Competitors? Technology? Change? Wrong. It’s skill gap. As the economy braces to recover, leaders across the corporate world are waking up to an unsavoury reality: They’re short of talent. Think about the survey conducted by Careerbuilder’s Harris Poll, who pop’ed the question to a pan-American bunch of corporate leaders : So what’s the one workplace...
One of the biggest challenges plaguing corporates today is not attracting talents but retaining the talent. Business process outsourcing is one of the major causalities of employee attrition. Lack of job sculling in developing countries like India has made attrition a never ending problem. This makes it compulsory for HR managers to understand the pertaining...
With the industry moving towards the next era of growth and innovation, today’s organizations actively engage with a range of strategies and facilities to build what Head field attribute to as a ‘360-degree workforce management’. Be it a sudden flux in workforce demand or strategizing talent roadmaps, Head field does the perfect job of managing,...
There is a quest for talent and the talent constraints are real. The war or battle for talent is a word first conceived by Steve Hankin of Mckinsey and Company in 1997. According to KPMG’s study, “Rethinking Human Resources in a Changing World,” talent is a key factor to a company’s success. However, due to...
Even as you read this, rest assured there’s one common refrain running through the mind of every HR manager across every conceivable industry and workplace – be it engineering, BPO, IT, construction, healthcare, accounts or anything in between. And it’s this: How do I keep my workforce engaged? How do I ensure I’m getting the...
The grass is greener on the other side. For workplace talent, it seems to be particularly true. A CareerBuilder Survey (sometime in early 2016 or late 2015) has found that over 21% of employees – at any given point in time – were looking at greener pastures and planning to quit their current positions. In...
Certainly not when it comes to hiring. Which makes spending that extra time and effort in screening, assessing and background checking, worth it. For one, a well-documented process of filtering pre-empts frustration during interviewing, ensuring you meet only those candidates who are the closest matches to the position. Not just that. By avoiding candidates who...
Newspaper headlines, TV ads and tech blogs these days are obsessed with that ‘next big thing’. The next big invention that will change the way we work, the next big social trend that will alter the way we hang out online, the next big technology that will transform the way we entertain ourselves. From smart...
A recent survey conducted amongst 1400 employers and 13,000 candidates confirmed what players in the hiring sector had long been suspecting. That there is great dissatisfaction amongst recruiters when it comes to both the quality and the volume that their hiring mechanisms are throwing up. Specifically – About a third of respondents were okay with...
The Annual Conference of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) – hosted recently to a maxed-out conference hall of over 1500 eager guests (not to mention a couple of rooms that were participating remotely) – had one over-riding seminar topic: Millennials in the workplace. Millennials are now an indispensable part of work – indeed,...
