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How to Write a Personal Finance Book

Money Talk

Two years ago, I was in the early stages of writing my latest personal finance book, Flipping a Switch , about 35 transitions that people experience in later life. I was in between houses and living alone at the Rutgers University Inn for 13 weeks with plenty of time at night and on weekends for research and writing. Last year, I co-presented an on-demand recorded workshop about book publishing with Axton Betz-Hamilton , author of The Less People Know about Us , at the 2020 AFCPE Symposium.

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3 Types of Employee Referral Campaigns You Can Power Using Hireology

Hireology

Employee referral programs have always been a great source of talent for all types of businesses. By tapping into your existing employees’ networks, you can connect with talent you might not otherwise be able to through traditional channels like job boards. Plus, referrals end up being better performers once hired and they stick around longer, ultimately increasing productivity and reducing churn at your organization.

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Talent and Technology [Episode 1B]: Employee Feedback is Currency

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Welcome to a mini-season of The HR Bartender Show! A huge thanks to everyone for your support. We had a really great response to Season 1 of the show, which was focused on The Future Workplace. So, we decided to put together a few episodes talking about the intersection of talent and technology. To get the conversation started, let’s think back to March 2020.

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Forced career change: how to think creatively about your future

Take It Personel-ly

Unfortunately, in recent times the chance to face what is called a forced career change has increased. Quite often, unexpected events break our routine and jolt us out of our comfort zone. Furthermore, there may be fewer opportunities for those with a specific skill set in the world with changing trends and the fast development of […].

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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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The 360-degree review process and how you should use it

Insperity

Reviews are a critical part of your company’s performance management strategy. For example, traditional performance reviews in which supervisors provide feedback to their direct reports ? those employees formally reporting to the manager conducting the assessment ? can offer invaluable feedback. However, gathering comments from multiple sources at different levels of the organization can also be instructive.

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What is the gig economy and what does it mean for gig workers?

HR Digest

The gig economy is a widely popular term for contractors and freelancers these days. Today’s labor economy is divided into many segments, and one of them is reserved for the gig economy. This economy is characterized by aspects that are not connected to the traditional workforce. Then, we wonder what the gig economy is? It is an economy that is related to independent contractors, contract firm workers, online platform workers, and temporary workers.

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5 Ways to Make Sure Your Business Is Safe and Secure

Take It Personel-ly

Your business is more than your livelihood. It’s a vital part of who you are, and you want to safeguard your time and money. However, owning property, including a business, makes you an attractive target for thieves. They don’t all wear masks and sneak in during the dead of night, either. Here are five ways […].

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Examples of ADA accommodations

Business Management Daily

While most organizations with 15 or more workers know they are subject to the terms of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), confusion sometimes exists regarding accommodation requests. Employers may struggle with how phrases such as “reasonable accommodation” and “undue hardship” apply to the situations they encounter. Fear of botching the accommodation process can even lead to companies shying away from hiring people with disabilities.

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4 Factors Driving the Great Resignation (And What You Can Do to Help)

Best Money Moves

4 factors driving the great resignation (and what you can do to help). With the U.S. in the middle of a mass-employee exit, it’s vital for employers to look at the root causes. . An estimated 1 in 4 employees quit their job in 2021, according to data from analytics firm Visier , with more expected to leave by the end of the year. This is the highest number the Bureau of Labor Statistics has recorded in two decades of data tracking. .

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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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Why is your CV getting rejected – and how to fix it

HR Digest

You may be wondering why your CV gets rejected in times where everyone can get information about drafting the perfect CV example online and offline. There are many sources of information on ‘How to draft the perfect resume’ so if you think about it, CV rejection might not seem like a huge issue, but unfortunately, it is. Many people ask the same question. ‘ Why is my CV rejected?

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The Importance of Strategic Partnerships Between L&D Leaders and Managers

15Five

As Strategic Partnerships Director at LearnUpon, Cathal Small builds successful partnerships that create best-in-class learning solutions for businesses. Beginning his journey in Customer Success, he’s hyper-focused on helping many of the world’s leading organizations develop learning strategies that fuel success. In the past, learning has typically fallen on the shoulders of only a few.

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5 ways to support and manage employees with chronic conditions

Pacific Prime

The lines between employee health and safety quickly became blurred when the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm. Employers had to increase their efforts to care for the health of their workforce by offering hand sanitizer, implementing social distancing measures, and allowing employees to work from home. As offices are starting to reopen, employers.

