Developing Internal HR Practices

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Recruitment & Selection

High recruitment costs and the risks of recruiting the wrong people are driving a more scientific approach to recruitment and selection and more innovative approaches to attraction.

 

Whether recruiting your own employees or outsourcing components of the recruitment process, the employer is ultimately accountable for selection decisions and recruitment costs. 

  • Do your existing practices routinely result in selecting the right people?
  • Do your selection methods accurately predict good performers within your organisational culture?
  • Are the costs of your recruitment activities achieving the best outcomes?

Structural & Process Solutions

  • Develop attraction strategies (attract the right people).
  • Create a recruitment process that leads to informed and effective selection decisions.
  • Review the effectiveness of existing practices in meeting your requirements.
  • Develop Recruitment & Selection policies and processes, including integration of internal practices with outsourced components.
  • Develop competency frameworks to guide selection.
  • Develop assessment guidelines and practices.

Capability Solutions

  • Tailored internal training for managers and HR personnel at basic and advanced levels
  • Basic & Advanced level Recruitment & Selection training for line managers.
  • Specialist training for HR personnel in contemporary Recruitment & Selection practices.

Case Study #1 – Large Aged Care Provider

Case study #2 – Recruitment & Selection Training

Targeted Performance Improvement Systems

Performance improvement systems are about setting standards and objectives for performance, enabling people to do their best work and turning around poor performance as early as possible.

We enable your organisation to:

  • Define and measure what is most important to your business.
  • Set goals to guide and motivate performance.
  • Measure business performance and people performance at a level that is meaningful for the business, not just by assessing individuals.
  • Create a performance management process that leads to better people management and better performance.
  • Develop the skills of people managers to consistently manage good or poor performance.
  • Make sense of performance data and respond with effective actions.

Case Study #3 – Review of Corporate Dashboards – Major WA State Government Agency

Case Study #4 – Development of Performance Management System – Private Service Company

Employee Assessment Strategies

Applying years of application of psychometric assessment tools, Zero7 Consulting provides a range of psychometric assessment services.

 

Leading organisations don’t just conduct assessments - they develop and execute an assessment strategy.  In line with our focus on building internal capability, Zero7 Consulting provides advice about how to effectively use psychometric and other forms of assessment to support selection of new employees and development of existing employees.

 

We also have the direct capacity to provide a range of assessment services to out clients, including use of SHL and other psychometric tools.

Case Study #5 – Large Insurance Company

Managing Internal Promotions

Internal selection processes often include the following complexities:

  • Increased sensitive amongst employees.
  • Decision makers placed under the spotlight.
  • Greater impact of negativity amongst unsuccessful candidates.

We help our clients to avoid the common pitfalls of internal selection for promotion and succession and reduce the risk of employee turnover and knowledge loss by:

  • Defining future people needs.
  • Identifying and nurturing talent to ensure a pool of capable people.
  • Independently assessing internal candidates for promotion.
  • Providing specialist development programs for unsuccessful internal applicants.

Zero7 Consulting also provides:

  • Succession planning & management programs, including talent identification.
  • Competency profiling for succession and mapping of employee skill requirements against skill gaps 

Case study #6 – National Financial Services Business