The document discusses strategies for talent acquisition in the supplementary education sector. It outlines key steps in developing an effective talent acquisition strategy, including talent planning, attracting talent through employer branding, and hiring techniques. The objective is to equip organizations with the best available talent to support growth in the competitive supplementary education market. Some of the challenges discussed are the lack of quality education and demand for test preparation coaching services in India.
This document discusses the importance of aligning corporate learning and development (L&D) strategies with business goals. It provides perspectives from experts who emphasize that L&D programs should address skill gaps, support business expansion plans, and demonstrate how training contributes to business objectives like increased profits. A key aspect of business-centric learning is ensuring L&D content meets current and future business needs. The document also gives examples of companies that have training arms aligned with their overall business strategies and goals.
This document discusses training and development in organizations. It defines training as the modification of behavior through learning to improve current job performance, while defining development as learning activities directed towards future needs and career growth. It outlines different types of training like on-the-job training methods, soft skills training, sales training, and technical training. It also discusses the current scenario of the training industry in countries like India, UK and USA.
In this presentation we will discuss practical advice, best practices, and tips to help find or nurture talent to fill both current and future skill gaps.
This document discusses improving return on investment in employee talent development for Canadian companies. It highlights the need to better define skills needs, discover talent sources, develop workers' skills, and deploy talent effectively. The document provides examples of how some Canadian companies are innovating in these areas, such as through competency modeling, partnerships with educational institutions, and using online courses and social media to attract candidates. The goal is for companies to improve innovation, productivity and business outcomes through more strategic talent management.
Effect of On-The-Job Training on Employee Performance in Kenya: Case of Mumia...paperpublications3
This document summarizes a study on the effect of on-the-job training on employee performance at Mumias Sugar Company in Kenya. It provides background on the importance of training employees and discusses previous research showing a relationship between training and improved performance. The objectives of the current study were to examine how on-the-job training affects employee performance, task requirements, and job satisfaction at Mumias Sugar Company. A descriptive research design was used involving questionnaires distributed to employees. The findings suggested that on-the-job training enhances employee capabilities and improves performance.
The document discusses the importance of executive education and continuous skills development for HR professionals. It provides perspectives from industry experts on the skills needed for HR professionals to remain relevant, such as emotional intelligence, coaching skills, and the ability to align HR strategies with business goals. Examples of executive education programs that can help equip HR professionals with these skills, such as coaching certifications and courses on performance management, are also highlighted.
This document provides a summary of a project on HR practices in the FMCG sector in India. It includes comparisons of recruitment sources, selection processes, compensation and benefits, performance appraisal, and training and development across several major FMCG companies in India. The key HR challenges in the FMCG sector are also outlined, such as managing knowledge workers, technological changes, developing leadership, and managing change. Overall, the document finds that while practices vary between companies, the FMCG industry in India follows modern approaches to HR.
This report discusses the importance of training and development in the workplace. It outlines how training helps tackle employee shortcomings, improves performance, increases employee satisfaction, and creates a learning culture. The report also examines best practices for global training, such as intercultural competence training. It notes that automation is changing the future of training and that skills will need to be frequently updated. The report recommends approaches for training in the future, like virtual reality simulations, micro-learning, mobile learning apps, learning management systems, and adaptive learning programs.
This document discusses the importance of aligning corporate learning and development (L&D) strategies with business goals. It provides perspectives from experts who emphasize that L&D programs should address skill gaps, support business expansion plans, and demonstrate how training contributes to business objectives like increased profits. A key aspect of business-centric learning is ensuring L&D content meets current and future business needs. The document also gives examples of companies that have training arms aligned with their overall business strategies and goals.
This document discusses training and development in organizations. It defines training as the modification of behavior through learning to improve current job performance, while defining development as learning activities directed towards future needs and career growth. It outlines different types of training like on-the-job training methods, soft skills training, sales training, and technical training. It also discusses the current scenario of the training industry in countries like India, UK and USA.
In this presentation we will discuss practical advice, best practices, and tips to help find or nurture talent to fill both current and future skill gaps.
This document discusses improving return on investment in employee talent development for Canadian companies. It highlights the need to better define skills needs, discover talent sources, develop workers' skills, and deploy talent effectively. The document provides examples of how some Canadian companies are innovating in these areas, such as through competency modeling, partnerships with educational institutions, and using online courses and social media to attract candidates. The goal is for companies to improve innovation, productivity and business outcomes through more strategic talent management.
Effect of On-The-Job Training on Employee Performance in Kenya: Case of Mumia...paperpublications3
This document summarizes a study on the effect of on-the-job training on employee performance at Mumias Sugar Company in Kenya. It provides background on the importance of training employees and discusses previous research showing a relationship between training and improved performance. The objectives of the current study were to examine how on-the-job training affects employee performance, task requirements, and job satisfaction at Mumias Sugar Company. A descriptive research design was used involving questionnaires distributed to employees. The findings suggested that on-the-job training enhances employee capabilities and improves performance.
The document discusses the importance of executive education and continuous skills development for HR professionals. It provides perspectives from industry experts on the skills needed for HR professionals to remain relevant, such as emotional intelligence, coaching skills, and the ability to align HR strategies with business goals. Examples of executive education programs that can help equip HR professionals with these skills, such as coaching certifications and courses on performance management, are also highlighted.
This document provides a summary of a project on HR practices in the FMCG sector in India. It includes comparisons of recruitment sources, selection processes, compensation and benefits, performance appraisal, and training and development across several major FMCG companies in India. The key HR challenges in the FMCG sector are also outlined, such as managing knowledge workers, technological changes, developing leadership, and managing change. Overall, the document finds that while practices vary between companies, the FMCG industry in India follows modern approaches to HR.
