November 20th, 2009
Recruiting and Retention Strategies
Posted by klfulto in Uncategorized
Recruiting and retention strategies are very important for companies that want the best talent. Some tips on creating these strategies are :
- Look for in-house talent
- Redesign jobs
- Tap hidden talent
- Use marketing departments or firms
- Use technology
- Use recruiting and retention metrics
- Offer telecommuting and flexible work scheduling
- Leverage your benefits package
- Read resumes in teams
- Use behavioral based interviewing techniques
- Conduct background checks
- Become known as a great place to work
This may seem tough, but if you want your company to succeed, you need to have people wanting to work at your company, because they’ve heard it’s a great place to work. Maybe have a “game room” where employees can take their breaks. This also serves as a brainstorming room for employees to roll ideas off of each other somewhere other than a desk. I’ve always heard that Erwin Penland is a great place to work in Greenville, because of the work environment they’ve made. They have pinball machines and other arcade games. You can wear jeans there. The decor is modern. And it’s really hard to find a job there. It’s a tough company to start at, because they hire from within, and no one wants to quit and work somewhere else. They have people wanting to work there from all over the world, and just recently hired someone from the UK.
When deciding on who to hire, you can develop a recruitment team that is specifically developed for picking the best of the best. There are 4 steps for this recruitment team to follow:
- defining manpower needs
- finding and enticing candidates to respond to those needs
- interviewing and selecting the best applicants
- orienting newly selected employees in the business
Use already hired employees to have on this team, because they know what the business is about and why they have stayed at that company. They can recruit what is suitable for the company and help orient them during their first few months to retain them.
