Tips for HR managers: from recruiting to offboarding
The increasing competition for suitable skilled workers is the greatest challenge for companies to remain innovative and thus competitive. This is not only the case in Switzerland. A survey from Germany shows that attracting employees and retaining existing ones is becoming the central task of HR. An infographic provides tips for HR managers.
The forcont business technology gmbh (www.forcont.de), a software company based in Leipzig, has summarized concrete challenges and tips for HR managers in an infographic based on a survey conducted by the online job platform Stepstone among more than 22,000 specialists and managers in Germany.
Tips for HR managers on the entire employee life cycle
The infographic identifies the respective challenges for the four key phases of the employee lifecycle - recruiting, onboarding, development and offboarding - and makes suggestions on how to address them. For example, turnover is particularly high during onboarding. To avoid new employees quitting during the probationary period, it is important to take into account the changing demands of Generations Y and Z. This means, among other things, providing a well-founded onboarding and development plan. This means, among other things, offering a well-founded induction tailored to the new position, providing employees with mentors, holding regular feedback meetings, etc. After the probationary period, in addition to an appreciative corporate culture, systematic development work is important to retain employees in the long term. This includes individual development plans as well as qualification programs for specific employee groups, such as junior managers.
More time thanks to process optimization
In addition, the infographic shows for each phase which routine activities can be made more efficient through digitization and automation. This is crucial because: An informal online survey by forcont among HR managers revealed that administrative activities are the biggest time eater in the HR department. Accordingly, the survey participants identified the digitization of processes, the reduction of administrative work, and the recruitment and retention of personnel as currently the most important strategic tasks. In view of the current challenges facing the HR department, the topic of process optimization is therefore at the top of the agenda. Companies that improve their workflows in such a way that they gain significantly more time for the really important HR issues will gain an important competitive advantage in the war for talent.
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