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Digital change 21. March 2021

Development of a digital HR funnel to attract skilled workers

According to current survey of 1000 executives In Germany, the shortage of skilled workers is one of the top 3 critical blockers of company growth. Vacant positions in particular lead to increased workload for existing employees and to the rejection of profitable orders. Especially the demographic change (Generation Y / Z), as well as always increasing internet speeds , Home office and high competition in the recruitment of skilled workers force companies into a real battle for good talent. One solution for this can be the digitization of the HR process. In the following, I would like to show you a new type of HR funnel that I built together with customers during my time as a consultant. Difference to classic recruiting In traditional recruiting, job advertisements were used to select applicants in such a way that only suitable applicants apply for suitable job advertisements. Unfortunately, applicants often sent numerous…

Digital change 21. March 2021

Digital specialists wanted – job advertisements between generalist and specialist

Looking for digital specialists? In the digital transformation, it is very time-consuming to hire new employees. It gets even worse if they quit because something completely different was promised in the job advertisement. But the permanent changes in digital change are making job profiles more vague and changing activities. Companies have completely new flexibility requirements for employees in the execution of work. But how do you phrase this in a job advertisement? Digital specialists in job advertisements Nice that Handelsblatt states: “Especially in times of digitization, the demand for qualified personnel increases daily and companies try to attract new talent through active sourcing (i.e. direct contact with external candidates), job exchanges and personal contacts.”So we are looking for numerous partly new and old job profiles, which, however, are often not precisely described or writable. The magazine Impulses warns of rash shots: “When it comes to digitization, many companies reflexively think:…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Agile HR

HR (Human Resource) describes the “totality of performance potential (performance reserve) that is made available to a company by its employees” (Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon). The skills of the individual employees are decisive for the success of the company and form the supporting framework of the respective company. HR management (HRM for short) or HR marketing is therefore a crucial discipline that is of significant relevance for the sustainable success of a company. In order to find agile employees, on the other hand, you need agile HR – that is, personnel marketing and personnel recruiting that does not react, but rather acts purposefully, flexibly and actively on current economic conditions. Agile HR can therefore refer to both agile human resources (the agile employee) and agile HR management. In this case, the latter is treated under the term. Agile HR for the company You probably know job advertisements with titles like “Agile Software…

Medium-sized companies 4.0 21. March 2021

Recommendations for action for the shortage of skilled workers in medium-sized companies

One of the four biggest challenges for HR managers in medium-sized companies is the task of finding and developing talent. Given the much-discussed shortage of skilled workers, this is not surprising. Around three quarters of the 323 companies surveyed stated that recruiting qualified employees will be the focus of HR work in the next three to five years, according to the magazine Heap . In addition to Haufe, many other magazines speak of a shortage of skilled workers in medium-sized companies. What actually is a shortage of skilled workers? Wikipedia says: As Skilled workers shortage This describes the state of an economy in which a significant number of jobs cannot be filled for employees with certain skills because there are no suitably qualified employees (skilled workers) available on the labor market. So is there currently a shortage of skilled workers in medium-sized companies? No shortage of young professionals If you…

Agile organization 21. March 2021

Agile HR work – agile career?

“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” – Well .. I would like to be the boss … This or something like that probably runs through a lot of thoughts that employees have. The vertical career carries a lot of prestige and is often associated with great success and income. But in times of agility and flat hierarchies there are far fewer management positions and so agile HR work is established, which has to establish an agile career in the company. But what is it? Agile career What actually is a horizontal career and is it also an agile career? Career bible says: “The horizontal career or Specialist career is characterized by the subject-specific development. ” The problem is in the Computer week clear: Not everyone wants to be a manager and has an interest in spending his time on budgets, appraisal appraisals, and corporate policy skirmishes. In the…

Agile departments 21. March 2021

Digital HR – agile to new skilled workers?

Digitization is having a full impact on the German economy. The credo is clear. So it shows Quote from Haufe this quite clearly to: “The virtual world of shopping temples, social networks, news channels, games, travel, etc. It couldn’t be more convenient! Why shop on site, call in person, wait for the day’s news … when digital images, videos, rating systems, (customer) comments provide a faster, usually more up-to-date overview and offer better service? ” So it’s about making everything somehow more convenient and faster. Agile, fast, flexible … But what does this mean for HR and what does digitization have to do with it? The role of HR in digital change To a large extent, digitization also means tool support for various tasks. For example, the applicant selection can be done through a Big data Tool can be met faster or large numbers of applicants can be evaluated, contacted…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Agile personnel development and self-organization

“Many have forgotten how to work independently” Human Resources Manager magazine . The magazine sees reasons in the fact that many employees have forgotten how to work independently due to classic management practice or hardly have the chance to learn it. Every decision, for example when to take vacation, was made for them by the manager, so that at first it was difficult for them to actually work in a self-organized manner, to take on responsibility and to show commitment. They also underline the thesis of my article on agile HR management – more than Scrum that more and more companies are now starting to transfer agile methods such as Scrum from IT to other areas of the company. Personnel development is not spared either. Personnel development in an agile context Provides an approach Dr. Ralf Graesslerwho states the following: “What we are currently doing is not moving a battleship…

Work 4.0 21. March 2021

Agile HR management – more than just Scrum?

Digital transformation , Agility , Work 4.0 , NewWork , Futurework , … If you look at current HR magazines, you will quickly notice that the field of HR is currently anything but boring. Managing flat hierarchies, meaningful work, horizontal careers and agile teams are the daily tasks of a modern HR manager. So there seems to be a change and the vision of human resource management seems to be changing? We want to revolutionize management in order to build extraordinary companies of the future with self-reliant employees and executives who can adapt extremely quickly in times of (digital) change (Andre Häusling – HR Pioneers ) Paradigm shift in HR Currently leading HR experts define a change in personnel management from hierarchy and silo thinking to network and interdisciplinarity. Profit maximization to benefit maximization, external control and top-down decisions on personal responsibility and human expertise. HR is also required to…