Xerox Case Study:
How Job Descriptions Drive Talent Management

Guest speaker Judy Miller, Human Resources Project Manager at Xerox Corporation will discuss the benefits of implementing a strategic approach to Job Description Management tomorrow, Wednesday May 1st at 11am ET.

Whether part of a small organization or global enterprise, attendees will gain valuable insight into:
  • The value of establishing the job description as the foundation of a Talent Management roadmap that supports Recruiting, Performance Management, and Succession Planning
  • The benefit of consolidating multiple de-centralized job description locations into a single central repository
  • The advantage of providing global access to job descriptions
  • How multi-language capabilities facilitate communication and recruitment in global environments
  • The efficiencies gained by identifying and consolidating redundant job descriptions
  • How HRTMS Jobs provides an efficient approach to the creation and maintenance of consistent and up-to-date job descriptions
  • Lessons learned along the way and more

Best/Next Practices in Job Description Design and Management

Join us as Don Berman, an industry thought-leader in the area of Job Descriptions, shares state-of-the-art best and next practices to consider when creating and maintaining effective Job Descriptions.  He also discusses how other companies have used these practices, not only to afford themselves the protection that comprehensive and effective Job Descriptions provide, but how they used their Job Descriptions as the keystone of their Talent Management initiatives.

You will learn:
  • What elements belong in an effective Job Description
  • How companies handle these Job Description basic elements and why: Job Summary/Purpose, Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities, Job Attributes, Physical Demands, and Qualifications
  • How handling Competencies, Skills, and Essential Functions properly can help you acquire, evaluate and retain top talent
  • How Scope factors can help you understand the real impact a job has on your organization and aid you with everything from FLSA to Salary Leveling
  • How to leverage Job Descriptions instead of recreating them for recruiting purposes
  • Using questionnaires and other factors to protect yourself from FLSA exposure
  • How identifying and collaborating with stakeholders is the key to effective Job Description Management
  • What to know about Job Description content and where to find it
  • How to define and reuse common elements to create consistent Job Descriptions
  • How providing a portal to your Job Descriptions benefits all stakeholders, including employees, managers, recruiters and HR professionals
  • How to effectively identify duplicate Job Descriptions and merge them
  • How to organize Job Descriptions into logical hierarchies that provide the foundation for career paths and banding

Job Descriptions: The Driving Force Behind Successful Compensation and Performance Management

Join us as Don Berman, Professional Services Leader at HRTMS, shares why Job Description Management is the key element in driving successful Compensation and Performance Management.

Mr. Berman will review:
  • How Job Descriptions define the criteria for evaluating employees, enabling relevant and actionable Performance Reviews
  • Why Job Descriptions are the foundation of a meaningful approach to Compensation as they  provide the essential structure used in  job grading and defining salary structures 
  • The value of managing Competencies in Job Descriptions and automatically synchronizing them with Performance Evaluations in HRTMS Performance (or your current Performance Management system) 
  • The direct impact that connecting Job Descriptions, Performance and Compensation has on employee motivation, loyalty, and retention
  • How sharing information among your Job Descriptions, Performance Reviews and Compensation System will improve the alignment of your corporate goals and culture 
  • How HRTMS Compensation solves the challenges of pay-for-performance 
  • And the many other benefits of a seamless information flow among your Job Description, Performance Management and Compensation Planning systems

How to Build a Job Description Portfolio You Can
Fall in Love With

Would you LOVE to lose that pile of outdated Job Description on your desk? Then join us as Don Berman, an industry thought-leader in the area of job descriptions, shares the state-of-the-art best and next practices in building a job description portfolio that will be the ideal match for you and your organization.  

You will learn:
  • What elements belong in an effective Job Description
  • How companies handle these Job Description basic elements and why: Job Summary/Purpose, Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities, Job Attributes, Physical Demands, and Qualifications
  • How the proper management of Competencies, Skills, and Essential Functions can help you acquire, evaluate and retain top talent
  • How Scope factors can help you understand the real impact a job has on your organization and aid you with everything from FLSA to Salary Leveling
  • How to leverage Job Descriptions instead of recreating them for recruiting purposes
  • How the proper use of questionnaires and other factors can protect your organization from FLSA exposure
  • How identifying and collaborating with stakeholders is the key to effective Job Description Management
  • What to know about Job Description content and where to find it
  • How to define and reuse common elements to create consistent Job Descriptions
  • How providing a portal to your Job Descriptions benefits all stakeholders, including employees, managers, recruiters and HR professionals
  • How to effectively identify duplicate Job Descriptions and merge them
  • How to organize Job Descriptions into logical hierarchies that provide the foundation for career paths and banding

