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How to Be a More Strategic HR Leader in 2017

Globoforce

Bill Castellano, Ph.D., associate dean, executive and professional education, at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. How can we be more strategic tackling some of today’s greatest workforce challenges – like the skills gap, generational diversity, and the growing population of contract workers? To gain some insight, we reached out to Bill Castellano, Ph.D., Right? Right. It depends.

One interview question tells you (almost) everything you want to know about an applicant

HR Morning

Looking for that next great interview question to help you nail down the perfect candidate? There’s one in particular you should consider adding to your arsenal. . At least that’s the opinion of best-selling author and renowned columnist Paul B. Brown. ” (OK, it’s more like a directive than a question, but we digress.). Responses to look for.

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Why You Should Let Employees Pick Their Job Titles

SuccessFactors

Traditional job titles are like business meeting jargon—they’ve become meaningless and have tended to make my eyes glaze over. As positions evolve thanks to changes in technology and workplace dynamics, it’s time for employers to let individuals choose job titles that reflect what they actually do. Think about it: Wouldn’t you like to have a desk plaque that says Chief Happiness Officer?

The 4 C’s of Quality of Hire

Visier

You may be familiar with the 4 C’s of diamonds – cut, color, clarity and carat. These are four variables that combine to evaluate and communicate the quality of diamonds. Quality has many facets (if you’ll forgive the pun), all of which must be considered to ensure you are getting the characteristics you desire in a stone. The same can be said of quality of hire. Candidate. Consistency.

13 Ways to Get Reward and Recognition Right

Keeping and engaging your best people is crucial. Learn why reward and recognition helps you do just that, 13 ways to reward and recognize the right way, and how to get your boss onboard.

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Zoho ShowTime Analytics – Empowered Training

Zoho People

  “In God we trust, all others must bring data”              – W. Edwards Deming,                                           Statistician & Manufacturing Guru . In the information age, everything is quantifiable. From the number of steps we take each day to the number of calories we consume,  we can quantify each and every thing that happens around us. Reduction in costs; 2.

The Darwinian Nature of Candidates Seeking Remote Work.

The HR Capitalist

We've noticed something interesting on the recruiting trail at Kinetix. We're a recruiting company and from time to time, we seek to fill remote-based positions, both for ourselves and our clients. That's not unusual, because I'm sure a lot of you have remote-based roles you have to fill. Here's what we've noticed on the recruiting trail related to remote candidates. Um hmm. The real players?

Legislative Alert - Thursday, November 10th, 2016: 7 of 8 States Vote for Pot

EBI

Screening News. Marijuana Wins Big this Election. Huge International Fraud Ring Indicted. Drug Problems on the Nation’s Rails. Marijuana Wins Big this Election. Legalized marijuana no longer looks like a passing fad. Voters in nine states faced various ballot initiatives. The vast majority passed easily. Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota approved medical marijuana. Customs and Immigration.

Screening Candidates Through Social Media

Dice

At this point, social recruiting is firmly ensconced in the toolboxes of most recruiters. Although it’s not the be-all and end-all of their work, more and more recruiters find social media provides them with a universe of qualified candidates that’s both wide in numbers and deep in specific skills. One lens comes into play if the role in question is customer-facing. The Customer-Focused Lens.

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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Achievers in the Flow of Work: The Open API

Achievers

By: Amit Kaura. Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Achievers. Imagine all of your employee recognition and rewards programs; everyday recognition, innovation, recruiting referrals, or years of service awards; even sales incentives, on one platform. That is the basis of the Achievers recognition and rewards platform. What are we trying to do with our APIs? How does Achievers manage this?

What Does a Trump Presidency Mean For Tech?

Dice

Donald Trump. As much of the United States and world sit stunned at Donald Trump’s historic and unprecedented Presidential victory, a few questions have gone unanswered. Most notably, we’re not sure where he stands on many issues related to the technology industry, which could be problematic for tech workers. Here is Trump’s entire plan : “Order an immediate review of all U.S.

New Facebook Job Postings: Will They Get it Right?

Blogging 4 Jobs

On Monday, Facebook announced it was testing a feature to create and promote job postings on business Pages. The immediate industry reaction is that it may become a massive competitor to LinkedIn and do a much better job at acquiring the attention of passive seekers. Matt Charney of Recruiting Daily elaborates here. The preliminary information leaves me with many questions and some concerns.

7 Best Practices for Growing a Veteran Hiring Program

Paychex

Whether you are just beginning a veteran hiring program or looking to take your program to the next level, a clearly-planned on-boarding and retention program for veteran employees will ensure smoother integration into your company, reduce attrition, and enable you to report greater successes

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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.

Building a Business Case for an LMS

SumTotal

Spend any amount of time around HR people and soon the conversation inevitably turns to the subject of Learning Management Systems. Some love the ones they have; others view theirs so riddled with holes as to resemble a fine Swiss Emmental. Then there are those who long for one, while others curse the day someone ever put the letters LMS in the same sentence. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5.

Tomb With A View

NoExcusesHR

I spent many years as a traditional guy in conservative corporate environments. thought that was supposed to be my path. It did allow me to provide for my family, discover a career path and industry that I fell in love with; and, helped me ultimately learn that I could be much more. In effect, they are in a career tomb with a view. view of their success. view of their corporate cage. No Excuses.

