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Featured Articles
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Membership
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Career Center
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Educational Opportunities
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Featured Articles
Take these four strategies from ClearRock's Knowledge Base into consideration whether or not you're experiencing a layoff - they're helpful tips for any manner of change, and these keys may keep your reputation as a helpful employer intact.
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Join Trish McFarlane, CEO of H3 HR Advisors and author of several blogs on human resources issues including Women of HR, on a podcast from earlier this month. With guests Charles Cagle and Bill Vellante of Infor, these three experts discuss the boom of 'people tech' and how organizational leaders can be the catalysts for what she calls a 'true digital HR transformation'.
Listen to the podcast here, and if you'd like to watch the webinar with slides, you'll want to visit the Infor archives. Reposted from the HR Happy Hour blog page, originally posted October 11. Check out their other podcasts while you're there!
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On October 11, Perkins School for the Blind launched an online course in partnership with Harvard Extension School titled "Introduction to Inclusive Talent Acquisition". This news has taken many by surprise — why is a school for people who are blind setting out to instruct an audience of hiring managers and recruiters? But the connection is strong, because helping students make the transition to adulthood and living independently is a key priority for Perkins.
For many students, leaving Perkins is like jumping off a cliff. One day they are in a welcoming, supportive environment with extensive resources—and the next they are essentially on their own. And it’s particularly difficult when inadvertent barriers have been set up between HR professionals and these qualified candidates eager to connect with them.
With Harvard Extension School’s expertise and support, we set out to create an engaging and actionable online course that equips hiring managers and recruiters with the tools to attract, interview, and onboard candidates with disabilities. This includes PEAT’s own TalentWorks tool, which provides key resources to help hiring managers and recruiters ensure that the technologies that they are using are as accessible as possible to jobseekers with disabilities.
As the Northeast's largest HR community, we can make this transition easier for graduating students of Perkins - and, indeed, these subjects can be applied to any number of diversity hiring initiatives. Sign up for the free online course, and make a difference in your local HR community!
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There’s an unfortunate misconception that corporate healthcare is a dry subject. Is it an easy topic to tackle? Absolutely not. Healthcare, an industry that comprised 17.5% of the national GDP in 20141, is so complex that it brings rise to the "Let’s don’t and say we did" mentality. But boring? No. At least not anymore. There is, in fact, so much creativity in the industry that it’s difficult to know where to begin telling this story: the story of the evolution of modern healthcare. While we do consider ourselves game-changers in corporate health and wellness, we called in an external expert to give you the full, unbiased landscape of creative thinking in this space. 2020 Onsite Optometry sat down with Willis Towers Watson to delve into this subject. Learn more and get some helpful do's and don'ts by downloading the eBook below.
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On a daily basis we are all placed in countless situations that require us to behave a certain way. As we mature, we receive both positive and negative feedback that helps shape who we are, but how do we know if the behaviors we are naturally drawn to are helping us to achieve our goals or somehow getting in our way? Erinne Tripp, Director of Client Services at MCG Partners, tells us how individuals can increase their self-awareness and improve how teams relate to each other.
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Membership
Through grant funding from the Workforce Training Fund Program, Operation A.B.L.E. is bringing no-cost computer skills training to employers in Massachusetts. With basic courses on navigating a computer screen or the internet, to a four-part series on Microsoft Excel, there's courses for every ability level.
Visit the Operation A.B.L.E. website to learn more!
For some 34 years, Operation A.B.L.E
(Ability Based on Long Experience)
has provided employment and training
opportunities for more than 34,000 job
seekers from economically, racially and
occupationally diverse backgrounds.
A.B.L.E. is committed to serving
Massachusetts employers by connecting
well-qualified candidates to meet their
employment needs, and by training
employees to have the updated skills
needed to be as productive as possible
at their jobs.
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HRMA of Central MA announced their November monthly meeting, and invited YOU! As SHRM's Vice President of Governmental Affairs, Michael Aitken has a great feel on the pulse of HR across activities in Washington, DC. This session will provide an overview of current congressional activity, a preview of potential issues for a new Congress and administration, and an up-to-date discussion on current federal regulatory activity. Join HRMA of Central MA and Michael Aitken at Worcester Technical High School in Worcester, MA on November 10th. Members of HRMA of Central MA may attend for free, and as a NEHRA member, you'll receive a discount off the guest rate!
