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Recruiting

Dec 17
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recruiting with SourceMatch

Recruiting with SourceMatch – a Partnership-Based Process

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When you find your company in a hiring bind, what should you do? What about when you have an abrupt reorganization demand? How does your company handle such issues? Do you have a plan for the short and long term? Companies who have a plan are better prepared to deal with changes or restructures in their organizations. Even if you do not have a plan now, working with a recruiting company such as SourceMatch, will better prepare you for any possible changes or employee gaps that may need to be filled. Just plug into our Engaged Recruiting process and run with it!

Recruiting Support. Due to the booming economy, especially in the IT and healthcare fields, companies find that they need the right talent, immediately. While some companies invest in internal talent acquisition and recruiting teams, they still have a hard time filling their workforce gaps. Recruiting with SourceMatch effectively sources candidates and matches candidates that fit our clients’ needs and their workplace culture. Even if your company has an internal recruiting firm, you may need the help of an outside resource to better handle reorganization or restructuring issues.

Engaged Recruiting Process. Recruiting with SourceMatch starts with an engaged recruiting process. We have developed this system to empower organizations to strengthen their hiring efforts. By joining forces with SourceMatch, your company will get a better grasp of new and up & coming concepts in the workforce. Things such as generational gaps and strengths, employee strengths, managerial skills, empowering employees, assessing behaviors, skills, situational behaviors, and language, are just some of the ways SourceMatch empowers our clients and their staff.

We first begin with a foundational discussion about your company’s hiring needs and workforce culture. Where do you see and envision your company going? What areas do you see for improvement? And, how does the job opening fit in that overall picture? What makes a candidate successful in your organization? We then offer suggestions and a follow-up meeting to discuss any questions that may have arisen. After coming up with a plan, we then coordinate an appropriate contract, in accordance with our client’s needs.

Recruiting Candidates. SourceMatch has served hundreds of clients by successfully navigating the current trends in recruiting. We have a step by step process for the candidate(s) search. By recruiting with SourceMatch, you not only gain access to the top talent, but you also gain access to trends, business plans, restructuring concerns, and you also gain a problem.solving, up to date, recruiting team SourceMatch Recruitment Information – “We take this important responsibility very seriously. Our clients come to us with a variety of different projects and needs. We will not accept any requests that we believe will not be successful in sourcing the appropriate talent that is qualified, interested and available.”

Reach out to us and let us assist you in finding the best talent for your organization.

Dec 04
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human resources

The Human in ”Human Resources”

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Human resources are the most important of all the resources of a business. But is it easy to get the right people on-board?
83% of employers believe attracting and retaining talent is a growing challenge.

A people strategy as an integral part of the strategic business planning process can only be created by a forward-thinking leadership team. Functional organizations shape their plans to meet workforce needs, always keeping in mind that the most important competitive advantage is the ability to attract and retain the best professionals in the market.

“You don’t build a business. You build people, and people build the business.” -Zig Ziglar

Treat people like people

Though, in all this process, and with all this technology in use, how do you best treat people like people?
-> Make the environment more friendly.
Your employees aren’t just a number on the financial book or robots at the help desk. Maybe having a personalized desk, or create a personality badge based on assessments that might help each other know better among the team, or a coffee corner where they can socialize could make the place more welcoming.

-> Remember birthdays
Whether your employee enjoys gifts or not, a simple card with birthday wishes, shows you care. Why not pen something personalized? Remember that theater he/she mentioned last week he would love to attend to, but the working hours don’t allow it? It’s not difficult to recognize someone’s birthday, nevertheless, it makes all the difference.

-> Understand an employee’s job duties
Remember the Undercover boss TV series, where the employer puts himself in the employee’s shoes? Well, you can learn a lot from this kind of experience and surely gain a lot by understanding his day-to-day activities.

-> Keep their interests in mind
As we talk about being human, this means we have interests. Making a list with every person’s interests can help you know your employees better, and why not, to bring them up during their personal development sessions. Their abilities in a new or different direction than what they’re currently doing could very well tell you what they expect from their careers, and how they might fit in future upcoming projects, or to simply help in choosing a present for their birthday.

These are a few examples to inspire you and to help keep the human in “Human Resources”!

Reach out to us to learn more!

