Fairfax, Virginia (release-news ) May 15, 2021 - HR Search & Rescue has recently released a new educational resource that focuses on explaining the importance of equal pay in the workplace for businesses. The new article is guided by the independent HR consultants at HR Search & Rescue who have extensive experience helping clients to enhance their HR processes and maximize efficiency. They have created this new article to help readers get a better understanding of why equal pay is so important for businesses.

HR Search & Rescue offers readers some valuable information regarding the importance of equal pay for businesses and how it can dramatically affect motivation and employee relationships. In the article, they go over some of the most important benefits that provisioning equal pay can bring businesses including how it sends a positive message about your organization's values, increases efficiency, and more. They also explain some of the risks it mitigates including expensive legal fees, lost productivity, strained employee relations, poor reputation, and more. The team at HR Search & Rescue hopes that this information will help readers get a better understanding of the extreme importance of equal pay measures.

While this new article focuses on explaining the details of the importance of equal pay, HR Search & Rescue's website provides readers with more information regarding their team, experience, as well as a full list of service offerings. HR Search & Rescue offers high-level consulting for both businesses and employees in areas such as HR compliance, workplace conflicts, equal pay, discipline and termination, toxic workplace environments, and more. Their team of HR experts understands that the modern workplace is full of unique challenges that employees and business owners may not understand how to solve. They always strive to help bring out the best in businesses by addressing the unique challenges each of their clients may face.

With the addition of this new article, the team at HR Search & Rescue hopes that readers will have a better understanding of the importance of equal pay and how it can be transformative for businesses. For more information, contact the HR consulting professionals at HR Search & Rescue today at 844-934-3293 or visit their website at https://hrsearchandrescue.com/. Their offices are located at 4023 Chain Bridge Road in Fairfax, VA 22030.

###

Alexandria, Virginia ( release-news) January 4, 2021 - Smart HR, a Northern Virginia HR consulting firm, has recently released a new service page that goes over the management training programs that they offer. The new service page was updated by the team at Smart HR in order to better represent the details and mission of their training programs. They hope these new pages will better demonstrate the goals of these programs and why they are so useful for new managers.

Smart HR's new service pages feature improved organization, more compact and to-the-point descriptions, and also supplemental training modules and case studies. The new page is much more representative of the level of detail and care that they have put into designing their high quality management training programs. Based on their experience with managers, Smart HR has developed a program providing basic, fundamental training around a set of core managerial competencies that participants can immediately use to become more effective managers.

While this new update focuses on their management training programs, Smart HR's website provides visitors with more information regarding their team, experience, as well as a full list of service offerings. Their HR experts provide organizations with high-end HR management and expertise that generally costs 50% less than maintaining an in-house HR department. They offer a full list of HR services that include executive coaching, talent management, HR outsourcing, consulting, audit, compliance, management training, and more.

With the addition of this new service page, SmartHR hopes that readers will have a better understanding of their management training programs and what goes into their development. For more information, contact Smart HR today at 703-952-3177 or visit their website at https://www.smarthrinc.com/. Their offices are located at 917 Prince Street in Alexandria, VA 22314.

###

Ms. Untaru, VON Consulting General Manager, comments about trends in personnel recruitment & human resources in the US

LA, USA., May 6, 2020 - Vivien Untaru, VON Consulting recruitment agency GM, has set up international recruitment campaigns in Central and South-Eastern Europe and recently started in the US. The agency she manages provides recruitment services, hardware design and verification services, IT support and software development for customers in different industries. The team she manages helps clients by building teams on and off site, remotely or on their premises that can assist in ongoing projects or can take on full projects. By bringing in passion for the technical fields and an innovative approach, the VON Consulting team has become a supportive long-term partner for clients’ businesses.


Ms. Untaru, VON Consulting General Manager, comments about trends in personnel recruitment & human resources in the US, in the interview below.

What industries were most affected by coronavirus in the US?
The first to feel the coronavirus impact were hospitality, horeca, travel and retail sectors. Also, the real estate sector registered a slow-down in transactions and, recently, prices started to be more flexible. In March and April, things escalated and these sectors, amongst others, were hit hard and lost jobs to the thousands.

