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Loan Repayment Assistance is a Valuable Benefit

Edcor

Congratulations to the class of 2015. After years of grit and perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, these graduates have education and talents to bring to the marketplace. In addition, they have student loan debt. On average 71 percent of this year’s bachelor’s degree graduates have loans. The average debt is $35,000. Job openings in the US reached a record high in July of 5.8 million in June.

Personalize Your Applicant Screening Process for Better Results

ClearCompany HRM

The hiring process can be nerve-wracking for candidates. They can wait weeks to hear back about jobs, if at all. Good employers make the hiring process as easy on candidates as possible , and this means more than creating automatic forms. It means developing a more personal experience from start to finish. Recruiting Interviews

Hiring Wisdom: Ask Your Interviews – Did You Make Your Bed This Morning?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Believe it or not, this post’s title actually makes a worthwhile interview question. Hiring Process HR Insights HR Management Interviewing Retention & Engagement Talent Acquisition Featured

Caution: Invisible Assumptions

All Things Workplace

When 300 engineers at a major East Coast utility were told to  re-apply for jobs  in their department as part of a major reorganization, they were livid. I've been here 18 years."   (Longevity means immunity to change). "I hired the idiot who's running this thing."  (If I gave someone their job, they won't mess with mine). The Danger of The "Invisible Assumed". Visible only to you. Employees: 1.

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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4 Ways You’re Unknowingly Irritating Your CIO

Dice

Are you unconsciously behaving in ways that annoy your CIO ? Despite your best intentions and hard work, you could be naively unaware of habits and attitudes that are hurting your tech career. Forgetting Why Your Company Exists. Do you view the IT department as the center of your organization’s universe? Get a business mentor or talk to people who understand the value chain,” Ferro said.

Report: HR Really Is Becoming More Strategic

HRE's The Leader Board

Back view of businessman. We’ve all been hearing and talking about HR professionals becoming better strategic leaders and business partners for years, so there’s no real surprise here. And they’re worth noting. It finds HR is more often on an organization’s board of directors or executive team and taking sole responsibility for major policy decisions than in years past.

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Start Planning for Your Organization’s Future—Here’s How

ATD Human Capital

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Are You Making Sure to Change Your Talent Along With Your Strategy?

TLNT: The Business of HR

I have never had strategy and talent explained that way. I am a professor at a Business School here in Dubai and I teach strategy. We should put something together. HR Insights HR Management Leadership Organizational Leadership Strategy Talent Acquisition Talent Management Featured

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.

Writing a Letter of Resignation

Dice

Unless you intend to stay at your company until retirement (certainly a viable option, even in the fast-evolving world of tech), sooner or later you’re going to have to resign from your position. The key element in that resignation is the letter you write to your soon-to-be-former employer. Help you leave on an upbeat note. Cement positive relationships. Your second paragraph should be upbeat.

Competencies as a Cornerstone of Learning

Thought(ful) Leadership

by Marilyn Hoare We all know that a good learning program assists employees in improving their skills and competencies. However, do we know why it’s so important to include your competency and skill libraries in your learning management system? While I’m sure there is really a plethora of reasons, here are three simple ones: Helping build development plans. Easing course searches.

Why You Should Hire a Career Pivoter

Cornerstone On Demand

Let's say you're hiring a senior HR manager at your company. What are the chances you would interview a candidate who had been teacher, a stay-at-home mom and a communications manager in financial services? Pretty low? thought so. Rethinking the Definition of Value. As the old adage goes, “You can teach an intelligent person, but you can't teach intelligence." That was me.

[Infographic] Stop Macgyvering Your HR Software

Paychex

In the '80s, a popular TV character was known for getting out of tough situations with makeshift contraptions. HR directors are often forced to be just a resourceful to get their HR software to work together

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.

Intelligent Leadership (Book Review)

UpstartHR

When it comes to leadership, we hear the word on a fairly consistent basis. But what does it really mean, and how do people “get” it? Awhile back I reviewed the book Talent Leadership by John Mattone and really liked it. I was able to get a copy of the author’s latest book , Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential, and enjoyed it as well.

The Employee Referral Strategy That Will Burst Your Hiring Pipeline

Entelo

It's no great secret that the best source of hire is sitting right next to you. Referred candidates are more likely to get hired, more likely to stick around, and more likely to fit in with the team. By now, you've certainly instituted a program to incentive your team to refer as many candidates as possible. This is problematic because it encourages people to filter out candidates on their own.

