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Skill-building strategies: How to grow professionally

Business Management Daily

Whether interested in going on the job market, advancing at a current company, or simply growing as a professional, savvy workers realize the importance of continuously expanding their skillset. In today’s ever-changing workplaces, commitment to lifelong learning shows a willingness to evolve with the times and stay relevant. Building skills, however, should not be a random effort to pile more onto a resume.

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June 2021 BLS Report — The Hiring Crisis is Here

Hireology

The June Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report had some promising details, like 850,000 jobs added to the economy — the biggest gain we’ve seen in the last ten months — and a quarter of the new jobs added were in restaurants and bars, a promising sign of continued economic resurgence. . However, these positive revelations were balanced with a dose of troubling facts — like employers around the country, especially restaurant owners, have seen a huge hit to retention , and with high turnover rate

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Organic Instagram Growth: Strategies to Build And Make Your Brand Rock

Take It Personel-ly

Instagram is one of the top social platforms targeted by marketers and brands given that it has 1.974 billion users across the world. That is a growth of about 23 percent since 2020 showing the platform has reaped benefits related to coronavirus lockdowns. Compared to Facebook, Instagram generates 4x more interaction. The platform makes for […].

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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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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Why You Need to Actively Relax and How to Do It

Take It Personel-ly

Why We Need a Better Approach to Relaxation When is a weekend not a weekend? When it feels like the workweek never stopped. The modern workweek’s accumulated stress can be summed up with the concept of “burnout.” Burnout takes many forms – exhaustion, pessimism, feeling hopeless, and even chronic physical pain. And burnout is a […].

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Female Labor Rights in the Philippines

Global People Strategist

Having closed nearly 79% of its gender gap, the Philippines is one of the more gender-equal countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The gender gap is measured on the basis of workplace participation, economic leadership, education, work benefits, and workplace recognition. Female labor rights in the Philippines ensure that equal opportunities are given to both men and women employees in the workplace.

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Workers Are Quitting In Record Numbers

Abel HR

In June, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), published a round-up of news coverage suggesting that employees are jumping ship — across a variety of industries and at a multitude of levels. The New York Times , for example, reports that nearly 4 million people quit their jobs in April, making the nation’s quit rate 2.7 percent, a level not observed since 2000.

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Expert Tips for Financially Savvy Women

Money Talk

I recently watched the new documentary film, $avvy , that describes a multitude of financial challenges faced by women. The film also repeatedly emphasizes how critical it is for women to understand and take charge of their personal finances. A partner/spouse is not a financial plan and women should never abdicate financial control. $avvy combines case study profiles of a diverse group of women with different financial “issues” (e.g., student loans and widowhood) and successes (e.g., debt repaym

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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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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Group Disability Insurance: Just How Important Is it? (Hint: Very)

CorpStrat

Getting disabled. It’s easy to think, “that’s never going to happen to me” or “stuff like that only happens to other people”. We get it, nobody thinks they’re going to be the victims of a disability. Did you know that 1 in 7 Americans can expect to be disabled for 5 years or more? You heard us right, 1 in 7. Most people dismiss the idea of becoming disabled without giving it a second thought.

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8 Ways To Celebrate Women's Equality Day

Vantage Circle

It's not easy to be a woman nowadays. We may have come a long way from repressing women's rights, but we are still a patriarchal society in general. It makes the occasion of celebrating Women's Equality Day on August 26 more vital than ever. Today we get to see women representatives in the military, in space, and as CEOs of Fortune companies. But they had to undergo many struggles to achieve equal rights.

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