Q1 2025 Staffing & Human Resources feat. ALTRES
Attracting and retaining the best employees continues to be a top challenge for many of our clients. Smaller businesses often find it hard to compete with those that can offer higher pay and richer benefits.
Q&A with: Michele Kauinui
Director of HR Services
ALTRES
Many of your customers and clients are facing huge challenges this year. What are those challenges and how can you help them?
Attracting and retaining the best employees continues to be a top challenge for many of our clients. Smaller businesses often find it hard to compete with those that can offer higher pay and richer benefits.
We collaborate with clients to align HR strategies with organizational goals. For some, it may be basics like creating job descriptions and training managers to interview more effectively. Others may need help in assessing how their pay and benefits compare in the market. For ongoing and immediate staffing needs, many of our clients look to ALTRES Staffing as an extension of their recruitment efforts.
Another challenge many clients face is keeping up with ever-changing employment laws. As state and federal laws may differ, it’s essential for every business to have HR support to help keep them compliant and mitigate potential risk.
In 2024 alone, Hawaii raised its minimum wage, and the pay transparency law took effect. Federally, a noncompete ban was overturned before implementation, and an overtime rule raising the white-collar salary threshold was struck down after taking effect on July 1. We follow these changes and keep clients informed of the latest HR news.
What is the most important change or trend impacting your industry in 2025?
Who would have expected that “Artificial Intelligence” would become integral to HR? Although you can’t (or shouldn’t) take the “human” out of human resources, AI has proven to be an important and viable tool in the world of HR.
AI can automate tedious or time-consuming tasks so that resources can be allocated to more value-driven areas. Our proprietary software, HR Symphony, leverages AI to assist clients in creating job descriptions that are thorough and strike the right tone. AI can also provide data-driven analytics for better decision-making, as well as personalized training experiences based on an employee’s skills, progress, and learning style.
While it’s vital to use AI responsibly to prevent bias and poor decision-making, the potential benefits of AI in HR are vast.
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