Thinking Ahead To Retain Your Best Workers When the Recession Plays Out
There may be some talk of economic recovery in the air, but it is still likely to take a good while longer before most employers feel sufficiently confident to begin reinstating the financial rewards that their workers had previously come to expect. With many employees experiencing pay freezes and a temporary halt to bonus payments [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
Do HR Professionals Need To Go Back To School?
It’s no secret that a huge number of employers are not only dissatisfied with the high costs incurred in running their HR departments, but also the levels of efficiency that they achieve and, probably most significantly, their lack of any kind of strategic focus – all of which leaves HR professionals in a pretty vulnerable [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2010
HR Transformation – The Bigger Picture
In my last post, I asked the question as to whether the concept of HR transformation is limited just to streamlining systems and processes, as some seem to believe, or whether it is something much broader which seeks to turn the HR function from a largely administrative one into a strategic one which makes a [...]
26. August 2010
HR Transformation – Is It Really Just About Systems and Processes?
The concept of HR transformation, despite being much talked about today, has actually been around for a number of years now. Although there are some who remember being involved in transformation initiatives as far back as the late 1980s, it is really within the last 10 years or so that increasing numbers of organizations have [...]
24. August 2010
Does Your Organization Recognize and Reward Teamwork?
The ability to work as part of a team is one of the qualities that recruiters typically put high on their list of priorities when selecting the right candidates, and yet in today’s highly competitive workplace where individual efforts tend to be more widely recognized and rewarded, many organizations actually do little to encourage a [...]
21. August 2010
More About Digital Signatures
Digital signatures, as I explained in my last post, are considered to be the equivalent of, and are actually more secure than, hand-written signatures. In cases where recruiters, for example, need to validate the authenticity of documents such as job applications which are submitted to them over the Internet, they offer assurance in terms of [...]
19. August 2010
Online Recruitment – Digital and Electronic Signatures
In my last post I talked about the use of electronic signatures in relation to the HR function, especially in terms of speeding up and cutting down the costs associated with the recruitment process. In cases where online applications are accepted, however, there is much confusion as to the different types of electronic signatures and [...]
18. August 2010
Cutting Down the Admin With Electronic Signatures
As anyone will know who works in the area of HR, the potential to become bogged down in administrative work is immense. Systems which begin with the completion of paper documents, the information from which then needs to be manually input into a computer, are cumbersome, costly and extremely time-consuming. Not only this, but the [...]
14. August 2010
Mobile Recruitment – Bringing in the Experts
As I discussed in my last post, deciding on your aims and objectives for a mobile recruitment campaign is the first essential step in the process of putting together a strategy. You need to understand just how mobile technology can help your company, who you are trying to reach and precisely what message your target [...]
11. August 2010
Mobile Recruitment – Just What Do You Want It To Achieve?
As I described in my last post, connecting to potential job candidates through their cell phones is something which is not only on the up-and-up but is likely to become huge in the very near future. In fact, the Future of Mobile Recruitment (FOMR) roundtable which was held in central London in May of this [...]
9. August 2010
Mobile Recruitment – A Flash in the Pan or Here to Stay?
With an estimated 4 billion cell phone handsets reported to be in use around the world, a whole host of Wi-Fi enabled cell phones on the market and tens of billions of text messages being sent each and every month, it is small wonder that recruiters are becoming increasingly excited about mobile recruitment campaigns. In [...]
7. August 2010
Job Hoppers – Are They All To Be Avoided?
Finding that a job candidate has a great long list of past jobs to his or her ‘credit’ can be like a red rag to a bull for recruiters, with many simply casting aside such applications without a second thought. Although in some cases these resumes can indeed indicate a lack of responsibility, poor past [...]
4. August 2010
‘At Will’ Employment and Probationary Periods
Few would dispute that today’s world is one in which people are becoming increasingly lawsuit-happy. If there is any possible way of attributing blame and getting compensation, then individuals or their lawyers will find it, and of course employers are no less at risk than anyone else. One of the areas where employers who take on [...]
2. August 2010
A Couple More Thoughts on Internal Corporate Blogs
In my last post, I was talking about how internal corporate blogs can be a great way to communicate with staff on a variety of different levels, but how deciding precisely what it is that you want to communicate and to whom, as well as what you want your blog to achieve, is vital if [...]
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