Candidate Manager

The start of a new year brings speculation and predictions for what lies ahead for the following twelve months. What new advancements and developments will take place in technology to facilitate the workplace, and ultimately increase efficiencies? These developments will have an impact on the HR sector in particular.

Mobile capabilities in HR have been highlighted as technology that will grow in 2011. The significant usage of iPhone’s, Blackberry’s and Android’s has seen many industry leaders draw similar conclusions. With the mobile capabilities of a system, managers on the go can approve or deny salary changes, time off requests, training class enrollments, and more right from a Smartphone. This allows managers to increase the workflow and productivity as all critical tasks can be completed instantly.

In addition to mobile capabilities helping HR to be more productive and efficient, vendor consolidation is a trend to watch for in 2011.Any Human Resource Management operation benefits from having a single location for all data. There is no switching from program to program or having to do data transfers and additional calculations.

When you have separate vendor systems, they must be managed to share information generated.  It is common to see an organisation with separate systems for HR/Payroll and recruitment. Sharing the information can be time consuming with manual entry, and on occasions quite costly. Having multiple vendor systems for this process causes unaccounted losses – from both a cost and strategic perspective. Integrated HR systems  significantly lower cost single vendor solution, that is more flexible, and that can be carried out faster than all the rest, increasing your human resource management ROI.