This report discusses the importance of training and development in the workplace. It outlines how training helps tackle employee shortcomings, improves performance, increases employee satisfaction, and creates a learning culture. The report also examines best practices for global training, such as intercultural competence training. It notes that automation is changing the future of training and that skills will need to be frequently updated. The report recommends approaches for training in the future, like virtual reality simulations, micro-learning, mobile learning apps, learning management systems, and adaptive learning programs.
The document provides an overview of internal branding from a human resources perspective based on interviews with HR professionals from over a dozen companies. Some key findings include:
1) Internal branding is important for successfully implementing business strategy by empowering employees to deliver a consistent customer experience.
2) To engage employees, companies must foster pride, provide rewards/recognition, and ensure consistency over time.
3) Developing a set of values is paramount, and companies devote significant resources to developing values through research and ensuring buy-in across functions.
4) Maintaining internal branding requires orientation, training, and structural alignment to reinforce values at all stages of employment.
The document discusses the importance of employer branding and total immersion of a company's brand within its culture and employees. It argues that skills shortages are a major challenge for employers and are increasing competition for talent. To attract the best employees, companies need to think seriously about how they distinguish themselves through their brand. An effective employer brand must be aligned with the company's broader external brand and reflected internally through its culture. For the brand to be powerful, employees must truly embody the brand in their work and advocacy. This requires collaboration between marketing and HR to immerse the entire organization in living the brand identity.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Ronit Kharade
The document discusses the various internal and external factors that influence the human resource management (HRM) environment of an organization. It describes the key external factors as the social, technological, political, legal and economic environments. The major internal factors mentioned are the organization's vision/mission, business strategy, culture, structure, and HR system. The document provides details on how each of these internal and external factors shape the HRM policies and practices of the organization.
The document discusses the future possibilities of human resource development (HRD) in Malaysia's electronics sector. It summarizes the current state of HRD in Malaysian manufacturing firms, trends in US training budgets and programs due to economic downturn, and future possibilities for HRD including training delivery methods, organization development, and career development. It advocates expanding HRD departments' roles, developing learning cultures, and the Malaysian government supporting HRD through organizations like PSMB.
The document discusses training at Samsung. It provides details about:
1) Samsung's training programs which aim to develop leadership, marketing, engineering skills through various institutes and customized training.
2) The annual personnel evaluation process to assess employees' performance and potential.
3) Required safety trainings on chemicals, manufacturing processes, and emergency response.
4) Benefits and limitations of online and virtual reality training methods.
5) Importance of training in developing Samsung's success and addressing issues like unequal training quality across branches.
Career Development - Group 1, AGSB, ClarkGel_Orseno
The document discusses career development from three perspectives: the individual worker, enterprises, and public sector support. For individual workers, career development is challenging due to changing skills needs and a desire for higher pay. Enterprises focus on talent acquisition and retention through training. For micro-enterprises, career development is informal. The public sector aims to reduce skills mismatches and upgrade sector skills through technical education programs. Informal sector workers, comprising many with low education, face difficulties advancing their careers.
Unilever is a large multinational consumer goods company that provides products across multiple categories including household care, fabric cleaning, skin care, oral care, hair care, personal grooming, and tea-based beverages. It employs over 10,000 people in Pakistan and has a variety of local and global brands. The document discusses Unilever's recruitment and selection process, which includes job analysis, human resource planning, recruiting candidates, selecting employees, orientation and training, performance management, compensation and benefits, and career development. It details Unilever's goals of attracting passionate, motivated, creative, rigorous people to work in teams towards ambitious goals. The recruitment and selection process evaluates candidates based on competencies and assesses
KGWI 2014 What Talent Wants - Natural ResourcesKelly Services
Every year, Kelly Services conducts a comprehensive survey of talent issues in many industries the world over. It is one aspect of an aggressive campaign to help the world’s companies understand what attracts, engages and motivates workers. This report is covering our findings about what workers in Natural Resources want.
The main recommendation is an accessible (and inexpensive) overview of the topic from the Harvard Business Essentials line of brief paperbacks; the alternative, a multidimensional case on mentoring.
The document discusses employer branding and the relevance of social identity theory. It provides an overview of a study conducted through interviews with HR professionals to identify characteristics of successful and unsuccessful employer brands. Successful brands were found to be noticeable, relevant, and differentiated from competitors. Additionally, they fulfill psychological contracts with employees and allow unintended appropriation of brand values. Metrics like acceptance rates, tenure, and engagement can indicate brand attractiveness. The document also summarizes a separate study that examined how employer attractiveness and social media use relate to corporate reputation and job application intentions. It was found that innovation, psychological, and application values positively related to reputation. Social media positively related to reputation and intentions to apply. The implications are that non-monetary
Major problems faced in benefits management include:
1. Maintaining competitive advantage in a global economic climate.
2. Guiding organizational culture and direction to promote innovation and productivity.
3. Effective communication and management of conflicting communication styles within the organization.
4. Strategic planning and organizing employees and resources to achieve organizational goals.
We believe in building programmes and initiatives that really support our local communities and one big subject that is close to everyone's hearts is the future of our young people. That's why we have created our Rising Stars programme - part of our 'Championing young people's futures' initiative.
This takes the form of a range of activities, programmes and workshops all with the common aim of developing understanding and passion for the world of work and not only through children and young adults but also through their support network, allowing us to help parents, guardians and carers find the right skills to guide and nurture the best decisions.
Companies are facing challenges attracting and retaining top talent. As the global marketplace demands higher productivity and innovation, human resources must ensure the workforce has the necessary skills. Leading companies view talent management as strategic and critical to competitiveness. They develop comprehensive talent strategies to identify, recruit, develop and retain key talent through non-monetary rewards and leadership programs. Diversity and cultural sensitivity are also embraced to leverage different perspectives.
