Your HR department is what makes or breaks your employee’s experience with your company. It oversees everything from staff recruitment to writing employee policies and managing employees. Your HR department is no longer just strictly for recruiting and is now at the heart of the company’s productivity. You want to ensure that your HR department is operating as smoothly and efficiently as possible for optimum output. We’re giving you five ways to improve and update your HR department to help smash your business goals.
1. Introduce employee surveys
An employee survey is a way of testing the waters and getting a feel for how your employees think about your HR department. It’s a way of helping to identify any ongoing issues that you’re not aware of. Surveys are a cost-effective way and can be conducted using online tools. Online surveys ensure that you get a response from every member of staff, potentially anonymously.
2. Streamline the recruitment process
There’s a growing increase in what the BBC has described as “never-ending job interviews”. While your HR department wants to ensure that they select the best candidate for the job, you don’t want to make the process unnecessary tiresome. A longer recruitment process is often more costly – both financially and with your time – than necessarily. Not only is it less efficient, but it could also be causing you to turn away your best candidates.
3. Incorporate management tools
The world is becoming more digital every day. If there’s one thing that we learned from the pandemic, it’s that every company needs an extensive online infrastructure to facilitate remote working. Incorporating technology into your day-to-day operations can improve the performance of your HR department.
Talent management tools can help your HR department monitor the performance and output of employees and other departments. These systems can help you spot potential issues early and notice which employees are performing at their best.
4. Time Management
The one thing you can do to improve and update any HR department is to ensure time management. You want your HR department to be working as efficiently as possible, making the best use of their time. Whether it’s assigning guidelines or producing practical guides, there are ways to incorporate time management into your company’s operations.
Your HR department can adopt the mentality of “work smarter, not longer” on daily tasks – prioritizing the most significant tasks and avoiding getting caught up in less important tasks.
5. Communication
One thing that will determine the state of your HR department is how they communicate internally and with other departments. Every department should be sharing relevant information clearly and concisely to keep each other up to date. Whether it’s regular meetings or reports, effective communication can prevent time from being wasted looking for information at the last minute or your HR department working in the dark.
Improving and updating the operations of your HR department is essential to ensuring the smooth running of your business. These five tips will help you improve their daily performance, streamline the recruitment process, and develop better communication channels.
About the Author
BCjobs.ca is Western Canada’s largest job board, and host of “Innovators” a weekly podcast interviewing top recruiters in BC and across Canada. Check out our recent interview with Apply Digital’s Co-Founder & CEO Gautam Lohia (Podcast link) and Fujitsu’s VP of AI and Technology Mike Starkey (Podcast link).
