There are many HR Technologies on the market which can make it more complicated and confusing when trying the select the right HR Technology. Across the silos of HR and Employee Lifecycle management exist specific Core HR functions which are both operational and strategic. The top layer of the Employee Lifecycle is made up of Recruitment, Onboarding, Crossboarding, Offboarding, Timesheets, Rostering and Awards, Payroll, Self-Service and Core-HR. These areas could be said to be fundamental to the operation of a business and there are significant benefits from automating all of these aspects of operations so that more time can be spent on strategic initiatives or simply having less stress at work. Background Checking is also an important part of this spine. Being able to run checks as Applicants are moved through the Recruitment process is important, as is rechecking employees as checks expire.

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Being nimble and dynamic in the way businesses manage skills through performance is going to be important moving forward into the next 12 months – 2023. Having the capacity to use the Skill sets of employees across multiple business silos / departments is a way to keep costs down and improve employee competencies rather than having to hire. Whether your organisation uses a formal or informal performance management approach, it’s important to capture key information and then be able to quickly query it and report on it to make decisions. In our last HR Blog we looked at how important re- or upskilling is to creating a 'Learning Culture.' In this Blog, we dive deeper into tracking skills and filling skills gaps throughout the Employee lifecycle.

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LinkedIn's 2022 Workplace Learning Report makes it clear that learning is rapidly becoming a critical part of many peoples’ daily work. Producing high-quality learning experiences for Employees is just the beginning for L&D Professionals. As the nature of work continues to evolve, organisations need to ensure that their Employees have the skills needed to ride the wave of change and future-proof the organisation. When it comes to providing training for future-fit skills, (to build a sustainable workforce and a sustainable organisation), technology plays a crucial role. This week's HR Blog explores the importance of Learning and Development to organisational culture and long term business success.

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As the financial year draws to a close in Australia, it’s a good time to pause and reflect on the first 6 months of 2015, and look ahead for the second half of the year and beyond. In Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2015 report, they highlight several HR trends in addition to the ones we mentioned in our Blog posts earlier in the year. Looking beyond the specifics of HR automation, L&D and small to medium business HR trends, the information in Deloitte’s report points to a more global HR shift across a few key areas. The report highlights ten trends which are ‘reshaping the nature of work and the ways HR Professionals, and the organisations they work for, approach talent management’.

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Training, or Learning and Development (L&D), is a critial part of any organisation's retention strategy. As we've already discovered in the first paper of our Thought Leadership Series, Learning and Development is critical to Generations X, Y and the Millennials. However, the optimum way for a workforce to learn skills is not 'one-size-fits-all,' and there is an ever-increasing pool of technologically enhanced development pathways for employers to tap into. Advances in technology mean that L&D Professionals are now expected to be not only learning experts, but also fluent technology purveyors, capable of selecting the best fit-for-purpose and most cost-effective learning solution. Modern HR Software makes all this possible in a much more cohesive mannaer than was possible in the past. This Blog explore the top L&D trends for 2015 and beyond.

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