QTrac is a tool from Bernard Hodes Group that uses surveys and polls to evaluate key factors impacting an organization's employment brand such as source effectiveness, recruiting process effectiveness, brand impact, and retention. QTrac gathers information to identify needs/expectations of target audiences, uncover employee perceptions of the employer brand, and determine how the brand has evolved. It also queries impressions of the recruiting process, brand awareness, source of hire, and job fit. QTrac helps organizations develop comprehensive employer branding strategies through recommendations from HR consultants.
The document discusses effective interviewing in organizations. It defines an effective interview as securing maximum information about a candidate's suitability for a job. The purpose is to select skilled candidates that fit organizational requirements and establish mutual understanding between the company and candidate. Guidelines include conducting interviews privately with competent interviewers following a schedule and guidelines. Tips are provided for both interviewers and interviewees. Examples of rigorous interview processes from top companies are given to highlight the importance of interviews. Commonly asked questions in interviews are also listed.
1. Human resource development (HRD) plays an important role in improving individual and organizational effectiveness through training, learning, career development, and organizational development.
2. HRD practices in the Malaysian manufacturing sector are still developing, with many companies focusing primarily on training and lacking dedicated HRD sections.
3. Due to the global economic downturn, electronics companies and training groups in the US have cut training budgets, staffing, and hours while shifting programs toward mandatory, job-specific skills training and greater use of e-learning and social networking tools.
The document discusses talent management in the manufacturing industry. It defines talent management as processes to attract, develop, motivate and retain productive employees. It notes that effective talent management requires having the right people in the right roles at the right time. The document then outlines some common talent management practices like recruitment, training, performance management and succession planning. It discusses challenges in the manufacturing sector, such as skills gaps and negative perceptions of careers in manufacturing. It concludes by presenting some strategies to close skills gaps, like expanding talent searches, offering ongoing training and re-evaluating employee value propositions.
The document discusses Mahindra Namaste's strategy for vocational skills training in India. It outlines their target group as youth aged 18-26 with 10th grade education from low-income backgrounds. It analyzes gaps in existing skills training programs and proposes initiatives for vocational training, a global employment program, and training of trainers. Primary research findings indicate parents and friends strongly influence career choices, and on-the-job training is a popular teaching method. The business model provides vocational skills training, counseling, placement assistance, and aims to train 1 million youth over 10 years.
Este documento propõe uma estratégia de comunicação para valorizar a área de Talent Acquisition de uma empresa e seus programas, incluindo o desenvolvimento de uma identidade visual unificada, material de divulgação e um vídeo institucional. A proposta inclui a criação de logomarcas para a área e cada programa, além de templates, folders, cartazes e um kit para eventos.
Centralized recruitment can reduce costs while improving the time, quality, and standardization of the hiring process. Creating talent pools and communities can further reduce costs and times for sourcing and hiring while improving quality. Establishing a Center of Excellence supports non-traditional recruitment channels, improves acquisition and process efficiency, and enables business growth through faster hiring.
#FIRMday 15th nov 2013 emma mirrington mars chocolate the mars talent acqu...Gary Franklin
From reactive recruitment to pro-active Talent Acquisition Emma will take you through her journey at Mars over the last three years; from initial findings through to restructure, transformation and change.
Learn from her BIG mistake and glean some hints and tips along the way!
The document provides an overview of internal branding from a human resources perspective based on interviews with HR professionals from over a dozen companies. Some key findings include:
1) Internal branding is important for successfully implementing business strategy by empowering employees to deliver a consistent customer experience.
2) To engage employees, companies must foster pride, provide rewards/recognition, and ensure consistency over time.
3) Developing a set of values is paramount, and companies devote significant resources to developing values through research and ensuring buy-in across functions.
4) Maintaining internal branding requires orientation, training, and structural alignment to reinforce values at all stages of employment.
The document discusses the importance of employer branding and total immersion of a company's brand within its culture and employees. It argues that skills shortages are a major challenge for employers and are increasing competition for talent. To attract the best employees, companies need to think seriously about how they distinguish themselves through their brand. An effective employer brand must be aligned with the company's broader external brand and reflected internally through its culture. For the brand to be powerful, employees must truly embody the brand in their work and advocacy. This requires collaboration between marketing and HR to immerse the entire organization in living the brand identity.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT Ronit Kharade
The document discusses the various internal and external factors that influence the human resource management (HRM) environment of an organization. It describes the key external factors as the social, technological, political, legal and economic environments. The major internal factors mentioned are the organization's vision/mission, business strategy, culture, structure, and HR system. The document provides details on how each of these internal and external factors shape the HRM policies and practices of the organization.
The document discusses the future possibilities of human resource development (HRD) in Malaysia's electronics sector. It summarizes the current state of HRD in Malaysian manufacturing firms, trends in US training budgets and programs due to economic downturn, and future possibilities for HRD including training delivery methods, organization development, and career development. It advocates expanding HRD departments' roles, developing learning cultures, and the Malaysian government supporting HRD through organizations like PSMB.
The document discusses training at Samsung. It provides details about:
1) Samsung's training programs which aim to develop leadership, marketing, engineering skills through various institutes and customized training.
2) The annual personnel evaluation process to assess employees' performance and potential.
3) Required safety trainings on chemicals, manufacturing processes, and emergency response.
4) Benefits and limitations of online and virtual reality training methods.
5) Importance of training in developing Samsung's success and addressing issues like unequal training quality across branches.
Career Development - Group 1, AGSB, ClarkGel_Orseno
The document discusses career development from three perspectives: the individual worker, enterprises, and public sector support. For individual workers, career development is challenging due to changing skills needs and a desire for higher pay. Enterprises focus on talent acquisition and retention through training. For micro-enterprises, career development is informal. The public sector aims to reduce skills mismatches and upgrade sector skills through technical education programs. Informal sector workers, comprising many with low education, face difficulties advancing their careers.