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8 Ways to Deliver Training that Employees Retain

HR Bartender

The biggest concern organizations have when they invest in training is retention. By this, I mean having employees retain the material once they leave the class. No company wants to create a program and take employees out of the operation only to have the same issues occur repeatedly. It’s important for training programs to be designed and delivered in a way that increases retention of the content.

4 Recognizable Signs You Work for a Lousy Boss [Video]

Switch and Shift

In today’s Culture Leadership Charge, Chris Edmonds discusses lousy bosses and their impact on a company’s organizational culture. By recognizing these four characteristics of ineffective leadership, you’ll be better prepared to handle working for a lousy boss, and better equipped to become a catalyst for change. Company Culture Culture Change Leadership culture leadership charge lousy boss

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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.

Talent acquisition: Onboard or risk man overboard

Allegis Global Solutions

Why you need to fully onboard new talent to prevent man overboard

how much should years of service matter when setting salaries?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a question about how much value is placed on years of service vs. actual job duties. started at my current job 10 years ago, under a coworker who had already been there 20 years. Initially, he was my manager, but as I took on additional responsibilities over the years I was promoted a few times and we are now at equal levels, performing similar (and overlapping) duties and reporting to the same boss. Our job titles are the same. If anything, it has been acknowledged that at this point I have more responsibilities than he does. salary

Workplace Bullying and Effective Mentoring

Get Hppy

A percentage of my time is spent addressing various behaviours as we go on our mentoring journey. At times I have to ask myself what era are we living in as the behaviours are antiquated and inappropriate for today’s business climate and for world as a whole. One of the behaviours that I see and have commented on before is bullying. What is workplace bullying? Bullying can be covert or overt.

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A Look Ahead at People Analytics 2016 / 2017: Enabling Organizational & Financial Health

Technology for Talent

Results from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 survey showed that 32 percent of the global organizations surveyed feel “ready” or “somewhat ready” for people analytics (+8 percentage year over year).[1] Among those same organizations, 77 percent think people analytics is “important” or “very important.” While the increase in the former case may look promising, […]. Analytics Tech HR & Talent Analytics Human Resources People Analytics ; HR Analytics

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Workplace Deal Breakers: Where’s the employee breaking point?

What are the “deal-breakers” that make your people leave? Learn why it's not all about compensation and why issues related to advancement and work-life balance are often far more important.

2016 FUTA Credit Reductions

Paycor

The federal unemployment tax, also known as the FUTA tax, pays unemployment compensation to workers who lose their jobs. Employers report and pay FUTA taxes separately from Social Security, Medicare and withheld income taxes. Employees do not pay this tax or have it withheld from their pay—it is exclusively paid by employers. Employers pay FUTA taxes on the first $7,000 of each employee’s annual wages at a rate of 6.0%. Employers who pay their state unemployment taxes on time receive a credit reduction of 5.4%, making the net rate 0.6%. California at 1.8% is the only U.S.

Participate in the High-Impact Learning Survey!

Technology for Talent

We  are excited to announce the 2016 round of the High-Impact™ Learning Organization survey! This This research will help us to create maturity and core metrics related to the experience workers have with development, digital learning, learning technology, the future of worker development, and more. Details and a link to the survey provided below. or […]. Career Management Learning & Career

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Why Learning to Delegate Is So Important For You and the Team

TLNT: The Business of HR

Best Practices HR Management Leadership Teambuilding Time Management

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What Employers Need to Know About Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

Ceridian

By Julie Palmer, Technical Writing Manager, Ceridian. Back in 2009, I was quarantined with H1N1, affectionately known as the swine flu. This (painful, awful, wouldn’t-wish-it-on-my-worst-enemy-ok-maybe-that-one-guy) experience taught me about the importance of sick leave. I’d always realized that taking time off helps employees recover, but before the quarantine, I hadn’t really thought about how it also helps prevent illnesses from spreading between colleagues. Thankfully for them, I don’t think they came to the realization the same way that I did.). Dayforce HCM Can Help!

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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Managing isn’t all about hitting targets

Evil HR Lady

The most important thing a manager does is make sure the work is getting done on time and on budget. Of course, these two things are critical for success, but managing the people is also very important for a successful department. If you’re not preparing your employees for their next step in their careers, you’re only doing half your job and you’re doing a disservice to your company. To read about it, click here: Managing results is just half the leader’s job. The post Managing isn’t all about hitting targets appeared first on Evil HR Lady

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What Trump's Win Means for HR

Namely

The dust has finally settled after one of the most turbulent election seasons ever. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States, and Congress remains under Republican control. These outcomes matter to all Americans—but their relevance to HR is unique. As much as we try to separate politics from the workplace, human resources is inextricably linked to the political climate.

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A Life Strategy Is As Essential As Business Strategy

TLNT: The Business of HR

Realizing workforce potential is an urgent business topic today, yet while many ideas are offered, a sustainable framework remains elusive. Constant change is the new normal; building solutions for HR and organizational design, strategically, must be both simple and adaptive. Motivation Performance & Personality Performance Management Featured

How do we heal at work after this election season?

Ohio Employer's Law

As someone who’s been blogging as long as I have, nearly all of my life experiences run through my blogging filter. How can translate this into a blog post about the workplace,” is a question I often ask myself. So this is the place in which I found myself yesterday. What does a Trump presidency mean for labor and employment law?”. Get out there.