HR Services
How long is it since you last reviewed your HR Procedures with respect to your people, their recruitment, development, on-boarding and retention?
Recruitment
Having the right processes to ensure candidates are attracted, evaluated and offered in a timely and consistent manner requires all hiring managers to be effectively schooled in the company’s approaches and standards.
This needs to cover interviews, assessments and all candidate contact including managing unsuccessful candidates.
On-Boarding
Once a person has accepted a role with your company the on-boarding process should start. The pre-joining and induction programs are critical contributors to staff success and retention.
Retention Strategies
This is complex and multifaceted. What options are open to you need to be individually explored but include concepts like succession planning, training programs, educational support, career pathways and reward mechanisms.
In-role Development
Ensuring every staff member has an effective development programme is key to a constantly evolving business. Having the ability to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate staff performance in a fair and encouraging way is critical. Key is making staff appraisals a positive, proactive largely forward thinking process bases on effective setting of objectives with clear guidelines and support programs.
Career development
Career development pathways where possible allow people to understand not just future career options but also how they need to perform to be considered for promotion. A career pathway maps out options and transitions and outlines the skills, knowledge and education needed to be developed ant the assessment process that will be employed to determine readiness to attain that next role and also how attaining that role will offer still further development.
Competency framework
Having a competency framework in place allows a business to spot talent and cross fertilize talent both at the point of hire and in internal fulfilment of new roles or vacancies.
Outplacement
Helping staff who are made redundant not only provides timely beneifts for the individuals directly effected, a good outplacement process helps retain the motivation and loyalty of those who remain with the business and upon whim future success/survival depends. george james ltd run both open and tailored in house programmes designed to give people confidence and a plan of how to secure their next position.