Sat.May 05, 2018 - Fri.May 11, 2018

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Candidate Experience: It Includes Job Interviews

HR Bartender

You guys know that we’re experiencing a candidate-driven job market. This means that the conversations we’ve been having about employment branding, realistic job previews, and the candidate experience are significant to our future recruitment efforts. As much as we might be tempted to label the term “candidate experience” a buzzword, we have to resist the urge.

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4 Ways to Make Pulse Surveys Work for Real Engagement

Achievers

Companies have come a long way in terms of the investments they’re making to ensure they stay innovative, profitable, and protected. They’re also investing in ways to better communicate with their clients and with one another. However, perhaps one of the most largely overlooked, arguably most important, yet simplest areas still lacking in gaining the attention it needs is the most valuable asset every organization has: their people.

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Here’s Why You Should Think Like Google and Encourage Employee Side Projects

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. Google has long encouraged its employees to devote 20 percent of their time to side projects , which is one reason why it remains one of the most innovative companies in the world. For companies that invest in side project initiatives, the outcomes can be incredible: Gmail, Google Maps, Twitter, Slack, and Groupon all started as side projects.

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Seven ways HR can increase employee productivity

cipHR

Low productivity is a persistent problem in the UK, but there are simple measures HR can take to make a big difference. Barely a month goes by without another major report into the UK’s persistent productivity problems. In May 2018, a study by Ricoh and Oxford Economics estimated that the country could achieve a 1.8% increase in GDP – £36.8 billion – through workplace optimisation.

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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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Recruit Better: Create an Online Realistic Job Preview

HR Bartender

“Tell me one of your weaknesses.” is a classic interview question. Of course, no candidate wants to answer with a weakness, so they often come up with a weakness that can also be considered a strength. Like “Oh, I work too much.” Or “I have perfectionist tendencies.”. The same holds true for companies. During the interview process , no organization wants to show off their weaknesses.

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IRS Releases HSA Contribution and Coverage Limits for 2019 [Infographic]

WEX Inc.

This just in: IRS has recently issued Revenue Procedure 2018-30 , which provides the 2019 cost-of-living contribution and coverage adjustments for HSAs, as required under Code Section 223(g). Some items have increased for 2019. To help explain this news update, view our visual infographic!

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Hireology Runner-Up For Driving Sales Most Valuable Insight

Hireology

Hireology is excited to announce that our Sourcing Insight has been named runner-up in the DrivingSales Most Valuable Insight 2018 at DrivingSales Presidents Club, the premiere event for dealership owners and general managers. For the annual DrivingSales Most Valuable Insight Competition, retail automotive industry professionals are tasked with providing an insight, founded on original research, which can provide significant value to dealership executives.

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Bookmark This! Anti Harassment Edition

HR Bartender

This post has been a long time in the works. I think it’s fair to say that #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have changed us – both individually and organizationally. While so much progress has happened in a short period of time, there are still many conversations that need to happen and a lot of action to be taken. At this year’s WorkHuman Conference, pioneered by Globoforce , there was an incredible panel moderated by Wharton professor Adam Grant that included journalist Ronan Farrow, actor Ashley

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6 creative recruitment strategies to find better candidates faster

Insperity

Recruiting big-time talent to small businesses is often a struggle. But, with a few creative recruitment strategies on your side, you can level the playing field and compete for top talent. The best candidates may be more likely to apply to companies whose names they’re already familiar with; however, that shouldn’t discourage you. All you need is a little ingenuity to grab their attention and learn what they’re looking for in a career and office culture.

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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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What’s the Best Cadence For Surveying Employees?

15Five

Nearly 70 percent of U.S. employees are disengaged at work, and business leaders want to know why. But getting to the bottom of engagement issues requires an understanding of employee sentiment that can only happen through a deep-dive into engagement data. We know collecting feedback is the first step … but how often should we do it? Determining the ideal feedback cadence requires an understanding of how your company plans, acts on, and evaluates other mission-critical aspects of the organizatio

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New Resource: 5 Tools to Attract and Hire Quality Fixed Ops Staff

Hireology

Dealerships face many challenges when it comes to attracting quality applicants for service technician roles and other positions in the fixed ops department. Factors contributing to these challenges include fewer millennials seeking careers at dealerships, job seekers not understanding the opportunity service technician careers have to offer and Baby Boomer technicians rapidly retiring.

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Ethics: Taking Credit For Someone Else’s Ideas – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Many of us can relate to today’s reader note about ethics. What do you do when you discover that someone has stolen one of your ideas and made it their own? Can you write a blog post on intellectual integrity and ethics? I recently became aware of a situation where a senior leader in a position of trust overheard and borrowed someone’s idea and passed it off as their own.

