2023/2024 - HR Trends - What's next?

Every year, the world has it's share of challenges.  HR needs to be able to somewhat anticipate what this means for the organization and the impact it has on staff.

At the start of 2023, Forbes listed the 6 biggest HR challenges as:

1. Talent Shortages And Upskilling.
2. Employee Experience
3. Organizational Agility
4. Purpose-Driven Work And Workplace
5. Addressing Workplace Burnout And Mental Health Challenges
6. HR Digitization

While this does seem to reflect the past year, and perhaps the present concerns, we have to look forward to 2024.

At this point, we seem to be coming to terms with the economy and inflation, but it's certainly not changing fast.  I saw an article from HCA Mag that was titled, "1 in 5 Canadian employers losing out on talent over salary, benefits"

So what do we do?

We need to stay creative!

What are you using for talent attraction and candidate engagement?

What about improving employee engagement? 

Businesses in all industries will need to figure this out to meet these goals and, hopefully, weather whatever economic challenges lie ahead. 

My thoughts would be to start promoting employee benefits as a strategic piece of the puzzle on talent attraction, employee engagement, and retention 

What ideas do you have to help reduce the negative impacts and costs associated with high turnover?

Should I pursue the CHRP or CPHR?

If you are, or will soon be, a recent grad in the HR field you are probably facing a lot of confusion around the HR designation.

You have likely heard of both the CHRP and CPHR.

While the acronyms are similar, the governing bodies behind them definitely are not.


In short, the CHRP (and CHRE and CHRL) are property of the HRPA.  The CPHR on the other hand is property of the CCHRA. 


In a brief history, the HRPA used to be called HRPAO (formerly Ontario's governing HR body) and were a member of the CCHRA up until only a few years ago - click here for more of a back story

Just over 6 years ago, I made the decision to leave the HRPA(O) and am still grateful that I did.  Now that the HRPA(O) has left the CCHRA they are actively pursuing members from other provinces - which I guess they are allowed to do.


My thoughts are this, I am a member of a provincial association outside of my residency because I strongly believe in national unity and trying to get national alignment in the HR field through a common framework amongst the provinces - in my opinion a national body like the CCHRA can make this happen more amicably.

Does amicable sound like what the HRPA has done?

-They dropped the (O)... I guess hoping to appear more national
-They left the CCHRA
-They are now trying to steal membership from other provinces they were once aligned with


In short, I continue to vote with my membership dollars and would encourage every HR Professional in Canada to do this as well.  I am not telling you what to vote for, just simply what your vote represents.