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

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5 Data-Based Reasons to Make Employee Education a Priority

Achievers

If you’re not offering employees education opportunities then you might want to reconsider. Today’s generation of workers have put employee education and development high on their list of the most-desired benefits that a company can offer. Offering educational opportunities has a wide variety of benefits for both employees and companies, and gives a competitive advantage from a recruiting standpoint.

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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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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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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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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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Overworked employees: 6 warning signs to watch for

Insperity

Are you overworking your employees? It’s natural to want your employees to be as productive as possible, and every company will have occasional times that are busier than others. But don’t make the common mistake of wearing out your top talent. To avoid employee burnout , balance your high expectations with solid strategies to prevent employees from becoming overwhelmed.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How To Make Your People Plan Bloody Brilliant

Hppy

The human resource plan is the expression of how the organization intends to acquire and retain the skills and competencies it needs to execute its strategic game plan. The plan should also address how to deal with existing skills and competencies the organization possesses but no longer requires. Also read: How To Align Your People Plan With Business Objectives.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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Webinar Recap: Cultivate A Healthy Company By Focusing On Employee Growth And Development

15Five

Whether you’re a farmer, have a fruit tree or two, or simply enjoy fresh produce, you likely know that cultivating crops requires more than just sticking seeds in the dirt. (Yes, this is going to be a metaphor about employee growth and development.). First, you have to prepare the ground and make sure it’s a fertile environment. Loosen the soil so that the seeds have room to sprout.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

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.