March, 2016

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How to Hire an Exceptional HR Manager

Paychex

Hiring a human resource (HR) manager for your business may be one of your most important staffing decisions. Here are three tips to help you start your search.

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Spring Clean Your Hiring Process [Infographic]

ClearCompany HRM

It’s officially spring and you know what that means? Time to spring clean your talent management processes. From sourcing to onboarding to performance management, it’s the perfect time for lean, efficient processes to set your company up for success for the rest of the year. Take a look at our new infographic and motivate your company to jump start spring cleaning your talent management house now!

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Why Your Staffing Firm Needs to Prioritize Branding [INFOGRAPHIC]

Linkedin Talent Blog

According to our research, the majority of today’s job seekers aren't turning to staffing agencies for their next career move. In fact, only 18% of respondents said they think of a staffing agency when they look for a new job. Your first thought might be that this is due to bad experiences or lack of results. But in reality, it's due to job seekers lack of awareness of both of your agency and the jobs you can provide. .

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How Workplace Culture Can Attract the Right Employees

Trinet

Driving Culture! Determining Culture! Re-establishing Culture! On any given day I speak to a number of small business leaders and entrepreneurs who are concerned about their company’s culture. This. Visit site for full story.

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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 Our Team Learned From a "Surprise and Delight" Hack Week

Justworks

This is a guest post by Camilla Velasquez , Justworks' VP of Product. When you’re part of a growing company, it’s easy to get caught up in the day to day tasks and projects that need to get done. Although that’s important for success and growth, it’s just as important to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Our customers are the reason we’re here — to help their businesses run health care, payroll, and compliance smoothly.

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Employee Appreciation Wasn’t Built In A Day.

WorkHuman

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Actually, according to a user on Quora , it has taken about 1,009,491 days to build Rome, based on the traditional founding of the city on April 21, 753 BCE. It’s still being built today. The point is, important work takes time. Why should we take stock in this today? Because tomorrow, March 4 th , is officially Employee Appreciation Day.

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7 Tips to Straighten Out the Kinks in Your Employee Onboarding Process

ClearCompany HRM

It costs a lot of money to replace an employee. In fact, depending on job level and industry it can cost over 30% of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. That number climbs exponentially for highly educated executive level positions and that’s just the monetary costs! Losing a new hire reflects poorly on a company’s Quality of Hire metrics and sends a ripple effect through the recruitment, hiring and management practices of the company.

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The New Organization: Different by Design

Josh Bersin

We just launched one of the world’s largest studies of people challenges in business, Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2016, and the results were striking. Among the 7,000+ companies who responded. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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5 Ways Employers Can Embrace Election Season in the Workplace

Trinet

Discussion of politics in the workplace has traditionally been considered taboo by most organizations however, these days, it’s difficult for people to hide their personal viewpoints. Many people. 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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#AmericansInLondon A Collaborative Look at HR Learning in London

Trish McFarlane

I’m HUNGRY! By Frank Zupan, Director of Talent Management at Associated Materials. I hate that feeling…I was hungry. I was REALLY hungry. One of those times when I didn’t even realize how long it’s been since I’d eaten and I’m thinking, “Holy Crap, I’m so hungry, I’m dying here”. Come to find out I wasn’t really hungry for food, I was hungry for learning.

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Hate Change? Here’s How to Thrive on It

ATD Human Capital

Change has a bum rap. For many of us, change is stressful, scary, or just plain unpleasant. What if change isn’t the problem? We may not be able to control whether we experience change, but we can control our mindset and actions regarding change. Of course, you cannot help but feel aversion toward change when you don’t understand its dynamics.

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True Grit: Q+A with Caroline Adams Miller

WorkHuman

What makes someone “gritty”? Is it possible to build more grit into our workplace? And how can we raise performance standards while building compassionate, human-focused work environments? These are some of the questions we asked WorkHuman speaker Caroline Adams Miller, a positive psychology coach who’s worked with senior executives, professional athletes, and politicians.

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3 Simple Ways to Tidy Up Your Recruiting Process

ClearCompany HRM

Despite the hectic job of a recruiter, which consists daily of answering phone calls and emails, completing ATS searches, social recruiting searches, mind-numbing data entry and let’s not forget interacting with live-action humans like co-workers and bosses, they have to constantly assess how efficient their own processes are.

