gave their old idea new currency. Evolution not an arms race.

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The dishonest myth of work-life balance

Workable

If they could sell work-life balance to prospective employees they could gain a competitive advantage in hiring. This was apparent when Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote in 2012 about her reasons for quitting a powerful job at the U.S. Companies now had a rational incentive to be disingenuous about what they wanted and they responded.

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How can we fix tech recruiting?

Workable

Technology fancies itself a meritocracy—more so than any other industry. Aline is the co-founder and CEO of interviewing.io , an anonymous technical interviewing platform. When Aline started recruiting in 2012, there were very few recruiters in Silicon Valley with technical backgrounds. Not a rich dad or a fancy degree.

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Employee development and the Peter Principle: Why your managers keep messing up

Workable

Who better than Workable’s top manager, CEO Nikos Moraitakis , to offer commentary? He gestures to the skyscrapers outside his office at the Workable headquarters in downtown Boston, and notes that they are technical and architectural marvels, and it would be impossible for one single person to build that whole skyscraper by themselves.

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Pre-employment testing: pros and cons

Workable

Companies also use other types of tests like cognitive ability tests and skills assessments which have helped companies retain new hires. This is because recruiters and hiring managers often judge candidates based on subjective, rather than job-related, criteria. All tests have their merits but they are far from perfect.

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Building a winning engineering team: Workable CTO tells his story

Workable

When you talk to Spyros Magiatis about his experience building the engineering team that owns Workable’s recruitment software, you quickly understand that it was like Rome – it didn’t happen in a day. In fact, the roots of the innovative spirit that fuels Workable goes back to pre-Workable times. He grins at the memory.