How to make Hire-to-Retire process more effective

Every company is unique, and so are their onboarding procedures. But there is one thing in common: it entails dozens of systematic activities between identifying the need for an employee till the end of their employment.

Defining Hire to Retire Process

Starting with the finding potential employees, hiring them and continuing through their career lifecycle until retirement can be seen as a repeatable process of planning, building and managing the whole workforce. This process starts with workforce planning and progresses through hiring and onboarding, workforce management (including employee data, time tracking, and payroll), and employee off-boarding.

Purposes of creating this process:

• Recruiting or hiring
• Compensation
• Onboarding and training
• Employee engagement and development
• Performance evaluation
• Termination

Hire to Retire Strategies:

1. Talent Acquisition: The Applicant Tracking System (ATS) has revolutionized the recruitment process. HR executives are realizing that hiring is both a science and an art, and they're leveraging their applicant tracking systems in conjunction with objective data like psychometric and skills-based exams to make hiring decisions. Zoho Recruit is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and recruitment software designed to streamline the hiring process for staffing firms and corporations.
2. Talent Management:  Human Resource Information System (HRIS) is a software application that connects human resources and information technology.  Though it made onboarding easier, most new workers are still swamped with forms to fill out and data to submit on their first day. Consider acquiring this crucial information ahead of time, or specify which materials they will need on their first day to finish the setup process. HRIS can assist with this procedure, particularly if all that is required is a simple shift in schedule. Many services also provide guided online forms that can be completed from any device, anyplace.
3. Employee engagement: This is one of HR professionals' top goals, but it can be difficult to figure out how to track and enhance something intangible like engagement. The learning and performance management systems you put in place can provide insight into employee performance in real time. A business can performance data into real-time employee engagement statistics by using a people-centric strategy.

Ways to make Hire to Retire more effective:

• Create a job description and post a Job opening
• Define the criteria for shortlisting potential candidates
• Define the process for communication with candidates and interviewing them
• Define the process for issuing offer letter and getting back a confirmation
• Create an onboarding process for new employees
• Define process for performance evaluation
• Define Payroll process (employees and government)
• Define employee exit process

Tools for the Process:

• Zoho Recruit - For small to mid-sized organizations, Zoho Recruit is a web-based recruiting tool. Resume processing, automated job board posting, customized corporate jobs pages, resume storage, and interview scheduling are all included in the software's comprehensive applicant tracking system (ATS).  By establishing a personalized career portal for the organization, Zoho Recruit increases the visibility of job opportunities and extends the reach by using major job boards, social media sites, and direct sources.
• Zoho People - is an online HRM system that allows you to store, access and manage all of your employees' information in one place. It can make simple yet successful onboarding procedures. Sending offer letters, getting them signed, updating new joiner information, welcoming new joiners, allocating locations, supplying work equipment, organizing induction and other training events, and so on can all be handled using this applcation.
• Zoho Payroll - handles the process of a company's employees being paid. It entails gathering a list of to-be-paid employees, keeping track of hours worked, calculating the employee's compensation, disbursing the payment on time, and registering the payroll expense.
• Zoho Expense -  is an online expense reporting software. It automates recording of expenses from receipts to avoid manual data entry. 
• Zoho Cliq- streamlines team collaboration by organizing conversations, making information easily accessible, and linking to the resources you already use.
• Zoho Connect- is a team collaboration platform that allows you to bring together your workers, partners, vendors, and anyone else that contributes value to your business, as well as give you the space and resources you need to interact and complete tasks more quickly.
• Zoho Desk- is context-aware customer support software that assists you in putting your customers (in this case your employees) at the center of your business.  Employees can report their HR related issues using Zoho Desk monitor it until resolved.
• Zoho Vault- is a readymade password manager for enterprise users. Using Vault, employees/teams can safely store, manage, and share passwords across various departments in the organization, and do much more.  It can be used to configure SSO (Single Sign-on) for multiple cloud apps to increase your enterprise's productivity. 

How we help?

Sliver Business Services helps startups and scaleups in developing business systems. We typically serve small and medium-sized businesses, groups, and non-profit organizations implement a comprehensive, integrated business suite in alignment with their long-term IT Strategy and enable processes that execute with minimum friction.

At Sliver, we use Zoho applications to achieve the fastest implementation time for a Hire-to-Retire system, which is 50% faster than the industry average. Our full-service consulting and professional services help map out a company's particular implementation requirements, whether it's a small business, an enterprise, or something in between.  We integrate sales, marketing, and product and service departments on one platform improving drastically the customer experience. 

For more information visit us at https://www.sliverusa.com/systems-for-startups.  You can also email us at info@sliverusa.com or call us at +1 331.888.2627.