Strategic Talent Acquisition and Management for the Post Pandemic Ecosystem

Strategic Talent Acquisition and Management for the Post Pandemic Ecosystem

, In the COVID-19 era, Talent Managers and HR heads are playing a critical role in navigating how companies reinvent themselves and shape personnel practices to build resilience and flexibility while driving productivity. The challenges and responsibilities have been many and unprecedented, extending from fostering connectivity during the various phases of lockdowns, enabling work from home strategies to planning ahead for the imminent return to offices. At Silah Gulf, the way we work has obviously changed as well and there is no doubt the Pandemic has changed, and will continue to change, the way we work, where we work and how we communicate. Foremost, was the adoption of a "Growth Mindset," our primary strategy for personal and professional growth of all employees. This entailed a continuous learning program and developing a learning management system to offer the opportunity to our employees to enroll into different e-courses to improve their skills and knowledge on their own time. Strategy, vision and values have remained the basis of our Employee Journey framework. Employee retention has helped us remain competitive in the Bahrain marketplace. Recognition and appreciation of the high performer, and Progression planning have been effective strategies that have attracted and then, helped