Tailor your HR staff
Of course, finding and grooming new talent in your company can’t fall on your shoulders alone. You need a human resources staff to take the lead on acquiring and retaining new players for your team.
The need for an effective human resources department is fundamental to business. However, an HR staff cannot be a one-size-fits-all for different businesses. Depending on your company’s size and how you conduct business, your HR staff will need to develop strengths in varying areas.
First, you need to recognize exactly what services your HR department needs to provide in order to best suit your company.
“It starts with you recognizing that you need to tailor your HR staff to suit your company’s needs,” Pasky says. “It sounds simple, but it’s really not. If you surveyed some people in business, you’d probably find a lot who have a traditional definition of what a particular department should do in a company. What we do and what we help our customers do is say, ‘You need to look at how you operate and decide what your values are and decide how particular groups are going to be structured to get the most value.”
Recognize the size of your company and how many positions your HR staff oversees, then recognize the field on which you’re playing, including any boundary lines that might be built into your recruiting system.
“At a larger company, an HR department needs to be more of a generalist,” Pasky says. “They have to focus on all departments, including members that might be part of a union. It could be that you have different types of compliance issues, risk issues, different types of hiring that you need to do.
“At a smaller company, HR can be more engaged around talent and how you find and maintain talent. It doesn’t mean that you don’t follow rules and regulations, but you can have more of a focus on the acquisition of talent rather than having to make sure you’re not breaking rules when you do it.”