Nov 27
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Perils and Pitfalls of recruiting

The Perils and Pitfalls of Recruiting

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As recruiters, we all know one thing for sure: “Recruiting isn’t easy.” And this thought is embedded in our brains. Why? Because we work with people and working with people is as difficult and challenging as quantum physics because of the complexity of the human being. One article on HR recruitment issues highlights that “if the recruitment and retention of new employees were an easy task, businesses wouldn’t hire recruiters and human resources departments would be a thing of the past.” In this context, it seems only appropriate to talk about the perils and pitfalls of recruiting. Here we go!

Recruitment is vast and complex and a specialized recruitment company can help out and keep against the unsuspected risks of international recruiting. For example, one of our clients reaches out to tens of countries on behalf of its own clients in order to ensure their international expansion. What they do is to provide smart solutions for managing their client’s workforce – wherever they are located. Therefore their clients can quickly expand into new global markets, compliantly pay workers, and convert disparate payroll data into a comprehensive view of their workforce costs for better business decisions. But in order to payroll the needed talent, they need to find it first and SourceMatch acts as a recruiting partner for all of these instances.

Recruiting is challenging for professionals and veterans, let alone for companies outside the industry. In today’s entrepreneurial context, many corporations and even medium businesses adopt a multi-tier recruitment model because of the high recruitment volume. This means that different recruitment sub-functions are grouped together in such a manner that achieves efficiency. But still the human resources department of a company usually faces challenges in recruiting new employees even if it adopts this multi-tier structure and the company will come to the inevitable conclusion that it is smarter to outsource parts of the recruitment process. For instance, it is easier for a recruitment company to conduct a nationwide recruitment process because of its ability to tap into an existing network and overcome challenges dependent on the economy.

Recruiting is no kids’ play. Being realistic about the role that needs to be filled means to know exactly what you want. When you put together a job description for a job title, you take into account the essential requirements of the job, the duties the employee will have and the skills required to perform. And this is the point where you can fall into one of the major pitfalls of recruitment: irrelevant or nonstandard job titles and descriptions. This is because job titles and their descriptions are basically keywords; if you use the wrong words you are definitely going to get the wrong talent pool applying for the position, or you will source for the wrong type of candidate profile. The solution here is to think about what type of phrase a job seeker would be likely to search when trying to find their dream job. The key is to put yourself in the shoes of that talented person you are locking and ask yourself if they are searching for these titles and requirements.

Recruiting is tricky, whether you do old school recruiting or technology-driven recruiting. It is tricky because you have to look for hidden things like loyalty, commitment, and conscientiousness. In this regard, the Hiring Managers face different Issues as they need to pick candidates based upon personal characteristics rather than professional competence. It is true that they look at first at profiles or resumes that highlight on purpose skills and performance related to people’s professional knowledge. But these are self-assessments that may indicate an inflated sense of personal achievements. It may also be the case that people do not highlight enough their capabilities thus missing out on opportunities. The approach needed to solve this particular problem is to bring to light hidden capabilities and put them into words and this could be done through well-structured interviews as well as well-targeted behavioral and personality assessments.

Recruiting is all about commitment. Whether it is about the recruiters’ commitment to finding the perfect candidate or about the candidate’s’ commitment to participate in the interview process and get the job. this is especially true in the case of cold calling candidates. Attracting the right people means investing hard work by understanding not only the job you are hiring for but also the way the job may be a good fit for the candidate. And once you understand the job and you start selecting people for the job one thing is clear: you always look for commitment. Unfortunately, it is difficult to fully understand who a candidate is after just one interview. The way to overcome this challenge is by giving candidates situational assignments. For instance, searching for a real job or handling a difficult question from a client. The candidate could decide how he would like to present this. The merit of this technique is that it would show not only skills, but it would also highlight different facets of the candidate’s personality. There are recruiters who even go further than that and invite final candidates to the office to join an informal lunch with the team, to get a sense of how they act in the group. An additional way to see if a candidate has a propensity for commitment is to look if they are dedicated to a cause and how their adherence to the cause looks like.

Finally, recruiting is war. There is an undeniable ongoing ‘War for talent’ on the international labor market. Most of the companies feel that they offer a great work environment. But does it fit the values of the person they want to hire as well? It can often be the case that before signing the job offer or starting work, the candidate goes “missing in action” just because he or she found something better. It is very important to have a strong employer brand that offers attractive opportunities. More than that, the corporate culture and the working environment that the employee will find at the beginning of his journey on the job must fit 100% with what he was presented during the selection process. This correlation between the offer and the reality plays a major role in retention. Authenticity in this regard will ensure that employees will be less likely to leave in the first year.

