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Insights, Observations, Realities on Human Resource Issues
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February 4, 2019 8:06 AM
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When do you need to pay a candidate for an interview?

When do you need to pay a candidate for an interview? | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
"Working interviews" may be common — in food service, trucking, dentistry and elsewhere — but that doesn't make them legal.
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January 28, 2019 9:00 AM
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Temp Workers Are Angry—And HR Needs to Listen

Temp Workers Are Angry—And HR Needs to Listen | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Temporary and contract workers have long felt that they're treated as second-class citizens in most workplaces.
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January 14, 2019 3:21 PM
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Staffing and Scheduling Are Two Different Things

Staffing and Scheduling Are Two Different Things | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Staffing is finding the right people to do the work. Scheduling is making sure the right people show up on time. Technology can help.
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January 7, 2019 9:00 AM
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5 Trends to Transform How We Learn in the Workplace 2019

5 Trends to Transform How We Learn in the Workplace 2019 | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Shaped by technology, new advances and alternative ways of thinking; the way we learn is changing. International teaching providers,
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December 31, 2018 9:00 AM
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Brain Teasers to Find the Right Candidates

Brain Teasers to Find the Right Candidates | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Logic-based interview puzzles are becoming increasingly popular in recruitment processes to help employers find the brightest candidates and gain insight
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December 10, 2018 12:18 PM
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Putting Humanity into HR Compliance: Onboarding Shouldn't Be Like Boarding a Plane

Putting Humanity into HR Compliance: Onboarding Shouldn't Be Like Boarding a Plane | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
New employee onboarding doesn't have to be an anxiety-filled yet mind-numbing parade of rules, regulations and paperwork. Columnist Jathan Janove tells how Oracle welcomes new employees by being engaging and efficient.
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Which is also a reason it should have never been labeled "onboarding" by HR!

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December 10, 2018 9:00 AM
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Your Next Job Interview May Be With a Robot

Your Next Job Interview May Be With a Robot | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
In an ultratight labor market, more employers are rolling out automated, one-sided phone interviews.
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This is not just worrisome, it's frightening.  So many possible implications and many of them scary:  turning off candidates (not good in a right market), too easily rejecting great candidates,  too easily moving poor candidates forward (wow!  Robot-based first impressions), too much focus on "having" not "doing."

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December 4, 2018 4:57 AM
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Job Candidate Disclosing Why They Quit a Job

Job Candidate Disclosing Why They Quit a Job | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
A job candidate asks for the best way to disclose why they quit a job in an interview. Experts share the best way to handle the question.
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November 19, 2018 7:54 AM
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Examining the effects of the "Ban the Box" movement

Examining the effects of the "Ban the Box" movement | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
“Ban the Box” policies have come under fire recently for exacerbating racial discrimination in hiring. New research, though, finds that fair-hiring policies broadly work–when the employers using them check their biases.
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November 5, 2018 12:31 PM
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#GoogleWalkout: How the 5 demands reflect wider employment struggles

#GoogleWalkout: How the 5 demands reflect wider employment struggles | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
While Google may be the target of discontent at the moment, the protestors' list of demands touches upon several important legal and ethical debates that could affect any HR department.
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November 5, 2018 8:57 AM
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10 Reasons Why It’s Hard to Get a Job Today –

10 Reasons Why It’s Hard to Get a Job Today – | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
It's not just you. Despite the unemployment rate being at a 49 year low, a good job is hard to come by even if you're 100% qualified. Elements such as bad interviewers, not having 'the right' college degree, and stagnant wages are just some ways you're not finding the job you deserve. Why? The hiring…
James Schreier's insight:

While the issues identified here are from the job seeker side, the article identifies problems that HR needs to address!

