Mon.Jun 05, 2017

Social Responsibility Can Be Your Secret Recruiting Weapon

TLNT: The Business of HR

Since 2015, millennials have made up the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. With the next class of millennials just graduating college, many organizations are looking to leverage every opportunity to secure top talent, and human resources professionals must be prepared to compete.

The Neuroscience of Learning in the Workplace

Reflektive

In his TED Talk viewed over 17 million times, Daniel Pink gained fame when he said, “There’s a gap between what science knows and what business does.”. As someone who transitioned from the medical field into the business world, this connection rings true, with business often forgetting about the data uncovered from science, and the potential applications lost in most business practices.

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The Connected Employee

EmployeeConnect

The Egyptian artisans hired to build the necropolis for Pharaoh Ramses III in the 12 th century BC were not connected in the sense of today’s connected employee. In a word, they were not SMAC, Social Mobile Analytics Cloud, empowered. Despite the lack of SMAC gear that’s the norm for connected employee in today’s leading companies, the Pharaoh’s artisans connected without hesitation when they got shorted on their food rations.

6 Reasons Why Fortune 500 Companies Are Replacing the Traditional Performance Review

HR Daily Advisor

Theoretically, performance management should happen every day. Think of it this way, if Lionel Messi was playing in a way his manager, Luis Enrique, didn’t like, would he wait until the end of the season? Absolutely not.

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Guide to Lean Hiring

It's undeniable, over the years; hiring processes have become more complex. In many ways, this shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, the work that most of us do has become more sophiscated. But does complexity really lead to better, faster hires? Of course not. In fact, many smart organizations have started a trend, a return to simplicity, that allows them to compete for talent more efficiently. This trend is called lean hiring. Download the Guide to Lean Hiring and develop a systematic approach to recruiting that increases productivity while eliminating waste.

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You Belong Here – #WorkHuman 2017

Women of HR

“You Belong Here.”. What if all of our organizations really, truly embodied that sentiment? It’s a sentiment that could be found everywhere throughout the 2017 edition of the WorkHuman conference.

Working Through EEO Reporting & the Affirmative Action Plan

DATIS

Being an equal opportunity employer has become a top priority for many organizations, especially for those in the Health & Human Services industry. Maintaining compliance with rules and regulations is critical to ensuring funding, yet many organizations aren’t able to access the reports requested by their funders. This puts an organization at risk of maintaining compliance or providing accurate information.

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Employers Would Likely Foot the Bill for Trump’s Parental Leave Plan

HR Daily Advisor

President Trump’s latest budget proposal calls for 6 weeks’ paid leave for new parents. And while the employee wage replacement that comes with the leave would be paid out by states, experts say states will have to draw at least some of the funding from businesses.

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Grit: How to Become Indispensable at Work

Workforce Software

When it comes to professional success, talent matters. But if you want to become truly indispensable at work all you need is time and grit. Blog Become Your Best Leader Workforce Management

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When Social Media Meets Employer Branding: Your Guide to Doing it Right

A strong and authentic online presence can mean big things for your company’s employer brand—from driving employee engagement to showing potential candidates how awesome your culture is. We created this quick and easy guide to help get you started.

Employee Mental Health: The Diversity Issue No One Talks About

SuccessFactors

Diversity has become the watch-word in building a modern workforce. As companies strive to overcome traditional workforce diversity issues like adequate gender and racial representation, new concerns arise.

WorkHuman: Still on My A-List for Conferences

The People Equation

WorkHuman 2017 is now a memory. I’ve traveled home from Phoenix and had a few days to digest the benefits of this conference. I’m happy to report all of the observations from my first WorkHuman still apply.

Vacation Time: Majority of Employees Are Burnt Out at Work, Some Are Highly Stressed or Both

HR Daily Advisor

Employee burnout is becoming all too common these days.

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17 Lessons Most First Time Managers Make the Hard Way

SnackNation

17 Lessons Most First Time Managers Make the Hard Way. I was a terrible first time manager. It was early in my career as a communications pro, and I had showed some promise as a practitioner. The job required me to do things like obsess over word choice and agonize over grammar, so I was a natural.).

