How to improve your interview process
To hire the right people for your company, you need effective interviewing techniques that provide insight into candidates, highlight their skills and knowledge, and drive candidates’ interest in the company. However, organizations often struggle with the interview process because it’s loosely defined and the people conducting interviews commonly lack the necessary training and know-how to do it well. Hiring has become a multi-step process where candidates must go through several types of interviews, complete screening, [...]
55 HR tools to streamline your personnel operations
Most Human Resources (HR) operations are in the process of digitizing (or have already done so). Modern tools ranging from payroll management to process automation and employee assessment simplify and improve the HR workload. Beyond keeping track of data, these tools enable data collection, direct interaction with employees, and organizational collaboration. Many HR teams combine several to build a toolkit that improves how they work, the results they deliver, and their goals. Choosing the right [...]
5 Components of a good employee onboarding program
Most recruitment plans focus on the hiring and employee assessment phases (after all, you need to know you’re getting the right person). From there though, helping them complete onboarding often falls on the teams they join. It’s common for new hires to walk into a new company on the first day only to be handed a printed employee manual because IT hasn’t finished setting up their account. Onboarding is a major component of the employee [...]
5 Tips to improving workplace conflict resolution
Workplace conflict is unavoidable. Eventually, when you put people together, even in a virtual space, friction happens. Ensuring that your team can communicate and disagree in healthy ways is crucial to ensuring teams work well together. To some extent, a healthy amount of conflict is even good for the team and good for your organization. As long as it’s about work, it’s a good sign that your employees are engaged and passionate about what they [...]
The Great Resignation: Avoiding voluntary turnover
Retention rate has always been an important focus for human resources professional teams. However, it’s become a challenging issue in recent years for most (if not all) human resource departments, in what has come to be known as "the Great Resignation." According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a whopping four million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and remained higher than normal throughout the rest of the year, [...]