Where To Start With HR Digital Transformation
Not so long ago we told you about the progress of HR digital transformation in the world — new technologies change personnel processes, so that modern tasks can be addressed with the most efficiency. As of today, by no means all organizations have started using digital tools and that is partly because it is not quite clear for them how they should approach digital transformation. We would like to help companies sort this out and suggest where to start a reformation of an HR department.
At the very beginning, one should evaluate the current situation in an HR department from digitalization point of view — understand, what digital tools are already in use and find out their efficiency. It is also important to get a good idea about other operations that could be improved through the integration of new technologies. For instance, the primary candidate selection — GoRecruit helps exactly in this process by saving a company money and time.
After that, an organization would certainly need to identify key performance indicators of a digital transformation — this will be the best way to measure its success. To do so, you can, for example, use the SMART method or another goal-setting technology. The sooner KPI are introduced, the quicker you will be able to determine the successfulness of digital changes.
Digital transformation is a challenging and important process, which cannot be managed by one person alone. This is why during the preparations a company should create a dedicated team consisting of not only recruiters, but also information technology specialists and business administrators. IT professionals are going to estimate the possibility of integration of a given complex digital technology, administrators will, for instance, make sure that digital transformation is coming along without any problems.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the importance of HR digital transformation, because contemporary problems that an HR department faces require contemporary solutions. «Analog» personnel departments lose to their digital counterparts in flexibility, reaction time and overall effectiveness. And although the advantages of digital technologies are obvious, some companies do not really understand how to start a digital transformation — we are sure that for them this post is going to be a rough plan of action!
