TALENT MOBILITY BLOG
Our thoughts on the future of work and resources to help you get there
How to Mobilize and Develop Your Workforce During Uncertain Times
Over the past two weeks, we’ve been in close contact with our clients, trying our best to understand how they’re coping during these uncertain times. We’ve found that our clients and partners in HR have swiftly responded to challenges including the need to manage an increasingly displaced workforce. Throughout our conversations, we’ve been looking to answer the following question: How can HR leaders continue to help deliver on their organizational goals?
Infographic: Job Hopping – Why It Happens and How You Can Prevent It
For younger workers (millennials), job-hopping, or the practice of changing jobs frequently to advance one’s career path…is no longer a death sentence. In fact, frequently jumping career is now seen as the norm, not the exception. It’s seen as an essential practice to advance one’s career. Below is an easy-to-understand guide on how you can create a better employee experience for your people from the start…resulting in less employee turnover and reduced recruiting costs.
How Managers Can Become Better Career Coaches
For the best managers, taking feedback is also a part of their game. The best managers work in tandem with their reports rather than talking down to them. Good managers recognize that employees with specialized skills are subject matter experts. It’s a team effort to create organizations with engaged and motivated workforces. That’s why we can’t overstate how valuable it is when managers step in as career coaches. They’re the leaders that uphold your internal standards of career and leadership development. As an organization, you should never stop reminding them of that.
The Internal Mobility Metrics You Should Be Tracking (HR Zone)
Talent teams worldwide are starting to realise that their greatest source of talent is already inside their organisations. In today’s competitive talent market, internal mobility opportunities within companies are becoming more of an expectation than a perk for employees. Unfortunately, many HR professionals don’t know if what they’re doing is working. In fact, just 30% of HR professionals feel that their organisation has the ability to meet their talent mobility goals.
Do Your Employees Not See Career Growth at Your Company? Let’s Change That.
According to Jobvite’s annual Job Seeker Nation report, career opportunities topped the list of employee priorities with 61% of respondents saying career growth was their number one concern. Employees that don’t feel like they’re growing become dis-engaged…and ultimately leave. And even if they stay? The fact that they aren’t growing in their role (or worse yet, are in the wrong one, altogether), is costing you big time.
3 Takeaways From David Green’s “Analytics has moved from the periphery towards the centre of HR” in People Matters
69% of large organizations now have a “people analytics” team. Green also predicts that the fascination with people analytics will continue to grow given its ability to positively impact a businesses’ bottom line. We agree – we think that people analytics is the foundation for all modern talent teams. We believe that all HR professionals should be leveraging data to drive organizational strategy.
Internal Mobility: Whose responsibility is it, anyway?
Internal mobility is crucial to building the workforce of the future and creating career growth for your employees. You’ve read about internal mobility in important industry publications. You’ve heard about it at conferences. You’ve even brought up a few dazzling initiatives to your superiors. And what better time to do so? As we head into 2020 and beyond, the future of work is already here. The demand has never been higher for innovative HR solutions.
Discover Your Organization’s Skill Gaps: A 5-Step Guide
We’ve talked about how it’s becoming more difficult by the year to get the right talent in the door, train them, then keep them. As an HR or business leader, you should be performing a skills gap analysis on your organization. Think of it as a SWOT analysis of your company’s human capital situation.
Infographic: How To Increase The Number of Applicants For An Internal Role
Finding the best candidate for an open job is never easy. It’s a buyer’s market for jobs these days. At Paddle HR, we’re big believers that hiring internally is cheaper and faster than spending time recruiting external talent. We also believe that internal hiring shows your existing workforce that there’s room to grow within the company, thereby boosting employee morale and productivity.
The “In-House Side Hustle”: Why It’s Your Secret Weapon For Employee Engagement And Productivity
The gig economy. There’s been a lot of talk about it will affect the future of work for the enterprise. It’s likely that your most creative and productive employees have part-time projects outside of the workplace. Especially for large corporations, there’s a concern that this will create a disengaged workforce…or even one prone to employee attrition.