Student Experience Management, a leading technology partner in the education, training and development sector, has been appointed by the Pentecostal Protestant Church to assist with the implementation of Zoho Recruit. This innovative solution will streamline the sourcing, selection, and appointment of new and prospective candidates and presiding pastors to the church corps.

The project will focus on automating the current paper-based application process and will cover candidate sourcing, automating the hiring pipeline, managing candidate resumes, and assessments. Additionally, Zoho Recruit will provide senior stakeholders with in-depth hiring analytics.

"We are thrilled to partner with the Pentecostal Protestant Church on this project," said Nadia Landman, Director of Student Experience Management. "Zoho Recruit will not only automate the recruitment process but will also provide valuable insights for better decision-making."

Zoho Recruit has been shortlisted as a leader in the talent acquisition software space for the third year in a row. Nucleus Research published their Talent Acquisition Technology Value Matrix 2022 this October, and Zoho Recruit has acquired the trending arrow as a leader for delivering what it promises.

Recruitment marketing is crucial to attract the right candidates and ensure that they have the right image of the company. Zoho Recruit helps you establish this by:  

• Helping you build a career site that displays your vision, mission, values, and culture.
• Integrating with 300+ job boards so you can directly publish your jobs with a single click.
• Helping you capitalize on social recruiting by linking your socials directly to the product.
• Facilitating employee referrals.
• Integrating with Zoho Campaigns to sync contacts, send mass emails, and track their responses.
• Providing analytics and metrics to help you measure strategy effectiveness.

Besides helping you match candidates to the right job, Zia also ranks those candidates based on how closely their profile matches with the job requirements. Zia understands candidates as humans, not as a string of keywords, and helps you with a graded list of “perfect matches” by analyzing candidate experiences, skills, and proficiencies.

It is important that every candidate who steps into your hiring process leaves with a good impression of the company. Zoho Recruit makes this easier by:  

• Optimizing the recruitment process with consolidated candidate profiles.
• Helping you track candidate progress in the recruitment funnel.
• Allowing you to shortlist and assess candidates professionally from anywhere in the world with pre-screening assessments and video interviews.
• Providing a candidate portal where they can update their application details, upload files, mark their skillsets, communicate with your team, and book interviews right from Recruit’s mobile-friendly portal.
• Avoiding the “candidate black hole” with built-in communication tools and automated emails and messages.

The feedback and ideas from our customers and partners have been a vital part of Zoho Recruit’s growth, and we hope to continue evolving the product to meet the latest technological demands in the talent acquisition space.

Adapting to new hiring practices is a necessity for any business or recruiter to thrive in today’s competitive job market. One of the things that is constantly in flux is the role and importance of pre-employment reference checks in the workplace. Zoho Recruit is teaming up with SkillSurvey to optimize your reference check process to suit your modern hiring strategy. While checking references doesn’t always generate the sort of fanfare and attention that other talent acquisition activities do, they present a key opportunity to improve your new-hire experience.

With the SkillSurvey integration for Zoho Recruit, you’ll be able to:

• Improve efficiency and fill positions faster 
• Target an exact mix of competencies and intangible skills in candidates
• Tailor how reference checks are conducted for different jobs
• Cut costs associated with time-to-fill and high turnover  

“We’re thrilled to partner with Zoho to make hiring easier and more informative for recruiters and hiring managers. With just one click, they can start reference checks from the Zoho Recruit platform and deploy a fast and easy process for candidates and their references. Then, in just a day or so, a detailed, report is available that provides valuable feedback on the relevant soft skills which are so important for a job candidate’s success and long-term retention” said Tracey Azer, Vice President of Alliances at SkillSurvey.

Time management likely plays a key role in growing your institution, no matter your mode of delivery. With many employees working remotely now, managing their working hours can be a little challenging. However, not managing employee time efficiently can lead to productivity loss and errors in payroll processing. Repeated payroll errors may put you out of compliance, and inaccurate staff payments may build a sense of dissatisfaction among your employees and shake their trust in your institution.

Tracking the attendance of your remote employees manually can be tiring and time-consuming. With a cloud-based time clocking system, it becomes a breeze. All your employees have to do is use the web or mobile application to check in when they start working and check out once they're done. Their attendance and total working hours will be recorded in the application automatically for access by admins and reporting managers. You can also configure break times and days off. Facial recognition can be enabled to prevent identity theft and data tampering while employees work remotely.

While your employees work remotely, it might be difficult for reporting managers to keep track of all their employees' projects. Managers have to contact their team members every time to receive updates on different projects. With a cloud-based time clocking system, timesheets can be created for different projects and the necessary employees can be added. Your employees can record the time they spend on different projects and send it to their managers for approval through the application itself. This keeps your managers well-informed about the different projects their team members work on, and they can easily track project progress even if their employees are working remotely.

Many institutions, especially ones offering remote- or hybrid learning models, have to work around the clock to serve their students and customers better. Managing employee shifts when they work from different locations can be irksome, but with an employee time clocking system, you can manage them all from a single place. Create different shifts, assign pay rates, and add employees to their respective shift schedules. Whenever there is a change in their shifts, employees will be notified automatically, eliminating the need for back-and-forth emails.

When check-in/check-out times and overtime information are available on the cloud, payroll processing becomes much easier. With suitable permissions, payroll managers can get an overview of an employee's working hours from anywhere whenever they need it. This way, accurate payroll can be processed on time, even when your employees are working remotely. This will keep your employees happy and more motivated to do their best.

