Mon.Mar 05, 2018

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The One Word Recruiters Use to Describe Themselves That’s a Lie!

The Tim Sackett Project

Did you catch the article on LinkedIn by Lydia Abbot , The Top 10 Words Recruiters Use to Describe Themselves ? If not, go check it out. Lydia is a content marketer for LinkedIn and she puts out some good stuff based on inside data LI data. In this piece, she basically gave us the Top 10 words recruiters use to describe themselves (based on LI data): I’ve been a recruiter for a long or worked in talent acquisition for a long time.

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Why You Shouldn't Overlook Candidates With an Alternative Education

Cornerstone On Demand

More students are pursuing higher education than ever before—but at a higher cost. The result? The national student debt burden is approaching $1.5 trillion, and in 2016 the average college student graduated with over $37,000 in student loans. For many potential college students who are now the future of our workforce, this process has become untenable.

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Human Resources Today: Interview with Joanne McDonagh 2017 MVP Awards Winner

Rezoomo

Joanne McDonagh, blogger at Rezoomo, won First Place in the Talent Acquisition Category of Human Resources Today’s 2017 MVP Awards. Our judges and audience at HRT had hundreds of nominated articles to read through, so her article, 2018 Trends in Candidate Experience – What You Need To Know, really was the best of the best! Now that it’s been a few months since the conclusion of the awards, Shelley Trout, editor at Human Resources Today, has some questions for her.

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#MentorHer – Supporting Women in the Workplace

Everwise

“Put your head down, work hard, and you’ll be promoted.” Odds are, if you’re a woman, you’ve heard this oft-repeated aphorism about how to get ahead in the workplace. Perhaps, as you started out your career, you even believed it. Yet the rise of #MeToo movement this fall has made clear what women have long suspected (or, in many cases, known): workplace success is tied not only to what we do, but to who we are.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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IRS, CMS, EBSA Seek Public Comment on ACA Change

ACA Times

The IRS, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are seeking public comments on proposed regulations that would change the definition of short-term, limited-duration insurance so that offering it for longer periods of time would still exempt it from the definition of individual health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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The Recruiting Reel Episode 23: How to Incorporate Proven Marketing Tactics Into Recruiting

Spark Hire

Recruiters! Put your marketing hat on w/these tips from @stephenshinnan Click To Tweet. In the 23rd episode of The Recruiting Reel, Stephen Shinnan, the Director of Marketing and Business Development at TalentMap, discusses how you can leverage modern marketing techniques to make an impact on your recruiting process. Here’s the transcript: Josh Tolan: My name is Josh Tolan and I’m the CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizations around the

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3 Ways Purpose Driven Organizations Increase Employee Engagement

Hppy

One of the most important characteristics of a successful business in today’s world is having a clear, concise organizational purpose. Purpose-driven companies often have higher levels of employee engagement, which leads to increased productivity, loyalty, and lower turnover. A survey conducted by Deloitte found that 73 percent of employees who feel that they work for a purpose-driven company said that they are engaged, whereas only 23 percent of respondents that don’t feel they work for a purpo

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How the Cloud Can Help You Stay Compliant with Wage & Hour Laws

nettime solutions

For many professionals, the phrase “cloud-based computing” has become synonymous with business-as-usual, and the promises that come with the cloud, such as rapid deployment, faster services, and greater connectivity, are baked into many modern work environments. However, less than a decade ago, the concept of the cloud was still new and fairly novel for many businesses and organizations.

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I’ll be at #SHRM18 — My Interview on #DriveThruHR

UpstartHR

Last week I had a quick conversation with my long-time friend Michael Vandervort on the DriveThruHR podcast. As one of the official social media team members for the SHRM 2018 Annual Conference, Mike wanted to chat about me, my background, and my current projects as a lead-in to the event. It was one-sided (as interviews must go!) but if you’ve listened to my podcast We’re Only Human or if you’ve followed the blog here for any length of time, you might be interested in learning

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Onboarding, Data, Experience: Critical Components in the Modern Hiring Environment

Read the full results of the study conducted by Lighthouse Research & Advisory in partnership with HiBob to discover how to transform your talent acquisition strategy by harnessing the power of data and integration.