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Career Center
Are you new to working with a recruiter? Here's a tip from the recruiting staff at PSG: Be prepared to tell your story.
A "get to know you" meeting with a recruiter is different from a coffee date with friends. The recruiter needs data and detail to fully understand your situation. Before meeting your recruiter, take a look at your resume and add detail -- go back and research it, if necessary -- about the dates of each job, the salary, and any helpful details about your accomplishments.
For more tips on working with recruiters, visit the PSG Blog!
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Visit the new and improved Job Board and Career Center. We’ve upgraded the platform to provide you with a better overall experience through a modern design and an intuitive interface — which you can access through your smartphone, tablet or desktop.
Looking for HR Talent?
- Promote your job directly to both active and passive job seekers via our exclusive and targeted Job Flash email.
- Access a diverse candidate pool through our NEW diversity, veterans and social networks.
- Proactively find qualified candidates via the resume database.
With close to 70 new HR opportunities a month, there is a good chance you or someone you know has found a new job on NEHRA.com. The enhanced Career Center offers a more robust set of tools and resources, including great resume writing tips and job hunting advice, all aimed at making sure you’re well prepared for that perfect opportunity.
Looking for a New Opportunity?
- Search and apply to the hottest Human Resources jobs throughout New England.
- Upload your confidential resume so employers can connect with you on your terms.
- Receive personalized alerts when an opportunity becomes available that matches your skills and interests.
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Educational Opportunities
Benefits Strategy & Design
Cost: $199 Members, $229 Non-Members
Explore all aspects of benefit plan design, including how to align your offerings with the organizational strategic objectives. We'll cover key components of how to successfully transition from being a content expert to a more strategic role, by helping you understand the big picture implications of changes in benefit plan design.
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Affordable Health Insurance Coverage
Presented by the Massachusetts Health Connector
The Health Connector provides subsidized and unsubsidized health insurance to eligible individuals, families and small employers. The Health Connector also oversees policy development related to health care reform under both state and federal laws, and conducts public education and outreach about health care reform and coverage opportunities. Join us for this webinar to learn about the Massachusetts Health Connector, an independent public authority serving as the Affordable Care Act (ACA)-compliant marketplace for the Commonwealth.
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Understanding Autism Services for Employer Benefit Plans
Presented by Beacon Health Options
The presentation will cover the history of the autism and the factors related to its current prevalence. Next, DSM V diagnostic criteria will be shared along with the scientific basis underlying Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) treatment effectiveness and the evolution of ABA treatment. BHO’s autism management capabilities will then be discussed and followed by presentation of BHO’s ABA benefit management model. BHO’s significant clinical outcomes findings will then be shared followed by a legislative update on ABA benefit inclusion. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on lessons learned from BHO’s five years of managing ABA benefits.
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Strategies for Phasing Out Performance Appraisals:
How to Create a System That Improves Performance
Cost: Members - $499, Non-Members: $699
The pressure is on for HR to introduce new thinking on a practice long overdue for change. Performance management should and can drive performance and business results. HR is poised to create a system that engages everyone, boosts organizational results and creates a strategic advantage. Your prime goal in 2016 should be to fix performance management, regardless of your industry, geographical location or size.
Objectives and Takeaways:
- Explore the reasons behind why the continual redesign of legacy processes such as ratings and review forms continue falling short of expectations.
- Alternatives to managing pay and performance without the use of performance appraisals and ratings.
- Clearly see your high, mid-level, new-developing, low results-good behaviors, mid-high results/disruptive behavior and low results/low behavior employees without using ratings or performance reviews.
- Re-shape and strengthen manager and employee communications with more frequent forward-looking dialogue [versus reviewing past performance].
- Acquire proven communication strategies designed to socialize alternatives to performance appraisal, involve your change sponsors and influence change resisters.
View This Event for Location and Registration
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Compensation Planning
Cost: $199 Members, $229 Non-Members
Travel from strategy to implementation and every road in between. Learn how to evaluate jobs, leverage market data and align your performance management system. You'll discover the impact of plan design on budgeting, along with how to approach executive compensation. We'll also cover how to successfully present, communicate and implement a comprehensive compensation plan.
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Employee Engagement
Cost: $199 Members, $229 Non-Members
Uncover the differences between employee satisfaction and engagement. We'll take a broad look at both and then deep dive into the Gallup 12. You'll also learn tips and tools you can use to measure engagement in your own organization.
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