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Ten New Truths About The HR Technology Market

Josh Bersin

Next week is the big HR Technology Conference and as I prepare my keynote I’ve had to review my last year of research with hundreds of vendors around the world. And rather than “write the book” at this moment, I want to give you “Ten New Truths” to consider with more to discuss next week. . Read more» The post Ten New Truths About The HR Technology Market appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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HR’s Guide to the Effect of Job Stress on Employee Performance

Pathways

Stress has always been present in the workplace. HR teams know that most employees experience job stress at some point in their careers. However, new challenges and recent changes to the way we work and live have increased employee stress. A new study from Pathways found that nearly a third of employees are very concerned about their stress levels.

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How Whirlpool turned the tide to find the right people

HRExecutive

A few years ago, Whirlpool had a recruiting challenge: namely, how to ease the burden on its recruiters, who must wade through 200 applications per job. For Whirlpool, the issue was even more complicated, as job candidates are or could become customers of the company, a provider of many common products typically found in an American home. So, it needed to make the application process easier, more enjoyable and more effective for candidates.

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33 Key Leadership Competencies for Effective Leadership

Vantage Circle

Being a successful leader requires more than just intelligence or skill. It all comes down to what you do on the job and how you treat others. And that's what leadership competencies are for. Managers today face many new challenges. They need to provide continuous coaching and manage remote workers. It can get complicated at times. But, with the right support system, you can reach higher levels in leadership.

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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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Improve Organizational Agility with a Chief People Officer and other Key HR Leadership Hires

hrQ

Organizations are consciously looking at resilience and agility, especially in this age of uncertainty. Now is the time to ensure you have the right human capital processes and leadership in place. Establishing strong human capital requires a robust workforce planning, talent acquisition, and succession planning strategy and process. With this preparation, organizations are able to remain competitive through organizational shifts and restructures.

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5 trends revolutionizing the talent acquisition space

HRExecutive

Talent acquisition is facing new challenges in the age of the Great Resignation as scores of workers leave their jobs. In a Wednesday HR Tech Conference session titled “ The State of Talent Acquisition Technology: The ATS Is Not Enough,” Madeline Laurano, founder of Aptitude Research, said the talent acquisition market is rapidly growing and adapting to the new reality.

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What Are 9 Innovative Ideas That Actually Improve Employee Engagement?

15Five

“The most innovative or unique idea my company implemented in the last year that actually improved engagement for our employees is _?” Every month, we ask members of our HR Superstars Community an “icebreaker question” like this one around a different topic. Just like our first question ( What keeps HR leaders up at night? ) the responses to this question were phenomenal: It’s fascinating that higher engagement isn’t always sourced via streamlining productivity or creating clea

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Leaders as Role Models – What the Research Tells Us

The People Equation

When Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner wrote their now-classic book “The Leadership Challenge”, a foundational piece of their research focused on leaders as role models. In the authors’ article Model the Way , they write, “Exemplary leaders know that it’s their behavior that earns them respect. The real test is whether they do what they say; whether their words and deeds are consistent.

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Do you know your employee’s recognition preferences?

Engage2Excel

In Engage2Excel’s last Real Recognition Conversation S eries , we spoke to recognition expert, Roy Saunderson , to discover different ways of detect ing employee’ s recognition preferences. In the discussion, we covered why it is essential for recognition to be personal and how managers can identify their employee’s recognition style.

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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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This is one of onboarding’s biggest new obstacles

HRExecutive

Onboarding is a challenge in normal times—but throw in a global pandemic and a hybrid workforce and you have a recipe for a challenging first few days on the job for new employees, as well as employers. During an HR Tech Talk Wednesday at the HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas, leaders from Equifax shared some of the new obstacles their clients are facing when it comes to bringing new workers on board during current conditions.

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The C Sheet | October 1st

Visier

1. A Well-Balanced Beehive State . Do you live somewhere that promotes a healthy relationship between your personal and professional lives? This index ranks the states by work-life balance, based on number of hours worked, commute time, and a well-being index. Kudos to Utah for topping the list! The American Work-Life Balance Index (Lensa). 2. Looking for a Career in Cannabis?

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HR Trends: The Key Reads of September 2021

Intoo USA

Welcome to our summary of September best reads on HR trends! This month, hot topics included vaccine mandates, corporate culture, the Great Resignation, and burnout. HR Trends for September 2021. HR professionals and employers are navigating vaccine mandates. Those in HR are grappling with the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates at a time when many employees are quitting.

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Autism in the workplace: Why recognising intersectionality is so important

HR Zone

Culture The diverse nature of autism in the workplace.

