Insperity
APRIL 16, 2013
Leaders on Capitol Hill are drafting legislation that would make significant changes to U.S. immigration policy. Part of that reform is a likely increase in the number of coveted H-1B visas, which employers need to sponsor highly skilled foreign workers they recruit in areas such as science, engineering and computer programming. Rush to the starting line.
Cielo HR Leader
APRIL 16, 2013
'Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) has become a world-wide phenomenon (see: more than $1.4 billion in global annualized spend in 2012), helping organizations improve operational efficiency and quality of hires while reducing costs. How do I know this? Until recently, I had no idea. My foray into the world of RPO began just a few months ago when I joined Cielo.
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Achievers
APRIL 29, 2013
Is your employee engagement strategy directly tied to business results? Top employers realize that highly engaged employees produce better business results than organizations with low levels of engagement. It just makes sense. Organizations with high engagement rates are 78 percent more productive than disengaged organizations. 1 The powerful combination of engaged employees and brilliant performance is critical to business success.
ExactHire
APRIL 30, 2013
Now that you’ve made candidates aware of your position, leveraged contacts to draw applicants, and have gone through the process of thinning the initial herd of applicants , perhaps the most important part of the hiring process begins. Now is the time to dig deeper and take applicants through your remaining steps to hire. If your hiring process is very short and compact, keeping track of applicants as they go through it likely isn’t much of a challenge.
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The Bamboo Project Blog
APRIL 1, 2013
Video Blog 1--Limiting Beliefs - Computer from Michele Martin on Vimeo. I'm taking my own medicine--doing some experimenting and taking a bit of a risk-- so today's blog post is a video where I go over 5 limiting beliefs that get in the way of your career in today's economy and the alternative beliefs we need to put in their place. . I also want to point you to this post on 3 ways to create your own opportunities. .
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Insperity
APRIL 1, 2013
The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as health care reform, requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees (including full-time equivalent employees) to provide health coverage to employees who work an average of 30 or more hours per week. If employers who are subject to the rules don’t comply, they can face hefty fines.
David Zinger
APRIL 22, 2013
'Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones wrote a May 2013 article in the Harvard Business Review on Creating the Best Workplace on Earth. I appreciated their six imperatives for a best workplace. They offer an insightful and informative overview of best workplaces fused with a critical argument on why a best workplace can be such a challenge to achieve. The six imperatives of best workplaces are: Authenticity matters and Individual difference are nurtured.
Achievers
APRIL 30, 2013
As Jean-Pascal Tricoire, president and CEO of Schneider Electric SA, said in an interview with PricewaterhouseCoopers, “People need a sense of purpose. Gross margins are not the stuff of which dreams are made. And even without going so far as to talk of dreams, you cannot inspire people to take action, create, or motivate without instilling a sense of purpose, especially when times are difficult.”.
ExactHire
APRIL 23, 2013
Looking for ways to spice up your company’s recruiting brand? Check out this quick list of five ways to use videos in your recruiting and interviewing processes. Then, start converting more of your career site visitors into actual applicants, and eventually, new and engaged employees. 1 – Highlight Videos on Your Company’s Careers Portal This may be the most obvious and already widely used idea; however, it just might be one of the most effective for engaging your site visitors to stay on
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The Bamboo Project Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
'There are two labor markets nowadays. There''s the market for people who have been out of work for less than six months, and the market for people who have been out of work longer.-- The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment. . Many laid off workers I know decide they want to "take a break" in between jobs, especially if they got some severance.
NoExcusesHR
APRIL 24, 2013
'Deadlines. Pressure. Stress. Tight budgets. Unrealistic expectations. Quarterly goals. Limited resources. I guess the tired adage that we have to do more with less is true. Or maybe it''s not. Less is Reality I appreciate the reality that we''re living in a time when the global economy is weak. In my business we would say it''s on life support. That situation has forced most of us to radically change the way we work, staff our organizations, invest in capital, and make (or not make) bold moves
Effortless HR
APRIL 22, 2013
'“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Everyone’s heard that expression. And we’re all familiar with what it means: An effective team can accomplish more as a whole than its individual members can accomplish on their own. The key word here is effective. Building an effective, high-performing team requires more than simply throwing a group of outstanding individuals into a room and telling them they can’t come out until they have a solution.
David Zinger
APRIL 16, 2013
'When work isn’t working. There are a plethora of different questions used to survey for employee engagement. During the past few weeks I have been reviewing surveys and responses for various organizations. I pay close attention to the anecdotal responses and the written statements employees make on the survey. At times, I am genuinely surprised that the person responding even works for that company given their expressed views of the work and the organization.
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Achievers
APRIL 29, 2013
From our headquarters in San Francisco, we hear about and see plenty of strange happenings. One recent protest by the possibly fictional San Francisco Sleep Movement highlighted the prevalence of insomnia and “incessant yawning” in our fair city. Pajama days are best left to school environments and spontaneous urban gatherings, but this got us thinking nonetheless.
