October, 2013

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Protecting your reputation in the information age

Achievers

In the digital age, your reputation is everything. In seconds, you can go from nobody to hero—or villain. Consider the restaurant employee who recently faced racial discrimination from a customer at work. She chose to share the customer’s offensive comment—left on the receipt in lieu of a tip—on her Facebook page, and irrevocably changed three people’s reputations: hers, the customer’s, and her employer’s.

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Is Your Resume Vanilla?

Talent Culture

'Does your resume look like everyone else’s? Are you using the same tired format you’ve been using since you graduated from college 20 years ago? View my quick, one minute resume video for some tips for turning a plain, boring, unmemorable resume into a compelling self marketing tool. .

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How Being a Good Guy Does Your Company a Lot of Good

Insperity

Whether you call it philanthropy, charity or corporate social responsibility, the desire to help others has grown, even under the uncertainty of a recovering economy. In fact, according to a report from Reuters , individual giving grew nearly 4 percent in 2012 while corporate giving increased at three times that rate. In addition, the Motley Fool has said that more than 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies now produce a Corporate Social Responsibility report along with their annual reports.

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The “How To” Era Has Arrived

Achievers

Guest post by: Jeff Waldman. Let’s take a trip back in time to the medieval days. The date was December 16, 2011. Yes, that was the medieval period in HR. Fear not, a lot has happened since then and here is the story. I had some experiences, which turned into several observations, which evolved into ideas, which morphed into a concept, and then emerged into a launched initiative.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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[Award] There’s still time to get recognized as best-in-class!

Achievers

Here’s the best decision you’ll make all week (at least we think so). It’s your last chance to get recognized as one of the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces™! Your outstanding achievements in driving employee engagement have not gone unnoticed this year. You have a competitive workplace and everyone should know about it. There’s still time, applications are due Friday, November 8.

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Ask Achievers: Best practices for inspiring your employees to stay longer

Achievers

This week, Cheryl Kerrigan shares her insights for decreasing a troubling rate of voluntary turnover in today’s tough talent market. Cheryl is the Director of Employee Success for A chievers, where she oversees the brand’s strategic HR initiatives that focus on employee engagement and performance management, including recruiting, retaining, and inspiring A -Players.

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[Webinar] Engage your multi-generational workforce and inspire a new wave of business success

Achievers

Workforces at top-tier companies are becoming younger, more social, and less employer-loyal by the day. For these organizations, achieving business goals is about more than just employee tenure and traditional Years-of-Service awards. In order to succeed in today’s competitive talent market, best-in-class organizations are utilizing technologies that recognize their employees’ valuable contributions, encourage them to work harder and smarter, and best of all, make them happier at work.

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Legendary companies have one thing in common: they’re winners

Achievers

Workplace woes are plaguing HR executives. Turnover is high, employees are disengaged, and the pressure to remain agile and drive explosive business revenue won’t subside anytime soon. What are you going to do? It may be no surprise that perception goes a long way—especially with your future candidates. To recruit the best and brightest talent, your employer brand must be top notch.

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[SlideShare] The #FutureOf Work

Achievers

The workplace is changing. Once upon a time, successful businesses all looked about the same: they had land, capital, and raw materials, and virtually everyone worked out of the same (probably large, brick) office. But these days, your employees can be just about anywhere, and what you have is a lot less important than what you know. Welcome to the future of work!

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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Award deadline extended! Don’t let your hard work go unnoticed

Achievers

Will you be one of the 50? Celebrating success in the workplace is the key to sustained engagement and keeping your employees happy. What better way to celebrate your awesome workplace than by winning awards to prove you’re the best? Your outstanding achievements in driving employee engagement have not gone unnoticed this year. You have a competitive workplace and everyone should know about it.

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Ask Achievers: Best practices for creating engagement surveys that yield positive results

Achievers

In this week’s Ask A chievers, Jewel Celestine shares best practices for creating impactful engagement surveys and inspiring employee participation. Jewel is the Employee Success Business Partner at A chievers, where she develops and implements strategic HR initiatives pertaining to employee engagement and performance management. Dear A chievers, We are always trying to improve employee engagement at our company.

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Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals the impact of employee engagement on performance

Achievers

While most senior leaders recognize the need for employee engagement, few are sure exactly how to accomplish it. What systems should they put in place? How will they measure the program’s effectiveness? What best practices should they follow? Fortunately, we’ve got the answers. The impact of employee engagement on performance is a new study from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and A chievers, which includes survey data from more than 550 executives, in-depth interviews with 12 best-pra

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Thank you for making ACE 2013 our most successful event yet!

Achievers

A CE 2013 is barely over and we’re already on to the next adventure (come see us at #HRTechConf if you’re here), but we wanted to take a moment to share some of the wonderful experiences we had. Again this year, the A chievers Customer Experience brought together our valued customers, industry analysts, and thought leaders to share the future of Employee Success™ and insights on how to recruit, retain and inspire the great people that drive our organizations’ success.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Inspiring Employee Success: ACE 2013 Day 1

Achievers

A chievers Customer Experience 2013 kicked off yesterday with inspiring stories and insight of engagement, innovation, and success! The A chievers team welcomed nearly 500 smiling faces to our fourth annual event, making A CE 2013 the largest conference focused on employee engagement in North America. The opening keynote from A chievers Founder Razor Suleman, CEO Pat Quirk, Chairman Craig Conway, and incredible guests Nora Costa of CVS, Hollie Delaney from Zappos.com, Vicky Stewart of Samsung, a

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Ask Achievers: How can I capture employees’ bright ideas?

Achievers

In this week’s Ask A chievers, Dwayne Walker, CPA, CA, shares best practices for encouraging employee-inspired organizational improvements. Dwayne is the VP of finance at A chievers and loves the thrill, excitement, and dedication required to take a dynamic, growing company to the next level. Dear A chievers, Our team is full of talented individuals with stellar ideas for improving the business, but we haven’t been able to gather them in any organized way.

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Executive Compensation: Are You Being Paid Competitively?

Talent Culture

'The Association of Executive Search Consultants and Blue Steps recently conducted a compensation survey of 778 of their executive members worldwide, including 53 percent from the Americas, 35 percent from EMEA and 12 percent from Asia Pacific. Some of the interesting findings include: 26.5 percent of director-level and above executives report earning an annual base salary between $151K and $200K USD. 2.4 percent reported earning an annual base salary above $500K USD. 44 percent reported an inc

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How to Delegate Without Breaking a Sweat

Insperity

“I do all the work around here, and let me tell you – business is booming!”. Said no business owner ever. Coming to terms with delegating responsibilities to employees is an inevitable stepping stone for entrepreneurs with growing, successful businesses. That’s because the pains of not delegating will push you to start handing over responsibilities (or risk handing over the 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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Cultural Fit Vs. Skills: How to Break a Hiring Tie

Insperity

We could spend a lot of time bouncing between arguments that say cultural fit is the be-all-end-all in hiring and those that say skills should trump. But the truth is – both cultural fit and skills are vitally important for building a solid workforce. Just think – if all of your employees lacked the skills they needed in their roles, not only would the work go undone, but there would be no one else to steer the ship.