HR Bartender

JANUARY 3, 2017

…is give and receive feedback. Regardless of what you think about performance reviews, feedback isn’t going away. In fact, organizations are encouraging more of it. As consumers, we get more opportunities to give feedback about products and services. I was recently at a hotel that sent me a text message after my first night, asking me to rate my stay so far.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

A business isn’t anything without its employees. So in order for your business to be successful in the long term, you have to ensure your employees are consistently performing at their best. How do you do that? By focusing on employee engagement. According to Gallup , “Companies with engaged employees outperform those without by 202 percent.” But how can you move the needle on employee engagement?

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15Five

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like most ways of being, introversion or extroversion ( properly, extraversion) is not absolute. Yet people tend to form an identity around this label, ostracizing the other for being too outgoing in the case of extroverts, or too quiet in the case of introverts. Introversion is also often confused with shyness, but shyness is just a fear of social judgement.

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Insperity

JANUARY 10, 2017

Having time to focus on the vital revenue-generating responsibilities of running your business can seem like a never ending challenge. It’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day administrative tasks that it takes to keep your business running and lose sight of your moneymaking initiatives. With a professional employer organization (PEO), also known as HR outsourcing, you can turn over many of your business’s time-consuming HR tasks to a dedicated team of HR specialists, so that you can concentrate

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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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Take It Personel-ly

JANUARY 26, 2017

If you’ve ever put salt in your coffee instead of sugar, you can understand the awful taste disengaged workers leave in employers’ mouths. When an employee plays video games or yaks it up on personal calls at work, it can feel like an insult to the company and to the hiring personnel who brought them … Continue reading How To Improve Employee Engagement in the Workplace [#Infographic].

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HR Bartender

JANUARY 5, 2017

Enough can’t be said about the importance of company culture. It’s the “thing” that keeps the organization together. Well, let me clarify…if organizations truly believe and embrace their culture, then it’s the thing that brings the organization working together to achieve its goals. There could be companies out there that talk about workplace culture, but don’t live the words.

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Achievers

JANUARY 18, 2017

By: Anna Peters. Content Manager at College Recruiter. For all the complaining about Millennials and their approach to the modern workplace, they are actually responsible for much of the change happening in the modern workforce. joining Their entry into the workforce, was accompanied by a slew of stereotypes, followed recently by a round of myth-busting, with statistics and all, aimed at debunking those stereotypes.

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UpstartHR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Last week I published some new research that frankly surprised me. When we hear about video interviews, assessments, and hiring processes, we expect candidates and employers to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. But it’s not the case. When asked a series of questions, both groups responded similarly, and the priorities for each group matched in terms of ranking, even if not in terms of exact percentages.

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Insperity

JANUARY 12, 2017

These days, when you need to recruit new employees, you’re likely to turn to technology – social media, email campaigns or websites – to make initial contact with potential talent. After all, it’s less time consuming, relatively inexpensive and a lot less nerve racking than striking up a conversation with someone face-to-face. It doesn’t really matter how you make connections, right?

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Take It Personel-ly

JANUARY 6, 2017

It’s a New Year and now is a great time to re-evaluate your priorities, lifestyle and work towards a healthier and better you. In case you don’t know it already, stress can cause catastrophic damage to our minds and bodies. Stress can come from a wide variety of places. Stress on its own is not technically an … Continue reading The Best Stressbuster Might Be A Career Change In 2017.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Improved sales and productivity, reduced turnover and recruitment costs and happy engaged employees all contribute to a compelling case for an investment, of both time and money, in employer branding. However, many business leaders are still not seeing it as a priority. Here are 5 undeniable benefits that can be enjoyed by implementing an employer branding strategy and investing in the most important thing, employees. 1.

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HR Bartender

JANUARY 10, 2017

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. Capella is an accredited online university dedicated to providing an exceptional, professionally-aligned education that puts you in the best position to succeed in your field. They offer bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees as well as certificate programs for human resources and business professionals.

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Achievers

JANUARY 19, 2017

By: Andrew Sykes. Founder & President, Habits at Work. High-performance employers enjoy higher than industry average levels of productivity per employee. Measures of this success include revenue generated per head, return on capital employed, speed to market with new products and customer delight. These measures point to what a business and CEO get by BEING a high-performance employer, but they don’t explain what it takes to BECOME one.

