Laurie Ruettimann

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve spent the past six months talking to HR and recruiting professionals about failure. Unfortunately, nobody cared about enterprise failure until I started talking about my life. My maternal grandmother was a strategic optimist. When she became accidentally pregnant at the age of 20, she married the guy and had four kids. When the guy was mean to her, she accepted it.

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EmployeeConnect

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Customer Experience, or CX for short, is a differentiation strategy adopted by many B2B organisations. While we may think at first that customer experience lies in the realm of marketing and sales; the HR department has a great role to play in creating customer excellence. In fact, CX best-practises are moving towards a more holistic approach to improving customer satisfaction. Just a few years ago, customer experience still used to be managed and optimised based on the individual touch points an organisation had with its customers. Today, CX is translated into an integrated value proposition.

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Get Hppy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Many of us spend more of our waking hours at work than in the rest of our lives. It’s important to create the type of culture where employees feel connected and don’t mind spending such a huge chunk of their time at your company. The invention of the smartphone virtually eliminated any remaining line between personal and professional life. It seems we’re always “on the clock.”

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UpstartHR

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I had been on the job search for a little while, and I was very thrilled when I received a request to come in and interview for a manufacturing operation that produced rubber molds and other rubber pieces. This was going to be my first big HR role, and I was really nervous. Fast forward to the interview session, and I was feeling a little more confident. ” So I thought about it for a minute.

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Blogging 4 Jobs

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I talk to recruiters and job seekers every day. hear about the great divide.Recruiters can’t find talent; Job seekers can’t find the right new position. It feels like they are miles away from each other. The crazy thing from my vantage point is that there is really so much opportunity everywhere. LinkedIn just gave a nice connection lift to both recruiters and job seekers with two new updates.

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SuccessFactors

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Disengagement has been plaguing the workforce for years, showing little improvement in recent times. When your employees are not motivated by their work and feel stuck, they may become mindless clock punchers and start to look for work elsewhere. What’s worse, your company may be stuck with a high turnover rate. How can employers give their staff a boost and get them engaged in their work?

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What Every VP of HR Need to Know About Change Management

Reflektive

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Implementation is about people. This may seem obvious, but it was an especially notable observation at the HR Technology Conference held in Chicago recently. Katherine Jones, partner and director of talent research at Mercer, led a session on implementation of HR technology, pointing to research that 70 percent of change initiatives are considered a failure. “I’m here to help you be part of the 30 percent,” Jones told her audience. Goal of change management – least disruption, increase results you wanted #HRTechConf. — Reflektive (@reflektive) October 6, 2016.

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Visier

OCTOBER 13, 2016

What could be more important than realizing that the world of HR is on the edge of a dramatic shift that will literally change the entire focus of HR? Unfortunately, HR leaders are frequently so busy that most haven’t found the time to realize that “The War For The Future of HR” is already over, and “data analytics” has won! The Business World Has Changed and HR Can’t Afford to Lag Behind.

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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

Workforce Software

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Preventing turnover should be a priority for all managers, but improving employee retention requires a solid understanding of why it happens in the first place. Blog Organizational Culture Workforce Management

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TLNT: The Business of HR

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our 2015 summer internship program was a disaster. My company, HireTeamMate/Hiretual , hired one software engineering intern after another — failure after failure — but on paper they seemed perfect for us. Culture Performance & Personality Talent Management Workforce Featured millennials

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Dice

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Every graduation day, the tech industry’s hiring pool refills with eager, newly degreed professionals. Hiring managers fish these waters for new hires. While the ones they select may not boast decades of experience, they’ve usually learned the latest in their field of choice, whether computer science or data analytics. At least, that’s how things are supposed to work. STEAM Power. Future Majority.

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SuccessFactors

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sixty-two percent of respondents to the Staples Business Advantage 2016 Workplace Index say the availability of a wellness program is a selling point when looking for a new job, but 58 percent say their workplace doesn’t offer one. So it’s no wonder companies are talking about them a lot these days. And what goes hand-in-hand with healthier, happier employees, and improved productivity?

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Spoiler alert!  This article doesn't have a happy ending. -. What if you worked in an organization where the Head of Human Resources didn't view the Compensation function as vitally important to the organization? once worked in such a place.  That's not a place to build a career on. So What's Wrong With Compensation? Where does this attitude come from?  You likely have your own.  style. 

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NoExcusesHR

OCTOBER 13, 2016

When I started my career I used to worry about a lot of things. Sometimes the level of worry stopped me from getting my work done. At other times I moved so slowly that when I finally did make a decision it was so agonizingly late that it didn't impact the situation at all. Worry is not only over rated.it is completely useless. Completely. Useless. How's that working out for you? No Excuses.

