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SHR Newsletters: Human Resources: For Better or Worse SHR Insights comes to you monthly with nuggets of useful information, a short article on a critical issue, or important news you need. Sign up here to receive the SHR newsletter via email! How Effective is Your Hiring System? How is your hiring system working? How do you know if it is effective? Talent management is a hot topic these days, yet many organizations keep making the same old mistakes. I recently worked with a company that wanted to hire their first controller. Our goal was to define this strategic position and enhance their ability to hire the right person. Yet throughout the process, they kept focusing on small administrative responsibilities of the position and wanted extensive experience at very low pay. We parted ways when they changed the financial software system requirement, without any recognition that such a conversion would require other skills/knowledge, yet continued to insist on clerical functions' importance. This might have been a more advanced case of poor hiring planning but it is common is several aspects:
On a happier note, I have worked with many clients who 'got it' and made changes that significantly improved their hiring and retention! If your system is not producing enough top quality hires - who are productive quickly and who stay with your organization long term - it is smart to audit your process. If you are battling hiring managers who are stuck in old mindsets, consider training them on hiring skills and interviewing techniques. (SHR can help.) If you keep doing the same old things that got you poor to adequate results in the past, you cannot expect better results. Times and needs change, has your hiring? More of Effective Recriuiting » Overtime Risk Management The fastest growing category of class action suits in 2005 was those relating to wages and hours. The Federal government has substantially increased its investigation of claims for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Big companies have paid large fines and back wages to settle such charges. Have you looked at which positions you are calling 'exempt' from FLSA and overtime? While there are special exemptions for some computer workers, many are erroneously categorized as exempt and this is a special review area. Executive and administrative assistants are another target. If you have not reviewed your positions and their classifications recently, now is the time. As always, SHR does not share your information with anyone else. If you wish to be removed from our newsletter list, just send me an email and say so. You are welcome to share information from this newsletter with others so long as you include proper attribution. And feedback or your ideas for topics are most welcome! Sign up here to receive the SHR newsletter via email! |