Unilever is a large multinational consumer goods company that provides products across multiple categories including household care, fabric cleaning, skin care, oral care, hair care, personal grooming, and tea-based beverages. It employs over 10,000 people in Pakistan and has a variety of local and global brands. The document discusses Unilever's recruitment and selection process, which includes job analysis, human resource planning, recruiting candidates, selecting employees, orientation and training, performance management, compensation and benefits, and career development. It details Unilever's goals of attracting passionate, motivated, creative, rigorous people to work in teams towards ambitious goals. The recruitment and selection process evaluates candidates based on competencies and assesses
KGWI 2014 What Talent Wants - Natural ResourcesKelly Services
Every year, Kelly Services conducts a comprehensive survey of talent issues in many industries the world over. It is one aspect of an aggressive campaign to help the world’s companies understand what attracts, engages and motivates workers. This report is covering our findings about what workers in Natural Resources want.
The main recommendation is an accessible (and inexpensive) overview of the topic from the Harvard Business Essentials line of brief paperbacks; the alternative, a multidimensional case on mentoring.
The document discusses employer branding and the relevance of social identity theory. It provides an overview of a study conducted through interviews with HR professionals to identify characteristics of successful and unsuccessful employer brands. Successful brands were found to be noticeable, relevant, and differentiated from competitors. Additionally, they fulfill psychological contracts with employees and allow unintended appropriation of brand values. Metrics like acceptance rates, tenure, and engagement can indicate brand attractiveness. The document also summarizes a separate study that examined how employer attractiveness and social media use relate to corporate reputation and job application intentions. It was found that innovation, psychological, and application values positively related to reputation. Social media positively related to reputation and intentions to apply. The implications are that non-monetary
Major problems faced in benefits management include:
1. Maintaining competitive advantage in a global economic climate.
2. Guiding organizational culture and direction to promote innovation and productivity.
3. Effective communication and management of conflicting communication styles within the organization.
4. Strategic planning and organizing employees and resources to achieve organizational goals.
We believe in building programmes and initiatives that really support our local communities and one big subject that is close to everyone's hearts is the future of our young people. That's why we have created our Rising Stars programme - part of our 'Championing young people's futures' initiative.
This takes the form of a range of activities, programmes and workshops all with the common aim of developing understanding and passion for the world of work and not only through children and young adults but also through their support network, allowing us to help parents, guardians and carers find the right skills to guide and nurture the best decisions.
Companies are facing challenges attracting and retaining top talent. As the global marketplace demands higher productivity and innovation, human resources must ensure the workforce has the necessary skills. Leading companies view talent management as strategic and critical to competitiveness. They develop comprehensive talent strategies to identify, recruit, develop and retain key talent through non-monetary rewards and leadership programs. Diversity and cultural sensitivity are also embraced to leverage different perspectives.
QTrac is a tool from Bernard Hodes Group that uses surveys and polls to evaluate key factors impacting an organization's employment brand such as source effectiveness, recruiting process effectiveness, brand impact, and retention. QTrac gathers information to identify needs/expectations of target audiences, uncover employee perceptions of the employer brand, and determine how the brand has evolved. It also queries impressions of the recruiting process, brand awareness, source of hire, and job fit. QTrac helps organizations develop comprehensive employer branding strategies through recommendations from HR consultants.
The document discusses effective interviewing in organizations. It defines an effective interview as securing maximum information about a candidate's suitability for a job. The purpose is to select skilled candidates that fit organizational requirements and establish mutual understanding between the company and candidate. Guidelines include conducting interviews privately with competent interviewers following a schedule and guidelines. Tips are provided for both interviewers and interviewees. Examples of rigorous interview processes from top companies are given to highlight the importance of interviews. Commonly asked questions in interviews are also listed.
1. Human resource development (HRD) plays an important role in improving individual and organizational effectiveness through training, learning, career development, and organizational development.
2. HRD practices in the Malaysian manufacturing sector are still developing, with many companies focusing primarily on training and lacking dedicated HRD sections.
3. Due to the global economic downturn, electronics companies and training groups in the US have cut training budgets, staffing, and hours while shifting programs toward mandatory, job-specific skills training and greater use of e-learning and social networking tools.
The document discusses talent management in the manufacturing industry. It defines talent management as processes to attract, develop, motivate and retain productive employees. It notes that effective talent management requires having the right people in the right roles at the right time. The document then outlines some common talent management practices like recruitment, training, performance management and succession planning. It discusses challenges in the manufacturing sector, such as skills gaps and negative perceptions of careers in manufacturing. It concludes by presenting some strategies to close skills gaps, like expanding talent searches, offering ongoing training and re-evaluating employee value propositions.
The document discusses Mahindra Namaste's strategy for vocational skills training in India. It outlines their target group as youth aged 18-26 with 10th grade education from low-income backgrounds. It analyzes gaps in existing skills training programs and proposes initiatives for vocational training, a global employment program, and training of trainers. Primary research findings indicate parents and friends strongly influence career choices, and on-the-job training is a popular teaching method. The business model provides vocational skills training, counseling, placement assistance, and aims to train 1 million youth over 10 years.
Este documento propõe uma estratégia de comunicação para valorizar a área de Talent Acquisition de uma empresa e seus programas, incluindo o desenvolvimento de uma identidade visual unificada, material de divulgação e um vídeo institucional. A proposta inclui a criação de logomarcas para a área e cada programa, além de templates, folders, cartazes e um kit para eventos.
Centralized recruitment can reduce costs while improving the time, quality, and standardization of the hiring process. Creating talent pools and communities can further reduce costs and times for sourcing and hiring while improving quality. Establishing a Center of Excellence supports non-traditional recruitment channels, improves acquisition and process efficiency, and enables business growth through faster hiring.
#FIRMday 15th nov 2013 emma mirrington mars chocolate the mars talent acqu...Gary Franklin
From reactive recruitment to pro-active Talent Acquisition Emma will take you through her journey at Mars over the last three years; from initial findings through to restructure, transformation and change.