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4 Ways Healthcare HR Can Drive Engagement

Precheck

4 Ways Healthcare HR Can Drive Engagement Mar. 5, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Employee engagement in healthcare settings can bring enviable returns: A hospital that worked with Gallup to improve engagement decreased turnover costs by $1.7 million in three years and increased its operating margins. Gallup research also indicates that employee engagement is correlated with patient outcomes, making employee engagement a vital part of managing healthcare employees.

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6 Surprising Employee Engagement Ideas for Managers

Quantum Workplace

More and more organizations have come to understand that in order to truly. impact employee engagement, they need to act on the local level. What do I mean by that? I mean that your managers — team leads, supervisors, or whatever you call them — are in the best position to understand and improve employee engagement. But unfortunately, they don't often have access to impactful employee engagement ideas (or intuitive, manager-focused software.but that's for another time) to influence the engagemen

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Fantastic Team Icebreaker Games for Better Teamwork

6Q

When companies don’t prioritise team-building activities both veteran and rookie employees alike are less likely to have genuine friends in the workplace. Team icebreaker games are one of the quickest paths to a connected team because all participants are in it together. A recent report stated that only 24% of workers say they have a strong connection with their colleagues.

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Applicant Tracking System Promotes Your Business Brand

SutiHR

Organizations that don’t invest in promoting their business brand miss out on the premier hires and the numerous benefits of employee loyalty. The longer an organization retains its top talent, the more specialized skills they acquire and retain, thus making them more efficient. Loyalty in the workforce attracts more talent and creates a positive work.

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Foundations of Diversity: Building an Inclusive Company From the Ground Up

Can you guess why top-tier companies place such a high emphasis on diversity? Because a successful business mirrors the world around it. Diverse companies create empowering environments and are 35% more likely to financially outperform their peers. This new guide offers strategic insights to build a vibrant, diverse, and innovative workforce. Learn to assess your current workforce, understand demographics, and identify barriers to inclusivity.

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11 Ways to Refuel/Refresh When You’re Approaching Burn Out

Take It Personel-ly

Burnout is a serious psychological syndrome where the mind and body experience prolonged exposure to chronic stressors at work, and you’re prone to respond with cynicism, irritability, low morale and detachment. During burn out, you may feel worthless and lost. It’s more than job stress. Workers exposed to toxic work environments and chronic triggers are […].

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Middle Managers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs Too What Should You Do?

Inpower Coaching

Yes, the Robots are coming, and they’re (probably) going to take your job. Have you noticed that the buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) and automation has been picking up in the last 4-6 months? I watch the tech space pretty compulsively and for years the dreamers would talk about how we’d all be downloading our souls into androids by 2050 and everyone else has been saying… no, that’s just a dream.

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Are You Living the Culture Your People Expect?

TLNT: The Business of HR

In order for members of an organizational culture to feel like they can fully contribute to the success of that organization, they must feel a sense of safety to protect, innovate and renovate. Cultures that create an environment of “ Cultural Dissonance ” eliminate the capacity for their members to help that culture evolve positively towards organizational goals.

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Compliance Corner: March 2018

Workforce Software

Laws affecting workers are not set in stone. Regulations regarding leaves of absence, payment of wages, employee scheduling, and other workplace issues keep changing.

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Using an HSA to Save for Health Care in Retirement

Saving for retirement is no easy task, and as an employer we know you want to help your employees get what they need out of their retirement benefits. With a health savings account (HSA), you can relieve the burden of health care costs for both you and your employees. With our new report, “Using an HSA to Save for Health Care in Retirement,” you can get insights on the costs of a modern retirement and dive into the details of the triple-tax benefits HSAs offer.

