Sat.Jan 12, 2019 - Fri.Jan 18, 2019

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Retro Pay 101: Payroll Lessons From the Government Shutdown

Namely

The absolute worst feeling that a payroll professional can have is finding out someone didn’t get paid. While that stings for us, it’s even worse for the ones who wake up to an empty bank account on payday. Last week, roughly 800,000 federal employees experienced that due to a partial government shutdown. Eventually, most of these employees will be paid for their time.

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Questions I’m asking myself in 2019!

The Tim Sackett Project

I’m constantly being asked about what are the “trends of 2019” Honestly, year to year trends are usually fairly unnoticeable to most people working a real job in HR and TA. Google for Jobs was a giant trend in 2018 and yet most TA leaders still have no idea what it is and haven’t felt a real impact of it. Yet, it was a huge trend.

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I did pre-hire assessments: What’s next?

HR Management

Having selected the candidates — which we talked about last time – then come the interviews. And, these can now be “behaviorally smart,” using questions based on the outcomes of the pre-hire assessments you’ve completed. Well-structured resumes are not difficult to produce, with or without a professional writer. We also know that performing well at an interview might fall into the category of acting out a role.

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Analytics Matter: How Reporting and Dashboards Can Change Your Temporary Staffing Business

Sirenum

When your business relies on people for its operations, knowing what to measure can be overwhelming. Human behaviour can be seen as unpredictable, serendipitous, and impossible to control, but what if we told you that this isn't entirely true? While a higher human factor can lead to a higher number of mistakes, it's no secret [ ] The post Analytics Matter: How Reporting and Dashboards Can Change Your Temporary Staffing Business appeared first on Sirenum.

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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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LinkedIn Talent Insights Gives Staffing Firms the Edge They’re Looking For

Linkedin Talent Blog

Tight labor markets and competition for candidates. Soaring attrition. Increasing time to fill. Underdeveloped client accounts. Sounds like a recipe for recruitment indigestion. It’s a hard time to hire, for sure. Which is both the challenge and the opportunity for staffing agencies. Firms that can regularly and effectively deliver talent to clients in the current market will thrive.

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Improve Employee Experience by Starting a Book Club at Work

ExactHire

If you want to create a consistently, stellar employee experience at your organization (and why wouldn’t you?), then finding ways to foster personal and professional development should be an integral part of your plan. Implementing an optional office book club is a fantastic way to encourage employees to try something new, improve themselves and connect with one another.

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3 Times I Was Inspired by WorkHuman 2019 Speaker Viola Davis

WorkHuman

By Sarah Payne —. If I could synthesize the WorkHuman movement into a few words, I would say it’s about humanity, inclusion, and belonging. When you aspire to create a human workplace, you must first acknowledge that your business would be nothing without your people. And second, your people are human – and more often than not they just want to be a part of a team where they belong and feel inspired by a sense of purpose in their work.

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Helping Unemployed/Underemployed People Is Part of Your Job.

The HR Capitalist

If you're like me in the world of HR and recruiting, you get asked for career help as a normal rite of passage. For me, it's tough because there's only so much you can do to help people find opportunities outside of the company you work for. That process can make you jaded in the world of HR. People think you're more connected than you are, and as a result, you're going to get more of these inquiries than the average person.

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How to Build a Coaching Culture at Scale

Reflektive

Coaching/mentoring has historically been the least used but is the most effective training modality. This is important to keep in mind, as 40 percent of employees with poor training leave their jobs within the first year. Leadership coach and HR consultant Stacey La Torre, Desiree Therianos from PeopleTech Partners, J.Ryan Williams from SalesCollider, Joe Dunn from Cloudbreak, and Christine Tao from Sounding Board spoke on a panel, “How to Build a Coaching Culture at Scale” at Reflektive’s Illum

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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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Which Employees Should You Invest in? 3 Strategies on How to Make That Choice.

Entrepreneur

With unemployment low, you need to enrich and empower your company's existing leaders so they'll stick around. Here's how.

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13 Signs That You Should Walk Away From Your Startup Business

Forbes Coaches Council

When a startup business is faltering, it may be time to decide whether to carry on or walk away. Members of Forbes Coaches Council offer their insights on the signs that show it's time for an entrepreneur to cut their losses and move on from a startup.

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One Way To Turn an Unexpected Resignation into a PR Win.

The HR Capitalist

If there's one cool thing about my career, it's that I'm surrounded by masters. People doing great things. Leaders. wait for it. leading. Innovation everywhere. And when required, the best people I'm surrounded by aren't afraid to play a little hardball. The kind of hardball that's not afraid (when you're out of line and the company might get hurt) to throw a 105 mile per hour fastball at someone's upper extremity.

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The Next Big Thing for People Management

Reflektive

If people are a company’s most precious resource, why are so many of the tools in today’s HR tech landscape so slow to identify why your employees are disengaged? According to Gallup , disengaged employees cost the U.S. between $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Engagement is not only key to a company’s bottom line, but also to their overall culture and performance.

