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Why Small Businesses Need Comp Software

Getting compensation wrong can impact your ability to be competitive in the market place. The only way around this is having the pay data needed to make smart decisions about compensation. By taking a proactive, methodical approach to developing an effective compensation structure, smaller organizations can position themselves as employers of choice and lay the foundation for healthy profitability.

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How to Elevate Your Talent Analysis with Multiple Data Sources

The landscape of compensation data has changed. HR teams and compensation specialists have more choice than ever in what sources they can use in their analysis, and candidates and employees alike are more informed of their value in the marketplace. For some, this has been a shift towards more positive conversations with employees, but it can be a scary prospect without the right data to back you up.

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Spring Clean Your Comp

Now that Spring is here it’s a great time to review your comp plan. Whether you are updating an existing plan or have something more informal in place, this will be an excellent webinar to attend.

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Compensation Strategies for a Multigenerational Workforce

Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials bring a diverse set of skills to the workplace. How do you develop a compensation strategy that keeps everyone happy?

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Five Keys to Retain Top Talent

Are you struggling to keep your best employees? The war for talent has never been fiercer. Recruiters and hiring managers are finding it harder and harder to attract the right talent, now that job seekers have more choices and options than ever. Proactive HR professionals are shifting their priorities to retaining top talent, working to keep their best people before (or in addition to) seeking new talent.

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Communicating Pay to Employees

A recent Payscale study revealed that employees’ perceptions of how they are paid are a better predictor of their intent to stay than their actual fair pay to the market. These implications create a huge opportunity for employers to get it right when it comes to communicating pay effectively.

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5 Steps to Building a Modern Comp Plan

Modern compensation planning is rooted in your company’s goals and uses pay as a lever to increase employee retention, engagement, and performance. Whether you’re creating a modern compensation plan for the first time or updating an existing one, these five steps will help you create a plan that sets your organization up for long-term success.

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Are You Paying Fairly? A Small Business Guide to Comp

Getting compensation wrong can impact your ability to be competitive in the market place. The only way around this is having the pay data needed to make smart decisions about compensation.

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How to Communicate Compensation to Employees- with BambooHR

Join Payscale and BambooHR as we talk about simple steps to make diversity work for your organization. You’ll learn about:

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Getting Smart About Compensation- with BambooHR

In this webinar we'll arm you with solid economic evidence of the organizational impact of compensation, giving you crucial ammunition you can use to go advocate for a more disciplined approach. We'll also go into the practical steps you can take to step up your own approach to comp by building a comp strategy, implementing a market-based pay structure, building pay ranges, training managers, and so much more.

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How to Do Comp Like Top-Performing Companies

Top-performing companies view pay as an ongoing practice and not an annual event. Compensation is also a key part of their culture and these companies communicate their pay practices clearly. Do you want to know more about how top-performing companies manage compensation?

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Webinar: Comp Strategies for Fast Growing Companies- with BambooHR

When organizations get into a high growth phase, everything starts moving faster. From recruiting to onboarding new hires, everything speeds up and becomes more challenging.

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Spring Clean Your Comp

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Are You Paying Fairly? A Small Business Guide to Comp

How to Communicate Compensation to Employees- with BambooHR

Getting Smart About Compensation- with BambooHR

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Webinar: Comp Strategies for Fast Growing Companies- with BambooHR

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