HCL Shergill Executive Summary

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More and more organizations understand that human resources are their most important assets.. As everyone wants to get the best people for their organisations, the hiring department has to spend a lot of time in finding and hiring the right person().

There are many factors we have to consider when making a hiring plan. A well defined job description in relation to the actual needs of the particular division is very important. Participation of the management and related team members is highly recommended. The quality, including experience, education, intelligence, appearance, personality, etc. of the prospect has to be determined beforehand. Company policies, visions and goals, attitudes of team workers, nature of the products or services …show more content…

The centralization had been initiated with a serious intention of improving profitability. Talent acquisition and workforce management constituted two-thirds of the total operational costs for the organization; thus it had the potential to become the single largest lever for increasing profitability. The new organization had to deliver on workforce optimization and provide a singular view on how talent was hired and deployed. This would provide information on how many people were available on bench, sliced along the lines of skill sets, experience levels, and geographical distribution().

In HCL in order to overcome the siloed approach of functioning of the recruiters, the end-to-end recruitment process was shared by 10 specialist teams which focused on sourcing (identifying and building the talent pipeline), screening, scheduling, salary negotiation and offer release, on boarding, contract (or Third Party) hiring, campus recruitment, background verification, post-offer follow-up teams, …show more content…

HCL should divide the number of people who were actually qualified for the position by the number of those who responded to the recruiting source. This illustrates the return on a particular recruiting programme conducted, and the effectiveness of it[18, pp.35-36].

Staying in Touch with the Candidate

Although the recruitment process formally ends when an employee is hired, it is an effective hiring practice to stay in touch with the new employee. Maintaining contact with the new hiree when he/she starts the job, and even before the start day, is an effective way to start creating a solid relationship with him/her.

The first days and weeks of employment is when the candidate will wonder if he/she made the right decision. To assure the candidate of his/her good choice, make sure that the first day the employee shows up for work there is a place for him/her to sit with all the necessary supplies and work to be done.
Very often, on their first days or weeks of employment new employees are neglected and find themselves with nothing to do or with stacks of manual or procedures to read Instead of giving employees reading material that they will not remember, provide them with an

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