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David Zinger

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Bottoms Up on Employee Engagement. Here is a false phrase bandied around many offices and workplaces: “It all comes down to the bottom line.” ”  This is often used to say that money, is the ultimate determiner of what should take place at work and the bottom line is the ultimate deciding factor on business decisions. This is wrong.

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HR Gazette

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Erin is a graduate of The Second City Chicago Training Center, i.O. Theater, and The Annoyance Theatre. You may have seen her performing improv as an ensemble member at Under the Gun Theater, especially improvising as host “Christina Harrison” in the long-running show “Will You Accept This Rose, An Improvised Parody of The Bachelor” – a show she created and co-directs. improve it!’s

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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

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Dice

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The tech unemployment rate hit 3 percent in September, a slight uptick from 2.8 percent in August, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS); unemployment for the general economy also rose month-over-month, to 5 percent. However, computer and electronic product manufacturing bled 1,500 jobs, contributing to the 7,300 lost in that area in 2016 so far.

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Ohio Employer's Law

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Employment Law 360 reports that Hawaiian Airlines has been sued by a group of employees claiming that their mandatory unpaid 10-day customer service training course violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. For its part, the airline argues that the lead plaintiff “was well aware the course was unpaid before she started”. That’s not much of an argument. Is attendance truly voluntary? wage and hour

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Workforce Software

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here are the trends we discovered at HR Tech that made us look twice. Actually, they're not so much "trends" as they are tools to improve employee performance. Blog Organizational Culture Workforce Scheduling

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Acacia HR Solutions

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Regardless of how well we enjoy our job, all of us have experienced burnout. Whether it be because we are overworked and under appreciated or because we are bored and under stimulated, the effects of burnout can be detrimental to our job performance and career longevity. In small businesses where employees are wearing more hats. Human Resources

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NGA Human Resources

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Today is World Mental Health Day. Today might not be a good day for you, or for a colleague. Mental health problems are all too common in the workplace and it is the leading cause of sickness absence. In the UK alone, a staggering 70 million work days are lost each year due to mental health problems, costing employers approximately £2.4 billion per year. Think of the global impact of this.

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Dice

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If your job search has turned into a living nightmare, you’re not alone. Untold numbers of tech pros can tell stories about how hard they planned and prepared for a job hunt, only to run into a truly terrifying hiring manager or downright weird set of hiring requirements. Lesson: Freezing up under pressure isn’t unusual (even if the above example is a bit extreme). Vampire Encounters.

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Paychex

OCTOBER 10, 2016

They worked for you before and now they want to come back. Does it make sense to hire a "boomerang" employee? Weigh the pros and cons and keep these additional tips in mind

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Workforce Software

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here are 5 of the worst dismissive statements that can be used at work and a few emotionally intelligent alternatives that can help you be a better manager. Blog Organizational Culture Workforce Management

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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

WalkMe Change

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While many might think that communication is something that goes unsaid, it is actually one of the most difficult processes to learn and integrate in the workplace. Communication can certainly lead to optimization, employee satisfaction, and success for a company. Surely no company wants a game of telephone gone wrong. The 4 stages include Clarity, Commitment, Capability and Sustainability.

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NGA Human Resources

OCTOBER 11, 2016

  I was recently asked to write a piece for the Global Payroll Association on the impact the US overtime ruling will have when it comes into practice on 1 December 2016 – in less than two months.  In May this year, the US Department of Labor mandated that overtime pay protections would automatically be extended to cover more than four million salaried workers as of 1 December 2016.

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Dice

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Open-plan offices are certainly the rage these days among corporations, but how do developers and other tech pros feel about them? Not good, depending on whom you ask. Cal Newport, a computer-science professor, recounts in a new blog posting how Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow, claimed at the GeekWire Summit that developers don’t want to work at Facebook because of its massive open-plan design.

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The Tim Sackett Project

OCTOBER 12, 2016

A crazy thing happens almost every day in professional sports, and it’s the one thing that separates great teams from the pack. Talent selection will make or break a team’s success and in professional sports, it’s about getting the right talent for the right price. The problem with most professional sports team, regardless of the sport, is they continually try to improve their roster incrementally. Great Pitcher A is better than Pitcher B, but did Pitcher A truly solve the issue you have? That’s the real issue! ” Wonderful, now you only slightly suck less at sales!

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Needed: A shift from traditional performance management systems (organized as an annual review process) to newer performance development systems (organized around real-time dynamics). Download part one in a series to gain insight into why this shift must happen and why it needs to happening now

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