The Great Resignation—a tidal wave of people quitting their jobs in search of better opportunities—continues to march on through many organizations and may very well strike yours. Here are four ideas to make people stay with you longer:
Hire for potential, not experience
- Look for people who have a solid and versatile foundation and the ability and desire to learn new things.
- Companies often don’t want to promote from within because they want someone in the position that can hit the ground running
- This strategy denies reality because the position will change anyway
- Retain your best employees by promoting them to stretch roles
Study your results and act on them
While this may not seem like a recruiting or retention technique, it will lead you to correct your processes. You won’t improve your retention or recruiting if you don’t know what works and what fails. That’s why you need to keep data on them.
Ask your employees questions
- Know what makes your current employees happy and what makes them miserable
- Knowing the answers to these questions helps you to tailor your training and development programs to what will benefit your company and employees
- You won’t retain people if they don’t see growth potential at your organization
Keep an eye on your competitors
- Your hiring and retention competitors are not just the people who make and sell similar products and services, but anyone who hires people similar to your employees
- If you want to keep your employees and hire new ones, you need to keep up with what your competitors offer
