Finding the Right HR Software
Good hiring managers know that the problem of filling a staff vacancy is not necessarily over once a new employee is chosen. Talented individuals can be not only difficult to find but also hard to keep. Because of this, retention is a big concerns for human resource departments.
A 2007 study found that one-third of employers lose 10 to 25 percent of their new hires with in the first year. Another one-tenth of businesses experience the same problem with 25 to 50 percent of new employees within the same time period.
Since companies lose time and money on training employees that decide to leave soon after, HR software provide Nobscot has created an automated new hire survey system, FirstDays, designed to assist in reducing new staff members departures. FirstDays helps to determine organizational weaknesses in recruitment practices by providing customizable surveys for both employees and supervisors and point-and-click reporting tools.
Together these features uncover problems that lead to retention trouble such as inaccuracies in job descriptions as explained during employment interviews, unfriendly co-workers, weak communication and failure in conveying company
goals.
“Everyone worries about recruiting the right people and getting them on the right track once they are on board, but most organizations fail to take the mot obvious step to improve the process: as the employee what’s right and what’s wrong,” said Beth N. Carvin, Nobscot CEO. “We developed FirstDays to gather this information in an automated manner, get at the root of any problems, and help companies do a better jobs of brining early attrition under control.”
Through using methodologies developed for Nobscot’s WebExit exit interview platform, this newest piece of HR software helps hiring managers to fix retention problems by finding out how recent hires feel about their new job. New employees participate in surveys pertaining to work environment, management, company, employee orientation program and the job itself.
The questions that are asked help to determine if the job matches what the employee was expecting, how they feel about the manageability of their workload, if they believe they receive support from their co-workers and their opinions of the training they received. In addition to these topics, the surveys also delve into whether or not new employees feel their supervisors are encouraging, clarity of corporate goals and if they believe the company has opportunities for personal professional growth.
The surveys that supervisors partake in help to ascertain the quality of new employees and the hiring process in general. Questions pertain to how fast individual employees seemed to adjust, whether or not they believe the new employee has the skills required for the positions and are getting along with their co-workers. Managers are also asked whether or not HR was able to fill the vacancy in a reasonable amount of time.
This information is used to generate reports that include charts and graphs that highlight issues of concern. FirsDays is now available and subscriptions are priced based on the number of individuals a company hires in a years time.