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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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Make Your Job Candidates Happier in 2019

SHRM Resources

An employer may choose only one applicant for the job, but many are taking steps to ensure the contenders who didn’t get hired feel good about the process and the company.

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#WorkTrends: Why Social Media Has Failed Recruiting

TalentCulture

Imagine a world without hashtags, friend requests and cat videos. Pretty difficult, right? That’s how much social media has transformed our lives. However, there’s something social media hasn’t transformed: recruiting. Even though companies have more opportunities to reach qualified candidates than ever before, the results have not come anywhere close to fulfilling the potential of the power of social media.

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The HR Capitalist Is Back In Business.

The HR Capitalist

I'm back. After taking 3 months off to finish a book that will be out in mid-2019 (The 9 Faces of HR), I'm returning to a normal schedule at the HR Capitalist. Some of you noticed I was gone. Some of you didn't. Good thing I'm low sensitivity and didn't expect you to beg. The conversation - with snark, pro-business moderate views and a certain level of detachment to protect my fragile emotions - continues. starting now.

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Onboarding in 2019: What a Knock-Out First Day Should Look Like

HR Morning

The first days and weeks when new employees come to work are a make-or-break time for their success with you. . A positive welcoming experience puts them at ease and reinforces that joining your company was a good choice. That breeds loyalty – a key component of a stronger workforce, and an essential characteristic of what keeps organizations going strong.

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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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Work and Life and Everything In Between

Robin Schooling

My mother, who has dementia, has been living with us now for a week. A really really REALLY long week. Getting her to Louisiana was neither an easy task not did it occur in a particularly seamless fashion. Over the last month I made two emergency (last-minute) cross-country trips. While some of these travels took place in the friendly skies, there was also a 1,100 mile one-way road trip (with a dog).

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West African Financial Institutions Hit by Wave of Attacks

Symantec

Attackers using commodity malware and living off the land tools against financial targets in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo (DR), Ghana, and Equatorial Guinea.

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Nothing Says "Sell Your Stocks" More Than Corporate Events That Feature This.

The HR Capitalist

You know you're living in a peak economic cycle when you go to a corporate event, and the entertainment rivals old Rome in the Coliseum. . Lions. Tigers. Potential loss of life. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Email subscribers, click through to the site if you don't see the Instagram video embedded below. OC Tanner, by all counts a fine, outstanding recognition firm (trying like everyone else in the game to become a cloud-based technology firm) had an analyst event last September in Snowbird, UT.

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7 Tips to Achieve a People-First Culture

Quantum Workplace

A people-first culture is something that differentiates an employee’s trust, satisfaction, and engagement from one company to another. While few organizations stress the importance of improving their cultures, it is evident that happier employees work harder and smarter to achieve personal, departmental, and organizational goals. So, the question is not why a people-first culture is important and effective, it is how to achieve it.

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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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What is a Teal Organization?

Workology

A few months ago, at the 2018 ATD Austin Applied Learning Summit, a panelist, Dr. Ryan Schoenbeck, asked the audience whether anyone had heard of Frederic Laloux’s research on Teal organizations. I. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How to Recruit Like the Big Guys on a Small Business Budget

BambooHR

Like any human relationship, bringing on a new employee is part strategy, part serendipity. But for a small business, there’s a third challenge in the mix: your time and budget are both limited. Smaller organizations don’t always have an HR team like large companies do. Your recruiting strategies may be undefined (or scribbled on a […].

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Call Up The Co-Worker or Boss You Used to Hate and Tell Them You Understand.

The HR Capitalist

We've all had alpha personality co-workers or bosses we couldn't connect with. . They were overbearing. They had to do it their way. They were too far in the weeds and hyper-critical of your work. You didn't like them. Hate's a strong word, dislike is not. So you ran away and got the hell out. Time to do your own thing. . Then a funny thing happened.

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Getting 360 Degree Reviews Right

Engagedly

360 degree reviews when done well can render insightful results and improve overall employee engagement as it allows for comprehensive feedback and not just managers feedback. But, more often than not managers and HR administrators who attempt to […].

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Change Management Lessons From Spilled Coffee on the Train

Workology

It can happen to any of us and this morning it happened to me. I spilled coffee on a crowded train. The folks on the train reacted somewhat similar to the way they might if a colleague or teammate. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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What the Government Shutdown Teaches Us About America’s Financially Stressed Workers

Payactiv

Blog › Financial Stress Epidemic What the Government Shutdown Teaches Us About America’s Financially Stressed Workers. By Safwan Shah on January 16, 2019 People living paycheck to paycheck pay a cost, a Fin-Tax, to access their own money when needed between paychecks. And an emotional cost from the financial stresses they experience. This can be fixed.

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How women can succeed: changing gender perceptions

HR Zone

Culture. How women can succeed: changing gender perceptions.

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