HR professionals today are either generalists or specialise in specific areas. There are modern trends in that ecosystem that help these professionals to be more successful at their jobs. In fact, these things that I will reveal are trends that if you don’t know might cost you your job in the next two years!
Talking about trends, have you noticed today how HR folks take up various job labels for their roles? As an HR professional, one of these should be your current title right now: I have seen, Head of People, Human Resources Manager, HR Business Partner, Human Capital, and People Operations. If I missed your current HR title or any others you’ve seen, please add it in the comment box below.
Those different labels simply tell us that job roles are becoming more refined. And that includes the job of an HR personnel. Being refined doesn’t take away the possibility of still juggling multiple tasks. Basically, it goes on to mean being a Smart HR professional who learns and adopts useful tools for making their job more successful and rewarding. So what are those things that you might not know about being a Smart HR professional? I have identified four things below.
1. Smart attendance and leave management: The future of work is already here and even biometric fingerprint scanners wouldn’t cut it anymore. Whether your people operate full-time on-site or not, if you care about hours of work, then get tools that allow employees to send smart bots in and out of the office. There are a number of tools that can automatically record hours at work. An example is here.
2. Smart recruitment management: I would be surprised if you still receive and print hundreds of CVs to read word for word just to shortlist candidates. Actually, if you do print out CVs to read, your company must have so much money to waste on paper. This is the age where you can literally draft, sign, share, review, and receive all kinds of documents digitally without the need for paper or printing. (Meanwhile, you can sign up here to use ToNote’s e-sign tool on a free trial). For smart recruitment, use a CV review tool, and look out for applicant tracking systems on the internet today.
3. Smart candidate verification: Problems of identity verification, forged documents, and false age declaration by job candidates have become issues of concern in society today. Organisations that aren’t smart about verifying the identities of job candidates and their employees stand enormous risks. As an HR professional, you will need to get a legal tech tool that has KYC verification features linked to the national database to stop the wrong hires before they can join your team. Candidates can submit their certificates, affidavit of age declaration, notarised guarantor form, or any other key document digitally to you via a platform such as ToNote, just so the system can verify the authenticity of their identity and documents.
4. Smart employee feedback: Finally, I think that getting or simplifying employee feedback makes a smart HR professional. The worst is to ignore employee feedback altogether. Use apps designed for feedback collection to receive employee responses in real-time. You can also understand your employees’ needs and challenges by using tools that enable anonymous survey responses.
I hope you can see with me that a lot is happening in the HR world that tells who a smart HR is. What modern HR tool are you using that’s not in my top four? Let me know in the comment area and I will definitely update the list in a sequel.
Happy reading!
NoteMate writer: D.E.I