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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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HR Tech Number of the Day: Talent acquisition investment

HRExecutive

Spurred on by the Great Resignation and the growth of the internal talent marketplace, organizations are looking to invest more into their talent acquisition solutions. According to research conducted by Aptitude Research, 62% of companies are increasing their TA tech investment. Advertisement What it means for HR leaders Talent acquisition is a vibrant market that is seeing consolidation, along with new tools using innovations such as artificial intelligence, said Madeline Laurano, founder of A

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Creating a Positive Company Culture in a Remote Workplace

Hppy

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a generation of knowledge workers who want to have the option of working remotely. Companies with distributed teams had been increasing year on year, even before the pandemic. Pioneering companies such as WordPress have been operating with remote employees and distributed teams for over a decade. While, in many instances, remote work can increase productivity and enhance employee retention, it’s not without negative consequences.

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The ‘new’ Future of HR

EmployeeConnect

Writing for Harvard Business Review in 2020, Jeanne C. Meister and Robert H. Brown predicted that the 2020s will be a “reset moment for HR.” Existing business trends combined with the COVID-19 pandemic to redefine the way people work, and therefore the way HR approaches everything from employee training and retention to corporate learning to company morale.

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Please don't go: Making the case for employee retention in 2021

HR Zone

Retention Making the case for employee retention in 2021.

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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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Talent Intelligence and Compensation with Salary.com‘s CEO on We‘re Only Human

UpstartHR

As we provide, billions and billions of data points of pay, job descriptions, skills, information about the organization, information about people… We have all this data and talent intelligence is an emerging super category. Kent Plunkett, CEO, Salary.com. . We’re Only Human — Episode 127. . Today, more than ever, compensation is a priority for business leaders in fast-moving organizations.

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How to Conduct a Staff Survey that Produces Useful Results

Hppy

Regularly conducting employee surveys is critical to the future success of your company. To be able to move forward, you need to have a good idea of what you’re doing well and also where you’re struggling. . Some of this stuff you can tell by looking at your business metrics. But some of the other stuff, particularly some of the behind the scenes stuff that is harder to measure — such as employee engagement and satisfaction — you can’t learn unless you ask people directly about it. .

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HR has a new metric for measuring employee satisfaction 

HRExecutive

HR leaders have a profound impact on employees’ satisfaction—so much so that a negative interaction could lead to dissatisfied workers leaving the company in short order. This was one of the key takeaways of the HR Tech Conference keynote address by Marcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute, who pre sented findings Thursday from a recent worldwide ADPRI study that measured the quality of service being delivered by HR function.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Employees' reflections as furlough ends

HR Zone

Employees End of furlough: Reflections from employees.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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9 Skills You Already Learned in College That Employers Love to See

The Muse

If you’ve graduated from college, you already have these skills that employers are after. Here’s how to show them off in your job search.

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Telehealth Opening up New Opportunities for Healthcare Employment

Accurate Background

Many businesses and industries learned a lot about new ways of operating during the pandemic — in many cases, they would not have previously felt possible, or advisable. The healthcare industry is a prime example. During the pandemic, telehealth has seen a sharp uptick in terms of availability and patient access. It’s likely that this access will continue well into the future.

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Good Comes First Book Review

The People Equation

Spoiler alert: I’m a big fan of Chris Edmonds’ thought leadership. Having reviewed his book The Culture Engine and interviewed him , I’m always up for reading his insights. Now he’s back with his latest book, Good Comes First: How Today’s Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. He’s partnered with Mark Babbitt, co-author of A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive to write a much-needed guidebook for leaders who are road-weary from nearly two years of pandemic upheaval,

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What can employers do today to stop the ‘She-cession’?

HRExecutive

The global pandemic continues to have a profound impact on the role of women in the workforce and there doesn’t seem to be any letup in sight, said Rebecca Henderson, CEO, global business, and executive board member of Randstad. In her opening address at the Women in HR Tech Summit on the first day of the HR Technology Conference , Henderson said the toll of the pandemic on women—millions of whom have dropped out of the workforce to manage added childcare responsibilities and for other rea

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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 Interviewers Really Want to Know When They Ask “How Do You Stay Organized?”

The Muse

Here’s what to say if you get this question in a job interview. Because no one wants a hot mess of an employee.

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Dear HR: This Is Why People Hate You

Evil HR Lady

I’m swamped today, so of course, I had to scroll through the Legal Advice subreddit and came across this: I was on a ride along with a cop. The officer made a traffic stop, gave the driver a ticket, and the driver is now trying to fight the ticket in court. I have been subpoenaed, with the court date being set for the end of November. At my job the holiday season is our busiest time of the year, so from mid November until the end of the year my company refuses approve any time off for any

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The ATS is not Enough! State of TA Tech. #HRTechConf @madtraquin

The Tim Sackett Project

I’m out at The HR Technology Conference this week and caught my friend Madeline Laurano ‘s session title ‘The State of Talent Acquisition Technology! The ATS is not Enough” If you don’t know Madeline, connect with her, she is, in my estimation, the number one analyst in talent acquisition technology in the world. Truly.