Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding new talent is a time-consuming and expensive process. Sourcing qualified applicants, narrowing down the pool, completing interviews and reaching a consensus about a candidate can take several weeks. Then, once you’ve chosen someone, it can take months before a new employee is fully trained and able to handle the duties of their job effectively. In other words, when you’re ready to make a hiring decision, it’s crucial you make the right one.
As an HR leader, much of the hiring process falls on your shoulders. And while it can be stressful, you’re also in a unique position to help eliminate common hiring mistakes, streamline operations, and to ensure your organization is staffed with highly-qualified and capable professionals.
Here are six common hiring mistakes and how to avoid them:
When you’re recruiting and hiring new employees, the right skills and experience are probably at the top of your list of priorities. But while these factors are great at predicting whether a candidate will be technically equipped to do the job well, they don’t tell you much about how well they’ll fit in with your workplace’s culture, or how well they’ll work with the rest of their team.
Happy New Year! As you’re putting together a list of resolutions, boosting your career as an HR leader may be one of your biggest priorities. However, becoming the best HR manager you can be takes time and commitment. One way to establish your reputation and help guide your career is to join associations and groups. Another is to immerse yourself in the work of thought leaders and influencers who can inspire, educate, and motivate you.
You’ve made it through the holiday season: the company parties, the seasonal workers, the tricky scheduling, and even the year-end reporting. Navigating the waters of this season as an HR professional is no simple feat, but you made it. Even though we’ve entered the new year full of fresh starts and resolutions, our days of managing compliance aren’t behind us.
The holiday season can be a tricky time for HR professionals and company leaders. Everyone on your staff is likely to feel the crunch of additional professional and personal obligations at the end of the year, and mass burnout may always feel imminent. Throwing a fun holiday party to show appreciation for your staff is a good idea, but it can also be a logistical nightmare. And while hiring additional seasonal staff can help increase productivity, it may also cause confusion about compliance with employment laws.
But fear not! We’ve pulled together a few pointers to help you make the holiday season as smooth as possible in your workplace this year.