Due to its nature, recruiting is hard work. At SourceMatch we strive to overcome these hurdles.
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Nov 20
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Great Hiring vs good Hiring

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There is a thin line between good recruiting and great recruiting. Nevertheless, both of them will have a strong impact on your company’s outcome. A top challenge for different companies is identifying quality hires.

The Aptitude Research 2019 Quality of Hire survey shows that these are the top talent acquisition challenges: 64% of companies say that identifying quality of hire is a huge challenge, 57% go for retaining top talent, 33% goes for communicating with candidates, 18% go for assessing the organizational fit and 22% for improving the candidate experience.

Talent acquisition leaders are being held responsible for what happens past when a candidate acknowledges an offer.

An important aspect to take into consideration is that 1 in 3 companies mentioned that they would like to track the quality of hire, however, they don’t have the experience from where to begin. We need to have a good understanding of what makes an incredible onboarding and the characteristics to consider both the registration of a candidate and the creation of an unused on-boarding. Quality of hire at a fundamental level can be measured throughout an employee’s first year.

62% of businesses that decided to improve the quality of hire started to have a strong talent acquisition strategy in place.

As a result, the HR team must identify the characteristics which influence the quality of hire. Moreover, we should enable better communication between contract managers and professionals through shared knowledge, better channels of feedback and data collection. Last but not least, they must communicate the definition of the recruiting process all through the organization.

When measuring the quality of hire these are the main topics that companies vouch for (based on the same report above): hiring manager satisfaction – 54%, first-year retention – 42%, organizational fit – 38%, performance data – 38% and first-year productivity 26%.

Companies that aim to improve the quality of hire have three common characteristics: they use wisely technology tools, utilize information to form enrolment decisions, and accumulate continuous input. The best ranges of salary where organizations want to see advancement and are increasing presupposition are mostly strategies with an effect on quality at the top of the funnel.

Attracting talent is basic to competing for ability. Organizations must have interview solutions, evaluations, foundation screening, online reference checking, and onboarding arrangements. Companies that utilize innovation amid these afterward stages have a way better understanding of a candidate and accumulate more important data past what is found on a profile or in a resume.

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Nov 11
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The effects of a bad hire

What are the Effects of a bad hire?

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The effects of a bad hire

Reaching top talent isn’t easy but it’s a gold mine if you have access to it. If you choose to settle with less, It won’t be long until the effects become obvious within 30 days of the new hire’s start date.

Let’s take a look at the bad hiring effects and costs:

A burden on the budget
A bad hire costs up to 6 times the employee’s annual salary – not a great picture, isn’t it? Costs such as recruiting, marketing, onboarding, training, poor productivity, missed opportunities are just a few that have their share in this exorbitant cost.

Undermined company culture
Bad hiring effects are visible in the organizational environment and impact culture as well. Hiring a candidate that lacks the dedication or work ethic in doing their job might push the neglected responsibilities unto others. This can damage the relationships between co-workers, create resentments, and schisms in otherwise healthy and productive teams. Even worse, it can damage employee relationships with the leadership as they have a hard time to reconcile the bad hiring with the organization’s vision.

Bad customer experience
We all know what a bad customer experience can do to a brand’s reputation. Customers that had a poor experience tend to extrapolate it to the entire organization. The next thing they will do is to avoid your product/service and another negative experience.

According to statistics, U.S. companies lose more than $62 billion annually due to poor customer service.

Solutions
SourceMatch is privileged to partner with its clients to find the right candidates: understand the roles that need to be filled beyond the job description, and create the profile of each candidate beyond their resume, giving us a 360 degrees perspective of the candidate. All of this enables the hiring manager to have a clear understanding of who candidates are and how they’ll do in their organizations 3, 6, 9 or over 12 months on the job.

Let’s talk today about the SourceMatch Engaged Recruiting model!

Nov 05
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HR automation

Automation in HR Processes

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In the age of the digital revolution one if not the only thing necessary to survive is the ability to adapt by digitizing your services. If you adapt, the outcome will be more than mere survival and chances are that if you do things right, you will actually thrive. In the recruitment field, this translates to the automation of processes which is desirable because it entails scalability which is the basis for any profitable business nowadays.