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UpstartHR

JANUARY 23, 2017

Two years ago I wrote an article that has been incredibly popular about how to learn HR for free. Today I’m updating that article here with new information and additional sources, rounding it out at just over 3,000 words–no small task! This is for anyone in HR, not just those starting out their careers, because we can all use some help now and again with sharpening our skills and knowledge across the many subdomains of HR.

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Insperity

JANUARY 24, 2017

Coaching is one of the most powerful tools for career and personal development. It can help you continuously improve as a person and a leader and bring your goals within reach. Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system and brain, is used increasingly in coaching to assist leaders in discovering how their brains work and how they can use this knowledge to achieve their objectives.

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Take It Personel-ly

JANUARY 6, 2017

It’s a New Year and now is a great time to re-evaluate your priorities, lifestyle and work towards a healthier and better you. In case you don’t know it already, stress can cause catastrophic damage to our minds and bodies. Stress can come from a wide variety of places. Stress on its own is not technically an … Continue reading The Best Stressbuster Might Be A Career Change In 2017.

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Ascender

JANUARY 15, 2017

Getting on top of overlooked administrative tasks will put you in a good position for the new year. Here are some things you can start doing now to help make 2017 a success. Where to start. For human capital professionals, a good place to start is to conduct a quick administrative audit to determine which documents are still necessary and relevant. Even if you manage most of your documentation in the cloud, reducing clutter – wherever it is – is always a good thing , so toss out any irrelevant d

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HR Bartender

JANUARY 31, 2017

For the past few years, every HR related trends post included predictive analytics. So, what exactly are predictive analytics? I like to think of it this way: HR metrics tell you what happened in the past. For example, time to fill. Or they’re focused on cost-containment, such as cost per hire. Both of these metrics are valuable, but it’s not all the information we might need to make business decisions.

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Achievers

JANUARY 3, 2017

By: Sara Sayegh-Moccand. Digital Marketing Specialist, SalesWings. The goal of every recruiter is to find a candidate that perfectly fits the open position. In fact, perfectly aligning a candidate with a company is the most rewarding experience a recruiter can have. When you hire the right person your company likely will not incur costs such as time lost in further recruitment efforts or in training somebody that might not be a perfect fit.

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cipHR

JANUARY 31, 2017

Getting the employee experience right within your organisation not only improves retention and future talent attraction but also increases profitability and customer perception. With such compelling advantages every brand should invest in engagement and culture. Here are 6 elements that are essential in order to create a winning employee experience. 1.

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Insperity

JANUARY 17, 2017

The word “leader” in popular culture usually calls to mind a military leader, a monarch or some other person shrouded in myth and legend. Mere mortals need not apply. However, leadership can, and should, be a common occurrence, something that every manager and every individual employee exhibits. It’s time to bust through these common myths and forge a new way of thinking about leadership.

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2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Take It Personel-ly

JANUARY 19, 2017

Recently, Linkedin along with the World Economic Forum put together a list of the jobs that they thought would be most in-demand in 2017. Having these skills, they argued could be the difference between getting a job or not. Whether you are currently employed and looking to build on your existing career, or hunting for … Continue reading Mastering These Skills Could Get You Hired In A Jiffy.

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PeopleStrategy

JANUARY 11, 2017

According to the Sierra-Cedar 2015/2016 HR Systems Surve y , 43% of companies are planning to undertake a major HR system strategy initiative. Technology can be one of the most valuable tools in an HR leader’s arsenal, allowing them to create more organizational value, deliver better service , and offload administrative tasks. However, for companies that don’t have HR technology in place, acquiring and adopting a Human Capital Management (HCM) suite isn’t without challenges.

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HR Bartender

JANUARY 29, 2017

Throughout my career, I’ve heard the lines “Sales is everyone’s job.” and “Recruiting is everyone’s job.” Meaning that, while organizations have sales departments and recruiting teams, there’s an expectation that everyone is working together to make sure the organization brings the maximum amount of revenue and attracts the best talent. Today’s reader note reminds me that everyone has another job.

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Achievers

JANUARY 26, 2017

By: Andrew Sykes. Founder & President, Habits at Work. In our previous blog , we explored how a company’s destiny is intimately linked to the Pivotal and Work Habits that its employees practice. Employers have traditionally been inattentive to the design of employee habits, focusing instead on results produced. While this is a reasonable approach, employers have missed the opportunity to create environments that makes it easy for employees to practice both Pivotal and Work habits, which prov

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