Companies have been experimenting with giving appreciation gifts to their employees to ensure that they are happy and satisfied in their jobs. In recent years, companies have started using tangible things such as flowers or chocolates. However, these gifts that are traditional and expected don’t really bring the most value to employees.

In this section, we will be discussing employee appreciation gifts that will make them happy and contented in the workplace. Here are some different types of appreciation gifts that your employees would appreciate:

• Career development opportunities

We are back again with yet another edition of What’s New in Zoho People, and this time we have some useful features that will further improve and simplify HR management.

Here’s a quick summary of all the updates introduced in Zoho People in February:

• Validate your employee’s identity with facial recognition, now available in Zoho People’s web application

• Organize pre-course activities and post-course activities with our LMS to measure employee proficiency before and after they take a course

• Create similar courses in no time with the course cloning feature in our LMS

• Allow employees to better manage their tasks with our Task Watchlist and Task Notifications

Read more information about how each of these features works in our HR Knowledge Hive. 

Employees often know when there are easier ways to be performing their routine tasks. Not only does manual work drain morale, but it also distracts employees from their other important activities.

Understanding these concerns, we have introduced Zoho’s AI chatbot, Zia, in Zoho People to help your employees automate their everyday tasks. Here’s how Zia can be useful for your employees:

• Performs the complete leave application process on behalf of your employees. Your employees just have to input the date, leave type, and reason.

• Fetches the list of upcoming holidays and leave reports.

• Provides a complete list of all your pending tasks within Zoho People.

• Raises requests and inquiries for employees through the case management module.

• Helps employees “Check-in” and “Check-out” for the day.

Read more about how Zia can be useful to your employees in our HR Knowledge Hive

Onboarding with Zoho People 

At Zoho, we know what it takes to craft a successful onboarding program. Having a customizable digital solution that works the way you need can make all the difference.

Zoho Peopleenables employers to set up the onboarding process the way they want using workflows. This gave us a good reason to come up with a unified solution equipped with advanced, pre-built, and customizable options like candidate onboarding, role-based workflows, and more. With these features, you’ll be able to quickly launch a successful onboarding process that’ll simplify work for HR while augmenting the employee experience.

Let’s take a look at what Zoho People’senhanced onboarding has in store for you.

Candidate Onboarding

Candidate onboarding, also called pre-onboarding, is a phase where you’re trying to convert prospective candidates into long-term employees. It’s also when candidates are evaluating your company and probably deciding whether to work with you. During this crucial time, it’s important to give your candidates a seamless experience without having HR staff struggle with all the back-end work that takes place before an employee joins.

Your candidates can come through direct sources or staffing agencies. What you don’t want is to have to depend on different tools to send an offer or collect candidate information. Zoho People allows you to do it all from one unified system.

Zoho People lets employers build a new hire portal where you can add candidates and send them an externally accessible link to collect personal and professional information like qualifications or previous work experience using customizable forms.

You can also send digital offer letters and other documents like company policies that employees will need to read through.

Employee Onboarding 

Once candidate onboarding is completed, you can convert your candidates to employees with the click of a button. All the new hire information—an official email address, date of joining, and more—can be provided without a hitch.

Customize workflows

Each role is unique in an organization. This means every new hire for different roles need a specialized onboarding experience. That’s why we let you craft onboarding workflows that are specific to roles in order to personalize their experience. Design workflows and checklists so you don’t miss important tasks like assigning seating locations or providing equipment.

Give a warm welcome

Onboarding is one of the best ways to educate new hires about your company. Zoho People allows you to add videos, so you can talk about your company’s value, culture, vision/mission, and more. Make team introductions, post a warm welcome message on your collaborative space, and let other employees engage with newcomers. This will help new hires build strong workplace relationships.

Drive productivity from day one

An employee will perform only as well as they’re directed. Zoho People enables managers to set objectives for new hires and establish what is expected of them at work. This will guide employees down the right path from day one and ensure transparency in their work.

Track progress

Onboarding is not just a one-day process. It’s important to keep track of where employees stand and have frequent check-ins to ensure they have the best experience. With Zoho People you can track progress of each employee and further assist them accordingly.

While digital onboarding has traditionally been viewed as a way to automate document management and other back-end work, today it’s far more than that. With a workforce increasingly made up of Gen X and Gen Z, who were born into a digital world, organizations should be able to create a more human experience while leveraging technology. When done right, you can launch a successful onboarding strategy that significantly increases retention.

We’d love if you could give our new feature a spin and let us know what you think. To get started, you can read through our help documentation.

