HRST week 2! Today we learned a little about Peoplesoft watched the “Did You Know” video and discussed the future of work. My current company uses Peoplesoft and we utilize it so that employees and managers can do self serve on some things. When I think back to my past companies, I wish we had something similar in place. I remember how much time and effort it would take to do the simplest thing. When you think about it, this is one example of how software is able to clean up processes and make things more efficient in HR.

I’ve seen previous “did you know videos” and the data is always surprising, but the theme is always the same. Things are changing and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left in the dust. I noticed this particular one focused a lot on mobile tech which is the direction I think everything is going in. I went to a conference a few months ago that really focused on mobile apps which is awesome. They made an app specifically for the conference which was great, but it was really buggy and frankly it didn’t really add value to my experience. Hopefully they’ll fix it and in the near future it will actually be usable.

Next class, I hope to learn about any new software or technology that I can use in my strategy for the future of work. One thing that I want to apply professionally is what my strategy would be given what we know about the future of work (refer to blog 4). I really want to apply my strategy and measure how well I’m doing with it in the coming year. I’m pretty confident that I’ll be able to focus on tech in HR and I’m already thinking of what more I can do.