Learn from her BIG mistake and glean some hints and tips along the way!
The document discusses talent acquisition's role in workforce planning. It outlines several strategic HR pillars including smart growth, developing a full talent pipeline, employee mobilization, and building a purpose-driven culture. It then presents a case study on addressing key capability gaps through operating model changes and tailored hiring and assessment processes to strengthen regions impacted by attrition. Hiring ahead of losses and customizing models by region are emphasized as strategic workforce planning tactics for the talent acquisition team to address needs.
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In this free webinar, Meritage Talent Solution's founder, Kara Yarnot, and LinkedIn’s Pam Hoadley introduce LinkedIn’s Strategic Talent Acquisition Roadmap. This framework can help you transform your talent acquisition organization from traditional to strategic, making your team instrumental to the success of the business.
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Over the years I have been asked by Talent Acquisition and HR leaders what is the best scorecard that you use to set expectations and educate executive leadership against Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
Rather than just continue to have those conversations one at time, I thought it might be helpful to share the scorecard template that I have landed on that produces the best outcomes I have found based of years of trial and error experience.
The document discusses trends and challenges in recruiting for 2020. It notes that the population is growing older and more urban, with the median age rising to 31.5 years by 2020. Different generations now coexist in the workplace, with each generation having distinct characteristics and values shaped by formative world events and technology. Recruiters must understand generational differences to attract, engage, and retain talent. The meaning of work and skills is also shifting, from job titles and tasks to roles, capabilities, and results. Flexibility and work-life balance are increasingly important values.
This document discusses innovative HR practices that companies can adopt to remain competitive. It outlines strategies for attracting and assessing talented employees, developing potential, engaging staff, and facilitating transitions. It also discusses green initiatives like virtual teams, reducing paper use, and wellness programs. Implementing innovative HR practices can help companies utilize resources, leverage intellectual capital, and adapt to changing business needs.
Best practices in recruitment that every company should followKannan G S
Finding great candidates has always been a major challenge. If you are an employer struggling to fill your open job positions with suitable candidates, you’ve come to the right place. Here we discuss about best practices in recruitment that will help you find great candidates easier and faster.
BIZGrowth Strategies - Back to Basics Special EditionCBIZ, Inc.
Amid the increasing complexity of today’s business landscape, it can be of great benefit to shut out the noise and simply get back to the basics. Summer offers the rare opportunity for organizations to slow down and sweat the small stuff.
In this issue, our experts address seven key topics intended to help leaders guide their teams to stability and refocus on the foundational elements of success, including:
- Talent Management 101: How to Attract & Retain Great Employees
- Exploring the What, Why & How Behind the Employee Experience
- The Shifting Normal: 3 Ways Leaders Can Embrace Change & Conquer Challenge
- What is Financial Wellbeing & Why Should Employers Care?
- D&O Insurance Application Basics to Protect Your Leaders
- Your Life Insurance Policy May Be One of Your Biggest Assets
- Understanding Labor Law Poster Compliance
1) Getting talent on the right track requires a long term talent strategy rather than quick fixes, which can perpetuate a cycle of catching one's own tail.
2) Building a robust talent bench through a 5+ year strategy that identifies critical capabilities and allows flexibility is key to absorbing short term issues.
3) Developing a talent culture through leadership commitment, measurement, and forums for discussing talent can help ensure the right people are identified and developed for key roles.
The document discusses using a total rewards strategy to engage and motivate employees. It explains that total rewards looks beyond monetary compensation to consider benefits, career development, and work environment. Implementing a robust total rewards strategy requires understanding gaps in the current approach, benchmarking against competitors, and clearly communicating changes. Doing so effectively can provide better retention and increased productivity if it caters to differing employee needs across generations. Key challenges include identifying gaps, benchmarking against peers, and simplifying communication about benefits.
managing human capital(MHC) mba 2 semesterSuzan Maharzan
This document discusses managing human capital and outlines several key points:
1. It defines human capital as the collective skills, knowledge, and expertise of employees that contributes to organizational productivity. Managing human capital involves treating employees as assets and investing in them.
2. Some challenges to managing human capital include globalization, workforce diversity, technological advances, and changing political/legal environments. HR strategies like task force, development, turnover, and paternalistic strategies can help address these challenges.
3. Best practices for managing human capital involve recruitment/selection, training, performance management, reward systems, and career development. The document discusses these practices and compares best practice and best fit approaches to human resource management.
The document discusses training and development in organizations. It defines training and development, explaining that training focuses on current job skills while development focuses on future growth. It outlines the training process, including need assessment, program design, delivery, and evaluation. Challenges to effective training like employee schedules and technology changes are also examined. The role of training in organizations is to help them adapt to changes in the business environment, learn and implement new practices, and achieve excellence. An effective training system takes a systematic approach involving analyzing needs, designing the program, delivering instruction, and assessing outcomes.
This document discusses considerations for developing effective learning programs for employees. It begins by outlining myths and facts about talent development, including that spending and budgeting for training are important drivers of employee engagement. Training 2-5 days per employee on average can increase employee revenue. New ways of working require new approaches to learning that leverage technologies like blended learning. Key factors for learning programs include never cutting compliance training, adapting learning to new ways of working, and using technology to enhance learning efficiency and results.
Benefits Of An Effective Leadership Program EssayJessica Lopez
Tanglewood is a large retail company with stores across 12 regions locally and overseas. As many senior employees retire, Tanglewood must develop a talent management strategy to fill vacated leadership roles. An effective strategy would identify and develop high-potential employees internally and implement training programs to prepare them for promotion. A standardized approach across regions is needed while allowing for cultural differences locally. Attracting and retaining talented staff globally will help Tanglewood compete internationally.