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The definitive guide to choosing the right applicant tracking system

Choosing an applicant tracking system should be exciting, not confusing. We've developed a quick guide to everything you should look for while going through your selection process, to free you from the stress often associated with choosing a new ATS.

Why Mobile Workers Still Value a Great Office Space

Asure Software

In this new global, mobile economy, standard nine-to-five jobs are losing ground to more flexible positions that require less time in a physical office space. Millennials are shaping the future of the work environment, placing more value on the ability to work when and where they please.

6 Lessons Learned at WorkHuman 2017

Globoforce

Last week we held our third annual WorkHuman conference – an event that has grown five times in size since its inception in 2015.

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How to Recruit, Retain, and Manage Employee Relationships

Waggl

Waggl welcomes Chris Yeh, co-author of the New York Times Bestseller : “The Alliance.” Chris Yeh is a General Partner at Wasabi Ventures and VP of Marketing for PBworks. He has been building internet businesses since 1995 and is an active angel investor and advisor to a wide array of startups.

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Next generation services procurement in the modern workplace

Allegis Global Solutions

With more than a quarter of roles now filled by contingent workers, a streamlined holistic approach to services procurement is an important consideration

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Building your Learning Experience! What’s it all about?

Join Jesse Novak as he covers what building a Learning Experience is all about, how this should tie into your company culture and why building a foundation around fun, value and recognition is important to engagement. We’ll also discuss how this ties into Gamification and Badging programs to build a brand beyond your organization.

Wage retaliation is a big “NO-NO”

OmegaHR Solutions

Wage theft is a crime as is retaliation for someone reporting it. Occasionally I receive a comment on a blog from employees seeking help on their deplorable working situation. Some of them are pretty bad.

An Employee’s Guide To Successful 1:1 Meetings With Your Manager

Halogen Talent Managment

This will sound incredibly obvious but one-on-one meetings involve two people. This means that organizations need to spend equal time coaching both meeting participants. We recently published the manager’s guide to making the one-on-one meeting more successful.

Are Your Employees Less Engaged During the Summer?

HighGround

It’s unofficially summer which often means some companies are prepping themselves for a seasonal slump. Decreased productivity and increased absenteeism can lead to plummeting employee engagement during this time of year. But you don’t have wait around until after Labor Day for employees to get back on track. Here are three things you can do to maintain and even increase employee engagement during the summer. Encourage Employees to Take Time Off. Seriously.

Two Ways to Improve Retention: From Flight Risk Jobs to Business Goals

Compensation Today

We talk a lot about uncertainty, especially when it comes to keeping, motivating, rewarding, and attracting an increasingly mobile workforce. PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report found that 56 percent of employers consider retention a major concern.

Creating the Ideal Candidate Experience

Modern job seekers have high expectations when applying for jobs. Download Newton’s guide for creating the ideal candidate experience to learn how you can attract top candidates and drive them to apply to your positions.

At This Company, 40 Hours Means 40 Hours

TLNT: The Business of HR

While some 21st century companies opt for strategies that disrupt the 9-5 workday, Parisleaf , a branding and web design agency in Gainesville, Florida, is embracing the traditional 40-hour-per-week schedule – and that schedule includes a half-hour, catered lunch.

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Feedback Surveys Can Give You Great Insight into Customer Happiness

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Google vs Uber: Why High Performers with Non-Competes Are Always At Risk When Joining New Companies.

The HR Capitalist

There's this old idea that non-competes and most types of NDA/IP agreements are either flimsy or negotiable. While that may true in some cases, my experience is that you can get sleepy/lazy related to how you consider these as an HR Leader.

How to Help Your Employees Help You Manage Healthcare Costs

HR Daily Advisor

When buying appliances, electronics, or jewelry, 81% of consumers extensively research and compare prices and financing offers before making their choice. This approach is in stark contrast to how most consumers approach health care—arguably a much more important decision to make.

The importance of your Learning Culture and Experience

Join Jesse Novak, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, in exploring thoughts on Learning Cultures inside organizations and how these are impacted by the learning experience. We'll talk about how learning can be made fun, and learners can be kept engaged for longer through the use of achievement, self-motivation and tools which are usable, simple, and reach the learner where they are.