Start Attracting Top Talent
The best way to attract top talent starts with outlining the perfect candidate in your job posting. When writing a job description, point out the specific skill set you're looking for so right from the get-go you're ensuring your candidates are at the utmost quality.
In addition to skill set, you'll want to make sure to outline company culture within your job description. Good candidates will want to know that they'll fit in with a culture long term. It's also important to be transparent about workplace flexibility so a candidate can ensure it's a proper fit with their personal life.
When your talent management strategy also has a focus on diverse audiences, you'll reap the benefits of employing candidates with unique life experience that will help you achieve your business goals.
The Road to Increasing Employee Engagement
After you've hired a great team, whether you want to increase engagement in new hires or seasoned employees, you will need to invest in skill development. Skill gaps prevent employees from staying engaged. A strategy that includes offering ongoing training via a learning management system can help close the gaps by educating employees with the skills that can make them successful.
Giving and receiving timely feedback also encourages increased employee engagement. A focus on performance management promotes consistent feedback and helps align employee goals with company goals. Employees, especially Millennials, who are used to an instant response time, are more likely to feel their work is benefiting the company when they receive timely feedback.
Retention
About 3 million Americans quit their job each month. A devoted retention plan to keep employees onboard is critical. Once you have attracted and engaged top talent, it's important that you retain them. Your team can work towards improving employee retention by recruiting from within, preparing employees for future responsibilities and immersing them in company culture.
BirdDogHR offers a performance management system to help you remain ahead of the competition in front of the best talent. Whether you want to implement one of these strategies or all of them, BirdDogHR can help you get started.