This document discusses job training methods and processes at an IT firm. It begins by introducing the importance of training for employees and businesses. It then provides background on the growth of the IT sector in India and the increased need for training and skills development. The rest of the document discusses various training models, domains, methods, and essential aspects of training in the IT industry. It also includes surveys on effective training delivery methods and the variation of trainer salaries with experience in the IT sector.
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Running head: TALENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 1
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Talent Management Strategy
An HR team without a talent management strategy and plan fails to perform its role. In fact, an organization with such an HR team does not give talent management activities the importance they require (Khatri, Gupta, Gulati, & Chauhan, 2010). The hardest part in designing a talent management is getting started with the plan. An effective talent management strategy should map out the goals and priorities of an organization and tie them to its strategic plan. The current analysis will formulate a six step talent management approach to encompass an organization with two hundred people in which twenty are identified leaders. The talent management strategy will include identifying organizational goals, identifying organizational drivers and challenges, identifying gaps, defining HR priorities and goals, conducting an inventory of the talent management processes, and measuring the results and communicate success.
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Talent Acquisition Strategy in Supplementary Education Space - A Challenge
1. Talent Acquisition Strategy in Supplementary Education Space- A Challenge
Prologue
The Talent Acquisition Strategy is designed to provide a glimpse of how an effective talent acquisition strategy can be
formulated/ adopted by the organizations. All the Salient features of this strategy, is designed to equip the organizations
to adopt best practices.
In today’s scenario where organizational growth suffers due to talent management beginning with acquiring the right
talent to managing a pool of talented professionals, the Author has outlined/ narrated his experiences in Supplementary
Education Sector.
Embarking with the introduction of Supplementary Education Space, Creating Recruitment Pipeline, Talent Planning,
Sourcing, Hiring Techniques and on-boarding process is designed to endow the organizations with the recent practices
followed in Supplementary Education Space is what has described by Author.
Strategising Talent Acquisition is one of the most prominent and salient feature enabling hiring/on boarding the finest
talent available asset across the market in minimal possible time.
Let us first describe a typical Coaching or Supplementary Education Space. The supplementary education industry can be
described as, an organization or business which provides products and services aimed at enhancing the quality of
education in society.
Key Drivers of Supplementary Education Space
Middle income group often referred to as Middle Class have always had a strong belief that to reach at the top,
education is the only platform. Hence IIT’s, IIM’s and other eminent institution have become a dream choice, rather an
aspiration of both Parents & Students. As the competition is severe, the emergence of test preparation market is
inevitable. Coaching has come of age, although unregulated, has become a hot spot amongst the funding agencies and
investors alike.
The organized test-prep industries are now professionally running companies. Problems notwithstanding, it is easy to
see what drives this phenomenal bazaar — the yawning gap between the learning imparted through our basic education
system and the level of entrance examinations.
General
increase in need
for educated
workforce
Economic Boom –
Rising
Compensation for
high skill jobs
Rising per capita
income and
availability of
educational loans
Rising global
recognition of
Indian Institutes
Supplementary
Education
Demand Supply
Gap
(Inadequate
Seats)
2. Emerging Business (Coaching industry – A Parallel Education System)
Rationally, the cause of growth may be defined as; first, there is no dearth of demand for coaching services in India,
approx half population have their aim to make their career/future in engineering, medical, Management profession etc.
Secondary, lack of good schools, quality education, up to date syllabus and proper infrastructure are another very strong
reason for the exponential growth of supplemental education market. This is one where Indian consumers are not price
sensitive.
The Associated chamber of commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) recent survey on "Business of private coaching
centres in India" revealed that private tuitions have become a multi-billion rupee industry which recorded a growth of
35% in the last five years in India. The current size of private coaching industry in India is about $23.7 billion and likely to
touch $40 billion by 2015.
Report by Assochem, The private coaching industry in India is one of the fastest growing areas in the service sector. Not
even the biggest economic recession was able to slow down this industry. The average growth rate for the coaching
industry for the past six years is a whopping 35%.
Several leading test preparation companies are diversifying their portfolio from supplementary education segment to
the formal school education space, perceiving improved market potential and a more sustainable business model.
Career Opportunities (Why’s Supplementary Education Space Lucrative or Attractive)
There are few career choices today, which can be said to be totally recession proof. One of them is Multi-Million dollar
Supplementary Education Space.
Coaching, these days are run by expert teams of academicians and industry experts. Supplementary education space has
emerged as a good career option for academicians and professionals as they provide career instead of job with
handsome pay packages, flexi timings, operational freedom & ease, intellectual growth, better work-life balance and
excellent creative options.
Moreover, this is an arena to demonstrate the sound business management knowledge and high-minded goals. Using a
diverse skill set, ranging from business expertise to a deep understanding of education, visionary’s have an opportunity
to reshape the industry. A few more sufficient motivational factors which shall drive every individual to explore the
opportunities with Coaching Industries which is self explanatory towards our peculiarity & uniqueness:
Brand Name
Job Security
Reward & Recognition
Career growth and advancement opportunity
Huge Compensation pay and Benefits, boosts mental satisfaction
Good hygienic environment
3. Offer a career which best suits
Better work –life balance
Best HR Practices
Learning Organization
Ample Opportunity to grow and make a difference
Truly speaking, supplementary Education Sector is not Organized, Corporatized and Regulated like multinational
companies (MNC’s) albeit this sector has successfully attained the tremendous/remarkable growth rate and has done a
stupendous job towards imparting quality education to tomorrow’s Engineers, Medicos, and Management Experts etc.
In a nutshell, this industry has Revolutionised quality and focussed education.
Objective
The objective is to equip an organization with finest available talent assets to redefine and enrich organizational growth.
