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Reading Between the Lines on the 4-Day Work Week

Jason Lauritsen

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Why Your Company Should Invest in Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Namely

Building a diverse and inclusive organization starts with creating a culture that embraces and celebrates people’s differences. Investing in employee resource groups (ERGs) is a great way to give your employees a forum to meet like-minded people, raise awareness on key issues, and share their culture and values.

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Who’s the Real Flight Risk? Why Employees Leave (And Stay)

Achievers

An excerpt from Staying Power . Who’s the Real Flight Risk? Why do people stay at your organization? Is it because they’re passionate about the work they do? Do they enjoy working with their colleagues and/or those you serve? Do they feel well-compensated and appreciated? Or is it for another reason? While I would like to think these positive reasons are the primary basis for why staff stay, that’s not always the case.

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: Pocket Recruiter (@pkrecruiter)

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on The Weekly Dose I review the recruiting technology, Pocket Recruiter. Pocket Recruiter drastically reduces the time it takes to screen, source and evaluate candidates, helping recruiters achieve a higher interview to placement ratio. Pocket Recruiter is one of these new recruiting technologies built around the concepts of Machine Learning and A.I.

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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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7 Questions to Ask When Implementing a New Payroll System for Your Staffing Agency

Efficient Hire

As a staffing agency, your payroll needs aren’t exactly the same as those for a typical employer. This means your vendor selection and setup process are different as well. Do you know what questions to ask when implementing a new. Read more. The post 7 Questions to Ask When Implementing a New Payroll System for Your Staffing Agency appeared first on Efficient Forms.

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How to Get Better Results In Your Work

HR Bartender

It’s a given that organizations want employees to perform at a high-level. But what about employees? I know there are some who might think otherwise, but overall, I’d like to believe that employees want to perform well too. No one wants to have a reputation for being a slacker or not doing a good job. Most people want to be known for delivering results.

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These 5 Management Practices Create Uncommonly Successful Workplaces

15Five

Want to know a modern management secret? Ok, it’s not exactly a secret. I started explaining how we developed the Best-Self Management methodology in our last post. I shared how 15Five is a company of nearly 80 people, with near zero attrition in our company’s history. We’ve been extraordinarily capital efficient, and based on a reputable benchmark , we were recently producing about 2x the average revenue per employee of companies at a similar size and stage.

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Hire Faster and Smarter With These 3 Recruiting Plan Templates

SnackNation

Hire Faster and Smarter With These 3 Recruiting Plan Templates . Companies of all sizes can use recruiting plan templates to make smart hiring part of their overall growth and business strategies. Even if you’re not hiring at the moment, you never know when when employee shifts or company changes may send you back into an unexpected hiring spree. For example, employees sometimes leave without notice or warning at unexpected or inconvenient times.

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What Happens to Recruiting in a Recession?

Allegis Global Solutions

Next week, I will be speaking about recruiting in a recession at Hiring Success 2019 , presented by SmartRecruiters. Here's a look into why I'm talking about the upsides of a down economy to an audience of mostly tech recruiters in the middle of San Francisco during the longest sustained period of job creation in US history. Besides, of course, having committed to a conference preview post with our partners at SmartRecruiters, and pitching a topic that's the antithesis of the rest of the agenda.

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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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Onboarding: Take Your Process From Basic to Strategic

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a provider of strategic onboarding solutions to drive workforce readiness and organizational transformation. Check out their research, “ The Value of Employee Engagement in the Age of Digital Disruption ” a valuable report for any HR leader who wants to see engagement and onboarding from the C-suite.

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7 Ideas for Celebrating Employee Appreciation Day

Engage2Excel

One week to go for the official “unofficial” Employee Appreciation Day holiday - in case this is news to you its March 1 st ! At Engage2Excel we know really terrific people are hard to find, that’s why we believe in the power of delivering appreciation and recognition moments to employees all year long…but we admit we get a little giddy for fun days like this throughout the year to show employees how much you value them.

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What is EQ and How Do You Improve It?

Reflektive

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is increasingly seen as an important trait in the workforce that matters as much, if not more, as IQ. People with strong emotional intelligence tend to be happier and more successful in life, and are better able to manage stress and interpersonal challenges. So what is emotional intelligence, anyway? SEE ALSO: Managing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Age of The Millennial.

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update: we have twice-daily mandatory group therapy at work

Ask a Manager

Remember last week’s letter-writer whose office was requiring people to attend twice-daily group therapy ? Here’s the update. Hi! OP here! OMG it’s been a week. So when I wrote this, I called out the whole week because I couldn’t wrap my head around all of this, and I had luckily enough gotten a job interview somewhere else. I appreciate your comments and the support and advice and I’m going to give some back.

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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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4 Ways to Hire More People with Disabilities

SHRM Resources

Hiring people with disabilities may seem daunting. Find out how these companies have tested the waters and developed methods to create a workplace that suits the applicants and works for the business.

