Contemporary HR issues Blog #2 - What are the most important HR issues facing your organization today?

Employee Recruitment

In previous blog I discussed about the importance of the HRM for an organization & also about the problems that the organizations will have to face if they do not have proper HRM practices.

Although even if your organization has the best HRM practices still you have to face very challenging environment when handling human resources now days.

There are so many HRM challenges that organizations face now days & those challenges are briefed in below chart.

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(Great Place to Work, 2018)

According to the researches done in year 2016 recruitment is considered as one of the top HR challenges now days. About quarter of organizations which were identified as Best workplaces in year 2015/2016 are facing a huge shortage of qualified candidates for their vacancies. (Great Place to Work, 2018)

Recruitment is a very crucial & important process for the success of an organization. Proper recruitment can increase the both efficiency & the effectiveness of the organization. (Barbara, 1998)

Success of an organization is depending on the performance of its employees. Hence the recruitment process is very important for an organization to hire the most suitable candidate & also since the recruitment should be done according to the vision of the organization it becomes even more challenging.

Companies spend lot of money & time on finding suitable candidates for their vacancies. Recruitment is a process to find & engage most suitable people to fulfill the requirements of the organization & that process can be very costly. (Armstrong, 2009)

Recruitment is a long process & it contain following steps.

·       Identifying the requirement

·       Attract candidates

·       Sorting application

·       Interview / Test

·       Evaluating candidates

·       Collect references about selected candidates

·       Checking application

·       Employment offer

·       Follow-up

(Armstrong, 2009)

There are so many advertising methods that an organization can follow to attract applicant for recruiting. Those advertisements are published by using newspapers, TV/radio advertisement, company website advertisement, intranet advertisement for internal candidates, job websites & social media advertising. Current job advertising methods are more oriented to digital methods.

However every organization expects to hire the best & most suitable candidates for their vacancies by using various advertising methods. Since there is huge competition job market recruitment has become the one of the biggest HR challenge in today’s world.

Other than recruitment there are many other important contemporary HR issues & those issues will be discussed in coming blogs.

References

Armstrong, M. (2009) Armstrong’s handbook of human resource management practice, 11^th edition, London.

Barber, A E. (1998) Recruiting Employees: Individual and Organizational Perspectives, Sage, Thousand Oaks, Canada.

Great Place to Work (2018) What are the current HR challenges. Available at http://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/publications-and-events/insights/1025-what-are-the-current-hr-challenges
         (Accessed: 5^th May 2018 at 12.01am).