Blogs / 2012 / October

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2012 / October

Hundreds of new features added to flagship platform help clients offer a great benefits experience NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (PRWEB) September 18, 2012 Secova will be participating in this year's HR Technology Conference & Exposition being hel... More...

Wonderlic, Inc. is in the midst of developing and validating an assessment used to evaluate the effectiveness of leaders/managers. We will be evaluating the effectiveness of leaders by examining their ability to engage employees, peers, and cl... More...

September 27, 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow-Up on NYSE and Nasdaq Proposed Rules on the Independence of Compensation Committee Advisers As I noted yesterday, both the NYSE and ... More...

The prepaid legal plans provider also scored 31.2% higher than the next- leading competitor Cleveland, OH – Sept. 11, 2012 – Hyatt Legal Plans, a MetLife company, has just released the results of its annual national attorney network survey. Pa... More...

President Obama's declaration today (October 1, 2012) of October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month reminds business that U.S. businesses and their leaders need to tighten their disability discrimination risk management and compliance ... More...

There are three things that an employer should never “ force ” an employee to do - 1. “Work at heights“ 2. “Enter confined spaces” 3. “Render first aid” For a further discussion on this subject see - http://bit.... More...

Most of us think that our next job will be better than the one we have right now. As this infographic shows, we've become a workforce comfortable with, and intent on, constant movement. Internal career development faces a serious PR problem—but is... More...

What’s Your Bunny-Arm? (Or, Why Hand-Writing Analysis is Not A Good Screening Tool) In the amusement park world of hiring, who gets to go on your wild hiring ride? Screening is the bunny-arm of the hiring process, the first step in deciding ... More...

Recognize This! – We need to know that what we do every day is making a valuable difference. It seems I’ve unintentionally created a new series of posts on the Rules of Employee Engagement. The first post in the series appeared last Friday . A ... More...

With the huge influx of social media outlets these days, connecting with others online is fast and easy… but how does this apply to your organization? Maybe you have a Facebook page or you Tweet regularly to connect with your customers, but are y... More...

Kansas City, Kan.— According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Americans filled more than 3.7 billion prescriptions in 2010. Because the rate at which individuals developing chronic health conditions continues to increase, the expected decline in drug... More...

I had the opportunity to visit DreamForce , the user conference for Salesforce.com in San Francisco and wow was I impressed. 70,000 users in attendance it was crazy. Great keynotes such as Richard Branson , Colin Powell and Tony Robbins were bl... More...

Maybe I've talked about this before. It was probably elsehwere. A candidate, let's call them "Alex", is completing the application and the address used in the Residence Address section is actually a business address. The phone number is a me... More...

One of the hottest sayings in technological innovation these days is dedicated cloud hosting, and you might be puzzled by the use of this term; you might be thinking and wondering what this is all about. Dedicated cloud, this not a normal or standar... More...

Intern tips 1. Do your research of the company/organization : Be sure to know everything you could possibly know about the company before stepping foot in the door. Impress whoever decided to take you on as an intern that you have done your researc... More...

The story of how Gainesville became home to SumTotal , a corporation originally based in Silicon Valley, might not be as familiar to some. But the burgeoning global leader in human resource software now employs 200 locally, with the balance of its w... More...

Recognize This! – Direction, training, and feedback are critical to increased engagement. Thanks to a great article in HRZone.co.uk by Leslie Allen , I came across these interesting results of a recent CIPD study in the UK. (The Chartered Insti... More...

The Conference Board of Canada’s HR Summit had a day and a half of interesting speakers at the Old Mill in Toronto. I will not attempt to summarize of 12 hours into 1200 words; rather I’ll share some of the points that really struck me. Engagement... More...

Awards mark second time in 10 months that the group legal website has received industry recognition September 17, 2012 – Hyatt Legal Plans’ website, www.legalplans.com , has received two awards in the 2012 WebAward Competition: the B2B Standard of... More...

One of themost important HR issues for small businesses today is managing health carecosts. While alternative insurance models have long been available tocompanies, the popular self-funded model historically appealed to largercompanies alone. Now, w... More...

After nearly three years of little to no job growth, a potentially sustainablejob recovery seems to be close at hand. However, the unemployment rate is stillteetering at historically higher levels, and with approximately 3.7 millionjobs available fo... More...

As a smallbusiness owner, you know that a benefits package can boost your ability toattract and retain talented employees, as well as increase productivity andlower costs associated with employees being out of work because of sickness orinjury. &nb... More...

New e-Book available now. Today, the entire world has become an employment melting pot. Borders seem to dissolve as organizations seek out talented individuals to drive innovation and efficiency at a scale and speed never before seen. Y... More...

A renewed focus on awareness and prevention will be apriority in 2012, especially with regards to employee wellness. The importanceof employee wellness programs is growing, with some experts predicting that theU.S. health care system will successfull... More...

In recent weeks, most of the immediate universe seemed to be focused on iPhone® 5 mania. Like some combination Superbowl and holy pilgrimage, I watched with a bit of disbelief while once again hordes of people camped out behind snaking steel barricad... More...

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Secova Showcases Upgrades to Benefits Administration Platform at HR Tech

QUESTION: How do you measure effective leadership? Why are leaders effective? Can you identify your most effective leaders? Who in your organization should be considered for the next leadership role?

Melbinger's Compensation Blog Update: Follow-Up on NYSE and Nasdaq Proposed Rules on the Independence of Compensation Committee Advisers

Hyatt Legal Plans Receives a 97% Positive Rating in Annual National Attorney Network Survey

Brace For New Disability Discrimination Claims In Response To October, 2012 Disability Awareness Month Celebrations

3 Things You Should NOT Force Employees To Do

Keeping up with the aspirational employee

What’s Your Bunny-Arm? (Or, Why Hand-Writing Analysis is Not A Good Screening Tool)

Rules of Engagement: Communication and Line of Sight

Included, Informed and Encouraged: Connecting with Your People

Hospitality Employers Scramble to Find Relief on Prescription Costs

Dreamforce and Salesforce.com enter the HCM space in a big way

Suspicious Information

What People Don’t Know About A Dedicated Cloud Hosting?

Intern Tips

Sum of Success Lies in Gainesville

Employees Map the Path They Need to Be Engaged

Highlights from Conference Board HR Summit 2012

Hyatt Legal Plans’ Website Receives Two Awards in International Competition

More Small Businesses Turning to Self-Funding, Voluntary Benefits Help Lower Risk

WHY DO WORKERS LEAVE? Insight into who decides to quit and the reasons why

9 Benefits Enrollment Tips for Small Businesses

5 GLOBAL TRENDS IN RECRUITMENT OUTSOURCING

THE WELLNESS MOVEMENT: Examining the role of wellness programs and their impact on America’s workforce.

iPhone 5, Milking Goats and Other Brand Opportunities: Taking your recruitment brand marketing for a piggyback ride.