Human Resources Challenges

Human Resource Challenges

Tammie R. Moody

OMM618-Human Resources Management

Dr. David Britton, Professor

April 11, 2013

This essay covers the two of the biggest challenges facing human resources departments today. These challenges are attracting and retaining talent, and staying within a budget when they are looking for employees. This essay covers why organizations should look much further for qualified employees unlike the ways that they have done in the past. Employees coming in and out of the organization can be costly.

Most organizations give the Human Resources department a budget to use when hiring new employees. To guarantee that they get partial employees that can always use job listings, job agents such as temporary employment agencies, and in house employee referrals. “For those with a larger budget you can consider job fairs, Internet listings, hiring a professional recruiter, and having a company open house” (News, 2010). Hiring full time employees can cost an organization a lot of money. This can be costly because they will have to provide insurance and other benefits to cover the employee. If employees come in from an agency, that agency is responsible for the employees insurance and other benefits. This can be done to filter out the best employees without going over their budget.

Attracting and retaining the best talented people is a very hard job. Before, traditional hiring procedures consist of job seekers coming into the organization and hand complete an application and then turn it in to the representative at the front desk. The applications were reviewed and the potential candidate is called in for one single interview and after that they will set at home and wait for the call. Now the job search begins at the click of a button using their PC. Organizations have found that it is less work using the internet to find the best employees. "Even if a company is operating in a local...