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October 22, 2018 9:00 AM
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Train Them the Way They Want to Learn and You’ll Keep Them

Train Them the Way They Want to Learn and You’ll Keep Them | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Over one-in-three American workers today are millennials, officially making this the largest generation in the U.S. labor force. Millennials also happen to be the most likely to job-hop, with 21% telling Gallup researchers in 2016 that they changed jobs within
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October 10, 2018 6:33 PM
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Amazon’s Wage Hike Comes with Strings

Amazon’s Wage Hike Comes with Strings | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Amazon workers in the U.S.—full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal—will earn at least $15 an hour starting on Nov. 1, 2018. But there's a catch or two, critics are pointing out.
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January 28, 2019 12:23 PM
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NLRB drops Obama-era independent contractor test

NLRB drops Obama-era independent contractor test | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
In a 3-1 ruling Friday, NLRB said the previous test "severely limit[ed] the significance of a worker's entrepreneurial opportunity for economic gain."
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January 21, 2019 9:00 AM
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Dolly Parton on Talent

Dolly Parton on Talent | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
“ Above everything else I've done - I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent. ”
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A key component of performance-based hiring:  the "energy-based" traits outweigh talent.

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January 7, 2019 9:00 AM
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Why Do Personality Tests Fail at Selection?

Why Do Personality Tests Fail at Selection? | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
A newly released book on the history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has made wave for a round of press questioning the use of personality
James Schreier's insight:

Some interesting points -- important to recognize that any tool's power rests in the "hands" of a user -- not in the tool itself -- applies to hammers and personality tests.

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January 7, 2019 9:00 AM
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Watch for these 5 hiring trends in 2019

Watch for these 5 hiring trends in 2019 | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
As we head into a new year, leading recruitment executives predict hiring trends to prepare and plan for whether you are looking for a job or looking to fill one.
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December 18, 2018 8:41 AM
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In 2019, Hashtags Will Be the Unexpected Secret To Hiring Top Talent

In 2019, Hashtags Will Be the Unexpected Secret To Hiring Top Talent | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Why recruiting great candidates in the future will require companies to speak a common hashtag language.
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December 10, 2018 12:17 PM
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Employee Performance Management-Trick or Treat |Synergita

Employee Performance Management-Trick or Treat |Synergita | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it

Find out whether your employee performance review is a trick or treat? Check out the ways to make your performance management a treat to all. https://goo.gl/zWwE9E

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December 10, 2018 9:00 AM
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Lawsuit says GM tolerated nooses, racism at Toledo plant

Lawsuit says GM tolerated nooses, racism at Toledo plant | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
General Motors is sued by several black workers alleging widespread racism in Toledo plant.
James Schreier's insight:

Frightening!  Where was/is "management?"

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November 19, 2018 8:29 AM
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This is why your employees cut corners (and what to do about it)

This is why your employees cut corners (and what to do about it) | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
It’s not necessarily laziness. Employees may have other reasons for ditching processes.
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Very important from multiple perspectives.

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November 12, 2018 9:00 AM
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CliftonStrengths: Why You Need All 34

CliftonStrengths: Why You Need All 34 | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Learn why getting coached on all 34 CliftonStrengths themes is infinitely more transformative than receiving feedback on only your Top 5.
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November 5, 2018 12:19 PM
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Working to keep employees from being poached? Not so fast.

Working to keep employees from being poached? Not so fast. | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
DOJ plans to pursue criminal charges against those who agree not to solicit a competitor's employees, so HR must be extra vigilant, experts said during a recent webinar.
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October 29, 2018 9:00 AM
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A Massive New Study of 38,000 Workers Says This 1 Thing Makes Employees Much Happier (and Probably More Loyal)

A Massive New Study of 38,000 Workers Says This 1 Thing Makes Employees Much Happier (and Probably More Loyal) | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Across the board, people who said they felt like their relationship with their work supervisor was more like that of partners, as opposed to one in which they felt like their supervisor was more of a traditional boss, were likely to report much greater life satisfaction. 
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Very, very important!

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October 15, 2018 9:01 AM
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Amazon to give some workers additional pay bumps to make up for slashed bonuses

Amazon to give some workers additional pay bumps to make up for slashed bonuses | HR - Tracks | Scoop.it
Amazon maintains that all employees "will see an increase in their total compensation as a result of this announcement."
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