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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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This is Why Job Candidates Hate Your Candidate Experience

Spark Hire

The workplace has entered a digital era and so should your hiring methods. What worked in attracting job applicants ten years ago isn’t going to work in today’s highly competitive job market. In fact, text-heavy job ads and unrelenting headhunters may do your brand more harm than good. . According to a recent study of more than 2,000 hiring decision makers by CareerBuilder, 82 percent of employers think there’s little to no negative impact on the company when a candidate has a less-than-stella

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The leadership illusion

Workable

What would you say about a global industry worth $45bn annually that was delivering no apparent value? An industry which has grown by 39 percent in the United States in the last five years. One that attracts ever more investment even as its returns are seen to diminish. You might conclude that it was a failure, and an impressive one at that. This is the leadership industry, a complex that now encompasses colleges, gurus, corporate departments, startups, foundations, consultancies, publishers, th

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Don’t Have an HR Technology Strategy? Four Tips for Building One

TalentCulture

Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business School professor, author, and expert on competitive strategy defines strategy as “the creation of a unique and valuable position involving a different set of activities” (1996). A 2012 article published in strategy + business explains that strategy is, “the result of choices executives make on where to play and how to win to maximize long-term value.

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The Ultimate Truth About Top-Notch Employee Engagement

ATD Human Capital

There is a ton of talk about the keys to employee engagement, including an endless number of blog posts and research reports that claim to reveal the secret to getting peak performance out of your team. Want to know the truth? You have to put your employees first. That’s it. It’s a simple rule for success for any business. It’s also a critical one.

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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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3 Ways to Build Meaning Into Your Workplace

WorkHuman

Forward-thinking HR and business leaders are focusing more on metrics related to employee well-being and happiness, in addition to traditional satisfaction or engagement. But how do we define happiness and well-being? Are they related? WorkHuman speaker Shawn Achor defines happiness as “the joy you feel striving toward your potential.” He outlines four main qualities that sustain happiness: Optimism – believing that our behavior will eventually matter.

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Don't Even Bother Looking for Funding If You've Not Yet Assembled the Right Team

Entrepreneur

There is no more important task than attracting and managing the right people to grow your business. Here's how to find them.

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HR Bloggers and Analysts

Laurie Ruettimann

Money has ruined the HR technology market, and it’s destroyed the HR bloggers and analysts. Especially me. I love seeing my friends earn a little cash, but everybody is so afraid of being left behind in the next great recession that very few people are willing to take risks and write boldly. I’m to blame. I got old. I told bloggers to stop talking and start monetizing their ideas.

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Recruiting KPIs: time to fill

Workable

There is no broad consensus in the world of recruiting about what we should be measuring. What we have in its place is a lot of noise. With more and more businesses take their hiring online, millions of jobs and candidates are finding each other through applicant tracking systems, so there’s an abundance of data to look at, including time to fill metrics.

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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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7 Tips to Manage a Diverse Workforce

TalentCulture

Organizations today are more diverse than ever today. Hiring top talent from different racial, ethnic, geographic and religious backgrounds is becoming an accepted business practice. Most companies benefit from a diverse environment, but there are always certain challenges that may rise. Realizing that truth and developing hands-on strategies that welcome diversity is imperative.

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Appreciation and Change Management

ATD Human Capital

Change is a routine part of life. Organizations that do not adapt to the world and the changing economic environment will die. In this milieu, change management—the process of implementing and coping with changes such as new corporate policies, changes in the marketplace, and new leadership—is an essential skill, but one that many lack. In fact, according to Gallup, more than 70 percent of new initiatives implemented by organizations fail.

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The Antidote to Always-On Work Culture

WorkHuman

As life and work gets busier and more distracting, companies like Google, Target, and General Mills are all investing in mindfulness to improve productivity and corporate culture. Even Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll encouraged players to meditate daily before their Super Bowl win. Could mindfulness help your work culture? What are some simple tips for bringing mindfulness into daily life?

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How can we ensure employee health and wellbeing during restructuring?

HR Zone

Perform. Ensuring staff wellbeing during restructuring.

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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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How to do a job you hate.

Laurie Ruettimann

My adult life has been defined by doing one job: talking people off a ledge who hate their jobs. I don’t particularly enjoy my job of listening to other people complain about their jobs, but as America’s big sister, it is a constant in my life. Here’s how I manage a job that I hate while helping you hate yours a little less. 1. Look for the truth.

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Time to hire: key recruiting KPIs to track

Workable

Using recruiting metrics effectively is about finding the signal in the noise. Hiring managers, business owners and recruiters need data that delivers actionable insights. Following the release of Workable’s new Reporting Center we’re taking an in-depth look at the four key performance indicators (KPIs) worth tracking. This time we look in more detail at “time to hire.”.

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Series: Making the case for technology: Part 1: What does it cost?

HR Tech Girl

This is a common question every person trying to purchase new technology in their organisation gets asked “Where is the business case?” To answer this question or prepare the business case you will need to know a few things. In this series I will talk about the two important aspects of financial analysis of the […].