Create a Strategic Recruitment & Retention Plan
Use our 2023 eBook Top Talent & Culture Struggles and Strategies to help your business attract and retain the right talent for continued growth. The eBook serves as a guide for how to improve 9 key elements of your overall retention and recruitment efforts by first identifying major areas of opportunity that you may not realize are affecting your business and then helping with strategies to overcome these barriers.
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Needing more help in a particular area of your retention and recruitment efforts? We have individual resources crafted for 9 key areas of opportunity relating to talent acquisition efforts. These resources include research from over 2,500 middle-market businesses and actionable strategies that you can begin implementing at your organization today. Check them out below!
Strategic Recruiting
Hiring and retaining people with the right fit with your community is the most critical factor in achieving your goals and reaching your company’s full potential. Use our strategic recruiting resource to better attract top talent and accelerate your business' growth.
Leadership Development
A lack of clear leadership development strategies and trainings ultimately leads to a drop in retention of valued employees. Use our leadership development resource to improve retention rates in your organization today.
Systems & Processes
Technology helps optimize processes, plan for the future, analyze information, and improve connections between employer and team members. Use our resource to streamline your talent acquisition systems and processes.
Employee Experience
The concept of “employee engagement" has been replaced by the broader perspective offered by “employee experience." (EX). EX has a direct impact on retention and tenure. Use our Cultural Alignment and EX resource to create a community that attracts and retains top talent.
Employment Branding
Your employer brand reflects how candidates and employees perceive you and is a major factor in enticing and engaging them. Use our resource to manage your employer brand strategically to effectively attract and recruit top talent.
Pre-Employment Assessments
Assessments can help to make your candidate selection process more efficient and to help more effectively coach and train new employees. Use our assessments resource to improve your organizations recruitment efforts and speed up the candidate selection process.
Candidate Selection
A bad hire takes a large toll on your organization that goes beyond the cost of rehiring. Use our candidate selection resource to learn how to more efficiently select the right candidates to shorten your hiring process and save your organization money.
Onboarding
Strong recruiting should be followed by strong onboarding that welcomes new employees and gets them off to a productive start. Use our onboarding resource to improve your onboarding process and create a more efficient start for new hires.
Compensation
Not understanding what the market is offering in terms of compensation puts organizations at risk of losing valuable talent. Use our compensation analysis resource to create a strategic compensation plan that matches the expectations of your current and future employees.
Cost of Vacancy Calculator
Every open position in your organization is costing you, and that dollar amount is more than you think. Use our custom calculator to determine the cost of vacancy for a particular role in your organization. The resulting number reflects the amount of revenue lost for the number of days it takes your organization to fill that particular role.
Complimentary Recruitment Tools
Accuracy in Hiring
We recommend the use of a validated, predictive assessment within the interview & candidate selection process that helps you identify and quantify candidate personality traits that impact job fit
Cultural Alignment
Defining your culture, measuring it, and finding where and how it may be misaligned helps manage your employee experience and your brand—both of which are critical aspects of attracting and retaining top people.
Effective Onboarding
We examine the four building blocks of successful onboarding that can give you a competitive advantage and help make a candidate more comfortable with the decision to accept your offer—and likely stay with you longer.
Interview Best Practices
Competency-based behavioral interviewing focuses on the skills/abilities related to success on the job with questions related to past performance.
Interview Questions
This extensive list of additional behavioral interview questions covers virtually every topic you might want to cover in a candidate interview.
Reading Recommendations
Rescuing the Corporate Exhausted Hero
Mark Heydt, Chief Learning Officer and Founder of Game Plan Leader, has helped hundreds of leaders and managers to reclaim their lives from burnout, learn the skills they need to lead, and avoid becoming Exhausted Heroes―and this book will help you create an actionable game plan to become a more strategic leader. Grab a copy!
Fierce Conversations
The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across—and get what you want. Grab a copy!
Blue Collar Cash
A prescriptive and timely guide to finding success and happiness without a college degree by Ken Rusk, the Ohio-based entrepreneur and “million-dollar ditch digger” who believes it is time to celebrate the possibilities and financial opportunities that a Blue-Collar life can bring. Grab a copy!
Love and Work
World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life. In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. Grab a copy!
Resource Partners
Emergenics
With 65% of the workforce considering a job change, company culture can’t wait. When you understand how your employees prefer to think and behave, you can create an inclusive, inspiring workplace that attracts, engages and retains the world’s top talent. Learn more.