What Do You Stand For?

NoExcusesHR

This post is not about your political views, religious affiliation or insert-another-sensitive-topic-here. write about leadership, and that is at the heart of the question in the title. Your View Matters A colleague of mine asks new leaders this question regularly. Think about that for a second. What would you say? Please. Think for a moment about the influential leaders in your life. Consistency.

10 Reasons Why You’ll Love Softworks Time & Attendance

Softworks

Award Winning Time & Attendance, Rostering and Absence Management Solutions. For twenty five years Softworks has been assisting companies to organise the working day in a way that makes them more productive and profitable by adding value to their operations. Here are the top ten reasons why choosing Softworks will benefit you, your employees and your organisation. all from the main screen.

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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I was fired after a stranger sent photos of my private text messages to my employer

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a part-time retail employee at a clothing store, as well as a full time graduate student. left work a couple of weeks ago, got on my bus to head home, and as always, spend the time on my phone — Facebook/Texting/Instagram, etc. At one point, my boyfriend texted me asking if I’d left work yet. wrote back saying something to the effect of ‘Yesssss….and and I can’t be home soon enough….I’m I’m tired and the fat cow sitting next to me is taking up half my seat as well as hers AND hasn’t heard of deodorant.” Anyway, I got fired, but I think it’s ridiculous. So: Be nicer.

Why People Don't Like Your E-mails

45 Things

Writing emails during a workday is about as common as breathing. We often do it without thinking, firing off a missive and hitting "send" as quickly as possible so we can get onto the next email. The problem is that our emails often cause more problems than they solve. If you would like to eliminate the time you spend on emails, then the solution starts with you. Use the inverted pyramid.

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Grow Your Business Faster By Running On A Single System

SAP Innovation

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is helping businesses all over the world manage their resources effectively and efficiently. If you think ERP solutions are only suitable for big companies, then think again. According to research by the Aberdeen Group, 96% of best-in-class growing businesses have implemented an ERP solution. Simplify work – and scale easier – with ERP.

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The Sourcing Series: Advanced search engine sourcing

Allegis Global Solutions

There's much more to search engines than just Google

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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.

Understand the Difference Between a Non-exempt and Exempt Employee

Justworks

Exempt and non-exempt are two words that most employers have heard of at least once. And the reason is because all employees are either exempt or non-exempt. There is no middle ground between the two terms, which makes understanding the differences between the two a little easier. We outline each term below

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Outsourcing Payroll: Tips for Choosing a Provider

Paychex

There are many compelling reasons to outsource payroll services for your small business. Here are some factors to consider that may help you find the right provider for your needs

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Engaging Millennials: Focus on the Leader, Not the Label

DDI's Talent Management Intelligence

If engaging Millennials is the goal, we must understand what defines their leadership experience—not just their preferences

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5 key trends affecting human capital management in today’s workplace

Ceridian

Take a look around the modern workplace, and you’ll see a great deal of change happening all around you. We’re operating in a new economic climate, we’re using innovative new technology and we’re adopting new strategies for doing work on a daily basis. A lot is evolving all at once. The interesting question to ask […]. Uncategorized employee wellness human capital management paid time off performance review recruiting Towers Watson trends

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.

Should Knitting Be a Priority?

Evil HR Lady

Thursday night was parents’ evening at my son’s school. He attends the local public school. The Swiss system, as I’ve mentioned before, has some stark differences from the American school system. For one, he’s in grade 2 and still only has half day school 3 days a week. For another, I met his knitting teacher. Yes, the Swiss schools have a teacher who is dedicated to teaching handwork–knitting, crocheting, sewing and other things to develop fine motor skills. He has approximately one class period per week of this. “You didn’t learn in school?”

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Who Wants to Work on the Internet of Things?

Dice

General Electric, in a bid to attract tech pros who specialize in the programming skill sets that undergird the Internet of Things (IoT), has issued a series of ads in which a very serious developer, after announcing that he’s going to work for GE, is belittled by a group of friends who build fun mobile apps. The post Who Wants to Work on the Internet of Things? appeared first on Dice Insights.

Education Marketing Musts: Reach More College Students With Great Content

CareerCo Today

How can education marketers reach more college students? With great content, of course. The post Education Marketing Musts: Reach More College Students With Great Content appeared first on CareerCo Today. Education Marketing content marketing education marketing

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