Being a successful Human Resource leader is no easy task.
The challenges are many and varied – and sometimes maintaining both your sanity and your effectiveness can test even the most accomplished leader!
All companies know their employees are usually their most important assets.
In today’s economy, hiring the best people is more critical than ever. And it can be expensive.
Not only do organisations have the financial costs of finding, interviewing, engaging and training new employees — there are also the ongoing costs of salaries, benefits and taxes once the employee is on board.
Recent research has shown that for many employees, attaining job satisfaction and better job engagement is all about feeling that their ideas are welcomed, and that they are being taken seriously.
If they can at least in part, influence the direction of their organisation, and have input that is genuinely valued, then this is a huge step towards an employee feeling engaged and empowered.
There is an ongoing debate about the use of drug testing in the workplace. Those in favour say it reduces risk and accidents in the workplace - while those against say it can be an imposition on workers’ private lives.
Obviously it is important to have a happy medium - and with the increasing use of ‘oral fluid’ testing (through saliva) to check for drugs in the system - employers can now find out within minutes if a person has drugs in his or her system.
Workplace insurance is important for employers and employees alike. Workplace hazards are a major cause of accidents – and can also lead to higher workers’ compensation and insurance costs.
As a business owner, it is of course, hugely important to educate all of your workers about possible hazards in order to control and minimise their incidence and severity.
Apart from the obvious injuries and death, penalties and compensation associated with workplace incidents, there are significant indirect costs when WHS systems fail. Poor safety performance can have a large impact on business operation and performance - often as a result of reduced productivity and low morale.
Check out this infographic outlining Western Australia's labour force. All numbers from the most recent Department of Employment reports.
The Labour Force in Western Australia from recruitwest
TALENT ANALYTICS
One area expected to grow exponentially in coming years - and to also make a huge impact on hiring and retaining talent - is predictive modelling based on people - or talent analytics. At RecruitWest we are already developing such modelling to help improve our job search procedures and to target future talent.
Regardless of the prevalence of Safety Glasses on our sites in Perth, work-related eye injuries remain a common problem in the workforce. They are also a common cause of work-related injury presentation to medical centres and emergency departments across Perth.
RecruitWest are the Experts in RPO
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is basically the outsourcing of all, or part, of an organisation’s recruitment to a third-party recruitment specialist. When managed well, RPO can reduce the time needed to hire someone by up to 40 per cent and provide cost savings of more than 50 per cent.