Things are barely paper-based anymore and thus HR service providers must employ next-generation automation technologies that eliminate common time-consuming situations that HR professionals encounter. HR automation software can also dramatically transform HR departments by compressing HR specific processes, making HR functionalities more efficient and effective and not to mention that proficient employees can use their talents in more meaningful ways.

HR automation is the process of enhancing the efficiency of the HR department by freeing employees from manual tasks that are often considered tedious. This approach to doing HR allows the staff to focus on complex tasks like decision making, employee interactions, and strategizing.

Employees liberated with the help of robotic process automation (or RPA technology) from repetitive, mechanical tasks will deliver better customer service because of more consistent process execution. The more elements of the hiring process are automated with AI and machine learning capabilities the more routine tasks are eliminated from the employee’s tasks thus changing the quality of the work for the better. All the while, automation ensures that the recruitment process is compliant with regulations.

There is also an abundance of data that can be stored across HR processes. And on data stored in a convenient form, various operations can be performed. HR management can harness the benefits of automated data analysis such as speed and error-proof analysis. This does not mean that creativity does not have its place in the whole recruiting process. However, creative workers have the means now to reduce the impact of their biases and deliver better and more productive outcomes.

In other words, the essential benefit of automation in recruiting: cost-effective strategies that assure better recruitment services. In the recruitment business, just as in any other business, doing things that scale matter. And thus, scalability that brings in results, can be achieved through automated HR processes.

One trend that saves companies money within their human resources department is the use of enterprise content management software. This is possible because human resource jobs are document and form-driven thus making the combination of HCM software with HR automation very efficient. The software is used to import documents into digital repositories, to organize imported documents so that they are searchable and retrievable, to store files in standard formats for sharing to multiple devices, to archive records, or to make audits simpler by making it easier to gather information. All this information stored in digital format can be efficiently handled through HR automation by automating routine tasks, by creating and updating data thus making different workflows available to different users on-demand and when needed in a timely manner, or by influencing the company’s communication system. This goes to show that any business can benefit from HR automation when applied to repetitive processes.

At a deeper level of analysis, HR automation has trends within itself. In 2019, multiple surveys and studies highlight 6 important trends in this regard. First of all, HR Automation is spurring job change in HR departments but not job losses as many fear. As AI-driven software is implemented, people can shift their attention and focus on more valuable HR work. Another change in HR automation is the cost. Bots are decreasing in cost and becoming more and more accessible to companies. Moreover, companies adopted AI-powered chatbots to be an interface with applicants, screening them or helping them with the application process. HR automation was also used increasingly in employee testing and training. Through HR automation employees had better access to training materials as they were delivered when needed. Automation and AI are also being used to diminish unconscious bias within HR for example in the hiring process and internal promotions. Another way automation is already being useful reflects in the improved communications between HR and employees, particularly for younger workers who demand more real-time feedback.

HR departments urgently need an idea of how technology will – perhaps more radically and suddenly than ever before – shape the future of work, especially automation. There is a wide range of projections and predictions about just how profound these changes will be. And the role that HR will need to play will differ according to which one comes to pass. But one thing is certain, HR professionals and their organizations cannot afford to say no to HR automation. A recent study conducted by the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment at the University of Oxford has shown that 64 percent of those surveyed fear that automation will lead to significant challenges for future labor markets. According to a 2015 CSIRO report, more than 40 percent of the Australian workforce (a staggering number of 5 million people) could actually be replaced by automation in the next 10 to 20 years.

It is easy to assume that people in the recruitment industry fear that human resource automation technologies could disrupt the way things are done, with negative outcomes. Realistically, the most immediately urgent role of HR professionals seems to be around minimizing employer-employee tensions around possible job losses. Employees need to understand that an automated HR future must not scare away employees because if history is to repeat itself, the jobs created could be better than the ones destroyed.

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Oct 24
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recruiting facts

10 Recruiting Facts that will make you Rethink the Whole Hiring Strategy

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Here’s a look at the recruiting facts we gathered that could make a difference in the way you approach your hiring strategy.