Happy onboarding! 

Zoho Recruit turns 10 this year, and we are dedicating this special milestone to our huge family of happy recruiters. Being part of the recruitment industry and understanding the impact a profession like this can create, is out-of-this-world. It’s also one that grows on you. 

When we started out in 2009 to build a solution that helps recruiters and HRs streamline hiring, little did we know that we’d become part of a dynamic industry that demands technological advancements to be competitive and in sync with the changing trends in the market. Five version upgrades, multiple features, and hundreds of functionalities and enhancements later, we have to admit that we’re proud of this journey.

What we have for you today is undoubtedly one of the most advanced hiring platforms. No two businesses are the same, and neither are their hiring requirements, so we’ve tailor-made our product to adapt to your needs.

The all-new Zoho Recruit is everything you’ve always wanted. Let’s take a closer look.

ZIA comes on board to reduce hiring time

ZIA (Zoho’s Intelligent Assistant) in Zoho Recruit is every recruiter’s dream. She understands candidates as humans with career profiles instead of a string of keywords on their resume. This enables her to find the best candidate for a job opening by matching their experiences, skills, and proficiencies with the job’s requirements and grading them accordingly.

Extend your talent supply chain with our brand new Vendor Portal

Why limit your candidate sourcing channels, when you can build and manage a complete vendor network to get the best candidates for your jobs? Zoho Recruit’s Vendor Portal allows recruiters to invite third-party recruitment agencies to submit candidates for your open jobs into your database for processing. You can also provide them with a self-service log and enable them to track the progress of the candidates they’ve submitted.

A dedicated portal for all your clients

Give your clients the power to track their jobs with Zoho Recruit’s Client Portal. Clients can add jobs in the portal and track their progress. Once a recruiter submits a candidate for review, clients can add notes, view resume attachments and files, schedule calls, and self-manage every stage of the recruiting process. 

Employee referral forums for stronger teams

Finding ideal candidates has become demanding for recruiters in a candidate-driven market. But with Zoho Recruit’s employee referral forum, corporate hiring teams can leverage their own employee network to refer people who are the right fit for a job. As well as being multifaceted, employee referrals draw a high volume of qualified candidates who can be retained for longer.

Incorporate Organizational Hierarchies

The Reporting Hierarchy feature lays out a clear organizational blueprint, by incorporating your organization ladder into your recruitment process. How? Zoho Recruithttp://spanish.creatorscripts.com/recursos-humanos.html  enables you to assign reporting managers to the users in your organization for efficient record accessibility and data sharing. This structure ensures controlled access to information for users within the organization and also ascertains that a user has only one reporting manager.

Build and sell applications with the Developer Console

Zoho Recruit’s Developer Console is a free cloud platform for developers to create ready-to-deploy cloud applications on top of the Zoho Recruit platform. Unlike conventional cloud platforms, Recruit lets you quickly build enterprise-level applications through easy-to-use drag-and-drop tools.

Inclusive and accessible candidate experience

We wanted to ensure that even our software echoed our company’s vision of equal opportunities for everyone. When recruitment is completely digital in nature, the application process must also be made friendly for differently-abled applicants. Our web forms are now ADA-compliant, powered with screen reading functionalities and interactive keyboard shortcuts to ensure that the application process is not a challenge anymore.

Candidate Portal 

Empower your candidates with a self-service portal where they can apply for jobs quickly and skip the trouble of filling out lengthy application forms. The portal lets them create their applicant profiles, apply for multiple jobs, and be informed of their progress. They can also keep their resume details updated to ensure all the information available for recruiters to process their application is up to date

Dynamic workforce sourcing 

Zoho Recruit is now a recognized Facebook ATS Partner and a certified LinkedIN ATS partner. Recruit’s integration with Facebook will enable you to sync your organization’s Facebook account and post jobs to one of the largest social networks in the world. With the “Apply with LinkedIn” functionality, recruiters can now allow candidates to authorize information to be auto-filled from their LinkedIn profiles while applying for a job.

A comprehensive Interview Tool Kit

Get access to interview tools with just one click, including a candidate’s basic information, their resume attachment, prescreening assessment details, interview details, the assigned interviewer, their feedback, and more. The interview tool kit has individual and detailed dashboards for every interview.

There are many other small surprises to be discovered when you start exploring Zoho Recruit. Our aim has always been to build a highly resilient and versatile tool to make the hiring processes simple, foolproof, and guided. We encourage you to take a tour of these features and let us know what you think.

Stay tuned! We have more announcements coming up soon.

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