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Everything you need to know about the labor supply gap happening now

Engage2Excel

In Engage2Excel’s last Conversation Series, hosted by our VP of Marketing, Melissa Meunier, and President of Recruitment Solutions, Darren Findley, they discussed the challenges employers face when looking for candidates who will fill positions in their organization. During the 30- minute conversation, Darren explained why there is so much difficulty and how employers can overcome certain challenges.

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It’s Not Just Burnout: HR Is Experiencing Compassion Fatigue

Pathways

HR teams have been the “invisible first responders” of the last year and a half, supporting employees through numerous crises. Unfortunately, the effects of the past year have left HR teams feeling stressed and emotionally exhausted. What human resources teams are experiencing is not quite burnout, but something similar: compassion fatigue.

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Experts watching if TikTok can help solve their hiring woes

HRExecutive

An increasingly remote world and a hot job market are causing employers to embrace an out-of-the-box way to recruit workers: TikTok. Chipotle, Target, WWE, Shopify and other employers are partnering with a new feature on the social media platform to recruit potential workers. Advertisement TikTok—best known for short and trendy videos—is getting into the recruiting space with its launch of TikTok Resumes platform.

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Inefficiency is Holding You Back! How Your Staffing Firm Can Streamline HR Processes

Essium HRM

If you find you are struggling to place candidates quickly, your staffing firm needs to look at your internal human resource practices. Without the right mix, your human resources might be draining your staff and potentially frustrating your candidates. Luckily, the fix could be as simple as streamlining and automating tasks that are taking up too much time and causing inefficiencies.

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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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Webinar: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Developing a Clear Roadmap

DecisionWise

Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Time: 1:00 pm Eastern / 10:00 am Pacific. Presenters: Kristin Chapman, Managing Director of People & Culture at AAA National Charles Rogel, VP of Consulting at DecisionWise. Cost: Free. During this webinar, we’ll share the latest DecisionWise employee survey research as well as tested best practices and stories from AAA National on how to map a clear DE&I strategy.

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How Do I Create an Online Job Application?

ExactHire

If you’re like most employers, the current worker shortage has you rethinking your hiring strategy. This is especially true in industries like construction, restaurant, and home service. Perhaps in the past you’ve been able to avoid implementing an online job application without sacrificing the quality of applicants you attract. But if you’re one of the thousands of businesses forced to shorten hours or reduce the number of customers you can serve because you don’t have enough workers, you can’t

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International Conference Calls: The Do’s and Don’ts

Hppy

Conference calls can be a challenging way to communicate, even when everyone is a native English speaker. But if your call includes participants from different countries or others whose first language is not English, it can take even more work to ensure engagement, collaboration and understanding. Using tactics like these can help everyone contribute to their full potential.

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What Makes A Good Manager and Leader?

DecisionWise

The cost of a bad manager amounts to billions of dollars each year. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent to measure and improve the employee experience by focusing on the collective organizational experience. However, DecisionWise research shows that organizations should refocus their efforts and double down on their managers. While creating an environment where employees can both learn and choose to be engaged, our research shows that an engaged manager is 213% more likely to have an

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Recognize and Mitigate Expense Fraud in Business

SutiHR

Expense fraud ranks as the most common type of staff fraud. With an estimated 7% of revenues usually lost to fraudulent activities around the world, this fraud accounts for 15% of all the fraud uncovered. Employees will seek to benefit at the expense of their manager for one reason or another. But each inappropriate expense claim harms your business.

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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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did the pandemic really show we can be just as effective working from home?

Ask a Manager

This post, did the pandemic really show we can be just as effective working from home? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. In the past few months, I’ve been hearing a lot of people say something that goes like this: “The pandemic completely smashed the idea that we couldn’t be just as effective working from home.” Usually the implication is that therefore employers who want to bring employees back to the office must be controlling or out of touch.

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Understanding, Preventing and Handling Workplace Violence

Hppy

Did you know that you’ll spend roughly one third of your life at work? Jessica Pryce-Jones calculated in her book Happiness At Work that people will spend an average of 90,000 hours at work over the course of their lifetimes. Given that we all spend so much time at our respective workplaces, we deserve to feel safe, secure, and to never be subjected to violence or harassment.

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Podcast: How to Be An Effective Decision Maker

DecisionWise

Engaging People Podcast · Ep. 138: How to Be An Effective Decision-Maker. On this episode of the podcast, Charles Rogel and Jefferson McClain continue our discussion around manager best practices, focusing on decision making. They’ll touch on: How decision making capabilities are measured in a 360-degree assessment How to improve your decision making Collaborative decisions vs.

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‘Massive shift’ in HR leaders’ top 5 priorities for 2021

HRExecutive

Forget digital transformation and developing next-generation leaders— mental health is now HR’s top priority. Advertisement That’s according to new research out from Lyra Health, Boston University and Future Workplace, an advisory and membership organization that prepares HR leaders for the future of work. Their HR Sentiment Survey of more than 200 senior HR leaders across the U.S. finds a shift of priorities from the early months of COVID-19 in 2020 to where they are now, nearly a year and a h

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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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Employee experience is driven by empathetic leaders in the new world of work

HR Zone

Culture An empathetic approach to employee experience.

