Why being sexy and performing miracles are all in a day’s work for your average HR generalist. Plus a few tips on how to become a sexy HR magnet.
Over the years, I've looked at a lot of people in HR, and they all seem to have one thing in common—at one time or another they end up pulling their hair out juggling too many balls with too few resources on hand. They often have too few hands to help them for that matter too. Here's my list of the top 9 things that at some stage make everyone in HR put their head in their hands.
9 things that keep HR busiest
- Accountability: HR is usually the first to get blamed—when good talent turns bad
- Expertise in everything: HR is expected to be an expert in hiring, developing, compliance, marketing & branding, PR, finance in addition to administration
- Competing roles: HR spends so much time ensuring compliance, you have no time left to think about being strategic.
- Fighting for resources: HR never has enough time, budget and/or talent to get stuff done exactly how you want it
- Performing miracles: HR owns performance management systems—but they never seem to fix anything
- Social scares: HR dirty laundry is increasingly getting aired on social media
- Guidance guru: HR established self-service capability for employees—but talent still needs constant help using it
- Politics: HR has the best intentions in the world, but office politics and office relationships have a habit of making things go pear-shaped
- Being sexy: HR just doesn’t seem sexy—and you don’t get the respect you deserve
How do I get great at HR?
It’s not easy being great at HR. If you want the answers join Paul Arkwright and the team of speakers at the jobsDB Magnetic HR Day. Find out how to bring the sexy back into HR (what do you mean it was never there in the first place?) Learn how to a HR magnet and attract talent today, tomorrow and beyond.
Join the jobsDB Magnetic HR Day on 20 June 2016
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One of the toughest challenges for HR is talent acquisition. Amid the ever-changing talent market and uncertainties of the modern economy, it is essential for HR to master complex workforce dynamics and deploy increasingly innovative solutions to attract top talent. With this in mind and to help HR address these key concerns, jobsDB has organised this year’s HR Day themed: Magnetic HR – attracting talent today, tomorrow and beyond.
Key highlights:
• Meet top-tier speakers from wide-ranging business segments
• Ask in-house HR experts about your workplace challenges and get immediate answers to help solve your biggest HR headaches
• Meet over 400 industry experts during the networking sessions
• Know more about latest HR solutions in the exhibition area
Key themes:
• Employer brands that pull talent in: building a robust employer brand, creating a ‘cool’ employer brand—how HR can best leverage this during the recruitment process.
• Irresistible employee value propositions: formulating an attractive employee value proposition (EVP)—what HR can do to let the best talent in the market know all about it.
• Innovation that brings staff together:
utilising mobile technology, nurturing a collaborative company culture and motivating staff to work together across different teams.
• Keeping HR leadership on true north: acting as a magnetic compass to steer the HR ship during this period of enormous and constant change.
• Engaging HR: keeping staff of all ages and at all levels in your organisation engaged—how these strategies link with your EVP and recruitment process.
• Stretchy HR: performing HR miracles on a very limited budget—deploying innovative recruitment and retention strategies that don’t cost an arm and a leg.
Become a sexy HR magnet! and resister your place today
Paul Arkwright
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