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Carnival of HR – April 22, 2015 Edition

Lead Change Blog

As our turn to host approached, we started thinking about Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day 2015 or TOSADTW. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided 15 Timeless Work Habits For Career Success that he learned over 30 years in the workforce. These truths differ from what he believed when he started a career in HR.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Zak, PhD : One-third of business leaders surveyed in 2015 said that retaining colleagues is their number one concern. Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Guest post by Paul J. Everyone knows that people are mobile.

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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

A study encompassing over 600,000 individuals across various professions revealed that top performers are up to 800% more productive in complex jobs like software development and management. Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% were actively disengaged.

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Put to the test to get a job.

Coaching Tip

The automation of the job application process, combined with powerful data tools and inexpensive online software, have led to falling costs, more accurate results and a surge in use. Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2015. Leadership Tactics for Career Women. Eight of the top 10 U.S. Doing What You Do Best.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Software Developers.

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The Urgent Need For Cybersecurity To Diversify

The Horizons Tracker

If that growth curve is accurate, it would represent a tripling of the cost of cybercrime from the $3 trillion it was at in 2015. While overt discrimination may be minimal, there are quite probably barriers to inclusion within the industry that put many talented people off considering cyber a career for them.

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The Ambition Gap

Coaching Tip

The software giant, which has expanded parental leave for both genders and mentorship programs for women , was recently named in a proposed class-action suit alleging managers unfairly passed over women for raises and promotions; Microsoft says it is reviewing the complaint. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2015. "At

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