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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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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HR Basics: 4 Common Hiring Mistakes You Really Need to Avoid

TLNT: The Business of HR

Employees are one of the most important assets to a business, so that’s why hiring the right candidates is crucial to a business’ success. You want your employees to complement one another because bad hires can cause disruption in business, job dissatisfaction and high turnover. According to a Dice article ( titled The Cost of Bad Hiring Decisions Runs High ), “The Harvard Business Review points out that as much as 80 percent of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions.”.

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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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What is Talent Mapping and How Can it Help Grow Your Business?

Paychex

Are you cultivating the talent today that your business will need tomorrow? Read how talent management can help you meet your staffing goals.

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Announcing the 3 Finalists for Workday’s Inspire Award

Workday

Before we gather as a community at Workday Rising 2015 in Las Vegas next week, we want to share the stories of three innovative companies nominated for Workday’s Inspire Award. This award recognizes customers that are using Workday deployments in ways that inspire us all. Allied Global took home the 2014 Inspire Award. Allied Global deployed Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workday Financial Management in less than one year, and gained new insights via those deployments that resulted i

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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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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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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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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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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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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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Staying Compliant: Questions To Avoid When Conducting An Interview

Justworks

Believe it or not, your responsibility to stay compliant begins before you’ve even hired someone. The interviewing process is often ground zero for employment law violations. Inappropriate interview questions can run afoul of discrimination laws, potentially resulting in a lawsuit. Here are a few thorny topics that might come up during an interview and tips for handling them legally.

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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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Oracle Employees Say Recognition from Peers Most Powerful Means for Employee Engagement

RecognizeThis!

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Employees are telling us what would engage them more in their work. We simply need to listen. Want to know how to engage employees? Perhaps the best (and obvious) answer is to ask the employees. Oracle did just that. Results of their survey were recently published in Personnel Today. Here are the key excerpts. Who has greater influence on employee engagement: 42% say peers. 21% say line managers. 7% say unit managers. 3% say HR.

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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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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.

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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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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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Expenses 101: Are Expense Reimbursements Taxable Income?

Justworks

We've built a guide detailing valid business expenses and showing you how to build an expenses plan. Download it for free here. Every business incurs costs and expenses that reduce the business's taxable income. Sometimes, these expenses may be incurred by employees during the course of business. A common practice is to reimburse such expenses, but the question then arises: Are these expense reimbursements taxable income to the employee?

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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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Is Kindness the Missing Link to Employee Performance

ATD Human Capital

When is the last time you did a good deed for someone in your office? How did it make you feel? How did it make them feel? Dan Schwartz explains how kindness can be a catalyst for organizational transformation. Click here to read full version.

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These 3 Tips Can Help You Prevent Wage and Hour Lawsuits

Trinet

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reports that it receives nearly 25,000 wage and hour complaints per year and the number of FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) cases filed in the federal court is more. Visit site for full story.

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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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The Company Sanctioned (and Sponsored) Addiction

UpstartHR

Today’s post is a personal one about my recent experience quitting caffeine and all of the associated side effects. Not so much about HR, but definitely an interesting look at the experience! One month ago I quit caffeine. My main delivery method was diet cokes (that’s soda for those of you outside the Southeastern United States). I quit for multiple reasons, and the experience was what I expected in some ways and very much different in others.

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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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Master Employee Appreciation With These 35 Inexpensive Ideas

Justworks

We all work long, hard hours. And that hard work can sometimes go without much recognition or appreciation. But it’s important to reward your employees for a job well done. Some surveys have shown that employee recognition has a direct correlation to employee satisfaction, and satisfied employees do better work and are less inclined to leave. Recognition makes employees feel appreciated : you're showing your peer, manager or direct report that his or her work matters.

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3 Critical Elements of Teamwork

Trish McFarlane

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” ~Dale Carnegie. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” ~Kenyan proverb. Today, I am thankful for all the sticks in my bundles and teamwork is on my mind.

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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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Building a Leadership Identity Starts with a Personal Brand

ATD Human Capital

Amy Franko addresses the questions: What is leadership identity? What does it mean to your leadership path and career? What’s more, she starts to examine the five building blocks to developing your leadership identity. Click here to read full version.

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Affordable Care Act (ACA) Changes Are Coming to New York Firms with 51-100 Employees. Here is What You Need to Know About Changing Healthcare Expenses

Trinet

Second of a two-part series on ACA and the finance industry In Part I of our ACA series, we discussed the significant impact that firms with 51-100 full-time employees will experience when they are. Visit site for full story.

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6 Tips You Need to Know to Hire Awesome Virtual Employees

Spark Hire

Hiring a virtual employee is just like hiring anyone else — except you may never meet them in person. That being the case, you need to be sure they have the skills to do the job and that they will understand your company and get their work done without being in a traditional office. How do you assess all these skills virtually? Here are some of the best tips to hire the virtual employees you need: 1.