In other words,
“To save the organization in current competitive market, where business begins to fall in the war of talent”
Talent Acquisition Strategy
A robust manpower plan can considerably improve chances of getting the right supply & mix of talent, who are culturally
fit to be inducted in the organization within a minimum time frame. Well thought out talent acquisition can help the
organization in aligning the people job fitment wise, thereby arresting attrition to a large extent.
Steps towards an effective talent acquisition strategy could be narrated as under:
A matured Talent Acquisition Strategy would include Talent Planning at and from where the necessary inputs can be
taken;
4. Talent Planning: Jumpstart with the Business Review
A well thought out talent planning starts with an in-depth Business Review. The deal would be to get the senior most
executive to lead the process, convey the entire business plan, the projected mapping and most importantly the salient
features & delivery timelines.
To frame the best talent planning, following aspects has to be encapsulated and discussion should revolve around:
How did we perform over the last annual business cycle?
What are the near-term — three to 12 months — business goals?
What are the longer-term — 13 to 36 months — business goals?
What are the current and future critical business challenges?
What are the two or three most critical skills and attributes needed to meet these business goals and
challenges?
A. Attracting Talents
Today’s employees don’t just want a job, they want to learn, grow and advance – quickly. To enrich employment
opportunities in supplementary education space, following aspects needs to be taken care towards building a strong
corporate sustainability and which plays a crucial role towards attracting talents:
Extremely Transparent & Value Based Corporate Governance
Projection of Long term Goal
Robust Hr Processes & system
Corporate Social Responsibility
Eco-friendly Corporate Practices
For attracting market best talents, employer branding plays the most crucial Role:
Employer Branding – the most effective way to attract talents
Getting people aware about the organization is a tough job. It requires a consistent communication process as well as a
well developed plan to raise awareness through advertisements and promotions via online and print media. Our aim has
to provide a clear insight about the organizational culture and practices and how the Supplementary Education Space is
the “Best place to work” and “How we are different/ unique from others”.
Crucial Employer Branding Mantras, which shall be followed:
Digital Branding – Digital Branding through e-promotions.
Communicate it right: Organization’s requirements should be communicated appropriately.
Be specific: Nothing but excellence is acceptable.
5. Talent matters, marks don’t: Focussed towards best talent, leave marks eligibility.
Engage & Educate: Promote brand as an enterprise which doesn’t grow without their employees. Our team is a mix of
people with impeccable industry experience and fresher’s who have the zeal to learn and adapt.
Tap into social networks; Make your strong presence on social media. Emphasize on factors such as “company image
and reputation” and “company culture”. Highlight work-life initiatives, initiative for Social Responsibility and greening
environment, career advancement options, competitive salary and challenging work.
Make your career webpage sizzle, if employer’s career webpage is bland and boring, candidates cab make up his/her
minds in first 30 seconds and they assume that company is bland and boring
Zest up your Job Referral Program: Send out mailers to your employees highlighting the ‘Internal Job Postings’ with
appealing descriptions on a regular basis.
Provide extra earning options
Start a Blog: An Online Blog is the best bet for spreading stories about your company and making you appeal “real”. It
also helps in preventing any negative comments that might be posted about your company. Do create rules and
expectations for your official blog and invite & reward people for writing blogs that highlight best practices and success
stories.
B. Sourcing Techniques
Sourcing Talents can be sourced through various sources, for example;
1. Employer Career Site
2. Job Portals
3. Social Media
4. Mobile Sourcing
5. Print Media
6. Crowd Sourcing
7. Campus Recruitment
8. Internship Programs
9. Poaching
1. Employer Career Site: This is the most effective way of Recruitment; Career Sites may help us in building a huge
talent pipeline, wherein Recruiters can create a pool of talents.
2. Job Portals: In recent scenario where every possible executive, professional and leaders have their accounts on
different job portals. In case not having account, unregistered job seekers used to search jobs through job portals
only. So hoisting the position on job portals may lead to form a strong talent pool. The job search engine leaders are
naukri.com, indeed.com, iimjobs.com etc., which is in reach of every professional.
3. Social Media: A hiring idea fires up social media
Many of jobseekers using an online social network to find a job, Companies are becoming increasingly social: Google has
a Twitter account @googlejobs and Microsoft has @Microsoft-Jobs which provide regular updates to job seekers around
the world.
Recommended Effective Channels of Sourcing Could be:
LinkedIn: It’s imperative for the company to have a strong presence on Linked-in. Encouraging employees to join Linked-in
and link their profiles to company’s official portfolio on Linked-In will act as a catalyst in attracting the right talent.
6. Facebook: With the advent of Facebook connecting with millions of people has become easier. Facebook pages are a
great source for sharing the organizational culture, practices, perks & benefits, leadership insight etc amongst unlimited
numbers of potential candidates.
Twitter: Twitter works on same principles as Facebook, however in 140 characters or less. Here, a person could be
nominated from the department as a SPOC (Single Point of Contact), who shall keep the followers engaged by sharing
relevant content, articles, insight about the organization and current job openings as well.
Google Plus: While not as popular as other social networking sites, you will find that there is a wide breadth of
candidates using it. Like Facebook, we must consistently focus on sharing contents, information and engaging with our
followers.
4. Use of Mobile Platform :
Mobile phones have become an intrinsic part of our lives, yet many of the Indian organizations are not using it for
recruitment. For developing a concrete mobile recruitment strategy in place for Supplementary Education Space, we
need to follow following steps/paradigm:
Building Your Company’s Mobile-Friendly Website: Building your company’s mobile friendly website is the primary
aspect for reaching out to potential candidates.
Ensure Ease of Application: Make sure that the online application process is easy and takes the least possible time for
applicants to finish. Provide an option to upload the resume, opt-in choice for email subscription.
SMS Communication: Staying in touch with potential candidates via SMS. Sharing news & updates regarding latest job
openings, interview schedules, dates and other details via texts.
Be Found on Mobile: Create a professional profile; be transparent and offer them all the information they would wish to
know about you; including your work culture, what you expect from your employees etc.
