NEW

HIRE AND TRAIN

STRATEGY DURING
COVID-19
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 Blended workforce: To ensure workforce of
RECRUITMENT AND the future is lean and flexible, organisations
need to focus on a mix of permanent as well as
GIG and contractual employees. Hiring
TRAINING strategies would need to evolve to create the
right sourcing channels to access these talent
pools and differentiate assessment processes

STRATEGIES DURING appropriately.

Liquid workforce: To ensure optimum

utilisation across the organisation, identification
PANDEMIC and attraction of candidates with fluid horizontal
and complementary skills is the key. These
employees will have the leverage to quickly
manoeuvre roles and ensure minimal impact to
productivity.

Changing critical roles: With radical shifts in

business operating principals, the roles critical
to business success will change. Hiring
strategies would need to align to this change R|R
and prioritize and support with targeted process
interventions in place.
 Sourcing & Screening: Businesses
need to upgrade their arsenal with online
UPGRADATION assessment tools to fast reduce
dependencies on offline set-ups.
IN THE HIRING
Interviewing: Certain businesses are
already ahead on the curve as they were
PROCESS quick to adopt teleconferencing
technologies, a critical step to ensure
business continuity. All other
organisations must also follow suite to
enable virtual interactions.

Onboarding: Post hiring, conventional

on boarding methods should also be
replaced by virtual on boarding and
engagement strategies which are riding
on digitalisation. Organisations are also
adopting AI / chat bot driven processes to
improve their efficiency.
 Encourage digital
Get your processes in Make face-to-virtual-
engagement
STRATEGIES order face introductions
Employees are
Before getting any new scheduling getting-to-
FOR TRAINING employees on board, it's
important to make sure
know-you calls for
every new hire with key
offered digital
tools to help
the processes are people in the
organization they are make the
organized. Making sure
the documentation of not working with transition
everything is up-to-date directly "This helps put
a human connection smoother, such as
is critical, and even more
so when Onboarding behind the names creating separate
with remote workers. people see in Slack and
emails.". Slack channels. He
also suggests
keeping activities
and meetings