On August 29 and 30, the HR Forum will be held in San José, an event that will address issues such as talent and recruitment, human resources strategy, the relationship between employees and aspects of legislation, among others.
The congress will be held in English at the Hotel Intercontinental and will bring together more than 200 people, with representatives of the more than 305 multinational companies that will arrive in the country, informed CINDE.
The difficulties in identifying staff training needs and the lack of a clear relationship between new employee skills and incentives diminishes the possibility of achieving company goals.
According to the Deloitte 2019 Global Study of Human Capital Trends, in which more than 9,400 business leaders from around the world participated, including 261 from Costa Rica, the learning of business staff is the most relevant trend.
Gathering information provided by social networks and augmented reality games are some of the techniques used by companies in Costa Rica to attract new talent or evaluate teams already working in the companies.
The companies that in the Costa Rican market are dedicated to the selection of staff for other companies have been changing their processes in order to make their work more efficient, where the evaluation of staff through alternatives with augmented reality and real-time monitoring of the organizational climate through applications, are some of the most significant changes.
With the aim of providing companies with a line of support services for human resources processes, a guild for managers and intermediators of human talent has been formed in Guatemala.
The Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala (CCG) announced the creation of the Human Talent Management and Intermediation Association (GGITH), which has among its objectives providing services for talent management, and the dissemination of knowledge and improvements in the practices in human resource.
When companies become addicted to meetings, it indicates poor management of working hours and decreases employee productivity by at least 30%.
If companies estimated the losses caused by a dozen employees, mostly senior ones, meeting four times a week they would think twice before giving in to "Meetingitis", the cultural tendency to schedule a meeting for every issue.
Self control of a leader's ego and being flexible when it comes to enrich ideas with contributions from his or her team can be critical for a company's future.
An employer can be as bright as they are stubborn. Like any good entrepreneur, you're so in love with your idea, and so happy with your project, that this can lead to resistance from hearing about alternative ways of doing things or that your original idea could be improved.
The world today is Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity: job security and long-term retention concepts are doomed to extinction.
EDITORIAL
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) is a concept originally used by the military which defines "those situations where strategy, planning and decision-making take on extraordinary levels of difficulty, because the decision maker lacks minimum parameters required to guide their judgment. "
The difficulties faced by companies in hiring high-profile executives are driving growth in the recruitment market in the country.
With the advent of more multinational companies in the sectors of logistics, banking and insurance, there is growing demand for qualified personnel to fill positions of managers, vice presidents or directors.
In the last few years, there has been a pronounced change in the Costa Rican economy with more jobs going to bilingual people who are technically skilled or have a specialized profile.
The Costa Rican economy's globalized approach, accentuated in promoting exports and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) has diversified and expanded demand for a workforce specializing in technology, industrial engineering, electricity, electromechanics, mechatronics and in administration certifications and English language as prerequisites for added value. Companies have also changed the weight they give to applicants, now giving 60% to knowledge and 40% to skills.
Although improvements have been noted, the region's human resources are still far from achieving the level necessary to sustain competitive economies at the global level.
The Human Capital Index, constructed by the World Economic Forum, provides a long-term focus on how nations are developing their human capital and establishing workforces prepared for the demands of the increasingly competitive global economy.
While the unemployment rate remains the lowest in Latin America, an even greater level of preparedness of the workforce is needed to achieve dynamic and sustainable growth.
According to an article in Capital.com.pa the rate of employment growth is no longer parallel to economic growth, noting that "According to official figures, between March 2012 and March 2013 there was a decrease in the labour force of nearly 7,000 jobs. "
The Social Security Department in Panama is putting out to tender software components, services and hardware needed to implement a Document Management System.
Panama Government Purchase 2013-1-10-0-08-MF-108681:
"CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF A MODERNIZED DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE CSS. IBM CONTENT MANAGER AND ITS INSTALLATION ADAPTATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION, DIGITALIZACION SERVICE, INDEXING, AND UPLOADING OF IMAGES OF RECORDS, PAYROLL FORMS, AND MICROFILM ROLLS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT. "
Engineers in different specialties, sales representatives and administrative assistants, who are all fluent in English, are those most in demand.
The Talent Shortage Survey, conducted by ManpowerGroup Costa Rica among 620 employers, found that in the case of university courses "engineering (with their different emphases) is the only one that stands out in the list of jobs in demand this year ... ", reported Nacion.com.
Recognized Brazilian company of backhoe loaders, telescopic, articulated and other types of cranes looking for companies interested in representing the brand and distributing their machinery in Central America and Mexico. The company manufactures and sells telescopic,...
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