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How to Improve the Speed of Your Hiring Process

HR Digest

The current candidate-driven market is affecting how hiring managers must work to access top quality talents. Job openings continue to outnumber the qualified talents available as the unemployment rate hit its lowest point. However, there has never been a better time to find the right candidate easily. But will giving in more time be beneficial? Based on the recent workable data, hire rates is at 51 days for IT roles and 60 days for engineering roles.

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Time for a payroll health check?

Ascender

Download our free guide to a Payroll Health Check. All too often, companies neglect conducting a payroll health check, especially when employees are getting paid on time and the business is operating as usual. This has led to numerous companies being caught out and penalised for not properly accounting for payroll taxes withheld or underpaying employees.

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Essential Steps to Handle Negative Reviews

Take It Personel-ly

As much as companies love word of mouth marketing, and they do what they can to fuel it, they also fear it. The truth is, businesses don’t try to get word of mouth, they want GOOD word of mouth. And that little word makes all the difference. No one likes negative reviews. Sadly, it’s […].

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Hireology Employee Spotlight: James Cahill

Hireology

This post is part of our Hireology employee spotlight series. Stay tuned to learn more about a day in the life as a Hireologist! Name: J ames Cahill. Team: Sales, SMB. Role: Account Executive. James has been with Hireology since February 2017. Read on to learn more about James and his impact on our SMB Sales Team. James, can you tell us a bit about what you’re working on?

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Top 5 Employee Development Suggestions

HR Digest

The growth of every organization is reflected by the individual and cooperate growth of their employee. Hence, it becomes a major concern for every organization to ensure their employee’s growth and development. In trying to achieve that, there are lots of employee development ideas that can be used. Some can actually constitute a high budget for the organization while there are still some employee development activities that are certainly low-cost programs.

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How Sponsoring An Event Can Boost Company Morale

Take It Personel-ly

Your employees perform many duties that help your business function. They’re dedicated to the success of your daily operations by performing their assigned tasks. The success of your business depends on them showing up every day, being able to work with other employees, and knowing their assigned job duties. Mundane daily tasks can become routine […].

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Case Study: Fox Motors Hires 1,400 Employees Through Partnership with Hireology

Hireology

For each day a dealership has an open role, an average of $1,000 in gross profit is lost. And dealerships are facing more challenges than ever before when it comes to hiring, due to a record-low unemployment rate, few job seekers interested in retail automotive careers and baby boomer employees retiring at a rapid rate. In today’s competitive, applicant-driven economy, Fox Motors understands the importance of prioritizing its people strategy and creating a top-notch candidate experience.

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Simple Ways Leaders Can Unlock Corporate Innovations

HR Digest

Innovation is the only key to unlock development. Its abstraction is about the improvement or amelioration of any process. When introduced into a system, it does not in any way reduce the system; corporate innovations increase the chances of a breakthrough. In a simple term, people innovate for the purpose of improving lives or systems. Despite how congenial innovation sounds, it doesn’t come by chance.

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Why People Value Culture More Than Compensation Now

15Five

Culture is a marathon, not a sprint. But in recent years, a trend has developed around treating culture as a commodity — one that can be purchased and distributed. Like a well-stocked mini kitchen and weekly happy hours. In many ways, it makes sense to the C-Suite. Competition for top talent has become increasingly fierce, and cool perks and rewards , high salaries, and unlimited PTO seem a simple way to win people over.

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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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How to Strengthen the Employee Benefits Experience to Differentiate Your Company in a Competitive Labor Market [Part 3]

WEX Inc.

We've reached the halfway point of our four-part series in which we break down the top ways HR teams can strengthen the benefits experience to differentiate their business in today's competitive labor market. Part Three is by far our favorite topic to provide counsel on - how to take advantage of modern benefits administration software to deliver a better benefits experience for your employees.

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Dealing With Digital Marketing As A Small Business: A Primer

Take It Personel-ly

It can often seem that as a small business you don’t have the resources to promote your business as the multinational corporations do. Of course, their marketing budgets will always be bigger, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t use similar approaches to digital marketing to get the job done. In fact, the four points […].

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Candidate Sourcing Strategies of Top Recruiters

HR Digest

Candidate sourcing strategies must be comprehensive enough before they can provide recruiters with an excellent pool of qualified candidates. But in many cases, recruiters miss out on some groups of top candidates because they settled for the overcrowded and muddy strategies for candidate sourcing. There is a growing competition in the hiring landscape and that makes it crucial for organizations to continually review their sourcing techniques and hiring strategy regardless of how efficient it wa

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Webinar Recap: Getting Started With Your Best-Self Review

15Five

What are you good at? I mean really good at? Oddly enough, that’s not usually the focus of most employee reviews. Traditionally, these reviews focus on two things: 1) what you’ve done in the past and 2) where you need to improve. Maybe that is why traditional annual employee reviews are not effective. Managers, employees, and HR all agree : the typical formal appraisal process doesn’t work for multiple reasons: Feedback can be limited, inaccurate, or outdated.

