A large percentage of an HR professional’s time is devoted to the process of talent recruitment and acquisition. When all is said and done, a new hire can be quite a time consuming endeavor. Poring over resumes, conducting series upon series of interviews, hiring and on-boarding – it can be a lengthy, time intensive process. But, there are some best practices regarding applicant tracking and scoring that can help to expedite the process, while still ensuring you make the right hiring decisions for your business. Here are a few of them.

Many organizations are skeptical about going paperless. It may seem like a daunting task that requires significant change, as well as quite a bit of monetary investment. And in some cases, this is exactly what is required. However, often they fail to look at the other side of the equation; namely, what not going paperless is costing their business. Here are 3 horrible mistakes your business is making by not eliminating paper.

While employee records are – from both a legal and operational perspective – necessities of doing business, their management can cost you a lot of time, resources, and money. Ensuring that employee records are up to date is important for a variety of reasons: informing decision making processes; staying on top of performance and salary reviews; even compliance to labour laws and regulations. Because management of employee records is so critical, the format of your records and the efficiency of your management process can have a significant impact on your business. For those using more traditional methods for keeping employee records, it’s likely that your process is costing you both time and money – here’s why.

Employee records management plays a central role in every business. Apart from the legal recordkeeping obligations that employers have, employee records are valuable resources that help guide and improve important decision processes, from hiring to compensation, performance reviews and beyond.

The average employee spends 40% of their time searching for the information they need to do their job. This is often the result of poor document retrieval systems, file mismanagement, and similar organizational inefficiencies. Document indexing is the process that is implemented within businesses to help improve document searchability, thus reducing the time it takes for workers to find the documents they need. In this post, we will describe how document indexing works and give a breakdown of how it can help your business save time and money and improve productivity.

Retaining talent can be expensive, but losing talent will end up costing your business even more money – not to mention the other negatives that accompany people leaving, such as talent gaps, lost productivity, and the time and resources exhausted attracting new talent. Below are some tips to help you develop an effective employee retention strategy that will help you leverage the most vital component of your business: your people.

Legal compliance should be a priority for all businesses and organizations operating in Canada. Noncompliance with federal legislation can be severely detrimental, resulting in fines and other penalties that can make a dent financially and even affect operational processes. Below are 3 simple rules that you should follow in order to ensure legal compliance for your business.

Human Resources compliancechecklists are instrumental in ensuring that organizations stay well within the laws governing employment in Canada.

They help not only prepare for audits, but also provide a means to monitor whether business processes are operating efficiently and resources are not being wasted or used ineffectively.

Ultimately, HR compliance checklists are an integral component of more comprehensive HR management systems that serve the dual purpose of boosting business efficiencies and staying compliant.

Below are a few of the ways that Human Resources compliance checklists can help keep your organization out of trouble – both legally and operationally.

Employee records management is an important aspect for any organization, regardless of industry or size. Since people are the most important element to the success of a business, effective management is criticaal – and the purpose of creating and retaining employee documentation is to improve the management of employees.

 Essentially, employee records provide a single source where data about each employee is stored, and this information is used to help guide HR decision processes to the benefit of the organization, such as hiring, promotions, compensation and even termination.

Document security has long been a concern of organizations. Regardless of format or whether analog or digital, business records, sensitive data and proprietary information have needed to be secured in order to protect the interests of the business. As the need for such security has expanded with the introduction of the digital age, more sophisticated document security management systems have been developed, boasting more complex methods of securely storing and retaining myriad business documents.