How To Create A Lasting Onboarding Experience For Your New Hires ?

 

Traditional onboarding is often a stereotyped experience for majority of new hires because it is focused on extremely dry and monotonous processes, like filling a lot of forms, attending company induction, going through heap of new rules and regulations, etc. Almost every organization follows a similar process forcing new employees to experience ‘not so good’ first few days.

Surveys reveal that organizations who don’t concentrate or put efforts in making this process better, are more likely to face lower retention rates and significantly declined employee motivation and satisfaction.

Follow these simple yet effective measures to make the process a long-lasting memory for your new hires.

Don’t leave everything for the joining day

Make sure that all the necessary paperwork (which doesn’t include employee’s presence) is completed before the employee’s joining date. In this way, his/her first few days won’t be occupied in just filling out forms. Welcome your new employee with a welcome kit having all information regarding his/her role, company policies, common rules and regulations, etc. Also make sure that the team he/she is joining already recognizes the new hire by his/her name. This will give them a sense of friendliness and will help them in gelling with the team more easily.

Embrace technology to collect & reuse new employee information

No one likes to complete same forms again and again or provide the same information over and over again in different forms. Same goes with your employees; they too feel irritated when you give them a bunch of forms to fill and every form starts with, Name, Address, etc. Leveraging the power of technology and using online forms requiring candidates to fill information only once as well as automated workflows will help you remove the hassles and headaches caused during the on-boarding process. It will help employers / HR managers pull out some general information about the new employee and spare them the horror of filling never-ending forms right on their first day of joining.

Assign a mentor for work-related help and a colleague to guide them around

When a new employee joins an organization, he/she is not in any way different than a school child on his/her first day at a new school. Everything needs to be figured out, like where’s the classroom or the cafeteria, etc. Your new hire is also in the same confused state. Thus, assign one of his teammates to show him around and get introduced to every concerned person. Also, make sure you have a mentor assigned for him to help him get introduced to his work and how things are getting done at his new workplace.

Use gamification to make his/her first few days full of fun

Several organizations have started opting for gamification strategy to make their new hires comfortable as soon as they can. This includes several games that are played in the organization or within the team so that new employee can easily bond with the company culture and his/her colleagues. This is a far better way to have your new employees get comfortable, than providing them with monotonous presentations, lectures, reading materials, etc.

Taken as a whole, these simple tips will help your new hires connect with the organization’s culture more quickly and easily. Moreover, they will have a lasting experience with extensive satisfaction and motivation to work for the organization in a much better way.

HR Excellence Awards Round the Corner: Do You Qualify to be the Winning HR For Your Workforce?

To ensure that your HR personnel are the ideal ones and qualify as the best HR to be awarded as those being awarded at HR Excellence Awards, Malaysia, you need to incorporate the best of practices to carry out routine employee-related tasks.

Apart from being a great mentor and propeller, you need to be hi-tech! Yeah! Grow up, move on to latest tech products and become that idealistic and cool HR lady for your employees whom they look up to. Times have gone when you were work laden, confused, over-burdened HR person, who took no less that 2 to 3 days to solve a single query. Now everything must be under your finger-tips. Be smart, proactive and ready for every employee related issue, along with being extremely concerned about the updations and time keeping of workforce. You have to be omnipresent!.. Board meetings, employee cubicles, recruitment cells..just everywhere!!!
 

 

Thus, to become one, you need to bring in the right technology and optimize it as per your requirements. There are thousands of HR software in the market that promise to free up these professionals from tedious manual tasks and improve accessibility and communication. But not all are capable enough to take up the charge effectively!

TeamWise comes as the only HR software that gives you highly effective and flexible features that can be customized as per your in-built systems so that you can focus more on enhancing the work environment for your employees making it jovial and enthusiastic.  

Don’t Take The ‘Flex-time’ Policies For Granted!!

Right from the beginning of our routine lives- we have been taught to be punctual, to arrive early, better if before time! This has made our mindsets punitive making us bring the same attitude to our offices.

But..Heyy..This is CORPORATE!! 

Companies have official “flex-time” policies allowing employees to set their own time frames as per the number of working hours. And I must say, employees just love it! 

