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

Now execute learnings from ASCENT conclave.

Here's plugHR's attempt to make this journey of awesomeness doable for you. The ideas that you bring from ASCENT conclave would be turned into reality by your teams. Yes. the teams that haven't gone to the conclave with you. So it's you who'll have to translate, with clarity and then steer the journey. To begin with, here's a summary of what happened at the ASCENT conclave. Make notes, we'll help you action this.

Weak HR weakens your business daily

Often entrepreneurs believe that a weak HR set up can at worst remain an irrelevant entity and can be bumped up at a later time. Nothing can be more dangerous.

Leadership, Run HRplugHRFebruary 6, 2017HR, Venture, Organization development, Workplace, EntrepreneurComment

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

Fear of supervisor stealing credit

That's why you see most founder running to Culture consultants after a certain manpower size, they'd have experienced this "Credit cliff"

HR should hire those who don't need HR

Think about it. If you can get the highly motivated, self driven, problem solving professionals for your business, they would hardly need HR care at work

How not to lose business, when you lose talent.

When your processes run on people, you run on fluke, every little event threatens you, every exit can bring the whole house down. Even newer entries can cause enough flutter, you are perpetually at risk.

Performance Management, Learning & development, Run HRPrashant BhaskarJune 20, 2016HR, Learning, Entrepreneur, PerformanceComment

Simplifying performance management with plugHRapp

"If only you could start performance management without having to create a system first", is where you often reach when you begin executing the idea of setting PMS. Well, your wish is granted. plugHRapp has all that you'd need pre-set, just login and start.

Performance Management, Automate HRPrashant BhaskarJune 8, 2016Performance, KRA, Organization development, Entrepreneur, HRComment

Do you warm up before work?

We get to work and we begin, then we push at every demanding maneuver, exposing ourselves to injury or stress. We do this day after day and we wonder where is performance. Would you ever start a demanding game without a good warmup?

Performance ManagementPrashant BhaskarMarch 5, 2016Games, Gamification, Productivity, Performance, Workplace, EntrepreneurComment

How do you define a skilled employee?

Mostly one who is a good orator, isn't it? Is it because oration is the most required skill or is it because its the easiest for you to assess? By the way if your business landscape is changing fast, how is your skills requirement not changing with it?

Learning & developmentRakshita DwivediFebruary 6, 2016HR, Training, Workplace, Performance, EntrepreneurComment