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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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One year later, what employers can do to address #MeToo

Business Management Daily

#MeToo and concern over sexual harassment in the workplace continues to be a hot topic. To protect your organization, consider taking these actions. The post One year later, what employers can do to address #MeToo appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Here’s What Clients Hate About You

Take It Personel-ly

The relationship with your clients is at the heart of your business growth and success. In fact, you live in an area where the constant desire for personalisation and tailored solutions has made it impossible to ignore what your clients want. Besides, online reviews platforms such as Google Maps for businesses with a physical location, […].

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Best Talent Management Strategies To Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

Every organization wants to maximize the potential of her employees in the best possible way. And the most effective approach is the use of proven talent management strategies. Without a proper talent management approach, employees will lack proper engagement and development potentials which eventually hurt the company they are employed. Talent management involves candidate sourcing, recruitment, employee engagement and retention strategies deployed to achieve a sustainable and utmost productivi

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5 benefits of a PEO for businesses with 50-plus employees

Insperity

PEOs may not be a fit for every business under the sun. But, for growing businesses, they can provide welcome solutions to the new, more complex challenges that come with growth. Employers with 50 or more full-time employees generally find themselves subject to regulations they likely didn’t have to deal with before they hit that milestone. There are additional requirements to comply with, such as those related to health care reform, once you cross that threshold.

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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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Office Christmas party altercations: who’s responsible?

cipHR

A recent Court of Appeal case is a timely reminder of employers’ liabilities at work-related events. With Christmas not far around the corner, and office Christmas parties on the horizon, a recent Court of Appeal case ( Bellman v Northampton Recruitment Ltd ) serves as an important reminder that an employer may be vicariously liable for its employee’s actions during a party – even if the party takes place outside of company time.

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Study: Social Media Use Tied To Depression And Loneliness

Wellable

It’s been a little more than a month since World Mental Health Day (October 10). In the spirit of fulfilling the goal of the day, Wellable wrote a four-part series to increases awareness on mental health in the workplace. A new study on the connection between social media and depression would have been a nice addition to those blog posts, but since it was not able to be included, a new post is necessary.

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Accommodating employee disability: Advice for employers from recent court cases

Business Management Daily

Employers must reasonably accommodate disabled workers so they can perform the essential functions of their jobs. But at what point does absenteeism make it impossible for the worker to perform the job? The post Accommodating employee disability: Advice for employers from recent court cases appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Something Personal for Veteran’s Day

UpstartHR

Note from Ben: my wonderful wife, Melanie, recently wrote this as a personal tribute and “thank you” to those veterans closest to our family. She’s taken to doing more writing of late to share personal stories with our kids both now and in the future, and I am always touched by the words she crafts to explain emotions, feelings, and more.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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Should You Use OKRs To Determine Compensation?

15Five

You’ve likely already heard that OKRs should not be tightly coupled with employee evaluation and compensation. The biggest reason for this is that your team will stop “shooting for the moon.” But more accurately, coupling the OKR and performance review can lead to overstated accomplishments, stunted innovation, and sand-bagging of goals. OKR goals work best when they stretch and push your people to become ambitious and self-driven.

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Google, Facebook Drop Forced Arbitration In Harassment Cases

Wellable

Two weeks ago, more than 20,000 Google employees staged a walkout in protest to the how the company chose to pay millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of misconduct while staying silent about the transgressions. In response to the fallout, Google CEO publicly recognized how the company “clearly got some things wrong” and announced that the company would stop forcing employee harassment complaints into arbitration.

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Q&A With Jane: How do I deal with employee theft?

HR Digest

Sometimes, not confronting an employee who is stealing from you sends the wrong message to other employees. It’s a dicey situation, but one that can lead to serious ramifications when not dealt with immediately. So, how to deal with employee theft? Dear Jane, I’m in a bit of a jam. I hired three assistants for my retail store and, over the last six months, I’ve noticed quite a few irregularities in the shop takings report.

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I-9 audits on the rise: What employers can expect from ICE inspectors

Business Management Daily

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ramping up its efforts to ensure everyone who works in the United States is authorized to do so. Audits of employers’ I-9 records are ICE’s primary compliance tool. The post I-9 audits on the rise: What employers can expect from ICE inspectors appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.