Your [insert: team, company, agriculture startup…] is only as strong as its weakest link. There is a similar sentiment in the case of your Human Resources team—the way these individuals recruit and support your employees is a central function of your organization’s success.
With the number and nuance of responsibilities HR teams have, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a successful team that isn’t using some kind of software to manage it all. That being said, not all teams see the value in such a solution—in a survey by Capterra, they found that 47% of small businesses consider HR-specific software as beneficial but necessary to their business.
In this article, we’ll cover how using a Work OS offers a flexible, scalable HR solution that can provide serious value to any organization.
What is HR?
Human resources (HR) is the department of business responsible for finding, screening, recruiting, and training job applicants. They may also administer things like employee benefit programs.
HR plays a key role in business, now more than ever. In 2021, job growth surged, especially during June and July, according to Forbes. In times like these, HR teams really shine, helping companies deal with fast-changing environments and of course the increasing demand for employees.
What are different jobs in HR?
Depending on the organization, HR may be divided into different sub-teams with very specific functions. Here are some of the most common types of human resources jobs from Indeed.com’s list of 12:
- Employment Specialist
- Recruiter
- Director of Employee Experience
- Human Resources Manager
- Human Resources Coordinator
- Employee Relations Manager
What does HR actually do?
Because every organization uses different nomenclature for functions relating to HR, it can be hard to get a clear picture of what this entails. The Conference Board, a member-driven research organization conducted research and found six key people-related activities that HR should strive to do effectively in order to bring value to a company:
- Managing and using people effectively
- Attaching performance assessment and pay to proficiency and expertise
- Developing skills that enhance individual and organizational performance
- Increasing the innovation, creativity, and flexibility needed to enhance competitiveness
- Applying new approaches to workflow creation, succession planning, career development, and internal mobility
- Managing the implementation and integration of technology through improved staffing, training, and communication
What is the difference between recruitment and talent acquisition?
It is not uncommon for people to think these terms share the same meaning.
However, recruitment is related to filling vacancies, while talent acquisition refers to an ongoing strategy and process for finding specialists, leaders, and more for your organization.
The bottom line? Both play an important role when it comes to human resource management.
Choosing the right HR software
According to Deloitte, 47% of companies have HR software that is over seven years old. With the continued transformation of workflow management to automated systems, it’s crucial that you choose an HR solution that meets your unique needs, but is also flexible enough to scale with time.
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What is staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud?
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud is a Work Operating System (Work OS) that’s both intuitive and straightforward. Unlike many restrictive HR solutions, it allows teams to customize workflows to bring transparency and collaboration to projects and save time by automating or eliminating manual work.
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud’s unparalleled customization and precision allow teams to work exactly how they want, whether it’s a hiring campaign, communicating an organizational change, tracking candidate leads, or organizing a daily task list.
What exactly is a Work OS?
A work operating system (Work OS) is a cloud-based software platform where teams build custom workflow apps. It allows teams to plan, run, and track processes, projects, and everyday work.
A Work OS is geared for organizations of all sizes and across all functions of an organization, like HR because it becomes a digital workspace with an organization with building blocks that can be assembled into apps that manage any kind of work. It can also collect information from external tools and it helps teams communicate in context about work, all in one place.
Let’s take a look at some specific features of staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud Work OS that make it a great match for HR teams and functions.
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud: built with all the HR features you need
Managing all of your HR processes in one place presents a huge advantage—time saved for your team and your employees. According to Human Resource Executive, a survey from Topia, an HR tech company found that close to 60% of workers say their HR tools are disjointed, difficult, outdated, and glitchy or provide a poor user experience.
They also reported that the time employees waste on completing HR-related tasks amounts to up to 40 million hours each month and about $8.15 billion in lost productivity across large companies in the United States and the United Kingdom.
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud’s features are meant to save your colleagues time and frustration when it comes to recruitment, onboarding, and employee management. Here are a few of our favorites for HR functions:
Templates
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud has a unique Template Center with templates that are customizable for every industry, business, and team. By starting with one of these templates, your team can get moving with ease right away and make adjustments for your specific workflows and processes as you go.
Take our Recruitment process template for example:
You can oversee the recruitment pipeline from start to finish, using colorful statuses to track the interview cycle, store files like CVs, and easily collect potential candidate applications via a form.
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Workload View
Making sure your team can do their best is crucial to an HR team’s success. With Workload View, you can help ensure your recruiters have the capacity to keep up with the candidates in their pipeline, as well as visualize assignments and assign recruiters based on capacity.
Automations
Manual tasks can really slow an HR team down, whether it’s employee data entry or moving a candidate along in the interview process. Our automations recipes are designed to nip that in the bud.
For example, if after an interview a candidate did not pass, you can simply change the status to move their information to a new group in your workspace:
You can then export this information to excel.
Flexibility
Want to create an employee directory? staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud can function as a CRM to house details on employees’ positions, departments, start date, and contact information—even for details like dietary restrictions or interest areas to help your employee experience teams craft curated gifts or experiences.
Need to create high-level dashboards and reports to present to other business units? staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud allows you to create impressive and visually appealing dashboards and reports directly from the data in your workspace.
You can even use it to create your own templates for new employee onboarding and include important files, resources, and points of contact to guide your new joiners from the start.
Should you have any tools you can’t part with, there’s likely an integration for that, or you can build the app you need in our monday Apps Framework.
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud HR in action
Want to see staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud HR in action? Just last year we hosted a Human Resources Webinar with team member, Crystal, to walk you through how you can use staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud to elevate your hiring process, manage vacation requests more effectively, and keep track of the progress, development, and compensation package of every employee.
Handle your HR management needs with ease
HR is a critical function of a successful and connected organization. With so many efforts involved, from recruitment and people management to data management, spreading this work across multiple tools can cause a real headache.
staging-mondaycomblog.kinsta.cloud Work OS is a centralized and easy-to-use platform that will allow your HR team to move swiftly and openly throughout its workflow.
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