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,...
A great talent strategy doesn’t just fill positions. It fills them as fast as they arise. Zero is the ideal time-to-hire, and while it is probably an utopian situation for most companies, a wisely constructed and painstakingly nurtured ‘visionary’ talent pipeline can make sure you don’t stray too far from that magic number. That’s not all: It...
If you’re a great company, you’ll be getting the cream of the talent crop. There are no two ways about it. Even if you happen to be in a ‘preferred sector’ like IT, you’ll still need to be constantly preening and priming yourself to remain top-of-mind for jobseekers. After all, the very tangible benefits of...
Here’s a company that had acquired over 70 new branches in less than a decade. The rush of growth felt good, except that the teething problems of manpower were becoming a spanner in the works. On the one hand, rapid expansion made their traditional third party vendor based talent acquisition system unsustainable. On the other,...
Opportunities for a business: Easy opportunities are hard to come in this highly competitive business scenario, but no one can let those slip through. Today, where competition is the core of any business you can’t let take any opportunity on ease. But as these opportunities are highly dynamic in nature so it’s hard to predict...
