Paul Hamerman of Forrester Research and Kristen Wylie of Kronos discuss how HR practices must adapt to the digital age. Hamerman outlines opportunities for digital innovation in HR, including improving the candidate experience, implementing continuous performance management, boosting employee digital engagement, and modernizing learning. HR systems also need to leverage cloud and mobile technologies. Wylie then discusses how HR has transformed from an administrative function to a strategic business partner, and how unified HR systems can provide a single employee record.
4. In the digital age, business practices shift from batch
to real-time, retrospective to predictive, desktop to
mobile, and corporate-driven to people-centric. It’s
time to modernize HR.
11. Model the candidate experience life
cycle like the customer experience
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March 2015 report, “Transform The Job Candidate Experience From The Outside In”
Candidate
experience drives
talent acquisition
12. Manage the candidate journey with best
practices Brand
Career site
Social marketing
Multi-media content
Career paths
Job sourcing
Mobile application
Talent pools
Transparent process
Confirmation
Video interviews
Communication
Survey experiences
Onboarding
Mentoring
Productivity ramp
Continuous coaching
Learning
Career guidance
Performance goals
Candidate
experience drives
talent acquisition
Health/wellness
Employee networking
Tactful disposition
17. Employee Satisfaction
• Job security
• Company financial
stability
• Job uses employee’s
skills and ability
• Good manager
relationship
• Good pay and benefits
Employee Engagement
• Open lines of communications
• Learning and career opportunities
• Empowerment
• Job rotation
• Voice of the employee
• Results measurement
• Recognition and rewards
• Coaching
• Health and wellness programs
Employee engagement: a key priority
Some organizations view employees’ satisfaction with their job as an
indication of employee engagement. Satisfaction and engagement are
quite different and the goal is to have both.
27. 25%
28%
36%
46%
Human resource
management
“What are your firm’s plans to use software-as-a-service (SaaS) to
complement or replace the following applications?”
Replaced/planned to replace
2015 2014 2013 2012
Base: NA and EU software decision-makers who know whether their firms are using or planning to use the specified
package application (1,000+ employees)
Source: Forrester’s Business Technographics Global Software, 2014 and 2015; Forrester’s Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2013, Q4 2014
HR systems replacements with SaaS are
growing rapidly
20% have already
replaced HR systems
with SaaS, 26% plan to
within 2 years