What will be the sectors hiring in the upcoming months?
IT, telecom, online consumer goods, transportation & courier companies will most certainly continue recruiting. 
Industries affected directly by the coronavirus (to mention a few - hospitality, leisure, travel, leisure, retail, constructions) will restructure their employee scheme, but some will be hiring for their online engines. 

What do companies need to keep in mind at this point, as regards to their employees? 
During this time it is important to keep the existing workforce fully engaged and motivated. Many companies can actually design turn-around plans and launch new projects/products, improve processes, design new marketing strategies by involving their employees. In these times, many solutions might come from the people in the field, in direct contact with the customer, able to see day-to-day issues.

How can companies create shared value in their future recruitment processes?
Companies need to engage their current employees in the recruitment processes. Workers with a history in the company should be included in the hiring stages, as well as in the onboarding process. 

How employees or candidates will adapt to this coronavirus impacted work landscape?
Employees and candidates as well are already starting to understand the importance of reskilling or gaining new expertise in digital management of day-to-day attributions, learning to work with new online tools. Companies should include online learning and training, seminars, courses and career exploration in their employee retention and loyalty practices. Companies should provide the means for a safe on-site activity. For those situations, where some of the employees could continue to work from home, shifts could be organized in such a way that only a certain number of employees will be present in the office at any given moment, allowing for proper social distancing. Candidates should also be called in for on-site interviews only in final stages of the process so as to minimize exposure of both team and candidates.

How can companies improve their human resources processes in the future?
First of all, companies need to be more open to online recruitment and online recruitment tools adapted to their profile, as this trend, enhanced by the coronavirus pandemic, will continue to grow in the near future.
Remote working will also see a rise and companies need to make sure they have procedures in place for their employees, in order to generate performance and ensure the day-to-day efficient flow of activity, while also maintaining employee satisfaction.

Will the employee experience continue to be a top priority in HR in 2020?
Yes, only it will suffer some transformations. Employees who are energized by their job are essential to transformation agendas, are more likely to stay, are more resilient and more ready to reskill. Energized employees will choose to work in cultures that are empathetic, in environments they find enriching, and in work cultures that are both efficient and embracing. 

What are the main hurdles that companies need to overcome in the coming months?
Good team-management interactions and better enablement of digital working in times of social distancing. This is where a professional HR partner with expertise can make the difference.

About VON Consulting
Currently, VON Consulting has 3 offices in SEE (Bucharest, Brasov and Cluj in Romania), one in the USA and in the process to open up a new one in Dusseldorf, Germany. VON Consulting has 150 employees and has worked with clients from the EU and US, mainly in IT, telecom, networking and semiconductors industries, some of them Fortune 500.

VON Consulting offers strategies to best recruit and hire in Germany in the current coronavirus landscape

Berlin, Germany,  May 02, 2020 - More than 80% of Germans were online, with little over half of them on social media in late 2019. The German need for privacy when it comes to personal lives is notorious, yet no Gen Z or millennial – and even baby boomers, for that matter – have said no to social media and online tools as means of getting a new job.

How has this phenomenon changed? How to recruit better online in Germany and find the best fits for a company during the coronavirus outbreak? Here are some pointers from an international recruitment agency with +15 years experience in recruiting and outsourcing talent in IT, telecom, networking, semiconductors and services.

Personalize and adapt the strategy

First thing’s first: if a company is looking to fill positions right now, recruiting efforts will need to be adapted and the candidate pipeline kept full in this new remote work landscape. ‘Companies recruiting in this time frame should adapt their standard procedures during the pandemic. We have instructed our clients to be open to online tools, such as video interviews, up until the final stage of the hiring process, or even to replace technical interviews with online ones. Basically, we have been on call to craft digitally oriented talent recruiting techniques and yes, it is possible, with the right team on board. Every industry is different, every client is different, so that’s why digitalization should be hand in hand with personalization’, says Vivien Untaru, General Manager and founder of VON Consulting, international recruitment agency based in the EU, which has recently set up a subsidiary in the US as well.

