Five Post-Pandemic Trends in Winning Talent Management Strategies

Talent Management teams across the world had to undergo an enormous change within the way they conduct their screening and recruitment processes in their respective organizations during the pandemic. From face-to-face interviews, that they had to completely move to interviews and screening processes which may be done remotely.

Even the induction and on-boarding processes happened through zoom or MS teams meetings. Jobs in the talent management space became focused on those professionals who could quickly adapt to those new changes and propose better ways of sourcing and recruiting during these challenging times.

The employees regardless of their nature of job had to try to do it from the confines of their homes. And now since the planet is recovering from the clutches of the worldwide pandemic and most of the organizations have made room for a hybrid workforce, the post-pandemic trends in talent management strategies are evolving.

Fostering Employee Wellbeing

The employees had to undergo multiple impacts of the pandemic including salary cuts, cuts in incentives, bonuses, payouts, prizes, etc. Many employees and their loved ones were infected with the disease and that they had to travel through the trauma of their treatment, and in an unfortunate situation their death.

The stress, anxiety caused thanks to the uncertainty of the pandemic weighed high on many employees. McKinsey, the reputed consulting company conducted a study about ‘’Overcoming Pandemic Fatigue’’ which showed that 75% of employees within the USA, and 33% in Asia-Pacific regions reported burnout thanks to various reasons during the pandemic.

1. The organizations reviewed their medical insurance plans and included benefits for workers and their dependents if they’re infected with COVID-19.
2. Counseling sessions from reputed organizations like Optum were conducted in many organizations across the world. Many organizations found out 24-hour hotline services for workers to succeed in bent the psychiatrists.
3. Distressing activities like yoga, breathing exercises, meditation, and Zumba sessions were organized online to stay the workers happy and stress-free.
4. Organizations stepped up to involve themselves within the vaccination drives and encourage their workforce to urge vaccinated. Some organizations covered the prices of the vaccination too.
5. MNCs across the world ready their learning and development teams to make sure that they continue with the talents enhancement sessions through Zoom and other video conferencing tools.

Recruitment Team- Skills and Execution

Since the unemployment rates quickly rose in multiple sectors like aviation, construction, fitness-spa, travel and transportation, FMCG, manufacturing sectors thanks to the national lockdowns in most of the countries, the recruitment teams had to proportion to other ways of hiring. In many companies, professionals from other industries who lost their jobs during the worldwide pandemic were welcomed. The recruitment teams had to seek out the proper fitment of roles and appearance at their adaptability into the new roles. Imparting them the proper quiet training and equipping them with the proper skillsets was one among the main challenges which the recruitment teams faced. for instance, flight attendants were hired for desk jobs in touch centers as that they had good customer services skills.

The e-Commerce and healthcare sectors saw an enormous bump in hiring during the pandemic thanks to the character of their jobs. Overnight people started taking over crisis management, basic healthcare courses to be recruited in those sectors.

In the organizations, global talent managers started trying to find a diverse workforce regardless of their physical location to be hired and made productive.

Cyber-security threats increased manifolds and since employees were performing from home, the monitoring of their work-time, productivity, etc. became crucial. a requirement for these professionals too increased within the last one and half years ever since the planet started facing the challenges presented by the worldwide pandemic.