ME! No, I’m only joking. I’d be way higher than 75%! You all know I love data and some of the fun things we can pull out of studies about performance and selection. A 2014 study on world-class athletes found that the top-performing athletes had older siblings in 75% of the participants studied! So, want to hire better performers? Ask this question: …
4 Things You Can Do to Get Candidates to Open Your Emails!
By HRU President Tim Sackett I found some cool data that probably got overlooked a while back from CB Insights. Now, this data is from 2016, but it’s super relevant! CB Insights did some testing with their own email newsletter that went out to 175K+. A very big sample and the reality is they have the exact same goal as we …
5 Traits That Make Your HR Business Partner Great!
By Tim Sackett I use to think the title ‘HR Partner’ was played out and it probably was for a time. There was a point a few years ago when every HR Pro had to change their title from HR Manager, HR Director, etc., to HR Partner. It always made me feel like we were all apart of a bad …
The New Normal for Hiring Hourly Employees!
Not many of us are actually doing a ton of hiring right now. How do I know? There are 25 million people who applied for unemployment! That means there’s probably another 75 million that are currently under-employed or utilized. This means that when we all get back to the ‘new normal’ of working, a bunch of stuff is going to …
From Trendy to the “New Norm” — Remote Work is Here is Stay
Telecommuting, virtual teams, remote roundtables…… what does all this mean and what does it mean for your organization? Exploring remote work can be daunting and the data around this topic is overwhelming. Here are a few things that we’d like to share from our own research. Summary of Telecommuting Trends: Regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed population, has grown by 173% since 2005, 11% faster …
What Is This Hire Supposed To Do?
I’m only talking to leaders today. We tend to fall into this rut. I have a position on my team. A person leaves. We need to fill that position. Before you fill your next position, as yourself this one question: How will this hire bring us closer to reaching our business objective? In fact, you might want to ask that …
Navigating The New 2020 W-4 Employee’s Withholding Certificate
With every new year comes some sort of changes or updates with employee payroll, and 2020 is no exception. On December 5, 2019, the IRS issued the final version of the 2020 Form W-4 Employee’s Withholding Certificate, designed to help employees withhold the correct amount of federal taxes throughout the year. I have taken look into the NEW W-4 form …
DisruptHR Lansing! March 19th – Call for Speakers is Open!
By Tim Sackett Lansing, MI is about to get all Disrupted and Stuff! Everyone already knows I’m a big believer in DisruptHR events. I’ve spoken at many, I’ve been on the team running DisruptHR Detroit from the beginning, and I decided to start DisruptHR Lansing in my own backyard! Our first event, DisruptHR Lansing 1.0 will take place in Downtown Lansing on …
Rap Lyrics That Shaped My HR Leadership Style | Tim Sackett | DisruptHR Talks
A DisruptHR Talk by Tim Sackett, President of HRU Technical Resources, at DisruptHR Grand Rapids via https://www.keyseragency.com/grvideos/?mc_cid=f1c1825025&mc_eid=9e1b3ca8a7
Navigating Paid Leave Laws
By Teresa Carper Navigating the various state Paid Leave Laws can be exhausting! If your company, like HRU, operates in multiple states then you know how difficult and time consuming it can be to stay on top of this ever growing trend. I have two white boards in my office and one of them is solely dedicated to paid leave …