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The Healthy Approach For Boosting Your Success In Online Studies

Take It Personel-ly

Nowadays, it seems that the Internet is the most obvious and direct solution to solving and looking up anything and everything. Do you have a difficult customer you don’t know how to handle? Look for suggestions online. Do you need to find a supplier who can deliver quickly? Look online. And finally, do you need to […].

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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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How (not) to Engage Millennials

Hppy

The young prince had grown weary of the jester – his jokes fell flat, his singing was out of tune and his attempts at acrobatics were dismal. “Perhaps you’d be funnier without your head,” admonished the monarch, “I can easily find a replacement for you.”. The same challenge as the jester befalls HR managers – how do we engage millennials?

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2018 HRCI Certification Changes: What You Need to Know

UpstartHR

If you haven’t heard, HRCI recently came out with some major changes to their learning content structure–the biggest I’ve seen in the last ten years. Below I outline what you need to know, how to prepare, and a major announcement from me about what we’re doing to help you prepare. Before I jump into the changes, one of the most common questions I’m getting is whether our certification materials help with this NEW exam.

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CIPHR to host series of expert talks at CIPD HR and Recruitment Software Show 2018

cipHR

13 companies will take to CIPHR’s stage to showcase how technology is solving HR’s most pressing problems. More than a dozen experts will share their expertise with delegates at the CIPD HR and Recruitment Software Show 2018 in a series of free talks hosted CIPHR on stand F10. Held across the show’s two days, on 13-14 June, the 30-minute presentations will showcase how innovative technologies are seeking to solve some of HR’s most pressing problems.

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Helping Employees Get Smarter About Money

Best Money Moves

Your employees need help! When asked to grade their financial literacy on a recent Equifax consumer survey 33% of consumers 18-29 gave themselves a ‘C.’ Ninety percent agreed there was a need for more personal finance education. The results of this survey indicate that your employees lack confidence in their ability to manage their own money. By providing resources employees can utilize to improve their financial know-how you accomplish more than just boosting morale – you improve product

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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?

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5 Challenges to Office Moving and What You Can Do About It

Hppy

Is it time to move already? It seems only yesterday that a group of co-founders sat in this room and officially began the journey to financial freedom. With all those difficulties, smiles and frowns, it is finally time to move. For the most part, it is good news – moving to a new place to accommodate business expansion is what every business startup dreams of.

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Best Employee Benefits in Municipalities

Winston Benefits

Municipalities face special recruiting challenges. As a general rule, government jobs pay less than positions in the private sector. According to research from the Urban Institute & Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, about 41 percent of the revenue generated by local governments in 2014 was the result of taxes — which means that taxpayers carefully scrutinize pay and wage increases.

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The ACA Health Plan Draft Labor Rule Needs Rewrite

Asure Software

The ACA Health Plan Draft Labor Rule Needs Rewrite The administration has been looking for lifeboats for Americans trapped in… The post The ACA Health Plan Draft Labor Rule Needs Rewrite appeared first on Asure Software.

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Can a 60-year-old bridge the generation gap?

Business Management Daily

Q. I just entered my sixties, and I really feel a distance building between myself and the younger generations. Should I feel ridiculous about wanting to look and act younger, just so I feel like I’m more relevant to the staff around me? The post Can a 60-year-old bridge the generation gap? appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.

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6 Ways to Support Continued Learning Among Your Team

Hppy

Getting a job doesn’t mean a person is done learning — in most cases, it means they’ve just begun. While they’ll certainly pick up skills as they take on a new job and different tasks, there’s a lot more that can be learned. That’s where you come in. Also read: Why Microlearning Should Become Part of Your Training Program. As an executive, manager or even as a team member, you can take several steps to promote continued learning in the office.

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National Skilled Nursing Care Week: Celebrating Life’s Stories

AssuredPartners

{"ops":[{"insert":"As an insurance and risk management partner to hundreds of nursing homes across the country, AssuredPartners would like to extend a “Thank You” to our nursing home clients for providing care and services to those in need. In recognition of all that you and your team members do, we join you in celebrating National Skilled Nursing Care Week (NSNCW), formerly known as National Nursing Home Week, May 13-19.

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How to Encourage Healthy Living for Your Employees

SnackNation

How to Encourage Healthy Living for Your Employees. We often start advice articles with an assumption. We assume you like to save time, or that you hate wasting time; we assume you like puppies and you want to manage your money wisely. And in this case, we assume you encourage your employees to be healthy, because to encourage anything to the contrary would be sort of. weird.

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Productivity tips for HR professionals [Video]

PeopleStrategy

We all have days where we feel like nothing is crossed of our to-do list. For those days, try these three tips to jump-start your productivity. First, block out tasks on your schedule. What will take 30 minutes? What will take 2 hours? By segmenting your time, you’ll complete your duties without overburdening yourself. Next, take a really close look at your work-life balance.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.