September, 2015

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Background Screening Impacts the Candidate Experience

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at HireRight , a leader in global background checks, drug testing, and employment verification services. More than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 use HireRight for their employment screening needs. Did you know that HireRight offers an extensive resource library with case studies and checklists?

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It’s All About the Recruiters

China Gorman

Jobvite ’s annual Recruiter Nation Survey is out today. In its eighth year, the survey was conducted in July 2015 and completed by 1,404 recruiting and human resources professionals in a wide range of industries. Much of the survey data is not surprising: use of social media tools by recruiters is strong and growing; referrals are still the most effective source of quality hires; hiring activity is up; the hunt for talent will remain or get more competitive in the next 12 months.

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Talent As A Critical Resource

ExactHire

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. Many organizations are growing, and so is their need for talent. The problem that many employers are beginning to face is in finding and retaining that talent. Today, I’d like to talk about staffing our organizations to meet the demands of growth and turnover–or simply, talent management.

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3 Signs You’re a Proactive Recruiter

Spark Hire

The most successful recruiters are the ones who are proactive versus reactive. Proactive recruiters are always on top of the game and because of this they are able to fill positions with the right talent and with the speed that hiring managers need. There are three easy ways to know if you are a proactive recruiter: 1. You recruit BEFORE the jobs are available.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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The Resumé Abyss

Hoops

There’s a great line towards the end of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street ? “Bud” (Charlie Sheen, perhaps giving us a glimpse of the future) is being led out of his brokerage, cuffed and crying, strung out on coke, greed, and stupidity – basically what he would call “Thursday” now. But, right before he is about to be escorted from the building, a colleague stops him – it’s the Mark Twain of the office, “Lou” (Hal Holbrook), ready with some cryptic wisdom for young Bud. “ Man looks in the abyss, there’

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Cost-to-Hire: Don’t Spend $100s to Earn Pennies

Cornerstone On Demand

How often do you make bad hires? If you're like 95 percent of other organizations (of any size), you make bad hires every year. But do you know how much these hires are costing your organization? According to the Brandon Hall Group , the majority of organizations have a very limited grasp on true cost-to-hire metrics — especially for poor hires.

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Your Company Needs an Engagement Strategy

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at HireRight. They deliver global background checks, drug testing and employment verification services to help companies hire the right candidate. They just released their next generation Applicant Center , the industry’s only background check portal designed to increase recruiting efficiency and decrease time to hire.

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5 Best Questions for Screening Candidates

ClearCompany HRM

Screening candidates will never go out of style, but doing it via the phone or in-person… will. With video interviewing, a series of predetermined questions can be asked of each applicant to help make better decisions of who to invite to the next round. If you’ve already adopted video interviewing into your candidate screening process, congrats! If not, make sure to check out our offer for 2 months free of video interviewing.

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Five Must-Have Manager Effectiveness Metrics for Engagement, Performance, and Tech Innovation Success

Visier

How to Link Workforce Metrics With Business Outcomes, Part Two. The second in a four-part series on linking workforce metrics to business outcomes, this post looks at five key metrics for manager effectiveness that will help your organization motivate talented people. In the tech industry, competitive threats loom large. With the exponential increase in processing power, the race to “be first” has become increasingly daunting.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Overwhelmed Recruiter

Hoops

Anyone filling seats for a living can tell you that there are days when you can’t remember your own name, much less the specific applicant they may speaking with at any given time. A typical impromptu phone call may sound like this: Recruiter : “ Hi Mrs. Candidate, I’m John Whitaker with HoopsHR and I’d like to speak with you about a Brand Manager position I’m actively sourcing.

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Taxable v. Nontaxable Income and What You Need to Know About Paying Your Employees

Trinet

A special post in celebration of National Payroll Week: September 7-11 Think reimbursing your employees for their time, efforts and personal expenditures is straight-forward? It can be, if you hire a. Visit site for full story.

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Why Business Schools Should Add HR to the Curriculum

Cornerstone On Demand

Human Resources is likely not the first subject that comes to mind when you think of a business school education, but it's an increasingly important topic to understand in the business world. While talent management is a top priority for business executives, only five percent of leaders rate their organization's current HR department as excellent.

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Add Boomerang Employees to Your Recruiting Strategy

HR Bartender

( Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a global leader in cloud-based talent management solutions. They have just released their 2015 HR Technology Report, which reviews HR Technology advancement, adoption trends, integration and data effectiveness. You can download a copy here. Enjoy the post!). One of the most obvious sources for talent are boomerang employees.

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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Identifying the Root Cause of Poor Performance

ClearCompany HRM

“Why aren’t they doing their work?” At some point in their career, every manager has asked themselves this question. Common as the question might be, it’s a much pricklier problem to actually tackle. Many businesses become so absorbed with productivity and numbers that they don’t attempt to root out the common problems of their workplace and instead compensate with short-term solutions.

