Voluntary Benefits Now Viewed as Essential
A growing number of U.S. employers now view voluntary benefits, once considered perks that were “nice to have,” as integral to their core employee benefits strategy.
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Learning About the Job
On April 26, thousands of your future job candidates learned about career opportunities by participating in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. While it is a once-a-year event, the program can serve as a model for encouraging young people to explore careers.
How Can AI Benefit HR Management?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is popping up frequently in HR-related literature as holding the potential to offer big benefits for many types of organizations and roles, including human resource management. A TLNT article offers four specific applications.
What is Recruitment Fraud? Is Your Company at Risk?
Have you heard of the term “recruitment fraud”?
Do New Hires Have to Have Leadership Qualities?
According to research conducted by Gallup, only 1 in 10 people possess the talent to manage others, and companies fail to choose the right candidate for managerial and leadership roles 82% of the time. This means most organizations still have a long way to go when selecting their leaders and management staff.
Balancing the Free-Speech Rights of Employees and Employers
Everywhere you turn in 2018, people are talking about politics. That includes your workplace. Since President Donald Trump’s election in November 2016, it seems like you can’t escape the constant drumbeat of other people’s political messages. With so much political talk in the air, what can an employer do to ensure that its employees’ speech […]
Robotics and Automation Will Impact Financial Industry Greatly Over Next 5 Years, Says Survey
Worldwide, a majority of respondents (85%) in the 2018 Global Business & Spending Outlook—a survey released by American Express and Institutional Investor Thought Leadership Studio—anticipate substantial or modest economic expansion in their country in 2018 (up from 70% in 2017).
Training Priorities for 2018 Part II: Internal Skill Gaps and Tracking Skill Development
Yesterday’s post looked at the top two priorities identified in LinkedIn’s “2018 Workplace Learning Report” –training for soft skills and global training. In this post, we’ll look at the third and fourth: delivering insights on internal skill gaps and tracking skill development. (And we’ll cover the fifth and sixth tomorrow.) Learning and development (L&D) are increasingly […]
Employees Want These Three Things Most
HR pros are no doubt tired of hearing about the tight job market. But the hard truth is, it is tight. At roughly 4% unemployment, it’s a seller’s market when it comes to labor, and employers are rightly looking to do whatever they can to attract, hire, and retain the top talent—or, in some cases, […]
How to Fix 5 Common Problems with Training Videos
For employees, few terms may elicit a sense of impending boredom than “training video.” For many, the idea of a training video elicits images of outdated and hokey content filmed using terrible “actors.”