Read the case study below carefully and answer the question below. Inspiring results. For Life. For Work: A Case Study at SD Worx For decades, HR has been built around a set cadence: lifetime careers, permanent jobs, annual enrolment, quarterly reviews, monthly payroll, fixed locations. Today, work is more fluid: workers want to be in control, they have an appetite for real-time information and expect things to get done instantly, on the go. Todays workforce has an agile mindset and little tolerance for friction. We see this fluidity of work reflected in how work and life are intertwined. Our people solutions help businesses and HR adapt to the new world of work. So workers can combine various jobs and employment types, receive flexible reward and continuous feedback, and weave their work life into their life work. Thats why our people solutions are for life and for work. We spark success at the heart of your business, so you and your people can thrive.

Enabling your organisation to find and deploy staff to achieve your objectives A tight labour market, increasingly specialised competencies and a number of digital candidate platforms make it more and more difficult for companies to choose the right strategies and tools for workforce sourcing. With our tailor-made staffing and recruitment solutions, SD Worx offers an answer to your talent sourcing challenges. We work closely with you to identify the unique strategy your organisation needs to attract the right candidates. In addition, we help you embed agility into your organisation, offering flexible solutions to your employees and optimising the composition of your teams to engage and retain valuable talent temporary and permanent. Effectively managing fluctuations in your organisations employment needs including temporary expert talent requires a tailored approach to staffing and recruitment. SD Worx offers solutions to help you get the most out of your talent, no matter which type of contract they have

Source, select, engage and hire the very best talent Talent acquisition is one of HRs highest-impact processes and bringing the right people into the organisation has a substantial, measurable impact on business performance. Attracting the right talent is essential to ensuring your organisations future. SD Worx offers the expert knowledge, digital savviness, agility and tools needed to manage digitalage recruitment processes. Finding and engaging with the skilled people your organisation needs is no easy task in todays highly competitive labour market. Success begins with using the right digital channels to source both active and passive candidates and enticing them by positioning your company in the best possible way. Once you have captured their interest, the candidate experience is paramount: inviting, streamlined, rapid, comprehensive and decisive. SD Worx supports medium to large enterprises, local, European and global, in delivering the complete recruiting continuum. We help you optimise talent sourcing, candidate relationship management and applicant tracking and assist you in filling your permanent positions, even in markets with high levels of scarcity. With end-to-end-tools integrated with all of your HR processes, we enable your internal staff to attract and match candidates with open positions, build effective talent pools and meaningfully connect with candidates, reducing time to fill and ensuring a high-quality workforce.

Attract the right expertise in a flexible way In search of specific areas of expertise for a limited period time, to deliver a specific project or to temporarily support your organisation? SD Worx provides fully qualified temporary experts, product managers and talented consultants on a project basis, including flexible contractual options. For certain projects, organisations face significant challenges in finding the right people to ensure a successful, on-time, on-budget outcome. In these cases when niche support and unique skill sets, functions and roles are urgently required for a limited period of time, SDWorx offers screened, coached, trained experts in a wide range of domains that you can contract with in a flexible way.

Engaging employees and managers in the performance management process Many organisations are reinventing their performance management processes to focus more on employee guidance and development, driving ongoing performance improvement, higher engagement and, ultimately, bigger business impact. SD Worx is perfectly equipped to help you make the transition. A powerful performance and competency management solution enables managers to align employee tasks with strategic goals and employee ambitions. It enhances performance management by providing employees with continuous, meaningful feedback and coaching. Even more, it enables you to understand the aspirations and competencies of employees, helping them invest in their roles and careers and make positive impacts on team and company results. Source -Extract from https://www.sdworx.com/en

QUESTION 1 (a) [10 MARKS] Analyse the Recruitment and Selection process at SD Worx.