Recruiting & Hiring Blog for HR Professionals

Successful businesses are productive businesses. One way to achieve high productivity is to keep employees motivated—a task easily achieved if the only thing required were a company party once a year. But as nice a notion that may be, it won’t make employees feel any more included, and it won’t make them more productive.

Professionals exalt the concept of productivity as the almighty answer to all of our problems, our greatest objective and the No. 1 challenge to our personal and professional growth. In an age where cutting-edge technology is the norm, you’d think we’d have this whole productivity quandary put to bed. Unfortunately, even with automation abound, HR representatives seem to face more maxed out inboxes and higher mounds of paperwork than ever before.

So what’s keeping you from unleashing the powerhouse of productivity you know you’re destined to become? The answer isn’t necessarily that there aren’t enough hours in the day, but that certain productivity vampires are sucking precious time from your already overburdened schedule.

Here are a few of the most common productivity time traps for HR reps and how you can strategize your way to a solution.

In recent years, there has been considerable discussion among HR professionals about how to “get a seat at the table” and be viewed as a strategic partner by other functional areas of the organization. Improving HR productivity is one way to make progress toward this goal.

Does your to-do list get longer and longer every day? For growing companies, the hiring and recruiting tasks that are essential to finding the right talent seem like a never-ending list of to-dos. That’s why we’re always on the lookout for helpful tips and new ideas to increase productivity and empower you to get those essential things done.