Every organization comprises of a great blend of individuals- some are early risers, some are the stereotypes and rest are the NOCTURNALS!! Thus, maximum employees try to roll their shift timings as late as possible! 

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Although, the flex timings are given to let employees work their way, yet Harvard Business Review suggests that managers consider early coming as positive and late coming as negative. However, it is not proven scientifically, but the studies show that early comers are more conscientious than the late ones (no offences though!). 

This may come as good news for early comers and a bad one for the late comers, but this is being said because many of the employees try to take advantage of these officially approved programs. Thus, the managers are required to put in efforts to judge their people. May be efficient Time Tracking Tools can help you evaluate the in-out times, while for the performance evaluation, an effective PerformanceAppraisal System can work! Get the benefit of both in TeamWise that is an all-round HR & Payroll Solution helping you manage your workforce efficiently!  

Resolving The Unsolved Hiring Mystery!!

There is an unsolved mystery about hiring the right talent!

While companies invest so much in their hiring processes from acquiring the best talent hunters to the individuals who can precisely assess every candidate on different grounds, still the most appropriate candidates are being unintentionally excluded from even coming into consideration.

What’s going wrong in here??Let’s take a closer look:

People are hired on the basis of their personal description and not according to the job description!

Yeah! During the recruitment processes, recruiters look up to the qualifications, experience and skills of individuals, which may be good for the company, but the job opening you have, does not need that individual and may be the candidate you just rejected could perform better than the selected one! It’s better to keep the profile and work description in mind while making the hiring. This will help you take better decisions. 

While hiring, you talk about experience and accomplishments of individuals. Does that work? I do agree that experience should be there, but that should not be the only deciding criteria. Maybe an individual with less experience could perform extraordinarily than an individual having more experience. 

  

Most of us do the same, we hire someone whom we know or have worked with as we feel he/she might best fit the job role, but when the same opening has to be filled by the one we don’t know, the whole dynamics changes, we move onto their educational qualifications, corporate experiences, etc. that are actually not needed (OK…partially needed)!!

Thus, here the idea is to make managers rethink their hiring strategies and rely on a Recruitment Management System like TeamWise when you want to hire the right (apt for the job role) candidate and not the rightly qualified candidate (academically only). 

Bridging the Gap Between Human “Capital” Management and Human “Resource” Management..!!

Do you find any difference in referring ‘Human Resource Management’ as ‘Human Capital Management’?

Well! The common answer will be NO, but, there is a HUGE difference in both. While Human Resource Management is just related to acquiring and managing workforce, Human Capital Management works on a different approach. In HCM, employees are considered as the most important asset in an organization and their value is measured and enhanced through different strategies. 

The basic HR principles and legal tits n bits remain same while the execution of strategies changes in a way to give more benefit to employees. TeamWise, emphasizes on the same concept that bridges the gap between ‘not-so-emotional’ HRM and a strategic HCM to build and manage talent! 

TeamWise is specifically and cautiously designed keeping in view the interests of employees. The quintessential HR functionalities are incorporated along with different elements that clearly reflect changing dynamics of today’s workforce and their needs apart from basic corporate necessities.

These elements are basic, yet very critical for engaging your workforce and to enhance the level of commitment and dedication towards the organization. The only focus is to change the very notion of treating employees as just resources…and not as “Human Resources”!!

Take care of your most valuable asset… “Human Capital”!!!

Change Your Recruitment Strategy- Go for the Winning Athlete!

Being a recruiter, you get to meet a considerably large variety of professionals engaged in job search. Some are Frustrated with their current JOBS, some may have been kicked out and many of them may be top performers, but have become victim of volatile economy. 

As the Hiring Manager, your job is to find out that talented candidate who not only possesses the drive and determination required to fulfill requirements of dynamic business environments, but can also withstand toughest of business situations and who is ready to walk that extra mile.

Thus, what today’s businesses need is such a smart Recruitment Management System that can found those JOB Seekers who have the passion to excel in their respective fields. So, when you sit for interviewing next candidate, search out the ones who have passion with work wisdom and can shine out as the winning athlete, not only those who have years of experience with some big companies and who demand bundles of money.