Create a Mobile Social Presence: Create a company blog and keep updating the same with interesting and relevant
information, articles and latest job postings. Create pages, forums and communities on social networks and encourage
people to participate in them.
5. Crowd-Sourced Recruiting:
Recruiters in Supplementary Education Space shall develop a concrete Strategy towards searching a potential Candidate
via crowdsourcing. There are two modes of crowd-sourcing to consider, one is employee based and other is open crowd-sourcing
where the public are invited to make referrals.
Recruitment through employee referrals is tried and tested and is the most effective and influential form of
recruitment. In fact, 6 out of 10 companies use this source to hire potential candidates. It can build great teams by
generating employee referrals from a talent crowdsourcing corporate program. A well-designed referral program
produces high retention rate and new hires that are a better fit may require less on-boarding time, lesser training,
and they may reach maximum productivity levels faster.
Open Crowdsourcing, For Open Crowdsourcing, we can invite employees, or any of your contacts to become virtual
recruiters for our business by using face book, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. They can be invited to join our private branded
job referral community and we can use the system to encourage them to share your job listing with their in-built
referral systems. I also think it supports the employer brand in that it conveys the message, “we are not just using
crowd-sourcing to save costs, we are investing in a process that we think we provide long term strategic benefit to
the business.”
7. When an appropriate candidate gets selected, the employees are rewarded. Thereby it’s a win-win situation for both the
companies who’ve found talent as well as the employees who enjoy the rewards. Now, imagine opening up this
particular concept to the external world. Think about the kind of possibilities that it could create, the impact of collective
networking of employees and the kind of reach it gives organizations.
6. Print Media: Where social media is not available print media is readily available. So advertising through print media
may provide leverage to touch base with all potential candidates across all society. The same shall be applied for
leadership positions.
7. Campus Recruitment:
Hiring a candidate by Campus Recruitment process is also an effective way towards making strong talent pool. It
provides us a maximum number of options for choosing an apt profile and groom him.
8. Internship program:
Internship program fast emerging as key platform for talent hiring - Internship programmes are fast emerging as a key
platform for staff hiring and talent acquisition for companies and the same has been adopted as a key HR Strategy. HR
experts are increasingly seeing this as an important tool to build talent pipeline for an organisation.
"Through this, interns are hired each year and groomed through the various business critical functions. A good
internship program helps in building the talent pipeline for an organisation. To place and compete themselves on a
global platform, Supplementary Education space shall hire interns from the leading business schools like the IIMs, MDIs
etc.
9. Poaching:
Employee poaching takes place when a company hires an employee from a competing company. Employee poaching
often happens in case of leadership/mid level of hiring to meet the high-demand management/technical skills. In
poaching organizations target their competitor’s employees by lucrative offering, sometimes offering joining bonus and
other fringe benefits.
C. Talent Assessment
The foremost challenge of an effective assessment is to completely understand the job and devise the success factors. In
absence of a transparent understanding of job and key success factors, assessment can’t be effective. There are two
basic categories of job requirements-Eligibility and Suitability.
Hygiene Factors in terms of eligibility include previous experience, education, certification, skills, abilities and reference
checks.
Cultural Fitment yardsticks include attitude, motivation, integrity, interests, work preference & congenial relationship
with your immediate supervisor, peers & other departments.
Effective designed talent assessment tool helps organizations to select the best talent for any open position by
administering various tools/exercises:
HR Interviews
Psychometric Assessment
Case Studies/ Live Exercises/ Presentations
Functional Assessment/ Panel Interviews
8. D. Talent Selection (Hiring)
Post the Talent Assessment process, Talent hiring takes in place. Talent Hiring shall be carried out only in light of the
outcome of HR Interviews, Psychometric and functional assessment and the same is also subject to approvals of
functional/departmental head.
In case of Leadership Roles, Talent hiring shall only be accomplished on the basis of outcome of HR Interviews and
Assessments results and consent of Panellist/Chairman on an apt candidate.
Offer letter generation shall be subject to clear/positive background check from previous organization. Thereafter Offer
letters shall be released on mail and copy of Appointment letter shall be handed over to the candidate in person during
the joining.
Post the joining of a candidate a positive reference check shall take place to authenticate the candidate’s
Role/Responsibilities/Compensation/ Integrity & Conduct from his current employer.
E. On Boarding
Following practices shall be followed for smoothen on boarding processes of a candidate:
Before the joining of a candidate, all the official belongings/materials relating to candidate should be handy in
HR department.
Space allocation responsibility shall be given to Administration department and the same shall be allocated
before the joining of a candidate.
Rest, Employee Code, Email id, Attendance punching etc formalities shall be completed within 2-3 days of
joining; otherwise negligence of the same may paves a bad impact on candidates psyche about the organization.
Completion of on boarding process can only be complete if it’s aligned with induction process.
Conclusion:
Getting the most appropriate talent is very critical for any organisation to succeed, which is nothing but an outcome of a
very comprehensive and customised application of various assessment tools and parameters. The benefits are plenty,
just to name would be as under:
1. Accomplishment of organisational objectives - Puts the organizational growth to the next level.
2. Increased Top line leading to greater profitability.
3. Increased performance efficiency.
4. Improvement in processes and operating procedures.
5. Improvement in word of mouth publicity leading to becoming an employer of choice.
6. Enhanced team work & bonding.
7. Better work Culture/ Environment/Climate.
8. Reduced attrition etc.
“Simply said, organisational growth is not possible in absence of a well thought robust Talent Acquisition Strategy “.
About the Author
The author of this article, Mr Bhaskar Sen is an eminent human resource management professional having a vast
experience in hospitality & education sector. He is currently associated with a top notch New Delhi, India based
Educational organization as a VP-Human Resources. He can be reached at sen.bhas@yahoo.com.