Note: This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking around the predictive value of a college degree. Seeing college students do dumb things during the pandemic should make employers/parents question student decision-making? And the value of their degrees! Think about it, the same students that recklessly congregate at gatherings …
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The Next Big Diversity Solution – Hire Globally Into Remote Work Jobs
Alert: the common corporate excuse for low diversity (the supply) dissolves if you offer “work from anywhere jobs” and fill them globally. Obviously, the workforce of the entire world is diverse. So, you should consider taking advantage of that fact with “the next big diversity solution.” Sourcing
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Are you flooded with unqualified applicants that have no chance of being hired? Proactively discourage them and avoid wasted recruiter time and legal risks. Due to record high unemployment levels during this unprecedented downturn, most organizations are being bombarded with applications. Unfortunately, many of these applicants have no chance of …
Read More »A Perfect Storm Of Distractions Will Soon Reduce Employee Productivity
The pandemic has been distracting employees for months. But soon worrying about kids at school and possible evictions or layoffs will dramatically cut productivity even further. Can you even imagine during the first weeks of physically sending their kids back to school? The number of times each day when every …
Read More »Quoted by Breezy.HR – Inclusion in the Workplace: 10 Simple Rules Straight from the Pros
Diverse approaches and ideas are encouraged and celebrated because they help us expand the number of available options covering the ways that we can act.
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After a sports team beats yours, you try to hire their highest impact player away. Corporations can also prevent losing future competitions using a “hire those that beat you” recruiting program. Which is a program that targets directly hiring at least one key employee away from a competitor’s team that …
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New-hire identity fraud is now more likely because of the shift to 100% remote hiring. Unfortunately, that could mean that the recently hired employee that you remotely interviewed and that you’ll now see only on a Zoom screen is really someone else.
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Every HR function strives “to be strategic.” To actually qualify, I’ve found that all HR leaders need to be able to answer these 6 qualifying “Questions From Hell,” with the same consistent answers. Also, realize that simply having a goal of being strategic or stating that your function is strategic …
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The professor of management at San Francisco State University recommends what he calls “stay” interviews, in which managers periodically sit down with top-performing employees and ask key questions to suss out the fundamental reasons why they like their jobs.
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Corporate diversity has become a top business imperative. Like any accountable business leader with a seat at the table, an HR leader that hasn’t produced diversity results should “fall on their sword” and resign.
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