Transform Your HR Department with Automated SMS (Guest Blog)

Your HR department has a powerful tool available with automated SMS texting. When you want to be a leader in your industry when it comes to recruitment, you need to be able to communicate with potential employees fast. Send out SMS messages for fast response rates, whether you are trying to onboard a new employee or you need to take a quick survey of your current employees. When keeping track of trainings and meetings is an issue, HR updates sent by text message ensure that everyone is receiving the same information in real time. To transform your HR department, it's time to invest in an automated text messaging platform.

Open Up Communication Between HR and Your Employees

Communication between your employees and the HR department can get tiresome. This is one area where streamlining communication can greatly improve efficiency. For example, if an employee wants to know how many vacation hours they have left, they'll need to contact HR. You can use an automated SMS platform to create keywords. Once this is done, the employee doesn't have to speak to anyone in HR to find out how many vacation hours they have left. A simple message sent the keyword "VACATION" will send back the vacation hours automatically to the employee without wasting any valuable time of your HR department staff.

Improve Your Job Recruitment Process

When you want the best candidates for your company, you have to improve your job recruitment process. This means that you will want to keep job seekers up to date on openings in your company, and you will want to schedule an interview with a candidate you are interested in quickly. When you need more information from a candidate, a simple text message can request any information that is missing from their application. In addition, a potential employee can ask questions through text messaging. If they aren't interested in the position after asking a few questions, your time won't be wasted on an interview.

Coordinate Employee Trainings Through Text Messaging

Your HR department has the daunting job to ensure everyone that works for your company is properly trained. The software platform can be set up to keep track of all employees and send out a reminder when an employee has a training that is about to expire. You can send out messages about upcoming trainings, and easily change the date or time through a text message. When you want to make sure each of your employees is properly trained, it's time to implement a software that keeps track for you.

Communicate Emergencies Quickly

There are a number of emergencies that can come up when you are running a business. If you have a security risk in the building, you can send out a quick text message for everyone to seek shelter. If you need to fill a shift for the evening, a message sent out to all of your employees will get the shift filled quickly. If you need to close because of severe weather, you can notify all of your employees instantly.

When you set up text messaging for your HR department, it will run more efficiently. You will be able to communicate with potential employees faster. Your HR department will be more streamlined, and current employees will have an easy way to ask questions.

Author Biography:
Ken Rhie is the CEO of Trumpia, which earned a reputation as the most complete SMS solution
including user-friendly user interface and API for mobile engagement, Smart Targeting, advanced
automation, enterprise, and cross-channel features for both mass texting and landline texting use
cases. Mr. Rhie holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He has over 30 years of
experience in the software, internet, and mobile communications industries.