In these unprecedented times, the company that adjusts fastest will lead the pack in terms of economic performance and staff satisfaction.
While it’s incredibly unlikely that any business will have planned for a full-scale lockdown affecting their output, they will have had in place the systems to support remote working and to continue laboring together without having to go to the office each day. In this article, though, you’ll learn about an important aspect of lockdown operations: how to recruit and onboard staff during this unprecedented time in world history. Read on to learn how to adapt when recruiting in 2020.
Talent Pool
First, the good news: you are going to find far more people to choose from than usual when you’re scouting the talent pool for workers in the coming months. That’s because the economic impact of the lockdown has left hundreds of thousands of individuals in uncertain working conditions, looking for something more stable.
This means that, when your HR team comes to launch a job advertisement, you’re going to have plenty of talent to choose from. Be sure, in any case, to maintain your impartial and professional hiring protocols while working from home.
Interviews
It is not uncommon in the modern world for interviews to be conducted via video call. As such, hiring someone without ever meeting them is becoming more common – and that’s a relief for HR teams struggling to work out how to manage their human resources when they’re spread out across locations during the lockdown.
All you need to do is set up some calls and coordinate between hiring managers, HR professionals, and line managers in order to make sure potential employees are vetted in the correct, professional manner.
Onboarding
This is the most difficult process to conduct while your HR team is in lockdown. Indeed, it can be nearly impossible to coordinate onboarding when your HR team isn’t centralized through an efficient software mechanism to help everyone understand their roles and responsibilities. Software not only centralizes HR duties on the cloud, but it’s also a suite of programs that includes onboarding guides and help, which your team can draw on when appointing new employees during the lockdown.
Communications
When you’re hiring new employees during the lockdown, these professionals won’t have that ‘Hello Everyone’ moment in the office, shaking hands and getting to know their coworkers. It’s this stage in an employee’s life that is particularly important in ensuring their cohesion in the team, and as such, you should try to find ways to mitigate this loss through communication.
If your HR team can, for instance, set up a conference call, or share a short video from your new member of staff, then you’ll be better able to integrate your new employee with the existing workers on your team.
Making hires during this period of lockdown might feel impossible, but as the tips shared above demonstrate, technology and managerial oversight can help you keep growing during these unprecedented times.