1. The healthcare insurance is the top benefit used to attract talent with 92% of employers stating they offer it.
2. 79% of employers say candidate experience is “extremely” or “very important” in their recruiting process.
3. The best practice for a memorable candidate experience is constantly communicating with candidates at every step of the process (voted by 72% of respondents).
4. 58% of employers have the best chances of finding entry-level workers, followed by 46% who have success in recruiting mid-level talent and 43% who are successful in finding professional talent.
5. 78% of respondents said they post jobs on their company website, while 72% used job boards like Monster or CareerBuilder.
6. Online recruiting strategies have gained popularity in the last few years, and as a result, 69% of employers say 50% to 100% of the jobs are filled by online applicants.
7. 62% say the biggest “pro” to online recruiting is a tie between increased exposure to a wider candidate pool and ease of use.
8. 71% say the biggest “con” to online recruiting is that it results in too many unqualified candidates.
9. For the 22% of respondents who say they do negotiate benefits with candidates, the top benefit to negotiate is: Paid time off (PTO), the amount of vacation, sick, and/or personal leave (69%)
10. Only 27% of respondents keep track of the “cost per hire” metric.

Create a hiring strategy based on recruiting facts, trends, and data that’s already validated in the talent market. You will see results in a short time.

Get in touch with SourceMatch to speak about how we partner with organizations to help them identify and recruit the best talent. Having a tailored recruiting solution can dramatically decrease your cost per hire!

Oct 21
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effective outsourcing

How Effective Outsourcing can Change the HR department

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Benefits of Effective Outsourcing

To effectively outsource, companies must see the value of outsourcing. Outsourcing saves companies money, time, and labor expenses. By cutting costs, companies can better prepare for organizational restructures and their allotment of resources. This creates an increased efficiency within your workforce. By opening up internal resources, your company can work more effectively. In regards to HR outsourcing, companies can stay competitive by outsourcing HR tasks as this allows for a cost-effective solution. Some companies outsource HR because of benefits such as software as a service, payroll, applicant tracking, and employee training. The outsourcing provider is responsible for the upgrades and marketplace demands that may arise. After you join a partnership with SourceMatch, your company can refocus on in-house resources that make you profitable, without sacrificing quality or service. You will also receive staffing flexibility and continuity within risk management.

Benefits of HR Outsourcing

Businesses with effective HR strategies typically have better working environments and higher morale, which can increase employee retention and lower turnover costs (The Balance). Doing this, gives businesses an edge over competitors while keeping employees happy. Other benefits of outsourcing HR services include: handling the recruitment of new employees or contract workers, advertising, interviewing, background checks, dealing with disciplinary issues, managing employee safety, providing counseling to employees, limiting your business liability, keeping you on top of compliance and regulations, and arranging benefits to employees.

Outsourcing Company Expectations

To find the best outsourcing company for your needs, you need to have access to a results-driven and reliable company, with proven skills in HR. SourceMatch offers over 25 years of experience helping clients discover new areas for growth, effective project management, and recruiting. As times change and the workforce does as well, you will need to adjust company expectations as well as your HR department; to keep up with current and future trends. SourceMatch can handle your HR outsourcing needs by keeping up with regulatory compliance, employee payroll, applicant tracking, interviews, in-depth assessments, and employee training.

Types of HR Outsourcing

You will want to find an outsourcing company that can offer benefit services, consulting, renewal management, and HR administration. You are signing on with an experienced company or partner, who will handle the HR responsibilities and your talent. You will need to connect with SourceMatch to balance what you can obtain and what your company needs currently are.

When to Outsource HR?

When you notice any red flags or a series of events that can disrupt your company’s daily functions, then it is a good idea to invest in outsourcing HR services. Has your company been through several changes in its payroll system? Is your company’s management team finding HR too complex? Are you up to date on all legal changes? With the savings your company receives from outsourcing HR, you can better manage current staff and growth. Outsourcing HR allows for SourceMatch to focus on HR related information that your company may not have the time for. Your company can focus on the larger picture, rather than areas of maintenance. This creates time and money to focus more on your staff and company growth.

Talent Mapping Company

Talent mapping has become a vital resource to use in talent acquisition and retention. This method assesses current employees’ performance and matches that with the organization’s needs. It helps with future recruitment and future job needs. The main goal of talent mapping is planning for the future. Some benefits include: reducing the time of hiring, strategic talent development, inclusive employee engagement, and boosting employee morale. By partnering with SourceMatch, your company gains access to our specialized team of talent mappers and project managers. We specialize in HR talent mapping, to support our clients and their employees’ best interests.

RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)

Recruitment process outsourcing is a form of process outsourcing, where an employer transfers all or part of its recruitment processes to an external service provider. By utilizing the resources of an RPO partner, companies discover more effective ways to gain and retain employees. RPO’s specialize in recruiting and retention along with an up to date knowledge of this ever-changing, competitive field. SourceMatch stays up to date and is a valuable asset for a company’s RPO challenges.

Business Process Outsourcing

BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of a specific business process to a third-party service provider. This includes internal business functions such as human resources or finance, marketing, social media, accounting, front office, customer relations, and call center services. Due to SourceMatch’s locations (Europe and USA), we can provide our clients BPO successfully, and at a reduced cost. This allows our clients to save on expenses, concentrate on key functions, achieve results in noncore functions, expand their global presence, flexibility, and efficiency.

Positive Changes to the HR Department

How is your company culture? Have you noticed a benevolent attitude or does it seem to be going down a toxic route? A toxic work culture can lead to high turnover and poor employee motivation. The HR department can learn how to be a positive influence on your work culture by partnering with SourceMatch and letting us guide your team into positive work experience. SourceMatch can provide HR consulting services and find the right talent for a positive cultural match. We do this by training your HR team to develop the skills necessary that can identify employee norms and key behaviors for the management team to recognize. By creating a positive company culture, the results are higher productivity, increased employee engagement, and lower attrition rates.

Contact us to find out more about our HR outsourcing strategies, we would be happy to successfully identify areas that your company can excel in.

Oct 08
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talent mapping

Talent Mapping is Essential to Effective Recruiting

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Why It’s Important
Talent mapping is a helpful strategy for companies to use, to better align short and long term goals. By using talent mapping, companies assess, evaluate, and review their current staff, to better prepare for the future. This technique, charts individuals’ skills, and abilities, vets their performance and potential and matches them with workforce planning strategies to balance an organization’s talent and needs. Talent mapping can enable an organization to determine strategies for future hiring, including internal promotions, short- and long-term hiring needs, and development of existing talent to meet future staffing needs.
It is a proactive approach for employee planning, both in the short and long term.

Planning Ahead
By planning ahead, companies create a culture of security for employees as well as stakeholders. If plan A doesn’t pan out, then plan B might be the better choice. This gives employees and management a safety net, in regards to future options. As the quote says “if you don’t know where you are going, any path will get you there.” Having a plan better prepares everyone for special circumstances that may arise, creating a more secure stance towards problem-solving.

Important Goals and Input From Employees
Companies must communicate short and long term goals with employees. These goals include specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely; or S.M.A.R.T goals. Employees need to know how to stay on track and achieve milestones, which increases motivation. Company goals should be realistic and attainable. To reinforce goals, companies must allow and give all employees a voice for input. Gaining employee input can increase the sense of ownership and satisfaction in their roles in the company

Short Term Employee Goals
Training staff in the short term requires knowing your staff’s strengths and areas for growth. It’s highly recommended to focus on their strengths and allow employee input, into areas for their training and how they would like to obtain their short term goals. Short term could be a week or a month but would focus on what goals he or she would like to accomplish during that time, and in what capacity the employer can offer assistance.

Short Term Company Goals
What are your company’s short term goals? Are there any special projects coming up? Where will your company’s needs be, in order to fill in any gaps for short term projects? Are you set up for success with short term projects? Where does your company need assistance or shifting of roles for any of these projects? This could be in regards to a new client. You will need a plan and employee assistance with any new projects.

Medium Term
Where do your employees see themselves in the medium term? What strengths and goals do they have or how do they want to learn and grow? Are you utilizing all of your talent accordingly? By discussing goals with employees, and mapping a plan, you can create a culture of growth. You can also assess any gaps that may arise. If employee A wants to learn more about accounting, and employee B wants to learn more about marketing, you may notice a gap, that they leave behind. Do you have employees who want to fill those gaps? You will need assistance in filling in those gaps; SourceMatch specializes in talent mapping and consulting.

Long Term
What are your company’s long term goals? What do you foresee in regards to upcoming projects in the next 6 months to a year or beyond? What do your stakeholders expect to see during that time? You will need to plan and to fill any gaps in jobs, either using current employees or recruiting new ones. Discussing long term goals with employees, better prepares your company for any future vacancies or promotions. With this discussion of personal and professional goals, you motivate employees and provide positive reinforcement to the company’s value system or culture. By having a company-wide discussion and allowing employee input, this will boost confidence and allow for employees and employers to stay continuously up to date with any corporate changes.