Adapt the communication

According to TribePad, the daily rate of applications to businesses still hiring in this time frame – peaking with retail, obviously – increased from 5,000 per day to more than 200,000. Despite these figures, people are worried about how the coronavirus will impact the job market in the long-term and are cautious when it comes to changing jobs – and it’s people from all walks of life and different age groups. 7 in 10 18 to 24 year olds in the EU say they worry that the coronavirus will cause higher unemployment for a long time, whilst people aged 45 and older are articularly interested in how the coronavirus landscape will influence wages.
"Take these percentages into account when drafting your recruiting strategy. Be straightforward from the beginning about the recruiting process with candidates; inform them of how the process will unfold and what they should expect next. Also make sure that all their questions are met – particularly of what’s to be expected of them – so that when you proceed with a particular candidate you have the utmost chance of success in every hiring stage," adds Ms. Untaru from VON Consulting.

Build trust
 
Following phone screening interviews, most companies move on to the next stages of the recruitment process, consisting in video interviews, which should entail a few best practices for conducting interviews by videoconferencing. Make sure to communicate these best practices to candidates, rather than waiting to see who adapts to conditions that aren’t made clear from the get-go. It might just set the company apart from other competitors recruiting for similar positions.
Let candidates know that they should be prepared. Make sure all parties have the correct interview time on their calendar, properly adjusting for different time zones. Share with candidates how to access the videoconferencing technology and whether software needs to be downloaded. From the part of company, treat video interviews with the same seriousness as in-person interviews. Know the job description, the candidate's resume and specific questions to ask. Choose a quiet, well-lit room for interviews.
Set expectations. Give candidates advance notice that interviews will be conducted virtually. ‘Just sending a candidate a link to a video interview can be unsettling,’ Untaru says. ‘Give them the necessary context, phone them ahead of the video interview and let them know why you're using video interviewing, and very specifically give guidance about the experience and what's expected from the interview.’
Check the tech. Double-check the technology the company will be using, and ask the candidate to do the same. Prior to the interview, test the camera and microphone.’
With so many things currently in flux, candidates will remember and appreciate companies that keep them informed in personalized, empathetic ways throughout these new hiring processes.
"Following your video interview, checking in on people or sharing brief status updates can go a long way in building trust," says Vivien Untaru. "They'll notice little things, such as using their first name and sending a small personal note rather than something that reads like an email auto-response."

Make the onboarding process a team effort
If a company is looking to hire in the near-term, depending on the industry the company activates in, it should allow new hires to work from home until the pandemic is under control.
"Establish procedures to on-board employees remotely," Ms. Untaru notes. ‘Employers will be in a particularly strong position to attract top talent if they can design roles that allow working from home on an ongoing basis.’
"Make sure you take the time to introduce new employees to the company through virtual meetings and encourage team members to welcome new employees through short email or Zoom, Skype, GoMeeting, Hangouts, Slack messages," adds Vivien Untaru. "arrange a virtual office tour for potential hires, or even a virtual presentation about different job roles at your company." Don’t neglect employer branding strategy

Remote work is not a passing phase, and virtual recruiting solutions are critical for the future of work. Current events give an opportunity to build out best practices and stress-test remote capabilities and the way companies connect with candidates. Take also into account the fact that in-home media consumption has increased, by up to 95%, as shown by a GWI global survey. Moreover, 50% of the audience is watching more streaming services, 45% is spending more time on messaging services, and almost 45% is devoting more time to social media. Take these figures into account to devise recruitment marketing and employer branding strategies as well. Candidates are currently more cautious and also more scrupulous in searching information about the company, company's employee wellness climate and personnel development opportunities.

Whether or not the Company a start-up, SME or a large corporation, the same rules apply: don’t ignore the value of what others are saying about the company, as it could mean the best PR and that last but not least convincing factor for talents company has in the pipeline.

About VON Consulting
Currently, VON Consulting has 3 offices in SEE (Bucharest, Brasov and Cluj in Romania), one in the USA and in process to open up a new one in Dusseldorf, Germany. They provide recruitment services, hardware design and verification services, IT support and software development for customers in different industries. They help their clients by building teams on and off site, remotely or on their premises that can assist in ongoing projects or can take on full projects. By bringing in their passion for the technical fields and an innovative approach, their teams become supportive long-term partners for clients’ businesses. VON Consulting has 150 employees and has worked with clients from the EU and US, mainly in IT, telecom, networking and semiconductors industries, some of them Fortune 500.