Blogs / 2013 / November

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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 / 2013 / November

Debbie McGrath at HR.com has been intrigued with our work in helping organization improve their quality of hire. Debbie invited me to submit a presentation for the Talent Acquisition Forum – Quality of Hire Track. My submission is Data Miners Gui... More...

Last week, we ventured into the scary territory of worker (mis)classification. (Click here to review). We now know that classifying someone as an independent contractor just so we can avoid paying minimum wage, offering benefits, absorbing administra... More...

Recognize This! – True team structure creates the support system to allow individuals to achieve their very best. There are many amazing things in America, the coast redwood trees in Northern California are but one. I learned something fascinati... More...

The Law of Reverse Effect & Implementing Change The Law of Reverse Effect states “the harder a person consciously attempts to achieve any change to established behavior, the more the subconscious mind automatically resists such attempt.” T... More...

When: 14th November 2013 16:00 UK (BST) 14th November 2013 11:00 New York (EDT) 14th November 2013 14:00 Brazil (BRST) Registration Link: Click here Featured Presenter: Maricleier Rennie, Global Payroll Solutions Manager, CloudPay Topic: Brazil is th... More...

Listen to my monthly radio program with Angela Kokott, host of Calgary Today for our segment, “You are what you eat” to get the goods on healthy eating. Listen to Episode 51 Here: How Buffets Could Actually Make You Slimmer Exploring the “First Foo... More...

A success story about freedom from dieting and obsessing I have always thought of myself as highly health aware when it comes to food. Throughout my teens and twenties, I did the odd diet here and there, but never thought of myself as a dieter. I a... More...

There are many reasons that maintaining employee retention and productivity is a more difficult challenge for a large corporation than a small business. One problem is that the bigger the company, the more diverse the workforce is likely to be, inclu... More...

Product advancements and cloud adoption - as well as explosive expansion in the SMB market and an ever-increasing global footprint - are significant contributors to our growth. http://www.kronos.com/pr/kronos-announces-exceptional-fiscal-2013-financi... More...

Five Threads III: Data for Other Departments As long as an organization is a comfortable tribal size (say, under 150 employees), it’s possible for everyone to know everyone. The distance between the top and the bottom is not great. Job descriptions a... More...

NEW YORK, NY AND ORLANDO, FL (November 6, 2013) - Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added two attorneys to the firm’s nationally-recognized Electronic Discovery (eDiscove... More...

In the spotlight this week, we focus on Atomic Training, an online technology training tool provider that helps businesses, organizations and individuals reduce training costs and increase productivity. I met with Clara Navin, Marketing Specialist, ... More...

Integrity HR understands that exam time is quickly approaching and you are busy. You are trying to study for your HR certification exam while balancing all the other important parts of your life. You need a course that will fit into your study schedu... More...

These days, it seems that the only constant is that things are always changing. A person’s residence is no exception. And of course, COBRA issues can come into view. The scenarios may vary, but the proper course of action is to ask two basic ques... More...

I love to draw. When I was a kid I drew all the time and I drew everything I saw. I took all the art classes I could, starting with Saturday morning instruction from a television cartoonist and later progressing to regular classes at a local art m... More...

By David Sirota and Douglas A. Klein authors of the 2nd edition of The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want Earlier this year, newly appointed Yahoo! CEO Melissa Mayer issued an edict banning e... More...

The Importance of Strengthening Exercises By now, most of us know that prolonged sitting leads to a smorgasbord of diseases, ailments, and repetitive strain and motion injuries. But did you know that people who sit at work all day are also at risk fo... More...

Don’t miss out on this special presentation by Work4′s CEO Stéphane Le Viet during a recent BrightTALK summit on social media recruiting best practices. Watch to find out: •The advantages of adding social media to your recruiting•The best strategie... More...

We received many great, thoughtful reader comments to our last post on the issue of whether weight discrimination should be prohibited or whether it is OK not to hire obese job applicants. All sides of the issue seem to have been raised and advocat... More...

All I want is a job that fits my personal schedule, and where I have numerous opportunities not to show up. So I’ve decided to load up my truck and move my family to San Francisco. On October 9, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee signed the “Family-Friend... More...

San Francisco, CA – Stress at work contributes to poor job performance more than stress at home or financial worries, according to a study by the Integrated Benefits Institute . IBI is the leading workforce health and productivity research and me... More...

With hiring slowing and employers increasingly wary of whether another economic slowdown is in store, employees should be extra cautious to avoid committing any "career killers," according to OI Partners . For the past few years, a spurt in... More...

A number of talent management best practices have been revealed again and again in APQC ’s human capital management research studies. Five of these tried-and-true talent management best practices include: 1. defining talent management broad... More...

Epicor Presents Gold Partner Award to HRMS Solutions Exceptional Performance Earns HRMS Top Honors at Epicor Conference Washington, DC (November 6, 2013) Epicor® Software Corporation , a global leader in business softwa... More...

Complex global organizations are increasingly studying - and to a lesser extent adopting - a talent supply chain management (TSCM) mindset. As its name suggests, TSCM is much like traditional supply chain management: directing a network of suppliers ... More...

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Data Miners Guide to Quality of Hire

Employee or Independent Contractor? How to Tell if Your Workers Are Misclassified

Teamwork Lessons from the California Coastal Redwoods

The Law of Reverse Effect

Live Webcast: An Insight into Brazil’s eSocial Legislation and its Impact on Organizations

How Buffets Could Actually Make You Slimmer

Lose the Rules and Become an Intuitive Eater

The role of generational differences in employee motivation

Kronos Announces Exceptional Fiscal 2013 Financial Performance; Kronos Cloud Propelling Growth

Five Threads III: Data for Other Departments

Littler Strengthens EDiscovery Practice with the Addition of Denise Backhouse and Catherine Losey

Partner Perspective: Q&A with Atomic Training

Last Minute Exam Review Course To Help Boost Your Exam Day Confidence

COBRA Issues Arise When U-Hauls Arrive

Does Creativity Belong in Sales?

Yahoo’s Decision on Teleworkers and the Critics Who Challenged It. Who was right?

Straighten Up, Strengthen Up, Keep it Up

How to Keep Up with Social Media to Super-Charge Your Recruiting [VIDEO]

Is It OK To Refuse To Hire Obese Job Applicants?

San Francisco: The Family-Friendliest Place on Earth

Stress At Work Contributes To Poor Job Performance More Than Personal Or Financial Worries

13 Ways To Hurt Your Career

10 Talent Management Best Practices

Epicor Presents Gold Partner Award to HRMS Solutions

Best-in-class companies use more flexible talent