Attracting Top Talent: How to Prepare Your Job Descriptions to Fuel Your Recruiting Software

Do your recruiters have the most accurate Job Descriptions at their fingertips when they create new job postings?  Or do they cut/paste and invent new ones just to meet daily demands and deadlines?  An accurate Job Description is essential in attracting the ideal candidate.  Wouldn’t it be great if a well-written and complete repository of Job Descriptions could integrate directly with your recruiting software?  Join us as Mitch Stephens discusses how you can help attract the right talent and avoid costly hiring mistakes.

You will also learn how to build and manage a Job Description approach that:
  • Gives recruiters and interviewers a more effective and equitable way to evaluate job applicants
  • Precisely outlines the competencies, skills, and requirements of the job for easy job posting construction 
  • Classifies the legal and regulatory agency requirements so that they are accurately reflected in the job posting
  • Identifies the type of candidate that will help you meet your goals while adhering to your company's culture and philosophy
  • Standardizes your recruitment strategy
  • Attracts employees who have the potential to grow within your organization
  • Automatically links relevant Job Description content to your recruiting software in a concise and well-structured form

Managing Risk by Managing Job Descriptions:
The Lincoln Financial Story

Scott McCloskey, Senior Compensation Manager from Lincoln Financial Group, shares how the demands and rigor of managing a Job Description portfolio for a growing, world-class organization compelled them to revisit their approach to Job Description Management.

During the presentation, Mr. McCloskey will detail the steps they took to:
  • Bring consistency to their Job Description content
  • Implement a more structured, collaborative workflow
  • Standardize their Job Descriptions
  • Mitigate their exposure to risk

HRTMS Jobs:
The Power of Job Description Management in the Cloud

Moving your world from Word to the Web has never been easier.  And once you’re in the cloud, you can bring your job descriptions to life as the workhorse of your talent management landscape. Join Don Berman as he walks you through a demonstration of HRTMS Jobs. During this session you will learn how to leverage the benefits and efficiencies of bringing your job descriptions to the cloud.

Take advantage of this complementary demo and let us show you how to:
  • Collaborate in a structured and disciplined job creation, job revision environment
  • Use job content to minimize “writer’s block” 
  • Easily locate and group any and all of your jobs using extensive search and sort capabilities 
  • Drive your own, unique standardization throughout your job description portfolio through a configurable array of template types 
  • Incorporate competency management within job description management 
  • Apply your descriptions to Recruiting – link them to your ATS or create postings straight from the system 
  • Embellish the description folder with meaningful and accessible information
        - FLSA determinations 
        - ADA documentation 
        - Market Data/Job Evaluation Data 
        - Job Certification Information 
        - You define what you want to store 
  • Preserve your history – automatically archive and create a complete audit trail of all job information 
  • Support your career matrix development using simple, menu-driven job family building tools 
  • Quickly identify candidates for job description consolidation using our Job Similarity Scoring tools 
  • And much more

Managing Performance Through Accountability Conversations

Lenny Pollack, Ph.D., Professor of Practice at Penn State University, will discuss the ways your organization can use accountability conversations at critical steps in the performance evaluation process to influence employee performance.

Dr. Pollack will also review the best ways you can:
  • Use performance standards as a tool for shaping successful employee performance and as criteria for evaluating individual and group performance
  • Use a five step conversation when addressing shortfalls in performance
  • Link responsibilities and performance standards with company goals
  • Refine your positive and corrective performance feedback skills
  • Use standards to foster accountability

How Multi-Rater Reviews Drive Employee Performance:
The True Partners Story

Could multi-rater feedback add benefit to your existing performance review program?  Join Hilary Hosek, Director of Talent Management at True Partners Consulting as she shares how TPC were able to provide employees with balanced and up-to-date feedback by adding quarterly multi-rater feedback to their performance review process.

Ms. Hosek will also discuss how TPC was able to:
  • Institute a structured review process for fair, consistent appraisals 
  • Establish an efficient system to gather feedback from multiple reviewers 
  • Provide staff with comprehensive quarterly feedback 
  • Encourage employee involvement during the performance and goal setting process 
  • Use feedback to more accurately assess promotion and compensation decisions

How Job Descriptions Drive Talent Management:
The Xerox Story

Judy Miller, Human Resources Project Manager at Xerox Corporation will discuss the benefits of implementing a strategic approach to Job Description Management.

