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Recruiting & Retention
Jan. job searching is heating up Mid-January is a high time for hiring at many companies due to budgeting plans and the fact it's the new year, points out career coach and HR executive Angela Smith. Because it is a popular time to hire, January is also a competitive time to land a new job, and the process may take unusually long due to the high number of applicants, Smith says. The Muse (1/2)
Brené Brown talks daring leadership at WorkHuman Best-selling author and research professor Brené Brown shares how to embed brave leadership and vulnerability into your culture at WorkHuman, March 18-21, 2019. Act now, early registration rates end soon and seats are filling fast!. Learn more on our website.
An appellate court has remanded a case involving the Browning-Ferris standard to the court of the National Labor Relations Board, holding that the NLRB did not apply the standard properly. The court says the NLRB may create the joint-employment standard, which considers "an employer's reserved right to control and its indirect control over employees' terms and conditions of employment," Kate Tornone writes. HR Dive (1/2)
The HR Leader
Why managers should talk to employees about failure Don't shy away from getting employees to open up about their weaknesses, says Sarah Wagener, chief people officer at DoorDash. Such discussions help employees identify problems, improve performance and see the importance of excelling where they are, she says. Business Insider (1/2)
Workplace Chatter
Organ transplant recipient inherits donor's allergy to peanuts When a 68-year-old woman ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, she was surprised when she had a serious allergic reaction, because she had never been allergic to peanuts before. However, the person who donated the woman's newly transplanted lung did have a peanut allergy, and this was a rare case when a food allergy was transferred from an organ donor to a receiver. LiveScience (12/31)
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
