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Employee Req Process
One of the Worst Potential Time Wasting Processes

The New/Replacement Employee Requisition Process is the recruitment process that is most likely to waste the time of your hiring managers and your Human Resource Staff.  

This is the process that is initiated when a hiring manager wishes to open a new or replacement requisition.

As a rule of thumb, you do not want to automate any process that you cannot document in a paper flow. This process is usually documented and absolutely should be automated in most companies, especially since there are so many applicant tracking systems (ATS) on the market for all sizes of companies.

In many companies, while on a contract recruitment assignment, we have seen a new employee req. request pass from manager to manager in paper format.  There are some major drawbacks to this paper process.

  1. The process is dependent upon managers who are sitting at their desk and not already buried in paperwork.  If they travel, the process grinds to a halt until they return.
  2. It is very difficult to track the location of the paperwork.  On whose desk is it sitting now?
  3. More importantly, from the hiring manager's point of view, it is difficult to track the status of the req.  Is it on the way to be approved - or not?

Using many of today's common software products, the Human Resource Department may develop an easily automated system.  

As early as 1995, as the Recruiting Manager at McLeodUSA, I worked with a Lotus Notes developer to develop an electronic process that enabled the hiring manager to see the status of their req. at any time in the approval process.  Both Oracle and PeopleSoft have HRIS systems that can be customized to do the same things.  

A very simple process could be devised that simply used e-mail.  

Electronic systems enable managers to continue their hiring, even when higher level managers are out of town.

 

 

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