Between transitioning to remote work overnight and supporting employees through the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was quite a hectic year for HR professionals. You were at the forefront of coordinating with employees from different departments and making all the necessary arrangements to keep your businesses going—all this on top of any personal struggles that may have arisen for you amidst it all.

As we step into the New Year, understanding what priorities are driving the HR industry will help you devise strategies to improve employee experience despite the hardships of 2020. With adequate planning and preparation, you'll be able to sail through 2021 by adapting quickly and easily to all the latest trends. Here are some of the top HR priorities that will shape the global workforce in 2021:

The pandemic has emphasised the importance of reinforcing employee wellness strategies. To sustain and grow, organisations must continue to prioritise employee's physical, mental, and emotional well-being, even in the post-COVID world. Consider incorporating wellness programs that strengthen immunity, encourage physical activity, promote mental health, prevent burnout, and improve work-life balance. Start by understanding the current wellness needs of your employees. Define a few wellness goals for the whole year and track your progress continuously. 

Many organisations shifted to remote work suddenly without prior planning. However, long-term remote work will not succeed if the core organisational values like empathy, leadership, transparency, and flexibility are not consistent with remote work practices. That's why many organisations are starting to focus on fostering their remote work culture to keep employees engaged, improve productivity, enhance collaboration, and provide a smooth remote working experience. Otherwise, attracting and retaining talent will become challenging. Establishing a healthy remote work culture can be difficult in the beginning as employees are isolated in different locations. But with the proper virtual communication tools in place, you'll be able to succeed.

2020 saw some major movements in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). Customers and employees now expect their organisations to engage in DE&I initiatives. According to a survey by PwC, 76% of business leaders, HR professionals, employees, and diversity and inclusion drivers have stated that DE&I is a priority area for their organisation. Another survey by Manifest has also revealed that 70% of candidates value an organisation's commitment to DE&I. So in 2021, many organisations will take measures to increase diversity and develop an inclusive work environment. 

According to a recent Gartner survey, almost 68% of the HR leaders who responded rated building critical skills as their number one priority. Organisations will need to continue identifying skill gaps among their employees and building in them the skills and competencies needed to thrive. This will help organisations to perform better, survive through difficult times, and adapt to changing scenarios easily. Delivering continuous learning and development opportunities through the right learning platform will help you stay organised and offer training to more employees at once, no matter where they're working from. As remote work continues, online learning will become more prevalent than ever before. Adopting a step-by-step approach that involves identifying the skills you need, defining training goals, and measuring the impact of learning on performance will help.

2020 was all about change, resilience, anxiety, and ambiguity. To overcome the challenges brought about by the pandemic, it's necessary to refocus your people management strategies according to these new workplace realities. What do you think is the most important priority for HR this year? Let us know in the comments section below!

The report stated, “Zoho Recruit can significantly reduce candidate drop-off and contribute to maintained engagement throughout the employee lifecycle once a candidate is hired, subsequently reducing employee flight-risk. ”

The criteria for shortlisting vendors relied on the offering having diverse and comprehensive functionalities that enable organizations to maximize their return on investment and the resources to help organizations deploy large-scale applications. Vendors had to make their case with tangible examples from customers on how a certain solution delivers greater functionality and usability than their competitors.

Read in-depth analysis in the full report here.

Nucleus Research is a global provider of ROI-focused technology research and advisory services. Following an ROI case-based, investigative approach, their research delivers factual analysis and insights present financial, and operational value of a technology solution that help organizations.

For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), employees are everything. Your employees steer the overall growth and development of your SMB, and they can make or break your business. To improve employee efficiency, SMBs require excellent HR management. Employees will go out of their way to grow your organisation only when they are valued and nurtured. Having HR software greatly helps SMBs improve their HR operations without additional hassle or manual work. Here’s how each HR software feature simplifies HR operations for SMBs:

This feature allows SMBs to improve their new hire retention rate and prevent the high costs associated with turnover. New hires can complete all onboarding paperwork online and find all the details they need in a single place online.

This feature empowers employees and makes them feel trusted, which is the key to effective employee management. Through the self-service portal, employees can mark their attendance, apply for time off, communicate with their peers, view important notifications and announcements, and do much more.

Using this feature, SMB leaders can improve employee performance by aligning assigned tasks with organizational goals. Through an efficient review system, employees feel more motivated because they’ll know what goals they need to achieve and how their actions fit into the overall vision of the company. These reviews can be conducted monthly or quarterly to provide the continuous feedback that is necessary to help employees adjust their performance.

Automation can be a great boon to SMBs considering their smaller number of employee. Important HR tasks can be automated to avoid work delays and errors. Workflows can be created easily to automate routine tasks like sending email notifications, allowing your workers to focus more on growing the organization.

Offering employee training and development opportunities allows your SMB to be more competitive in its respective industry. A learning management system, or LMS, is a centralized online learning platform. It caters to all of your organization’s learning needs by supporting multiple courses, e-learning, learner discussions, and much more.

The people analytics feature in HR software provides the data to guide important decisions or the direction of new initiatives in your organization.  Workplace issues can be identified before they start damaging multiple areas of your business.

In today’s business world, fewer and fewer people are working from their desks. Therefore, an HR mobile application can really help your organization step up its people management game. Your employees can perform basic HR operations through the mobile app no matter where they are.

With this feature, all the processes associated with offboarding, such as sending experience letters, collecting important credentials, and conducting exit interviews, can be completed from a single location.