ExactHire
APRIL 19, 2013
We all know that turnover is expensive; however, so is the cost of having an under-performing employee who continues to work for your company. Consider also that terminating employees is more difficult due to the number of laws that exist. Is it any wonder that companies are becoming more diligent and taking additional steps in the hiring process to ensure they are hiring the right people?
The Bamboo Project Blog
APRIL 29, 2013
' . Knowing that I''ve been doing a lot of writing and thinking about career resilience , fellow career coach Scott Woodard recently pointed me to a Seth Godin post on the topic. A few things from Seth''s post stood out for me, further underscoring the points I''ve been trying to make here. . First, he says: Most of the time, we build our jobs and our organizations and our lives around today, assuming that tomorrow will be a lot like now. .
NoExcusesHR
APRIL 10, 2013
'The world of work is moving at the speed of light. Or at least it feels that way for me. The work life balance discussion doesn''t seem to stop, but quite frankly I don''t think many of the uber rich outside of Silicon Valley are listening. That means the pressure is on more than ever for those who are gainfully employed to continue to produce in an environment where so many talented people are waiting to jump at the chance to join your team ( read here -> in your job.) ?
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Strategic HCM
APRIL 10, 2013
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.
David Zinger
APRIL 26, 2013
'What does cost reduction cost us? 47% of companies surveyed in a cost reduction and engagement survey by AON Hewitt reported a decline in employee trust as a result of the way in which they managed cost reductions. From page 19 of The Flat Army by Dan Pontefract. Commentary. Trust is a huge issue in employee engagement and we must watch all we do for the impact on trust.
Achievers
APRIL 26, 2013
As we draw near to the end of April showers and anticipate May flowers it reminds me of the rainy times and sunny times that can occur in the workplace in terms of employee happiness. What is the role that HR plays in sustaining employee happiness? How can you keep all employees “happy” when dealing with a diverse workforce and limited resources? This week’s articles discuss the definition of employee happiness, how to enhance it and how happiness can affect work goals and outcomes.
ExactHire
APRIL 17, 2013
The importance of branding is often overlooked when talking about efficiency and technology in the hiring process. There’s definitely a parallel here with my last blog about comparing apples to apples in the hiring process , where I covered the importance of data in both day-to-day business and in recruiting. The same concept applies to branding. Organizations (both large and small) are very conscious of branding themselves to customers and partners.
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The Bamboo Project Blog
APRIL 19, 2013
'As I''ve been talking with people about the idea of career resilience, I''ve also started collecting stories of how these individuals have incorporated the patterns of resilience into their lives. Over lunch a few weeks ago, one of my learning professional friends agreed to share her story (anonymously) through email. She''s one of the many people I''ve talked to who is who is expressing her resilience by developing a small business with multiple income streams.
NoExcusesHR
APRIL 18, 2013
'The world is moving faster than ever. Sometimes I struggle to keep up with it all. Whether I''m chasing the unattainable goal of an empty Inbox, managing multiple organization-wide changes, or trying to maintain a reasonable meetings load each day, I continue to wonder how I''m ever going to keep it all under control. Fast Is Good Don''t misinterpret my opening comments.
Strategic HCM
APRIL 16, 2013
' I mentioned in yesterday''s Engage for Success radio show that I was looking forward to today''s Employee Engagement Summit with Symposium Events. It''s been a varied conference with quite a bit of input from Engage for Success (David Macleod and Nita Clarke presenting once again), quite a bit on values and a fair amount on surveys. For example Geoffrey Matthews who has just written a book on engagement with Linda Holbeche, ''Engaged'' presented 10 warning signs to avoid engagement surveys
David Zinger
APRIL 5, 2013
'8 is Enough for Change. Eight aspects comprise our world at work and, therefore, patterns of behavior at work: organization (organizational chart), workplace (its physical or virtual configuration), task (work flow or processes), people (specifically the skills and orientation), rewards (and punishments), measurement (the metrics employed), information distribution (who gets to know what when), and. decision allocation (who is involved in what way in which decisions).
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Achievers
APRIL 25, 2013
We’re excited to share our good news! A chievers was named one of the best places to work by three separate publications so far this year. We work hard to help our customers increase engagement and create a positive and productive work environment. These awards prove our efforts are paying off here at home, which makes the success exceptionally sweet.
ExactHire
APRIL 8, 2013
Now that you’ve narrowed your initial list of applicants to a more manageable number, it’s time to look at those remaining candidates in more detail. So, what’s the best way to do this? As with the first step of your candidate management process (see my prior blog: “Improve Your Hiring Process: Thin the Herd” ), you have options. Resume Review: Are You Getting the Info You Want?
The Bamboo Project Blog
APRIL 6, 2013
'One of the things I decided to do as I began exploring the concept of career resilience was to begin collecting stories from people about how they''ve applied the 4 patterns of reslience (Clarifying, Connecting, Creating and Coping) to their own work lives. To that end, I put out a call on my social networks for volunteers who were willing to share their stories and one of the first people I heard back from was Sheri Ponzi, an artist, teacher and guide running several online programs. .
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