At the end of 2020, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador remained at the bottom of the Human Development Index ranking, while Costa Rica and Panama were better evaluated.
The report entitled The Next Frontier, Human Development and the Anthropocene, which was published on December 15, 2020 at the global level, updates the Human Development Index (HDI) that is calculated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Due to the precariousness of the English language, in recent years’ companies in the Contact Center & BPO sector have decided to close thousands of jobs in the region and relocate their investments to other markets where they have no difficulty in recruiting qualified personnel.
Reports at a global level show that the command of English is one of the weaknesses at a Central American level.
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.
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.
If job responsibilities are easy then it's very likely that you may not be using the full potential of your workers, preventing their personal growth and causing demotivation.
In a discussion of the topic in an article in Harvard Business Review, Francesca Gino says that the belief that work without stress increases productivity, is false.
Beyond the fact that stress can cause disease, the truth is that in order to be more productive, it is essential to feel some stress.
Companies recognize how important managing a growing international and mobile workforce is for the future of their businesses, but they do not know how to do it.
Companies do not have an appropriate strategy to deal with the transformation that is happening the way of working in the world -from the convergence of five generations to operations spread across the planet- which will lead to a crisis in management, attraction and retention of talent, concludes the Workforce 2020 study, prepared by Oxford Economics and SAP.
A professional degree used to be a guarantee of social mobility and prestige, but the current labour market pays little for some of them.
The labor market can be compared to the commercial market. Salaries are defined by the evolution of supply and demand. When supply is greater than demand, salaries are lowered and when demand is greater than supply, wages rise.
When vacancies arise companies fill them paying the new employee less than before, and give them even more demanding requirements.
A Manpower study outlined in an article in Prensalibre.com notes that in Guatemala "requirements are increased when new staff are hired, however the wages offered are not in line with the international market.
For example, one company had a manager with a profile matching a salary of up to $3,138, this person resigned and his place was taken by a underling who had a salary of $1,255 and who, after the change in position, was offered $1,632. This person got a better opportunity and resigned, shortly after which the company attempted to hire a new manager with the requirements of the first but with the salary of the second.
In Guatemala you have to invest an average of $10,000 to cover the costs needed for equipment, furniture, tools, training and administration.
It has been estimated that Guatemalan companies invest an average of $10,000 in the generation of one job, an amount that may vary according to the activity being carried out.
This is according to the Ministry of Labour assessments (Mintrab) in the country.
Lack of experience and lack of training are the main challenges that Guatemalan companies face when looking for managers.
The American Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) held the first Professional Executive Search, in order to recruit senior executives, however, there was little participation of interested people.
"The requirements to apply for a management position in a company are at least five years of experience, a degree, and a second or third language," reported Prensalibre.com.
Simply paying more is not enough, instead specific needs of each worker should be addressed, such as flexible schedules, teleworking and services such as child care and fitness.
Participating in the Forum on Human Resources by Capital Financiero entitled "Keys to Success in Retaining Talent," were Juan Planells, former director of the National Institute of Vocational Training for Human Development (Inadeh); Alberto Saenz, director of PwC Consulting, and human resource manager of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), Procter & Gamble and Dell, Jose Rivera, and David Cabrera Enrique Salgado, respectively, who addressed this issue.
President Otto Perez Molina, has declared a State of Emergency in four departments to expedite relief efforts and reconstruction of the damage from the earthquake.
A press release from the Presidency of Guatemala reads:
President Otto Perez Molina declared on Thursday a state of emergency in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Quiché and Huehuetenango for a month, in order to expedite relief efforts, rescue and reconstruction from the quake on Wednesday.
If done right, teleworking yields great results. If done wrong ...
Good methods for managing teleworking depend on several factors: matching time zones, mutual cultural adaptation, the ability to define processes more or less strictly, and especially clear rules on the responsibilities of each of the parties: employer and employee.
An analysis of the issue appears in an article in Elnuevodiario.com.ni, which states that "Making people accountable," is one of the basic principles of teleworker management. The telecommuter needs "a set of rules in black and white" which they can follow.
There are plenty of applicants for the posts, but there are few who are really qualified to meet the demands of each job.
A study entitled 'Lack of Talent 2011' by the firm Manpower Group shows that 30% of companies in Costa Rica say they have trouble finding certain types of staff such as technicians, salesmen and secretaries with the required skills.
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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