Finding the Gaps
To find the short and long term gaps, companies need to create or have a plan. You can reach out to consultants such as SourceMatch, to better assist in this process. We have refined the talent mapping approach, to better serve our clients. The benefits of this are many. Companies who utilize this plan find that they save money, time, and resources. When an employee changes a position or gets promoted, you will have a new spot to fill. This happens quite often and causes a disturbance in daily operations. You can decrease the impact this may have, by consulting with our staff for solutions.

Benefits
To find and fill in the gaps, we plan accordingly. Using talent mapping, we find and fill in the present and future open positions. By consulting with employees, companies can verify gaps using a map-based system, based on employee strengths and goals. This requires input from your staff and managers, as well as constant feedback and open communication. Some employees may discover they prefer a certain job duty over others or might be more skilled in one area vs. another.

Attainable Company Goals
Companies need to have and share attainable goals, with employees. Companies make goals with management and operations, but they should also create goals with entry-level employees as well. This allows for employee retention and motivates employees to achieve goals within the company as well as achieve their own personal and professional goals. By setting your company goals to be attainable, you inform and inspire your staff to stay on board.
This takes engaging your employees to help reach the company’s destination, where employees will take appropriate risks and act in the best interest of the organization. You will need to clearly define the company goals, measure those, and provide metrics that are relatable. For example, you can share goals for improving customer service or satisfaction, retention, response time, new product ideas, or allow time for improvement ideas that employees may have. You will also want to set your employees up for success, based on these goals. You will do this by providing clarity, appropriate resources, information, skills, motivation, and training. Managers will also need to give plenty of feedback and recognition. Things like this can get lost in the day to day workings, but if you acknowledge efforts, you will have a motivated employee. Take and listen to what your employees say, monitor it, and adhere to the organization’s values for performance. You can create a level of trust and support, which can guide and grow your company. Utilizing this style of engagement and talent mapping, will create a successful atmosphere and work culture, for your organization.

Conclusion
Today’s workplace is continuously changing. By utilizing and staying up to date with your talent map, your workplace can obtain goals, both professional and personal, to guide and prepare for the next steps.

Reach out to us to learn more.

Oct 07
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talent engagement

Talent Engagement in 2019

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Is the talent acquisition organization’s mindset shifting? Yes, it is!
A recent report from Beamery reveals that 90% of respondents state that talent engagement is a priority of their organization in 2019; and recruiters are relying more on building and nurturing relationships with talent, as opposed to reacting to explicit needs.

Along with the rise of candidates’ expectations, teams became more specialized and 86% of them already have or planned to build out at least one new specialized unit this year. 39% of them use a CRM, a recruitment marketing tool, or a talent engagement platform. This is up from 26% in 2018. This, in turn, helps nurture and build relationships with candidates.
“Innovation in Talent is becoming a core strategic priority for companies looking to create and retain a competitive advantage. The talent acquisition function has been maturing to become more proactive, with businesses seeking to build meaningful relationships with potential candidates and treat them like valued customers,” agrees Abakar Saidov, the Co-Founder and CEO of Beamery.

Why does your company prioritize talent engagement?
72% of respondents from the same report said that it creates a pipeline of high-quality talent
50% believe that it helps improve the employer brand
49% of respondents say that it enables the talent acquisition team to be more strategic
46% – It improves the candidate experience
25% – It’s part of a board-level or business-wide initiative

Candidates now have higher expectations: 72% of candidates who have had a bad experience have shared it (Workplace Trends), and 85% of candidates say they won’t consider a company again after a bad experience (Jobvite). Therefore, the recruiting function of organizations and talent teams’ responsibilities changed: 73% of recruiters state that the Talent Acquisition organization has gained a place in business executive decisions in the past 5 years.

The proactive approach to recruiting
This year, 84% of talent acquisition teams source proactively, only slightly higher compared to 83% last year. And for good reason: 94% of recruiters are convinced that engaged candidates are more likely to apply, and 80% of them see that the quality of their hires has increased as a result of having pipelines in place.
The first step in this new era of recruiting is to have a deeper understanding of what talent engagement is and find ways to create a solid and meaningful relationship with the candidate.

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