1. Creative Ways to Improve Recruiting and Retention Steve Brubaker

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3. It starts with being recognized as an employer of choice raising awareness

• Getting your name out there in the community

• • Media relations

• • Community relations

• Applying for and winning awards recognizing great employers

• • Use best practices in human resources

• • You cant win an award you dont apply for

• Dont be afraid to tell your great company story!

• Differentiate yourself from other employers

• • The people you target may have worked in your industry before what makes you different, better?

4. Human resources policies and procedures

• Best practices for your industry

• Best practices for your region

• Dont be afraid to turn people away if theyre not the right fit for your company

• Be specific in recruiting messages so prospective employees know what youre looking for

• Target messages to ensure the proper audience is reached.

5. Creating an environment where employees can excel

• Provide specialized training for employees to give them the tools to exceed at their job.

• • Training for their specific job

• • Training for your company in general to discuss your company values and mission

• Provide ongoing training and development

• • Training to excel in their current role and adapt to changing technologies, best practices, etc

• • Training to help them be ready for a bigger role

• • • Also helps you single out employees that are actively looking to get ahead

• • Partner with local colleges and universities if doing the training in-house is not an option

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• Offer on-site amenities that make employees lives easier

• • On-site fitness, exercise programs

• • On-site wellness, smoking cessation

• • On-site education

• • On-site childcare

• • On-site food services with healthy meals and snacks

• • On-site convenience programs dry cleaning, banking, etc

• • • What do employees rush out on their lunch breaks to do?

• • • Can we offer that service on-site?

Creating an environment where employees can excel

7. Engaging employees - helping them achieve self-actualizing goals

• To find out what employees want and need out of the company just ask them

• • Surveys

• • Open forums with senior management

• • Suggestion boxes

• • Performance and peer reviews

• • MBWA

8. Engaging employees - helping them achieve self-actualizing goals

• Contests and goal setting to help motivate employees to achieve desired results and make work fun

• Giving back to the community giving people opportunities to make a difference in the community

• Promoting these efforts so employees feel like their efforts are appreciated, and to further position yourself as an employer of choice in the community.

• • Takes us back to raising awareness

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