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Immigration Program Maturity Assessment empowers companies to gain unprecendented visibility into the overall health of their immigration practices. Teams can gain instant access to spot company-wide opportunities to win the war on talent.
Finding and retaining top technical talent is difficult, coupled an ever-changing immigration landscape, the opportunities to improve this function are endless.
Optimizing your program can help companies round out their employee experience, improve hiring times, and reduce uncertainty across the employee lifecycle.
Optimized:
Teams that are optimized across the key dimensions are well ahead of industry peers.
Predictable:
Teams have built some repeatable processes and have a dependable bank of resources for common scenarios, but a few competencies might have been neglected.
Emerging:
Teams have cobbled together some processess and reporting, but there are some glaring weaknesses creating anxiety and stress for people involved.
Chaotic:
Teams might be following all the legal steps to get cases approved, but it is unwieldy and reactive.
Beyond transactional case processing, programmatic immigration management can support many parts of a growing business. From Finance to People Operations, an optimized immigration process can help companies to reduce uncessary exposure and spend while fostering a delightful employee experience.
Modern teams rely on the right balance of processes and systems to generate actionable data, scale administrative processes with ease, and create repeatable frameworks. People teams should be empowered to focus on strategic projects rather playing telephone with case updates. Digitalizing and automating your immigration compliance processes is a big step towards providing relief and security for your employees and to mitigate compliance exposure.
Teams that choose to invest in employee experience and company culture might see a reduction in turnover, an increase in employee productivity and engagement and possibility a rise in customer loyalty (forbes). Adding transparency in the immigration process can dramatically reduce anxiety and disengagement among employees. Employees can also greatly benefit from on-demand access to trainings, resources, and forecasted sponsorship plans
At forward-thinking companies, Talent and People teams work together to develop and orchestrate talent strategies inclusive of international candidates, wherever they might be. Addressing eligibility concerns early in the talent funnel can prevent unnecessary work and spend as the candidate moves along the recruitment process, this also help People teams by developing predictive forecastings and spend analysis. As the program matures, teams will want to keep stakeholders aligned with trainings and standardize role descriptions to mitigate unnecessary spend.
"The Bridge team helped us remove a lot of roadblocks in hiring amazing talent from abroad, and created a streamlined process both for our company and for candidates that needed specialized visas. The entire process became faster, cheaper, and much more transparent than before."
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