HR is thought to be a human-centred job. After all, the words are right there, “human resources.” Surely, the people who work there are experts in reading vibes, feeling people out, and ensuring there’s a connection and full alignment between the company’s needs and their employees.
This is all true. However, modern digital tools give even the most seasoned HR veteran a powerful boost. Here’s how it works.
Better Job Descriptions Quicker
HR can dash off the perfect job description for common positions they regularly fill pretty quickly. What do they do when the role is more niche when the precise skills, behaviours, and experiences needed to thrive in it are a little unclear?
Big companies may have multiple divisions with many hard-to-describe jobs. In contrast, employees at smaller companies are expected to be a little more versatile and flexible. Now, HR pros can easily create job descriptions that get to the heart of the position by using job description software that focuses on core competencies.
Your HR teams, managers, and executives can get to the core competencies of each position in less time, reducing financial drain and wasted time and energy. HR professionals are free to use the job descriptions as they come in the software or use them as a springboard as they see fit.
Improved Follow-up Questions
Digital job description tools also help in the interview process. The core competencies underlying the job descriptions make another appearance in the database of over 1,000 high-quality, competency-based interview questions.
It only makes sense to use the same approach in all aspects of the hiring process and beyond. Identifying core traits, the most suitable employees have is one key, but honing in on questions once your top people are face to face with the candidate is crucial.
The consistency across processes ends up helping the company’s fundamentals. Such alignment improves the company’s core efficiency. When you have AI and HR experts recommending the best questions and get to see how people respond in person, you’ll have the tools you need to hire effectively.
Employee Empowerment
Finally, the core competencies at the heart of the job description software are used throughout the employee’s tenure as the ongoing basis of evaluation. Harmonizing the business’ needs and the employees’ skills, then tying these things to their evaluation in clear and transparent ways, helps everyone win.
Employees understand their roles and how to get their next promotion, giving them more agency over their work and more control over their careers and finances. Managers come to them with actionable targets, using data instead of anecdotes. The company gets to stitch together the arc of each employee’s trajectory to make sounder decisions about everything from the next campaign to the succession plan and the company’s future.
At a certain point, HR personnel understand something about the companies they work for that no technology can pinpoint. When armed with digital HR tools that help alignment between the company’s needs and the employee’s skills, nothing can stop their success.
