In Today’s hyper – connected and competitive Talent Market it is essential for Talent Acquisitionists to stay updated with the Unique HR Practices Followed by Organisations to retain Talent. So how does one remain updated about the current HR practices? To which the answer is simple; by joining Recruitment groups like the Sourcing ADDA WhatsApp groups.

We @SourcingAdda provide a platform such as WhatsApp for Talent Acquisitionists to interact, add to their learning and stay updated with the latest trends in the Recruitment Sphere. We conduct group discussions every Wednesday the topic was suggested by one of the Pune group members Sapana. Where we discussed the, “Best Unique HR Practices Followed by Organisations” where members from different companies shared their organisations practices.  To help you stay updated we’ll be disclosing the chat below and right after highlighting the key take away pointers for your review. Therefore let’s begin…

Well this brings us to an end of another discussion and we’re sure you’ve added to you learning. Therefore let’s get down to the key take away pointers which are what you too are interested to review, so let’s start…

Best HR Practices

Employee Engagement

• Conduct employee engaging activities like Secret Friend for Friendship Day or similarly Secret Santa for Christmas but within the organisation.
• A creative image of new joiners and employees completing 3+ years can be displayed at the front desk and posted on Social Media.
• Conduct open house sessions once in every quarter to understand the problems, concerns of employees & sort out immediately.
• Celebrate important years of the Employees such as
  • Birthday’s, Work & Marriage Anniversaries in the office
    • Give them a Greeting Card
    • Cake cutting
    • Distribute meal coupons
    • Give them Gift Vouchers or Cards
  • Have awards such as “Employee of the Month” with trophy & a cheque of Rs.10,000.
  • Have and introduce retirement schemes like Group –
    • Superannuation
    • Gratuity
    • Leave Encashment
  • Have schemes that can help Employee’s wellness

Employee Approach

• Implement approaches like –
• No Micromanagement so long as the Employees after giving them clear cut instructions such as –
  • They need to take complete ownership of the tasks allotted
  • Finish the tasks in their time but as per scheduled
  • In an ethical manner
  • Have Flexible Timings wherein you can –
• Have a 12 hour window within which they can come and work for a 9 hour period which is applicable provided
  • Employees are free to set their own work timings
  • The work gets done
  • It doesn’t affect co-ordination amongst teams
• Avoid Dress Code policies –
  • As you should judge people on the basis of the –
  • Work they do
  • How the work is done
  • The values they bring to the stake holders of the company i.e. the other Employees and Clients
  • Use better judgement when choosing attires as this is still a professional environment
  • Use good judgement when there are any meetings either Internal or with External entities like clients or vendors.

Employee Referral Programs

• Referral bonus is to be given to the offer accepted candidates based on the criteria being that both the candidates join and work for minimum 3 months.

Now that we’ve even highlighted the points for you to review you might be interested in knowing how to safe guard current & future business prospects as Consultants? And having said that you would probably want to know how you can be an active participant so here’s how in 2 simple steps, namely –

1. Follow us @Sourcingadda to gain real time updates to our upcoming activities and events such as the Talent Acquisition Summit
2. a) Leave your views or requests to join these groups in our comments section below

OR

1. b) DM us to @Sourcingadda with your name, WhatsApp. Contact no. and location

And one of our representatives will get back to you as soon as possible.