How to write a good job ad

Your job ad is the single biggest factor influencing what kind of candidates you’re likely to receive applications from. So if you mailbox is full of mismatched applications, don’t blame the job boards. You just wrote a bad job ad most likely. What’s worse is that even good candidates saw how badly you write.

Hiring talent, Best practices in HRPrashant BhaskarDecember 30, 2018Job ads, Hiring, Jobsite, HR, HR Tech, Talent management, CEO, Entrepreneur, StartupComment

Lessons for good HR software implementation

Softwares were always there, with different names of course. EDP, ERP or cloud, call it anything but they were always a task that never quite got accomplished. The challenges behind HR software implementation lie in domains outside the software. In this writeup we try to take your attention there.

Leadership, Automate HR, Home, Best practices in HRPrashant BhaskarNovember 25, 2016HR, HR Tech, HR SaaS, Venture, Startup, Entrepreneur, MotivationComment

Strategy discussion without HR in the room?

You must be joking, Mr. Businessman.

Joke it is. And no wonder most of those strategies don't go to ground for lack of detailing about the key carrier of execution, the human.

Leadership, Hire HRPrashant BhaskarNovember 25, 2016HR, HR SaaS, HR Tech, Venture, Organization development, Workplace, StartupComment

How plugHR fixes your HR in two quarters?

Most HR professionals know their subject, most entrepreneurs want to build great HR. But together, they both fail to build HR capacity. Why is that? And how then, plugHR builds it all up in two quarters?

HR Outsourcing, Hire HRPrashant BhaskarNovember 24, 2016HR, HR Tech, Learning, Venture, Startup, Organization developmentComment

There's a way to say POLICY

You may not be able to change that policy bit much, but the way you share it goes long way in defining your workplace culture.

Performance Management, HR Outsourcing, Hiring talentPrashant BhaskarAugust 2, 2016HR, Organization development, Policy, Venture, StartupComment

Are you missing skills for derivatives?

Most team managers think they are good team managers because they have managed a team. Problem is, even you think that way.

Its similar to asking a Tennis player how to play a perfect two handed back hand, to which most players would give perfect answer, when 80% of them would fail to play that on court when the game is on.

You have been jargoned, my friend!

You are concerned about performance levels and you sound it out to HR. Then for days and days, you talk KRAs, KPIs, Scorecards, blah blah.......JD.....alignment.......mission, vision.....more blah.......

........Meanwhile in pantry the word is that you are building some secret weapon with HR.....

Performance Management, Learning & developmentPrashant BhaskarJune 24, 2016HR, Workplace, Performance, Training, Humour, Venture, StartupComment

Behavior change needs plugHRapp; not lectures

We wouldn't have learnt to type with our thumbs ever, had it not been for the mobile phones. Blackberry force taught us to type with both thumbs, iPhones made us do with one. If fact once we got on the track, we figured out how to do it with one thumb, one eye and 15% neck rotation while we commit one arm, one eye and rest of the body to the wheels.

Change Management and some other lies

Every time an HR professional says "Change Management", most probably Darwin curls in his grave wanting to rewrite The Origin of Species, only this time he'd do it under the guidance of HR.

Learning & development, Run HRPrashant BhaskarJune 14, 2016Humour, Change, HR, Venture, Startup, Performance, TrainingComment

Where is your Lab?

And where is the library? These are two simple questions we ask when some business leader has bored us enough talking about need for innovation at her workplace. Post this question, a total silence is guaranteed, well almost. We believe in little things, in action, talks won't do.

Performance ManagementPrashant BhaskarJanuary 13, 2016Innovation, Workplace, Performance, Venture, Startup, BusinessComment