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March 20, 2021 by Amy Shanks Leave a Comment

TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL HIRING IN 2021 AND BEYOND

Hiring advice
Find and retain the right employees with these 5 Tips

In 2020, the killing of George Floyd came a global outcry for systemic change. This movement allowed company leaders to rethink their hiring practices while seeking to advance racial equity. In 2021, the call is to create a diverse and equitable workforce where each person can bring their best self to work regardless of age, gender, race, background, ability, or religion.

You can increase your chances of hiring the right candidates by following these 5 Tips:

  1. Enhance your DE&I for better hiring

In the future, more candidates will make job choices based on their assessment of a company’s visible diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). According to Dan Schawbel, a bestselling author and managing partner at Workplace Intelligence, a New York City-based HR research and advisory firm, “70 percent of job seekers said they want to work for a company that demonstrates a commitment to diversity and inclusion.” 

  1. Create a virtual onboarding experience

As hiring freezes begin to lift and your company seeks to add to your existing teams, find a way to streamline your onboarding. Preparing a virtual onboarding experience will help you deliver a welcoming message as well as an insight into your company’s culture.

  1. Prioritize talent development for future hiring

The skills-gap crisis isn’t new to hiring managers. However, it has intensified from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning and development programs should be more than a “perk” to offer employees for their personal growth. Providing training and advancement opportunities within your company is an effective strategy for growing your business. This strategy will help you attract and retain top talent.

  1. Protect your employees from burnout

If your work hours include evenings and weekends, employee burnout is a possibility.  You should train managers to identify the signs and encourage employees to prioritize their mental health. Overworked employees are stressed, depressed and are likely to make more mistakes.

  1. Connect your employees’ work to your company’s mission 

Rather than chasing a higher salary, job seekers are becoming more attracted to mission-driven companies. People want to work for companies that align with their values. Furthermore, when training managers have meaningful conversations with employees, they break down the traditional hierarchies that prevent people from feeling like they’re making an impact.

Although 2020 brought many challenges, it also created space for a new and improved way of working. At Strategic Recruitment Solutions, we have been matching top companies with top talent in the Gulf Region for more than a decade. Our industry-expert recruiters can offer insight and guidance in all aspects of Legal and IT recruiting. Call us today at 888-366-6508 to learn how easy partnering with SRS can help you reach your business goals.

Filed Under: Employment News, General Recruiting, Human Resources Tagged With: employees, employer, Hiring, It, legal

September 25, 2012 by Amy Shanks Leave a Comment

TALENT WARS

                                                                              War on Talent

“War is Hell.”  William Tecumseh Sherman wrote in a letter to the Mayor of Atlanta warning him that his war plans make it necessary for the inhabitants of the city to “make their exodus in any direction as easy and comfortable as possible.”

We know the devastation Sherman caused in his march through Georgia and, of course, the burning of Atlanta.  And what does this have to do with the employment market?  It is not a stretch to say that firms are facing a War on Talent – fortunately it is completely bloodless; but, the effect will be quite painful, chaotic, and expensive. So what can you do to protect your company?

John Sullivan, a recruiting expert says firms, “should begin planning for this next round of talent wars, because once the intense competition begins, there simply won’t be time to catch up and the lengths competitors will go to in order to steal away talent are bold, creative and sometimes downright tacky”.

 

Let’s look at some of the crazy things SOME Information Technology companies do to attract the A team!    Can you say, KaBOOM?

 

Buddy Holly
Seriously???

Some Silicon Valley industries in social media, gaming, and oil and minerals are good examples.  A recruiting firm sent 150 cookie baskets directly to key employees at Zynga, a social game developer. It was a legal, bold move designed to create buzz and alert employees that outside firms wanted them. Another low tech but effective move by Zapacer, a cloud security firm, involved driving a van advertising positions around the building of its target competitor. Although not as bold but certainly quirky and creative was the recruiting hook used by Hipster, a start up company in Silicon Valley, which offered new hires “$10,000, a lifetime supply of Pabst Blue Ribbon, ‘authentic’ skinny jeans, striped bow ties and a pair of Buddy Holly glasses.”

I’m sure you can you imagine that activities like these combined with the persuasive abilities of a professional headhunter have the potential to completely ravage a company’s top talent.


NO WAR IS GOING TO BE WON BY CONSERVATIVE ACTION – BOLDNESS AND INNOVATION ARE REQUIRED. (ere.net)

 

So how does this affect your company? “For firms to keep top talent they have to be ruthless about innovation – if they aren’t prepared to back employee ideas, they will lose those employees to a start-up, to a competitor or to disinterest.” (Rob Enderle)

It is up to managers, HR departments and ultimately the culture of the company to provide a climate that demonstrates flexibility and a willingness to create a dynamic innovative work environment.  Business author Andrew Winston notes in his seminars that “millennials don’t have any loyalty.”  Younger employees would rather work for companies that share their beliefs than to stay at a company for many years.  This cultural shift toward innovation-not just sustainability gives small and medium businesses an advantage, in that they can move more quickly to embrace change.  This shift, combined with a willingness to remain sensitive to employee’s expectations (and that doesn’t mean just salary) is what will keep the talent in a company.

Improving communication can be a relatively easy starting point at which to look, and it doesn’t cost a company anything but a little time and an attitude of genuine concern.  Communication is multidimensional involving verbal and non verbal aspects.  It is the nonverbal that is the most fascinating and some would say most important – surely the receptive communication skill of LISTENING will help to maintain a stable pool of talent that is not easily “raided.”  Human Resources, are you listening to your employees?  Employees, are you being heard?

Filed Under: Human Resources Tagged With: Hiring, Talent Aquisition, Talent War

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