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Should you include freelancers in your talent development program?

Fast Company The Future of Work

The “2018 Future Workforce” report from freelancing website Upwork, released in February, found that 59% of hiring managers are using flexible talent–freelancers, temporary, and agency workers–which is more than double the 2017 percentage (24%). workforce, outpacing overall U.S.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Joblift, a Berlin, Germany-based Job Search Platform, Raises €10M in Series A Funding. Friss, The Netherlands–based provider of analytics software for fraud, risk and compliance to P&C insurers, Raises €15M in Series A Funding. Microsoft Ventures invests in strategy management software startup Workboard. USD) investment.

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Why the ROI of Learning Shouldn't Be a Question

Cornerstone On Demand

As companies increasingly recognize that an investment in learning directly impacts workforce productivity, satisfaction and performance, they are working to create and prioritize new educational and talent development opportunities for their employees. Do you want to see your most recent reports to help you prepare?"

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Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help

Workplace Psychology

In December 2017, I (along with many of my colleagues) got laid off by the parent company that had acquired our smaller company in 2014. corporations have been reducing the size of their workforces at alarming rates since the late 1980s” (Levy, 2017, p. Newsweek (2010). The Consequences of Losing Your Job. Muchinsky, 2006, p.

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Diversity recruiting: Two heads are better than one

Business Management Daily

In 2017, a team of economic scientists decided to ask that question by submitting resumes with traditionally Black and white names to 108 different U.S. Diversity recruiting is a controversial topic, and myths like these can make it hard for a workforce to buy into diversity programs, so let’s address a few of the most prominent ones.

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

Whenever human resources must be expanded or replenished, a recruiting system of some kind must be established. Organizations recruit periodically in order to add to, maintain, or readjust their total workforces in accordance with HR requirements” (Cascio & Aguinis, 2019, p. The second topic is recruitment.

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Transforming the Workforce: Insights from Lilia Stoyanov

Everwise

Among her many accomplishments, she is also a chartered accountant in the UK, an Oxford grad, and recently won the 2017 First Women Award in the UK. Stoyanov’s background in finance and management has led her to start two businesses: management advisory company, Service Optimizer; and remote job platform, Transformify.