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How to give positive feedback and lead your team to success

Business Management Daily

When it comes to giving positive feedback, it can require a new way of looking at things. There’s an old adage that says “no news is good news.” But we’ve come to learn that’s not necessarily the case. No news might just mean that the bad news hasn’t come to your attention yet, not that it isn’t brimming beneath the surface. After all, that’s why we get car inspections, go to annual checkups, and have annual performance reviews.

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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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Mastering A Career Change After 50

HR Digest

The Intern , a movie starring Robert De Niro as a 70-year-old intern, may come as a bit of a shocker to many. What’s great about this movie isn’t that De Niro’s character goes back to the first rung on the ladder in search of a sense of purpose. The lessons in the film about talent and ageism are quite real. To put it bluntly, we still live in a world where you’ll face hurdles if you’re looking to start a new career or reboot an old one.

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How to Complete Form 941

BerniePortal

The IRS uses Form 941 to determine how much an organization has withheld from its employees’ wages each quarter. There are specific regulations, requirements, and exceptions when filing this form. Here’s what you need to know about Form 941, including how to correctly fill it out and file it.

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How to ask for a pay rise

cipHR

Research by CIPHR reveals that nearly half (44%) of workers think they’re being paid less than they should be, considering their job role and experience. Yet many haven’t received, or even requested, a salary increase in over a year. Could it be as simple as: if you don’t ask, you don’t get? CIPHR’s HR consultants offer their top tips for asking for, and (hopefully) getting, your next pay rise: Gwenan West.

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Business negotiation strategies to land the perfect deal

Business Management Daily

Business negotiations happen almost every day. Whether it’s a discussion between two potential business partners, an employee and a manager discussing a raise, or a team negotiating a change to a deadline, the same skills and tactics play a role. Whatever you may be negotiating, we’re here to help you make that deal. The art of negotiation comes naturally to others, but for others it takes practice.

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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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Pulse Check: Is The 9-5 Workday Obsolete?

Wellable

When external circumstances force an individual, group, or organization to alter the way they operate, there is often a tendency to reflect on the value of the old way of getting things done. In the case of the pandemic, this period of reflection or re-evaluation has focused most heavily on the necessity of in-person work. Though opinions vary when it comes to the appropriate balance of in-person and remote work going forward, the general consensus is that a five-day in-person workweek is no lon

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3 HR Challenges & How to Overcome Them

Benefit Resource Inc.

The 2020s have been…challenging for HR professionals so far, to say the least. As HR challenges continue to grow, let’s take a step back and rise above them so we can bring some of those Roaring 20s vibes into the 21st Century. 1. High Employee Expectations. U.S. Labor Market Trends indicate that employers, especially those with mostly blue-collar and/or service workers, are struggling to retain employees.

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How Internal Hiring Boosts Employee Retention

BerniePortal

Employers are beginning to see the importance of an internal hiring strategy. It can boost retention rates, aid in the recruitment process, and save you and your organization money. Read on to learn how you can set your organization up for success with a well-formulated internal hiring strategy.

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Which plants are right for your home office?

cipHR

Adding plants to your home office can improve your health and productivity – we look at which plants could be right for your environment. When employees around the world were forced to work remotely due to Covid-19, employers had to make sure workers had the equipment needed to work from home – including laptops, monitors, desks, and chairs. Now, with 40% of UK employers saying they expect more than half their workforce to work regularly from home after the pandemic has ended, as stated in a rec

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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 Employers Continue Screening Workers For Marijuana Use?

Wellable

In recent years, an increasing number of employers have ditched marijuana drug testing. Their decisions have been met with mixed reactions from business leaders and legal scholars. To help employers determine where they stand, this post highlights the main points that have been raised both for and against the discontinuation of marijuana drug testing.

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Comorbidity of Obesity

Florida Workers' Comp

Issues of obesity are receiving attention recently. USA Today noted in September that the Centers for Disease Control recently issued a report concluding that "the number of states with high obesity rates nearly doubled over two years." The Pandemic has been a challenge for many, with impacts professional and personal. The tenor of this article is that "pandemic stress" has fed the growth in our girth.

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How to Increase Sales with Livestream Videos

Take It Personel-ly

Video live streaming is a fantastic way to make money through video marketing. It is a revolutionary tool that can take your marketing strategy to the next level. Video live streaming has helped countless companies make billions of dollars and maybe what your company needs to take things to the next level. Start by Letting […].

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Top employee retention strategies

PeopleKeep

Most businesses, even the smallest ones, have a strategy for hiring employees. Processes for outlining job requirements, interviewing, and the first 90 days are typically set. But once a key employee is on board, how does an employer keep them from jumping ship?

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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.