Whether part of a small organization or global enterprise, attendees will gain valuable insight into:
  • The value of establishing the job description as the foundation of a Talent Management roadmap that supports Recruiting, Performance Management, and Succession Planning
  • The efficiencies gained by identifying and consolidating redundant job descriptions
  • The benefit of consolidating multiple de-centralized job description locations into a single central repository
  • The advantage of providing global access to job descriptions
  • How multi-language capabilities facilitate communication and recruitment in global environments
  • How HRTMS Jobs provides an efficient approach to the creation and maintenance of consistent and up-to-date job descriptions
  • Lessons learned along the way and more

Who Are You Rewarding And Why?
The Power of Integrating Compensation and Performance

Are your increases going to the right people or are you wasting valuable performance data and simply distributing dollars arbitrarily? With belts tightening on compensation budgets, it is crucial to understand who you are rewarding and why. Presented by Mitch Stephens, Chief Software Architect for HRTMS, this webinar will concentrate on how the HRTMS integrated Performance and Compensation solution lets managers identify and reward their top performers.

This webinar will demonstrate how, with HRTMS, you can:
  • Simplify the goal-setting and performance review process with workflow and electronic signatures
  • Integrate the performance results in an easy-to-use compensation system based on your current Excel workbooks 
  • Leverage the business rules you want to keep, and introduce best practices within an easy-to-use SaaS solution 
  • Establish a compelling line of sight of historical data that allows you to determine an employee’s long-term value and contribution

Job Description Management: Using Collaboration and Content to Drive Talent Management

The focal point of effective Talent Management is a well-written Job Description. However, maintaining a corporate Job Description portfolio of accurate, complete and meaningful job descriptions is among the most significant challenges most HR Professionals face. During this webinar you will learn how to use online collaboration and job content to take the mundane, daunting (and often ignored) task of maintaining Job Descriptions and turn it into the rightful centerpiece of your Talent Management landscape.

You will see HRTMS Jobs software which also includes:
  • The power of embedding a Job Evaluation Scoring System with your Job Descriptions
  • Expanding the job information you store to include FLSA and ADA documentation, market data, certifications and more 
  • Creating Job Families and other useful Job Relationships 
  • Using advanced archiving, revision control and auditing routines 
  • Streamlining your work and standardizing content through integrated Job Description templates

Achieving ROI Through the Integration of Job Descriptions and Performance Reviews: The Olathe Health System Story

Darcy Pugh, Compensation Analyst at Olathe Health System will outline the steps her organization took to improve HR Operations. Inefficient and disconnected paper-based Job Descriptions and Performance Reviews were transformed into a fully integrated system that has produced positive results for Olathe HR and throughout the entire organization. Ms. Pugh will share the Olathe Health System story and how, after identifying their needs and implementing an agile online solution, Olathe was able to achieve operational improvements and reach a positive ROI.

Comprehensive Job Description/Job Evaluation Management

We have added Job Evaluation and related job functionality to our already revolutionary HRTMS Jobs platform. Now job evaluations can be accomplished through standard or customer methods and flexible career matrices/job ladders can be created to meet the comprehensive needs of most organizations.

Using HRTMS Jobs, we will be reviewing the following concepts:
  • Evaluating Jobs and determining the Optimum Salary Ranges and Skills required
  • Implementing Hay Points and other point-factor schemes
  • Creating Job Families
  • Developing Career Path/Job Matrix relationships
  • Defining Relationships and Crosswalks between jobs
  • Side-by-Side job comparisons
  • Creating detailed Scope Profiles for jobs and Assessments for: Impact, Responsibility, Autonomy

Use Job Description Management to Amp Up
Total Talent Management

Having the right information at the right time and at the right place empowers employees, increases productivity and allows your organization to better identify and retain top talent.

The Power of Enlisting Managers to Create and Maintain Perfect Job Descriptions

Take your languishing task to update job descriptions and create living documents that empower employees, increase productivity and allow your organization to identify and retain top talent.

Effective Job Management Plus the Power of
Job Content Libraries

Take control of your Job Descriptions! Leverage the power of content libraries to give your managers tools for effective job description collaboration. Provide structure for managers and help them avoid "writer's block." All while creating an on-line repository of job descriptions that reflects your industry's best practices and keeps HR firmly in control.

Leveraging HR and Managers Through a Collaborative Process

Job description management has long been an under-served function within HR departments. Take the daunting and often deferred task of managing job descriptions and turn it into one of the pillars of your Total Talent Management.