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Struggling to Hold onto Staff? - Improve Your Training and Recruitment
 If
your business struggles to hold onto
talented staff, then you are certainly not
in the minority. A survey by the Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
has found that almost 80% of companies
struggled to hang on to their staff in 2006.
Nicola Monson,
author of the report, says: “Employers will
continue to struggle to find suitable
candidates and keep staff turnover under
control if their approach to recruitment and
retention fails to take account of both
business and employee needs.
”Only half of employers currently have a formal resourcing
strategy, which suggests many are not
planning for the future skills requirements
of their organisation. This is particularly
worrying given that specialist skills and
required experience is still in such short
supply.
”All organisations rely on talent so
employers need to take a proactive approach
to talent management and tap into the skills
of the people wanting to contribute and
progress. Actively developing employees
should not only increase the internal talent
pool, in turn reducing their reliance on
external candidates, but also see problems
retaining staff ease due to new career
opportunities.”
The following initiatives are also very
effective in helping organisations to
overcome recruitment difficulties:
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Using the employer brand as a
recruitment tool (75% say it has a
positive impact but only 31% currently
use)
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Offering flexible working (74% say it has a
positive impact but only 30% currently use)
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Targeting migrant workers from EU countries
and recruiting staff from abroad (75% say it
has a positive impact but only 14% currently
use)
Recruitment difficulties
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Key reasons for recruitment difficulties
are lack of necessary specialist skills
(65%), followed by higher pay
expectations (46%) and insufficient
experience (37%).
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Only the public sector has seen a drop in
recruitment difficulties which reflects the
pressure on the public sector to make
efficiency savings (80% of public sector
organisations say they experienced
recruitment difficulties, compared to 89% in
the 2006 survey).
Migrant Workers
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Organisations are continuing to look
beyond the UK to fill vacancies. 14% are
targeting migrant workers from EU
accession states. This was seen to have
a positive impact on recruitment
difficulties by 75% of organisations,
compared to just 48% in the 2006 survey.
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A further one in ten (11%) are
recruiting in foreign countries and
bringing workers over to the UK.
Working with recruitment agencies
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73% of organisations still engage
recruitment agency services to help fill
job vacancies.
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Most respondents agree or strongly agree
that using agencies considerably
increases the cost of their recruitment
spend (76%).
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Nearly six in ten fail to evaluate
agency performance (59%).
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A third of employers don’t possess a
preferred supplier list.
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81% of those employers using recruitment
agencies do so for hiring temporary
workers and 78% for seeking permanent
staff.
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The key driver for organisations’ move away
and decline of agency usage is to cut down
on recruitment costs (72%). Adopting a
direct-hire strategy is also identified as
another motive for not using or reducing the
use of agency services (53%).
More information on employment issues is
available in our You and Work portal.
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