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New to HR? Learning The Art of Negotiation

Workology

Negotiation is something you need to be skilled at in order to get the right offer. No matter what job you’re interested in, the art of negotiation will be a valuable asset to your career. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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6 Tips for Learning to Speak Like a Pro

Jason Lauritsen

I’ve been speaking professionally now for about a decade. I enjoy telling new people I meet that I’m a professional speaker because they often react as if they’ve just discovered an alien species. It’s fun. By nature of being a speaker, sometimes I get asked for advice about speaking. How did you get started? How did you become a good speaker?

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I Walked Alone Into a Fight

NoExcusesHR

Community - a unified body of individuals Team - a group of people with a full set of complimentary skills Network - an association of individuals with common interests providing mutual assistance Friends - one attached to another by affection or esteem Colleagues - a fellow worker or professional Family - all the descendants of a common ancestor So Muc h, But.

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YouTube Shows How Not to Do Diversity

Evil HR Lady

You want a diverse workforce , but discriminating against any single group is still illegal. A lawsuit filed by Arne Wilberg, who worked as a recruiter at YouTube for four years (and five years in other positions), claims that YouTube set quotas, and told recruiters to cancel interviews with candidates that didn’t mean the company’s diversity goals.

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Creating a Company Culture of Care: Integrating Mental Health, Wellbeing, and DEI in Benefits

Speaker: Sean Raible

Picture a workplace where physiological safety is not just an aim but a reality, driven by thoughtful employee benefits that prioritize mental health, wellbeing, and DEI. 🤔 ✨ Achieving this vision requires more than just occasional training sessions and employee assistance programs. Moving beyond the basics, this vision calls for a holistic approach that integrates these elements into your company culture as well as your HR and benefits strategy.

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HR Roundtable: Successful Networking Takes Work, Honesty

TLNT: The Business of HR

The HR Cincinnati Roundtable for February revisited a topic that we’ve done on a regular basis because it honestly never grows old! Also, we cover this topic because people agree it’s a needed business skill, but very few people do it well. What are we talking about? Networking. It’s so much more than a job search skill. To break the traditional thoughts around networking, Steve offered up the following questions for the small groups to chew on.

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5 Practices from the EEOC to Prevent Workplace Harassment

Extensis

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) put a task force in place to study workplace harassment and how it can be prevented. In their report from the findings of this study, they found 5 key principles that have proven to be effective in addressing and preventing harassment in the workplace.

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What is Employee Engagement? (In 100 Words or Less)

Quantum Workplace

Definition: Employee engagement is the strength of the mental and emotional connection employees feel toward their places of work. Impact: Employee engagement affects every element of an organization. – profitability, revenues, client experience, employee turnover, talent acquisition, brand presence, workplace safety – the list goes on and on. Engaged employees work harder, stay longer, and motivate others to do the same.

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I recommended my sister for a job — and it was a disaster

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am writing in to you to ask how I can recover my reputation and the trust of the people I work with, vendors and clients after I recommended someone for a job who turned out to be a disaster. My job was hiring several entry-level and basic positions, no experience or education required. I made the mistake of recommending my older sister.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Upcoming Appearances

Human Workplaces

The early spring is always one of the busiest when it comes to speaking. Here's where you'll find me in the coming weeks/months (and if I'm visiting your town, reach out and we can have coffee or something!): March 6: NACS Human Resources Forum, San Antonio, TX March 8: Ag Progress meeting, Kansas City, MO March 20-22: ABC Annual meeting and a Corporate Training gig, Los Angeles, CA April 2-5: WorkHuman Conference, Austin, TX April 11-13: Nonprofit Technology Conference, New Orleans, LA April 18

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Factors of Self-Funding: Evaluating the Pros and Cons

WEX Inc.

In a changing healthcare landscape, employers are increasingly considering taking the funding of their healthcare benefits into their own hands. If you're one of them, this webinar is the one-hour guide you must see.

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free food at work, weird phone call from a recruiter, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Free food at work. My question is about the recent trend in offices that offer generous perks like free lunches, a fully stocked kitchen with drinks and snacks, etc. What are the general rules around utilizing these perks? I’m sure it depends on the company culture, but do you have any general guidelines?