Good news! Several of you reached out to AIHR about their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale and pointed out you needed a bit more time get your boss to sign off, and they heard you!

AIHR has opened its Cyber Monday Extended sale until December 5th . All HR Certificate Programs will continue to come with an additional 25% discount for the next 4 days!

Before jumping on the latest tech deals or picking up that new smartwatch, why not invest in a different kind of digital upgrade, your digital HR skills? From Artificial Intelligence for HR to Digital HR 2.0 to People Data & Business Insights, there’s so much more to tap into when future-proofing your career with AIHR.

The Best Part! As a follower of Improve Your HR/Evil HR Lady, you can still benefit from another 10% discount  on top of this 25% discount for a 35% discount total!

Ready to make an investment towards a future-proof HR career? Click here to access your coupon and benefit from the double discount  (The discount will be applied automatically at checkout.)

Good to know: The Cyber Monday Extended sale ends on December 5th at midnight. This is your second chance at our biggest deal of the year — don’t miss out!

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The Black Friday Promotion runs from November 21st to December 1st. During this time, an additional 25% discount is available on all our plans: Certificate Programs, Full Academy Licenses, and Team Licenses. Everything is 25% off. Evil HR Lady Readers get 10 percent normally, and I believe this stacks for 35 percent off. So there isn’t a better time to buy.

Click here to access the discount: AIHR Evil HR Lady

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If you’re curious and want to learn more, AIHR is inviting you to a one-of-a-kind live virtual event happening on July 15th at 11:00 AM ET.

Here’s what you can expect:

• Live Demos and Q&A
  Get an insider’s view of the AIHR platform – from self-paced courses and the powerful AIHR Copilot to our extensive Resource Library, Career Center, live events, and more. Ask questions live and see how over 55,000 HR professionals worldwide have used AIHR to upskill with impact.
• Explore the Learning Journey
  Understand how our courses, templates, and AI-powered tools don’t just teach you—they help you apply what you learn to drive results in the real world.
• Meet the People Behind the Platform
  Connect with the instructors, course coaches, support team, and members of our vibrant global HR community. These are the people who make learning at AIHR not just valuable—but personal.
• Exclusive Digital Goodie Bag
  As a thank-you for attending, you’ll receive a curated set of digital resources and gifts from AIHR.

Whether you’re just starting out or mapping your next career leap, this event will help you see the full picture of how AIHR can support your growth—from the inside out.

Registration is Open!
And as a member of Evil HR Lady, your registration is completely free. Click HERE to reserve your spot

Make sure you choose Evil HR Lady as your partner in this.

Hopefully I’ll see you there. It promises to be interesting!

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I wrote about this at Workable here: Salary transparency: Good thing for employees – and employers?

I had the opportunity to talk with Neelie at and I’m afraid I got rather enthusiastic.

And a reminder, Evil HR Lady readers get a 10 percent discount on AIHR courses!

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If you prefer to read, Neelie helpfully included this roundup–not a complete transcript as she probably got bored typing all my “umms”

HR lessons from 2020

SL: There are so many things that we’ve learned in HR this year. One of those things indeed goes back to working from home because before Covid everybody said that the number one benefit they wanted was the option to work from home. Some people have been thrilled about it and some companies have completely closed their offices and will never go back. Other people, however, have learned that they actually love the office.

I think this gives us a mind switch in HR. For years, we’ve been fighting with business leaders and said that if a job can be done from home there is no reason it shouldn’t be done from home and we’ve been pushing for that. Now we have got to take a step back and ask ourselves whether that’s best for our people. If it isn’t best for our people, then it isn’t best for our business because what we need is happy people.

To keep reading, click here: What HR Can Learn from 2020 (incl. the most important skill)

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In this article, we’ll take a closer look at social collaboration; what it is, what the benefits are, and what best practices you can follow. We’ll also share some examples of social collaboration software. Here goes!

What is social collaboration?

Networking is the standard way business people connect. It’s a concept that has gone on for as long as people have been trading goods and services. Social collaboration is networking gone digital.

Instead of coming together in the town square or at a networking meeting, people come together online and work together. You can “meet” people on LinkedIn, Twitter, or any number of websites and create professional relationships. People can recommend others for new jobs or contract work based on these digital-only relationships.

To keep reading, click here: Social Collaboration: Benefits, Best Practices, and Tools

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You no longer have to do things in-person to know what goes on in your friends’ lives. The same is true in the workplace. In 1997 it would have taken a great deal of effort to show the HR manager an inappropriate Halloween costume picture. You would have had to be at the same party as your inappropriately dressed coworker, take a photo on film, get the film developed and bring it to the office.

At this point, the HR manager wouldn’t care because it was 1997, and no one cared. And unless it made the nightly news (it didn’t), it wouldn’t reflect on the company at all.

To keep reading, click here: Managing Social Media Challenges in Today’s Employee Relations World

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Ahh, this is such a good question.

HR people have to plan – we have cyclical things we plan for. We know that the fourth quarter brings performance appraisals and year-end raises, and the fiscal year ends in July, so we need to be prepared with a budget. We know that sexual harassment, code of conduct, and diversity training all need to be completed by a specific date, and then we get to follow up with people who skipped out.

This, we’re good at doing.

To keep reading, click here: How on Earth Is HR Supposed to Prepare for 2021? (3 Tips)

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It’s both. And it’s peculiar. COVID has split the hiring world between high unemployment in some sectors and people scrambling to get enough people in others. It’s weird, but it also opens up opportunities for all sorts of people. 

So, let’s look at the positive side! 

LinkedIn has a “Who’s Hiring Right Now” column that is updated regularly. For instance, at this moment, the top five hiring companies say,

• Instacart says it’s looking to hire 300,000 contract workers.
• McDonald’s says it’s hiring about 260,000 people this summer.
• Amazon says it’s looking to hire 175,000 new workers for its fulfillment centers and delivery network.
• Albertsons is hiring 50,000 people across their companies for open roles.
• CVS Health is hiring 50,000 employees to serve in various capacities across its business.

That’s an awful lot of jobs. It also shows that a lot of mass hiring is in the unskilled or entry-level category. But, let’s unpack all of this.

To keep reading, click here: Recruitment is Weird Right Now: a Focus on the Positive

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More knowledgeable HR

Human resources is a multi-disciplinary field. You need to be everything from a finance expert to a therapist to a salesperson to a lawyer if you want to do everything right. This is especially the case for HR generalists in smaller businesses who have to do it all.

During these last few weeks, HR and employee relations people have had changes thrown at them at top speed. The Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) added new programs for small businesses that required knowledgeable HR. The Payroll Protection Program put requirements around how many people you could terminate and how your payroll needed to look. These things fell squarely on the heads of the HR managers. Those are only two of the many, many changes HR had to sort through.

To keep reading, click here: The Post-Covid-19 World: 4 Ways HR Will Look Different in the “New Normal”

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