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5 Ways to Help Employees With Financial Stress

Hppy

As an HR professional, being attuned to the stresses that employees in your organization face from day to day is a key step in assisting them to face and overcome them. This is not just about fulfilling the basic requirements of your role; aiding team members in this way will keep them happier and more satisfied in their jobs, as well as increasing their loyalty to the organization and their performance as a result.

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HR People Cannot Afford to Say Stupid Things on Social Media

Evil HR Lady

Social media is fun. I’m a heavy user. But, as an HR person, I have to remember that what I say on Facebook or Twitter can affect me professionally. While I will tell HR people to ignore employees’ social media posts, I will tell them to monitor their own posts. (Trust me, if one of your employees says something horrible anywhere, their coworkers will rat them out and let you know.

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How to Deal with Stress in Your Job

Take It Personel-ly

While stress is practically a given with any and every job, there are differing levels of it depending on the nature of your work. Although it’s inevitable, that doesn’t mean that you should simply accept high-levels of stress on a permanent basis, as this can be detrimental to both your long-term physical and mental health. […].

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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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Bersin: These are the 6 areas to focus on for better EX

HRExecutive

To say employee experience is complex is a dramatic understatement. And the speed with which it’s emerged as a priority for HR and business leaders has sown uncertainty. Get a group of HR leaders together and I guarantee you wouldn’t get agreement on the very definition of EX, let alone on what to do to actually drive higher employee engagement, foster more productivity and performance, and ultimately enable improved outcomes.

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Re-Imagining The Future Of Work

Hppy

We live in a time of drastic changes in the economy. With the rise of work automation and AI, routine repetitive activities are in decline and emerging jobs require advanced creativity and soft skills. After the pandemic, remote work became a new normal even in large enterprises. It fosters flexibility, advanced communication skills, and more diversity in teams.

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15 Ways to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

SocialChorus

Promoting and improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace is a crucial initiative that many companies are now taking. Aside from being simply the right thing to do, savvy executives understand the many benefits of a diverse workplace and know that it’s part of improving the employee experience. Below we look at specific benefits of diversity and inclusion and explain some simple things your company can do to improve it.

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update: my manager is annoyed that I keep getting Saturdays off

Ask a Manager

This post, update: my manager is annoyed that I keep getting Saturdays off , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer who had found a way to see in advance which Saturdays he’d be required to work and was requesting them all off before he could be scheduled, despite being required to work them? His manager knew something was going on but couldn’t figure out how he was getting the info in advance.

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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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Employer Failed to Show Worker Electronically Signed Arbitration Agreement

SHRM Resources

An employer failed to prove that an employee electronically signed an arbitration agreement, so the worker could not be forced to arbitrate her workplace claims, a California appeals court ruled.

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5 Ways To Ramp Up Your Hiring Practices In The New Normal

Hppy

Business processes have come a long way during the pandemic as remote work was the only way to keep going. You cannot expect things to get back to usual in the new normal, even as offices reopen. Hiring practices are likely to be affected the most. You will probably need more resources during the recovery phase, but they may not be easily available.

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6 Workplace Distractions That Affect Employee Productivity

6Q

There is no doubt about it—we are a distracted society working in distracted workplaces (even when the workplaces are our own homes!). Just think about the number of times when alerts sound on our mobile devices—assuming they are not turned off. Now add in the pressures of our multi-tasked culture and the 4,000-10,000 advertisements messages we receive in one day—it’s surprising we can pay attention to anything.

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HR Tech Number of the Day: remote tools

HRExecutive

As organizations ease into new post-pandemic workplaces, many are solidifying their hybrid and remote work arrangements. Software tools that aim to promote collaboration and information-sharing across distributed teams will likely be central to these setups, but according to a new survey, designers of these new workplaces need to pay closer attention to how employees are actually leveraging tech for success.

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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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What If a Job Applicant Discloses a Disability?

SHRM Resources

Employers generally are prohibited from asking questions about disabilities before making conditional job offers to applicants, but what should an employer do if a job applicant voluntarily discloses a disability at the interview stage?

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The Newest Red Flag In Hiring!

The Tim Sackett Project

I’m trained as an HR pro to pick up on ‘red flags’ in interviewing, in employee behavior, potential turnover risks, etc. Sometimes those red flags are really obvious. I tease my staff all the time, but missing time on Mondays and Fridays, unexcused time, is a red flag. It says something about how you feel about work, that you want to extend your weekend.

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How to Balance Both Work And Family

6Q

Human beings are social animals. Undeniably, we are set on a pathway to excellence! While this has some extraordinary benefits of its own, we cannot deny that the rapid pace of life takes a great toll on our mental health. We often find ourselves caught in the baffling situation of handling our workplace as well as our relationships. To lead a successful life, we must create a balance between both these aspects.

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