Recruiting new candidates is tough enough as it is. As an HR professional, you’ve got heaps of things to do on top of that eternal quest for the perfect applicant. All the more reason you to make your professional life as easy as possible, right? With the help of some nifty, digital recruitment tools for…
Agile working methods have been disrupting the technology world for the past 20 years. As such, they’ve created innovation in software development, improved numerous products and increased speed to market. Innovation methodologies have been part of the IT world as key capabilities to deliver value to customers while creating a new organizational culture. Scrum, Kanban,…
HR has considerably evolved in the past decades and continues to do. Yet, core human resource best practices have persisted, serving as guidelines for HR professionals over the years. But what do they entail, and why are they so important? In this article, we’ll go over the 7 best practices for HR. These are crucial…
There’s a lot of confusion about the difference between HR metrics and analytics. In this article, we will explain both concepts, how they relate, and how both can add value to the practice of Human Resource Management. Definitions of HR metrics and Analytics HR metrics are measurements used to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of…
The argument for proactively managing the customer experience of HR (CxHR) is clear: organizations who successfully deliver on the ‘moments that matter’ (such as recruitment, onboarding, relocation, life events etc.) can positively influence employee engagement with tangible benefits for retention and discretionary effort. For the more transactional interactions within HR services, HR should deliver an…
Social learning is learning through observation, imitation or direct instruction. It’s knowledge sharing through various interactions with others. And what better place to do so than in the workplace, right?! After all, that’s where people from all kinds of backgrounds and with numerous different skills come together. Today we share an infographic about the importance…
A couple of years ago I was working as a HR controller for a large organization. We decided it was time to start working on strategic personnel planning, so I built a model. The model turned out to be terrible. In this article, I’ll explain why it failed and how we should have fixed it.…
What does a successful HR digital transformation look like? That’s the question we asked our experts at UNLEASH London in this fourth Digital HR Live video. Their – sometimes hilarious – answers didn’t disappoint: from ‘digitalizing’ shoeboxes to bringing Uber back on the list of authorized travel expenses, it’s all there. Happy watching! What’s the best…
The HR analyst plays a crucial role in collecting, structuring, analyzing, and reporting on HR processes and data. In this article, we will discuss the key competencies for an HR analyst’s job, how to become one, career paths, and salary levels. Topics in this article 1) HR analyst tasks and competencies2) How to become an…
Recruitment as a career is the epitome of the phrase “trying to find a needle in a haystack”. Economic fluctuations, demand in a particular sector, an overabundance of graduates with a particular qualification – all of these things and more can lead to some jobs having hundreds – or even thousands – of applicants rushing…