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Want to Attract Top Talent? Provide the Best in Employee Benefits: Financial Wellness Plans

TalentCulture

The first quarter is widely known as the biggest hiring season of the year. As you post job listings, interview candidates and narrow down your top choices, you may wonder: In a job applicant’s market, how am I going to ensure that the best and brightest join my team? Over 300,000 jobs were added to the market in December, which means you have to work harder than ever before to win over top talent.

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Tell Me About a Time…Bringing Your Interviewing Game to the Next Level

The SHRM Blog

The resumes are in, the interviews scheduled, and you print up the same set of behavioral interview questions you’ve been asking for the last 5 years. But know, your candidates are prepared, they’ve researched, prepped, Googled responses to every interview question imaginable. You need to put in the same amount of preparation, your goal is to hire the BEST people, so your interview game needs to be next level.

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Tell Me About a Time…Bringing Your Interviewing Game to the Next Level

SHRM

The resumes are in, the interviews scheduled, and you print up the same set of behavioral interview questions you’ve been asking for the last 5 years. But know, your candidates are prepared, they’ve researched, prepped, Googled responses to every interview question imaginable. You need to put in the same amount of preparation, your goal is to hire the BEST people, so your interview game needs to be next level.

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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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Recruiting Is Tougher in 2019

SHRM Resources

The latest Recruiter Nation Survey from Jobvite, a recruiting technology company, reveals the difficulties of attracting and hiring talent in a candidate-driven job market, as well as the creative methods recruiters are deploying to get job seekers’ attention. Experts weigh in below on how—and why—recruiters can put these methods to use.

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Human Resources KPIs: An In-depth Explanation with Metrics & Examples

Analytics in HR

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, is arguably Edward Deming’s best-known quote. It is impossible to improve at managing people if you do not measure the results of your work. If you do not define what ‘good performance’ looks like and how you can measure it, how will you find out if you’re doing well? So in business, if you don’t measure your progress towards your HR goals, how will you know how successful you are?

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Human Performance Deserves More Than a Review

TalentCulture

We know that people are happier and healthier when they know their work matters — and performance reviews can be a powerful tool to help us all know how we’re doing at work. But the performance management process in many organizations is broken. I think it’s time for a major change in how we think about performance reviews. In a 2017 survey by Gallup, only 29 percent of employees strongly agreed that the performance reviews […].

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ISTR 24: Symantec’s Annual Threat Report Reveals More Ambitious and Destructive Attacks

Symantec

ISTR Volume 24 is here, providing insights into global threat activity, cyber criminal trends, attacker motivations, and other happenings in the threat landscape in 2018.

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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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a client hit my parked car, is it gross to floss in the office bathroom, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. A client hit my parked car. I am an intern in a law office. The office has a parking lot, but interns are not allowed to park there because it is very small and the higher-ups want to leave the space for clients. I was picking up supplies for the office, so I parked in the lot so that I could unload my car.

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How to Train Someone to Translate Business Problems into Analytics Questions

Analytics in HR

Analytics translators perform some of the most essential functions for integrating analytics capabilities in a company. They define business problems that analytics can help solve , guide technical teams in the creation of analytics-driven solutions to these problems, and embed solutions into business operations. It’s specialized work, calling for strong business acumen, some technical knowledge, and project management and delivery chops.

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Seven Excellent Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day

Bonusly

Employee Appreciation Day is celebrated each year on the first Friday in March. On this day, employers around the world make the extra effort to appreciate their employees’ hard work and dedication. Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of companies have embraced this occasion to recognize the achievements and contributions of their employees.

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Ep 170 – Becoming a More Strategic HR Leader and Business Partner

Workology

Too often by others outside of human resources, HR is seen as order takers who fill requisitions, calculate compensation tables, and run surveys. To win over internal and external clients, HR. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Too often by others outside of human resources, HR is seen as order takers who fill requisitions, calculate compensation tables, and run surveys.

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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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9 Questions to Ask Candidates' References

Entrepreneur

Job seekers aim to present themselves in the best light. But the very people they offer to validate their claims might point to other useful information.

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New Onboarding Technology Cuts Down Manual Tasks

SHRM Resources

It’s no secret that good onboarding practices can reduce turnover and greatly improve new hires’ time to proficiency. What many HR leaders may not be aware of, however, is how next-generation onboarding technologies can eliminate much of the manual work in the process, reduce the chance of problems or delays, and leave more time for HR and line managers to train and socialize new employees.

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The reference check: How to get useful, honest info

HR Morning

Reference checks can be one of the most valuable tools for making an informed hiring decision – but, as you know, it’s often tough to learn anything from a contact besides employment dates, titles and salaries. . How can you convince reluctant references to open up? The 5 best approaches. Here are some strategies experts recommend: Keep it light. As with any discussion, it’s important to warm up the reference before asking him or her to divulge any information.