Hiring managers, be they line managers or HR, must remember that hiring is a two-way process. Yes, you are assessing the candidate, but remember they are judging you too! It's critical to be mindful of punctuality, appropriate language, positive attitude, professional behaviour...
Motivation and cultural fit is more important than skills and experience. The culture fit and motivation buys you loyalty, commitment and top performers who in the long term outshine the power CV with a technical answer for everything at interview...
Despite many employers embracing the concept of working from home, there are many others who still struggle to justify that the home environment can be a productive place to perform work.
Diversity initiatives are particularly intimidating to some employees. Whilst they introduce equity in the workplace, they also create concern over the use of non-performance criteria to determine job placement...
Any of us with any responsibility for recruiting or talent management processes strive to put the most highly-qualified, "best-fit" candidate in place in every position in our organisations. With thousands of resumes flooding across our desks for every opening these days, this is often a daunting task...
In spite of the fact that it makes for easy days, it's not a good thing if a stream of disappointments and failed battles have beaten employees into submission. This kind of acceptance isn't conducive to great work or great success...
HR has to make sure they have done their homework where performance management is concerned and then communicate that linkage in a way that is understandable to management...
"No one likes their HR person. Not even you. You may have been popular in college, but not anymore. To them, you are the person they need to suck up to in order to keep their jobs. No. One. Likes. HR..."
Companies today are not effectively executing against strategy and the business leaders know it - with 80 per cent recognising they are not doing their best to communicate strategy throughout the organisation, let alone execute against it...
Some employers have successfully stepped up to the task of managing psychosocial safety, but in many other workplaces, initiatives are falling flat. Join us for an HR Daily webinar to understand what's holding back progress in this critical space and how to move forward.
