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Your Employment Brand: Addressing Today’s Recruiting Challenges
Read more: Your Employment Brand: Addressing Today’s Recruiting ChallengesWith the pandemic almost under control and with a gradually recovering economy, many employers see a paradox: lots of job openings posted but not enough job applications in return. In fact, the number of job openings was up 597,000 to 8.1 million from February 2021 to March 2021, according to the US Bureau of Labor…
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Key Steps Organizations Can Take to Address Pay Equity
Read more: Key Steps Organizations Can Take to Address Pay EquityMany employers are familiar with the required annual submission of the EEOC’s EEO-1 filing, which gathers data on employees’ job categories, ethnicity, race and gender. While the EEO-1 is a compliance layer, for a two-year period (2017-2018), the EEOC also required collection of employers’ pay data. The EEOC has ended pay data collection, but the…
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Five Ways to Ramp Up Your Recruiting Strategy
Read more: Five Ways to Ramp Up Your Recruiting StrategyWith the passing of the pandemic’s one-year mark, there is room for optimism with regard to reducing the pandemic’s ongoing impact with widespread vaccinations under way. The same could be said for the US economy, much of which, including company hiring, has been depressed over the last year. Now, leading economists are making some bold…
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Pandemic: Planning for Your Employee Vaccination Policy
Read more: Pandemic: Planning for Your Employee Vaccination PolicyWith COVID-19 vaccines becoming more widely available and with overall lower virus infection rates, many employers are discussing and making plans to have teams soon re-enter their physical office/workplace spaces. Yet employers face a bigger question at the same time: what kind of employee vaccination plan should they put in place? Should employers make vaccination…
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Building Your Workplace Culture: Consider Employee Surveys
Read more: Building Your Workplace Culture: Consider Employee SurveysWith the upending of the workplace over the last year, building and nurturing workplace culture is more important than ever. One key reason for this: a healthy workplace culture – defined broadly as one in which employees feel valued, comfortable and have overt opportunities for growth – can help leadership recruit and retain employees for…
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The impactHR Team: What We’ve Learned This Year
Read more: The impactHR Team: What We’ve Learned This YearWith the Holiday Season upon us, we hope you and your family can take time to unwind and enjoy the days ahead in anticipation of the new year. We also wish to express our sincere gratitude to our clients, partners and friends for our continued collaboration and partnerships. To be sure, with the challenges of…
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Planning for the Year Ahead: Conduct an Audit of Your HR Function
Read more: Planning for the Year Ahead: Conduct an Audit of Your HR FunctionWith the new year looming, there’s still considerable uncertainty with public health and business conditions in the months ahead. With this in mind and the new year looming, now is a good time to take a fresh look at how you manage your organization’s people and HR practices, processes and compliance. An HR audit is…
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Performance Management: Moving Past the Annual Review
Read more: Performance Management: Moving Past the Annual ReviewWith the workplace more than upended in this pandemic era, one traditional HR practice, the annual performance review, may begin to fall further to the wayside. One reason, according to a recent Gallup survey, is that only 20% of employees say their performance is “managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work.”…
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Diversity and Inclusion: Fostering a Tolerant and Productive Workplace
Read more: Diversity and Inclusion: Fostering a Tolerant and Productive WorkplaceWhile the overall effort to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we’ve all been witness to the continued traumas engendered by racism, hatred and discrimination across the country. With the recent incidents and acts of violence against African Americans – including the killings of George Floyd in Minnesota, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and Ahmaud Arbery in…
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5 Ways Employers Can Support the Mental Health of Their Employees
Read more: 5 Ways Employers Can Support the Mental Health of Their EmployeesWith the pandemic and related economic downturn, many Americans, experts report, are experiencing higher than normal levels of stress, anxiety and worry about the future. And these stresses, without doubt, are affecting employers and employees at home and in the workplace. Consider, for example, a mom of two young children who is called to return…