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1) HR = hiring, of course!
- “You are HR? Does your company have any job openings??”
- “We have a hiring freeze —you probably don’t have as much work these days, right?”
It’s time the employees know the value added by the leadership development programmes, career path planning as well as learning & development activities conducted by the HR!
2) Breaking bad when nothing else works!
Attrition on the rise? Run an engagement survey! Some business heads advocate merely running employee engagement surveys as a remedy for attrition—an altogether reactive strategy. Doing it after people leave, makes no sense. And to top it, just running a survey and not acting upon it, doesn’t help either.
3) HR — friends for benefits!
When the talent market is hot, and business is not able to hire or retain, then the HR practices are seen as value additions. When the market is slow and business has enough choices to hire and promote, HR activities are seen as overheads!
4) Rome has to be built in a day!
It is wrong to assume that HR possesses a magical wand; that leadership development, culture building and employee engagement activities should show desired results overnight. Some business leaders fail to realise that these are long-term strategies and Rome cannot be built in a day.
5) Breaking the ice with Glassdoor
Only when the CEO rating drops on the Glassdoor, will all business managers start taking 360 degree feedback surveys seriously. ‘Lack of transparency’ and ‘lack of communication with managers’ will still be the primary complaints on Glassdoor.com (the employer review site).
6) The heart knows no reason!
Unstructured interviews and interviews based on pure gut feel and degrees will continue to be advocated! When nothing seems right, one should follow one’s gut feeling, irrespective of the HR tools and technology at one’s disposal!
There are other myths regarding hiring that could continue in 2016 that deal with internal processes. The company I work for has been back and forth about including video interviewing, but I think we might try it. There are so many misconceptions about it, like if it's actually a viable way to screen candidates and hire. We're finding a lot of information here: http://www.vidcruiter.com/video-interviewing maybe we can stop the myth madness in HR.