What HR Managers should do to ensure Success?

Here we have some tips by which you can ensure success in this dynamic system of Human Resource which changes gradually day by day. These are the basic things which I think can do well to achieve success in everyone careers. You just have to follow these simple tips to ensure success.

• You should use the workforce skills and abilities efficiently to grab opportunities and neutralize threats.
• Make some contemporary reward plans to recognize contribution of workforce.
• Continuously work to improve quality management by using Total Quality Management and HR contribution such as training, counseling and development. 
• Employ people with unique capabilities to create incomparable competition in particular areas. 
• Lay off employees in a smooth manner with appropriate explanation to unions to avoid hassles and strikes.
• Decentralize the authorities and powers and make self managed teams to take decision on the time of occurrence of problem.

With the intervention of new HR trends Human Resource is now more complex than years ago. In these days industries professionals are using people as resource. So you should recognize them with rewards and try to increase their aspirations with company goals through worthy HR Policies.

"Motivation: Act as a catalyst for the growth of a company"

Motivation means to provide intellect, reward, entrust, or concern those results in a particular action or absolute behavior or conduct. Even a simple action of eating is motivated by hunger. As literacy is motivated by desire of gaining knowledge. From incentive to necessity anything can work as a motivator.

Here we have some ways through which you can motivate your employees without using money as a tool. Because money not always works as a motivator for those who are career conscious. So you should try to use these following tips as to motivate your team.

Understand and acknowledge your employees career objectives.

Some employees are on the track of some specific career path so you just need to know their career objectives and give them a chance to perform at a higher level and let them show their potential. Because those who are career conscious are not always motivate by money. So time to time we have to tell them the about the upcoming opportunity and promotion and upward mobility in the organization. I think it can work wonder for the growth of an organization. 

Employee retention

Retaining old employees always better then to recruit new one on that place because by recruiting new employee you are not loosing money, time and talent. Rather we also loose the loyalty of employees on the other side. We are spending so much time to train an employee. So the supervisors and team leaders have to determine how they can make them loyal towards the organization by using best management practices. 

Job Security

The most important thing is to motivate employees is Job Security. Because it leaves the good impact on an employee by doing so we can get the 100% of the employee. Till the time he is not secure with us he will always thinking of job termination and trying other things to get their life on track. Money does not work in the absence of job security. 

Enhance cultural values and working atmosphere

By enhancing the cultural values and working atmosphere, you can motivate the employees. Everyone would like to work with that organization which has good working conditions and cultural values. High level of employee retention and employee engagement leaves good impact on employees and they are less likely to leave the organization. Company mission and vision works wonder to boost up the morale of the employees as they are seeking their growth with that organization.

Need to redefine job requirements and create more challenging jobs

One of the most important factors to motivate employees is to redefine their jobs. As sometimes they get bored by doing his routine jobs. So by redesigning the job requirement you can get the back employees interest which they had loose.  And try to create more challenging jobs for those who are performing well.

Recognize performers publicly

Recognition is one of the tools which have a higher value then to increase the pay of someone. So the manager should recognize the performance publicly because it leaves the good impact on an employee and also increases his self respect.

Create training programmes and educational opportunities

By assessing the need of training we should create the new training programmes and create educational opportunities for those who are seeking of it for their career development.

These are the few tips, which you can use to motivate the employees. I think it will work better rather then increase in pay.

Skills you must own ; as a HR Professional

Being an HR Professional I would like to share some of my views or you can say the skills which I realize that every HR professional must have. The job of a HR professional is a very responsible job. Every manager should have a positive approach while performing his duties to keep the mission and vision of the company in mind. The job of a HR manager starts from a recruitment and then it is keep moving with an employee life cycle till his exit from an organization. Here we have some skills which are important for every HR Professional in his career.

Organization

HR Professionals requires an organizing approach. Time management, organizing records and personal efficiency are the key skills of the human resource management. Because we deals with employee s career and their lives. So we should keep in mind that our job is to organizing the organization.

Multitasking Job

The job of a HR professional is multitasking one day we are dealing with an employee’s personal issue and another day we deals in recruitment strategy, compliance and on the other hand tries to make the system easy going. So we need to handle all these things at once.

Business Ethics and Discretion

HR Professionals are the keepers of confidential information of an organization. As we serve the management from the top to bottom. We have also monitored the approach and performance of every employee to ensure proper ethics as per corporate and business ethics of every industry. 

Dual Focus

HR Professionals have to understand the needs of employee and employer both. There is time when you have to protect the interest of employees and on the other hand you have to protect the culture and beliefs of the organization. Decisions taken at those moments could be create an issue between employees but you have to protect the interest of both employee and employer while explaining your choice.

Employee Trust

As a HR Professional you have to win the trust of both employee and employer while implementing the policies and also you have to enforce the top management policies during your career. So you have won the trust of all concerned.

Fairness  

In other words that communication should be clear so that voices of employees are heard, laws and policies should be followed so the culture and respect of the organization is maintained.

Dedication of continuous improvement

HR professional should be dedicated towards the continuous growth of the organization should work like a catalyst to add the pace in the growth of an organization while performing their duties.

