Talent management practices of microsoft
- 1. Submitted by – M.SAI PRAVALLIKA 2003074
- 2. RECRUITMENT AT MICROSOFT • Microsoft believes in recruiting extremely intelligent staff, favoring intelligence over experience. • Microsoft is an aggressive recruiter and is often the first company to offer jobs to elite graduates at campuses and career fairs across the world. • The selection process focuses more on problem solving and thought process and composure- testing exercises rather than the actual technical interviews. • Interviewing process is seen as one which would push the interviewees to the limit of their creative and analytical abilities rather than their familiarity with a computer programming. • A short-listed candidate will be invited in for some initial discussions, progressing through up to four interviews. These interviews can be 1:1 or by panel and can be face to face or by telephone.
- 3. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT • Microsoft’s diversity education programs help ensure that employees have the awareness, skills, knowledge, and ability to carry out their individual responsibilities. • It provide employees with the key competencies they need to excel in their current or future roles and to create a workplace environment that is empowering, inclusive, and supportive so all employees can do their best work. • Employees can receive the training they need on-demand, at their convenience, and from the comfort of their office or home. • It also offers participants an online area to discuss the training courses, ask questions, and learn from others. • There are also, advanced courses for Human Resources professionals to help coach and manage employees.
- 4. DIVERSITYAND INCLUSION • “Inclusion is not only an approach to meet the needs of increasingly diverse customer base through providing creative and innovative products, services, and solutions, but it is also a company commitment to support an inclusive culture and management practice for our world-class talents.” • Diversity and inclusion programs are practiced at Microsoft through leaders’ lead by example, awareness building, organizing workshops on work-and-life balance for employees' spectrum of needs.
- 5. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS • Include all signing and year-end bonuses, vacation time and other perks and reimbursements that make up total compensation. • Microsoft provides offered compensation packages on or higher than the industry standards based on the technical skills and experience of the candidates. Employee benefits are standardized across employees.
- 6. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT • Microsoft follows a candidate process while evaluating the performance of employees and regarding their compensation packages. • The process is transparent to enable employees to identify their performance levels and have a clear idea of what is required in terms of performance in order to reach to the next level.