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From Healthcare Worker Engagement to Patient Satisfaction: Your Six-Step Guide to Building a Service-Value Chain

Visier

How to Link Workforce Metrics With Business Outcomes, Part Three . Back in 1747 Scottish physician James Lind finally put an end to the age-old “what-treats-scurvy” debate: is it cider? seawater? vinegar? He found 12 scurvy-inflicted sailors, conducted one of the first ever clinical experiments in the history of medicine…. and confirmed that two oranges and one lemon would do the trick.

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The Resumé Abyss

Hoops

There’s a great line towards the end of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street ? “Bud” (Charlie Sheen, perhaps giving us a glimpse of the future) is being led out of his brokerage, cuffed and crying, strung out on coke, greed, and stupidity – basically what he would call “Thursday” now. But, right before he is about to be escorted from the building, a colleague stops him – it’s the Mark Twain of the office, “Lou” (Hal Holbrook), ready with some cryptic wisdom for young Bud. “ Man looks in the abyss, there’

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#HRevolution 2015 Location is Set!

UpstartHR

We’re closing in on HRevolution 2015 in beautiful Saint Louis, and we are happy to announce the location for this year’s event. We will be at the Morgan Street Brewery Lodge, a stylish setup and an all-around fun place to visit. Why this place? Well, I’ll have to take you back 2010 to explain. That year we held HRev in Chicago, and we had an amazingly creative location picked out.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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5 Metrics for Effective Succession Planning

Cornerstone On Demand

Succession planning is, at its best, the crux of your company's talent management strategy. If you do it right, every employee — from the entry-level associate to the VP — should have clear pathway to success in your company. But all too often, this isn't the case. Succession planning becomes focused on senior leadership only —instead of preemptively considering how employees at all levels will advance.

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Performance Review Cycles Impact Their Effectiveness

HR Bartender

There continues to be a lot of chatter about performance reviews. Love them or hate them. Keep them or ditch them. We’ve written about performance reviews before – here’s one of our faves. Performance reviews aren’t a one-size-fits-all process. They have tremendous flexibility and, what might seems like a small detail (like when the review is conducted), can actually have a big impact.

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How to Create a Professional Development Program on Zero Budget

ClearCompany HRM

Professional development is tough when your team has the drive to improve their skills but the organization doesn’t have the funding to back the desire for growth. As a leader, you want your employees to advance professionally, but there are other areas of the company you still need to allocate money to. It’s doubly harsh to compete in a talent market where training and development spend has risen by 15% in the last year.

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Tackling Talent Strategically: Q&A With Harvard Business Review Analytic Services

Visier

The majority of leaders (73 percent) have experienced talent shortfalls due to poor workforce planning, according to a new report released by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services (HBR-AS). Although business leaders know talent shortfalls prevent their companies from achieving their business goals, the report reveals that they have not aligned their workforce planning process to manage the issue.

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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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Overwhelmed Recruiter

Hoops

Anyone filling seats for a living can tell you that there are days when you can’t remember your own name, much less the specific applicant they may speaking with at any given time. A typical impromptu phone call may sound like this: Recruiter : “ Hi Mrs. Candidate, I’m John Whitaker with HoopsHR and I’d like to speak with you about a Brand Manager position I’m actively sourcing.

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8 Tips for Selecting the Best HR Company for Your Small Business

Trinet

As an entrepreneur, you founded your business because you are passionate about the product or service you provide the world. However, on the road to success, you probably found that your time spent. Visit site for full story.

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The Power of Thinking Collectively in HR

Cornerstone On Demand

You’ve decided that it makes sense to think of your HR team as a business. You’ve done your due diligence and asked your customers about their needs, and solicited feedback on your products and services and the value they add to the business. Now, you have a messy piece of qualitative research. What's next? It's time to look at the research as an HR team and think collectively.

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Employability Skills Provide Your Career Future – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF). As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, the NRAEF works to attract, develop and retain professionals for the restaurant industry. Enjoy today’s post!). Mr. Bartender and I recently went to see the movie “Vacation.

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

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Why Employees’ Opinions Matter in Talent Management

ClearCompany HRM

Good leaders are assertive. They take charge, cut through the clutter, and make key business decisions with authority. While there may be conflict from employees about what the best path forward might be, the only thing worse than making a bad decision is not making one at all, which can happen when you’re too intent on hearing all sides before making a decision.

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Five Must-Have Manager Effectiveness Metrics for Engagement, Performance, and Tech Innovation Success

Visier

How to Link Workforce Metrics With Business Outcomes, Part Two. The second in a four-part series on linking workforce metrics to business outcomes, this post looks at five key metrics for manager effectiveness that will help your organization motivate talented people. In the tech industry, competitive threats loom large. With the exponential increase in processing power, the race to “be first” has become increasingly daunting.

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Making the HR Technology Leap

UpstartHR

I was talking with a friend last week about technology–specifically the kind we use in the HR, payroll, and recruiting space. His organization is using an awful tool that costs quite a bit of money. It’s not user friendly. It doesn’t make data easily accessible. And it’s become a running joke that any basic business need will require yet another $20k+ module just to meet that single need.