Welcome to your monthly round-up for busy HR professionals. Each month, we share the latest news, strategies, tools and trends affecting the recruitment landscape. Check in each month for the latest updates from all over the web.
Digital Transformation Can Help Manage Any Workforce Approach
We’ve talked before about how digital transformation can improve manager effectiveness and the employee experience. But things are a little different right now. Many organizations are planning their workforce strategies around multiple approaches. It could be fully on-site, fully remote or a hybrid model, with both on-site and remote employees. Does digital transformation still apply in all three of these workforce models? Absolutely! Read more…
Top Questions To Ask Employees During Performance Reviews
Performance reviews aren’t simply a time to discuss performance. It’s a valuable development conversation that can uncover an employee’s unique strengths, align them with the company’s mission, and empower continuous development. But that’s no simple feat.
A successful performance review cycle includes HR leaders working in lock-step with managers to gain accurate insight on team performance, but to do that, managers must be given a structure for having these conversations–especially when it comes to asking the right questions. Read more…
4 Details to Include in Your New Job Ads During COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the importance of workplace safety. Unfortunately, as cities and businesses begin to open up again after lockdown, fewer employees report confidence in workplace conditions.
According to a Gallup survey, only 65 percent of workers feel completely satisfied with their physical safety as of September 2020. Read more…
Finding Fluidity: Hiring for a Skills-Based Culture
As uncertainty persists and market demands continue to shift, the people we hire today may very well need to be reallocated or reskilled tomorrow. This was certainly the reality that emerged during the pandemic. In order to meet changing customer needs, companies across all industries adjusted their talent strategies to accommodate business change — from enabling new operating models to addressing compliance and safety concerns to reassigning people to new business units or regions.
While the initial global shock of the pandemic is behind us, we’re still operating in an environment of uncertainty where change is the norm. Read more…
Can Ageism and A.I. Coexist?
Bias is practiced every day by everyone, starting with personal preference for morning coffee and what goes in it, to our taste in cars (Tesla), to what to buy on Amazon, and more.
We also have strong biases in technology preference: Mac or PC, iPhone or Galaxy, Samsung, or LG?
When it comes to talent selection practices, however, we are trained to actively ignore bias. This is often easier said than done, particularly for those downstream of TA. Try as they might, hiring managers often hold preconceived ideas of what their ideal candidate will look, walk, talk, and act like, technical qualifications aside. Read more…
Top 4 Marketing Automation Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Work smarter, not harder. This new productivity mantra has become increasingly popular among marketers, especially since they can streamline a great portion of their work using some widely available marketing automation tools. The truth is that marketing consists of a number of repetitive, tedious tasks that play an important part in every effective campaign.
What’s even worse, all these seemingly low-level tasks are time-consuming, which means that marketers can’t properly focus on the more creative aspect of their work. Read more…
At the beginning of each year the recruitment pundits make their predictions as to the trends that will take place in the coming year. They are hoping to give recruiters a head-start in preparing and implementing new strategies. For the most part they are all interesting and informative.
