January, 2014

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Announcing the 2013 Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™ winners!

Achievers

According to Gallup, a large majority (70 percent!) of the American working population is not engaged at work. This is a missed opportunity for employers because engagement is an effective tool to boost bottom-line results through alignment and increased productivity. Most importantly, it builds a competitive employer brand that attracts, retains, and inspires top performers.

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How to Negotiate a $109M Severance Package

Talent Culture

'There’s been a lot of press about Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro getting fired by CEO Marissa Mayer after just one year in the job. Much of the press revolves around his $109M severance package because people are dumbfounded by how anyone could receive so much money for failing. But let’s examine the circumstances under which de Castro accepted the position.

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Professional Recruiters Reveal 16 of the Best Interview Questions to Ask

Insperity

It takes a lot of work to get qualified job candidates in your door for an interview. But, that’s not always your toughest task. Developing interview questions that will give you the answers you need to make the best hiring decision for your business can prove to be much more difficult. But there’s no need to walk into the interview room feeling unprepared, or to walk out feeling unsure about the candidate’s potential at your company.

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Getting Excel into PowerPoint painlessly

Business Management Daily

Is your experience trying to get Excel data into PowerPoint filled with frustration? Microsoft Certified Trainer Melissa Esquibel provides video tips. The post Getting Excel into PowerPoint painlessly appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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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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Four tips to prepare for HRPA 2014

Achievers

HRPA’s 2014 Annual Conference and Trade Show is just around the corner, and will help examine how HR can actively innovate and help differentiate their organizations to create change and success. On January 22 – 24, HR professionals will gather at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to participate in over 100+ sessions and keynotes from Dan Pontefract , Susan Cain and Geoff Colvin.

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Ceridian achieves fast growth with highly engaged employees

Achievers

Ceridian is a leader in human capital management with more than 100,000 clients in over 50 countries. The company’s main focus is becoming a fast growing company with highly engaged employees. Ceridian believes the link between Employee Success™ and business success is defined by engaged employees delivering great results to customers, clients, and key business partners.

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[Webinar] How to shape up your wellness program to drive success

Achievers

Today, more than 75 percent of the North American workforce is mobile, causing work and life to be more intertwined than ever, and as a result, our work environments and our well-being are becoming more inextricably linked. Throughout 2013, Gallup posted the results of year-round surveys revealing “Americans’ mental state, exercise and eating habits, healthcare coverage, physical health, and financial wellbeing.

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Best of 2013—check out the most popular ways to engage, align, and recognize your workforce

Achievers

It was a big year for Employee Success™. In 2013, more employees went mobile than ever before (75 percent of North American workers are!) and became globally dispersed (30 percent of the workforce is remote, and counting) and the workforce moved closer to a Millennial-dominated demographic (coming in 2020). With these major workforce changes, the pressure is on for employers to engage, align, and recognize their A-players.

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“Triumph Over Disengagement” featuring Gartner’s research on the latest insights on social employee recognition programs

Achievers

The latest Achievers Newsletter, “Triumph Over Disengagement: Improve Engagement with Recognition,” featuring Gartner research, provides deep insight into the changing landscape of employee reward and engagement programs. Based on the proliferation of emerging technologies, HR and business leaders have begun to see a migration from traditional reward programs to “social-enabled technologies that support pay-for-performance strategies and align recognition and reward initiatives with company and

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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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New Year’s 7-Day Career Cleanse Program

Talent Culture

'So the new year is here and everyone is trying to stick to their resolutions to eat better, exercise more, save money, etc. But what about your career? Have you given any thought to trimming your bloated, outdated resume or banking some of your new networking contacts to help advance your job prospects in 2014? Here are 7 easy steps you can take right now to get your career on course and ensure you are prepared for future opportunities.

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Top 4 Most In-Demand Skills in Finance, Healthcare, Legal Services & Human Resources

Talent Culture

'The Execu-Search Group, an executive search firm based in Manhattan, recently surveyed 195 of their clients to uncover their hiring plans for 2014 and the in-demand skills they believed would play a part in their decision. Below are the survey findings on their top four in-demand skills across 5 business areas. Accounting & Finance . Technical Accounting.

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Career Solvers Resume Specialty Certifications

Talent Culture

'If you are looking for a resume writer that specializes in your industry or job function, Career Solvers may be the perfect fit. In addition to four resume writing credentials, Career Solvers holds six specialty resume writing credentials in the following areas: Sales & Business Development. Financial Service. Information Technology. Public Relations & Marketing.

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Seeking Unqualified Lazy Slackers

Talent Culture

'Out of every 100 resumes I review, approximately 95 of them start off with a reference to the personal attributes that candidate believes they possess. The logic here is that these descriptive words will verify the person’s abilities and make them a more desirable candidate in the hiring manager’s eyes. I actually believe that using these words makes the candidate far less desirable.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Spur Productivity and Retention With a More Strategic New Employee Onboarding Process

Insperity

Half of all hourly workers leave new jobs in the first four months, and half of senior outside hires fail within 18 months, according to the SHRM Foundation’s report, Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success. When you consider the costs of recruiting and hiring , those figures translate into a lot of money wasted for employers – not to mention the lost time.

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Secure deductions at assisted living facilities

Business Management Daily

Suppose that a family member has to move into an assisted living facility. Although nursing expenses are generally deductible as medical expenses, the lines can get blurred. The post Secure deductions at assisted living facilities appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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The “holacracy”: a new approach to company hierarchy or nonsense?

Achievers

Imagine a company where bosses do not exist. Sound crazy? At online retailer Zappos it’s now part of their competitive strategy to sustain its winning culture as the company grows. According to a recent article featured in the Washington Post , Zappos has implemented an unusual approach called a “holacracy,” which “replaces the traditional corporate chain of command with a series of overlapping, self-governing ‘circles’.

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Adjusted Community Rating and Its Role in Health Care Costs

Insperity

Community rating is a method for pricing insurance that pools policyholders within a geographic area into a single risk pool (a “community”) and charges them the same premium regardless of health, gender or other factors. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that insurers selling small group products use an adjusted community rating methodology that limits the number of factors used to calculate premiums and how much premiums can vary based on these factors.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?