‘Excellent Teamwork’ in practice sums up the Lion team’s contribution at the Malaysian Career & Training Fair (MCTF) held at Mid Valley Mall from 15 – 17 April 2011. Group HR Director, Mr Suresh Menon has been promoting his vision of HR synergy and collaboration between HR teams in the operating companies and Group HR. Starting this year, the issues of Talent, HR Policy, Industrial Relations and Learning are discussed and followed up at monthly Functional Network meetings involving HR staff. An issue discussed at the Talent Network is the challenge of Talent Acquisition and retention, leading to our Group’s participation at MCTF 2011.
The coming together of the steel and retail divisions in one booth is a first for the Group; the booth was manned by staff from Amsteel Klang and Banting, Megasteel, Parkson, Blast Furnace Project, SECOM and Group HQ with Mr Kevin Phuan of CEDR as the organizing committee chairman.
The “yield” was significant… more than 3000 CVs were received from job seekers. Though it was a daunting task for the 53 staff who manned the booth over 3 days, the teamwork spirit and collaboration of all on duty was pure adrenaline. Everyone acted as good ambassadors to attract talent to the Group. Besides the HR staff, plant engineers and frontline retail executives came along to explain the merits of pursuing a career with the Group from a “hands-on” perspective.
 | The work does not end with the career fair. After the fair, there are significant and urgent efforts to track, short-list and arrange interviews. Securing more than 3000 CVs is not a good result in itself. The measure of success will be the number of talents who are finally recruited and stay contributing to the success of the Group.
The road to achieve a preferred employer status is challenging and requires a compelling Employee Value Proposition that meets current and future needs of job seekers i.e. competitive salary and fringe benefits, conducive work environment, good bosses and colleagues, and a place to learn, develop and grow.
Job opportunities with The Lion Group can be found at: www.lion.com.my/careers
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