Pay a huge amount for a job ad in some printed media and wait for someone to react.
Until 2000, this was common practice when reaching out to potential candidates. After 2000, however, advertising began to move very quickly to the Internet.
Since 2011, according to Greeven, the real era of hyperactivity has emerged – an era of acquisitions of companies creating new technologies for HR that continues to escalate even today.
SAP, for example, took over Success Factors, Oracle took over Taleo, IBM took over Kenexa. Since 2015 there have been hundreds of acquisitions worth trillions of dollars; these merged companies are significantly growing and are predicted to have a bright future.
Many technology tools only work with static data that is only current at the moment when we receive it.
"According to a study, 73% of the candidates' contacts we have in our ATS (Applicant Tracking System) are invalid," Greeven explains.
However, the new generation of technologies already offers tools able to work with up-to-date data and, for example, evaluate personalities by analysing people's personal profiles on Facebook.
Terms such as machine learning or artificial intelligence are becoming discussed more and more in HR.
These tools by no means the music of the future: they are already with us here and now. Thanks to them, in the near future HR people will be able to dispense with such transactional issues as collecting unnecessary and rapidly obsoleting data, or seeking candidates in the wrong places.
Instead, they will be able to focus on more meaningful activities, such as conducting dialogues with suitable candidates and talents who nowadays can choose from many employers and want to know a company well before deciding to accept a job offer.
The future of human resources belongs to HR technologies, or Workforce technologies, able to bring people, technology and business together.
In the follow-up part of the workshop, Bessemans introduced some technological tools that are already available to HR professionals.
We will show you how to use the most up-to-date diagnostic methods of Thalento – tests, feedback, and building of a map of key competencies of employees and teams – in order to obtain a key tool for the operation of your company as a whole.
Just a reminder: the workshop, entitled Using Thalento Professional Diagnostics, will take place on 18 July at 9 a.m. at the headquarters of the Image Lab company in Prague.
Free entrance after previous registration HERE or at +420 284 689 877, +420 773 227 227, imagelab@imagelab.cz