Recruitment – A Major Investment

SME companies want employees with excellent skills with a great attitude to work. It is as simple as that. They want employees who can help them to grow and improve their business, who can work on their own without too much checking and correction. Who have initiative and come up with simple ideas on how to improve their work and their output. They want employees who make things easier and not more difficult. And they are right. Life is difficult enough at the moment for SME companies and any assistance employees can give to make the life of the Owner/Manager easier is much appreciated. If only employees performed their job well that would be a great help. The truth is that getting it wrong and hiring the wrong candidate can be very costly and no company can afford this in these economic austere times.

How do you get those employees with the right skills and attitude? One method is to look for them when you are recruiting for new staff members. The selection of new recruits is an important moment when you are deciding does this employee have the right skill set and the right attitude to work. Many SME managers miss that opportunity. Why? Because they haven’t really thought about what they are looking for. They haven’t identified the skills set and attitudes are which are required to be successful in their job. They are busy and just hope they will meet the right candidate at the interview. Well it takes more than that to be successful in recruiting new employees.

A HR consultant who specialises in SME companies can be very helpful in putting a recruitment process in place which solves your recruitment of new employees. At the end you have a process in place which delivers you the right candidates for the right investment while you have been trained on how to interview candidates and decide which are the best for your company. Campbell International can help you to organise your recruitment process and find those candidates which will help to develop your company.

Recruitment is a major investment in any company. The average industrial wages in Ireland is €36,000 and multiply that by 10 years. As you could expect that an employee would stay with you for at least 10 years and you are talking about a major investment of €360,000. A lot of Owners / Managers would seriously deliberate before making such an investment and look at it from all sides. Yet I know managers who would hire an employee in an afternoon without giving it much thought. Human Resources is a serious business which can develop your company into a serious player on the market. Ignoring human resources can fatally harm your company and send the company to the graveyard...

I am organising a short seminar on the following topic 

Human Resources for SMEs – How to create an effective workforce     

Tuesday 28^th May 2013 Radisson Blu Hotel, Limerick, 4:00 pm

If you are interested in attending please let me know at info@campbellinternational.net

Why HR for SME Companies

Small and medium size companies need a human resource consultant to solve their staff issues and create effective employees who help them to build successful organisations. Owner managers tell me that receiving the correct advice which solves their staff issues give them peace of mind which leaves them more time to concentrate on their core business. If you haven’t got a HR Consultant it is time to get in touch with one and see what he could do for your business.

Human Resources has become a specialised field where managers need to become an expert in the vast legislative requirements the company has to fulfil. In particular the EU Employment Directives have increased the number of Irish employment laws which have a heavy impact on any small and medium size business.

Furthermore, any company needs to be an expert on recruitment not only on how to conduct an effective interview but also where to find the future employees and get an undisruptive stream of excellent candidates. You need to look not only at their skill set but also what attitude the candidates have, identify the core competencies which are essential for your business and which each employee should be able to execute. Getting the right employees will help any company to develop and prosper and that applies today more than ever before.

If you want to become a successful company which is thriving, your employees need to be well able to perform their essential tasks. How do you make this happen? You need clear objectives for your employees and to be able to give constructive feedback to your employees. Most managers I know find it difficult to give constructive feedback and as a result they avoid giving feedback to their employees on the objectives they need to reach. This creates companies who have no sense of direction because nobody is telling the employees what exactly is required. A good HR consultant should be able to set up with you a simple yet effective performance management system which gives clear direction to your employees.

These are just a number of issues a HR Consultant could solve for you. Other issues are for instance how to create an engaged and happy workforce, because if you have an engaged workforce they know what they need to do and understand why this is important for the success of the company. A happy workforce is a more effective workforce. Having an engaged and happy workforce doesn’t have to cost money. It is about listening to your workforce and coming up with creative ideas on how to organise the work.

An experienced HR Consultant will give you good HR policies and practices, will streamline your company, save you money and create a high performance organisation which will survive and thrive in the current difficult economic times.

So why don’t you give me a call at 065 7071933 to discuss your needs and how they can be met.

I am organising a short seminar on the following topic  

Human Resources for SMEs – How to create an effective workforce     

Tuesday 28^th May 2013 Radisson Blu Hotel, Limerick, 4:00 pm

If you are interested in attending please let me know.