Team Orientation

Today’s organization is divided in to different hierarchies. Every team has a different reporting authorities and managers. So you have to understand the dynamics and bring the people together and trying to remove the attitude problems between them.

I think you have enjoyed this article. These are basics of human resource. So I was just trying to help those people who have not aware of it. 

How to Reduce Workplace Negativity

• The best ways to minimizing workplace negativity is to take care of it from the first phase. There are few tips which will help you to reduce workplace negativity.

• Take suggestions from the employees regarding workplace policies and procedures; get theirs opinions and ideas to make workplace better. Recognize the impact of change due to those opinions on different areas such as working conditions and hours, overtime and pay. These are those areas which are close to the mind set of every individual. So provide timely assistance to all these factors to minimize the workplace negativity.

• Treat every employee carefully with fairness and consistency. Make workplace policies and procedure and publicize it in to the organization, so that everyone will come to know about these policies and procedure and follow it.

• Do not create rules for everyone, as few of them creating the nuisance and violating the rules. Instead of making the rule you should minimize the number of rules and creating an approach the behavior of adult people at work.

• Involve all the team in to decision making process so that nobody feels inferior to one another. It will also improve the team performance and making a strong bond between them.

• Give equal opportunity to all according to his nature of job, qualification and age. Give them opportunity to grow and develop. Training which will give them the chance of promotion and development.

• Give reward and recognition to everyone. So the people feel that their contribution is valued and it will create sense of recognition.

These are some of my views by which we can reduce the workplace negativity and help the organization to grow in full pace.

Tips to boost your HR careers in 2012

Here I am going to give you some tips or you can say ideas to boost your Human Resource career in 2012. Few of them are so simple to do and some will demanding your attention and hard work to complete the task, but all of them are fantastic and will work only if you will follow those ideas. It all depends on you; pick up those ideas that can work for you.

·         Try to increase the numbers of recommendations on linked in;

It will help you to get noticed by the recruiters and head hunters and also help you to highlight among the recruiters world.

·         Log on to twitter account and attract meaning full followers:

Twitter is all about sharing and you can get an advantage of it by sharing your knowledge with others and get tips from them and posts some inspirational quotes and relevant articles which will help others. Because by doing so you can attract more and more followers and get highlighted between them by showcasing your knowledge.

·         Get HR certifications:

You should all try to get some online HR certifications which can underline your HR expertise and differentiating you from other in your competition. Certification like PHR, SPHR or GPHR will really helps you to get attention of employer.

·         Clear one thing in  your mind that what’s make you different:

Try to find out the answer of the questions of interviewer like why should I promote or hire you?

And what are your strengths in this field of HR. so try to find out the answer of these questions and try to make you different from others.

·         Join HR association:

There are so many associations and online groups related to Human Resource. You must have join one from them and start to attend debates and seminar so that your ideas can reach numbers of people.

·         Showcase your knowledge and skills:

Get on work and start showcasing your knowledge and skills among your friends and team members which will help you to enhance your skills and also motivate you to learn more.

So these are the few tips which will help you to attain your career goal in this year. No matters what you did before and what you have right now, but try once these tips if you never tried before, will help you a lot. All the best !

Few tips to improve your Resume Writing

Here we have few tips to improve your resume writing, these are the general tips which we should keep in mind while working on resume. So make sure before going for an interview that your resume is well written to grab the attention of interviewer.

• One thing which we should keep in mind that the motive of the resume is to get an interview, so keep it to the point as you can instead of explaining everything which you had done throughout your career. 
•  Adopt a simple layout of your resume, because most of the hiring manager has only a few minutes of having a look of you resume.

• You can use only one or two fonts in your resume and font size should be 11-12.

• Avoid using color.

• Use attention grabbing words like developed, achieved etc instead of using typical words.

• Revise your resume 2-3 times to check the grammatical mistakes.

• Make sure your resume should be job oriented for which you are applying for.

• Keep your sentences short as much as you can.

•  Do not put much stress on those areas which are not related to your job.

•  If you are a fresher then length of the resume should be 1-2 pages and for experienced not more than 3.

Why Talent Management is Important ?

* Recruitment & Selection.
* Getting the best of all employees.
* Help to deliver corporate objectives and plans.
* Productive, Committed working environment.
* Succession Planning.

Top 10 interview tips

Here we have some tips which you should follow before facing an interview. by following these tips perhaps you can increase your chances to get selected. as an interviewee you should follow these simple tips which most of candidates ignored during interviews but it can be helpful if followed. Take a review of the company back  ground.

1. Dress properly because as we all knows first impression is the last impression.
2. Communication skills are the best tool to crack any interview. so work on  it if you are lack of it.
3. Stick to the question . do not talk too much as it leaves bad impression on interviewer.
4. Do not give wrong answer to the question if you don't have right answer. accept it.
5. Do not talk negative either about your present or previous employer.
6. Be on time. if you are new to the place of interview then have some idea about the exact location from someone.
7. Stay calm before heading towards interview session.
8. Always show what you have, do not ever try to be smart.
9. Give smile to the interviewers .
10. Last but not the least write a short thank yo note to the interviewer.