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Strategy in temp hiring
Temp hiring is an increasingly relevant topic in today's job market. Whether this is caused by uncertain economic times or by the trend that more and more people choose to work on a freelance basis: it is a fact that many companies are increasing their numbers of temporary employees. Temp hiring is an easy way to temporarily increase a company's capacity without the administrative burden and risk of having own staff on payroll.
Maintaining a temporary work force comes with responsibilities. Companies use temporary hiring for all kinds of functions. In general, temporary employees are as important for achieving a positive business result as permanent staff. They work in the same teams, work with the same commitment on the same projects and drink the same coffee at the same conference table. "Temporary" staff are sometimes recruited for several years of employment. It is therefore remarkable that in many companies temps are seen as a separate category. A category which is often neglected.
Our customer ProRail also thought it was a stange phenomenon, and decided late last year to have one united recruitment and temporary hiring department. Whether one searches for a permanent or a temporary position, both application procedures are the same at Prorail. CVs are carefully screened, interviews and agreements are identical. With the only difference that temporary vacancies are introduced through an agency and that its contracts run through that agency. All things considered, there is no reason to have completely separate administrative processes, instead, those processes should be aligned. This idea was quickly realised together with Peoplexs.
Currently ProRail deals with all vacancies in Peoplexs and does not need to have a separate system for hiring temporary staff. With the push of one button a recruiter can see all open vacancies, whether it is a temporary or permanent position. The recruiter can directly see whether the candidate has a history within the company and has applied for any other positions. Vacancies are posted through a portal to the specific agency and the temporary contract can be created and handled directly in Peoplexs.
For Prorail many more possiblities in Peoplexs await. In the future, it will be possible to expand the solution with a freelancer- and an internship module. The system exceeds the boundaries of an administrative tool and is increasingly becoming a strategic tool.
On the Community day on the 28th of September in The Netherlands, ProRail will host a workshop on temporary hiring. Registration is still possible (the Community day is in Dutch). Click here for a video of an interview with ProRail about their experiences.
goal management creates opportunities for every employee
Peoplexs values people. We are always exploring new ways to make the HR process easier and less time consuming in order to make it possible to focus on what is really important: the people that make the business. This is more than just recruitment. Sure, it's important that all posts are filled, but that's just the beginning. How to make everyone excel and create enough opportunities for development? How to keep talent loyal to your company and what's the best way to keep each employee happy? That's the biggest challenge.
In earlier days there were standard development programs that brought employees with high potential slowly to the top. Today we are used to a more personal approach for every single employee. Organisations that work from the inner strenght of the people will achieve more: creativity and sharing knowledge are more common there and their employees are more loyal. It's not an easy assignment for HR professionals. The bigger the company, the more difficult it is to keep track of all the different needs and support people personally.
Peoplexs has developed a goal management tool to help coördinating this process that makes it easier for organisations to support individual employees in achievinging their personal goals. Goal management gives an overview of the plans that are agreed to and shows whether things are on track. It's possible to add more tasks, like the tracking of absence, requests for special leave and training needs.
The Danish Århus University has partnered with us to implement the goal management system of Peoplexs . They use it as an PhD planner that tracks the progress of the students research. Applicants can submit their research and learning plans for university's evaluators and supervisors to approve. Several administrative processes are integrated in the system, which means easy access to student portfolios, ratings and absence or requests that are of influence to progress.
To us, this is only the beginning of value people and creating opportunities for everybody. We will continue developing and brind a wider range of talent management tools in de near future.
Catrina Davis
Ideeen top 5:
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(42 votes) Candidate search improvement:
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(30 votes) Distinction between externally and internally published vacancies
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(29 votes) Manager Notification: Add link to MGR Portal
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(35 votes) Bullet points
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(15 votes) Optimize filters
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Merge of duplicate entries in one step
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Print candidates
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Back to search results
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Notification when manager gives feedback into the form (for other contacts)
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View vacacy example from managersportal
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