Retention = Re-Recruiting

You thought it was tough to find your employees in the first place, but lately it is getting tougher to keep them around. Recently on HR.BLR.Com, they posted an article citing Michael Jalbert, president of Management Recruiters International (www.mrinetwork.com), and he believes that bosses should think of retention as re-recruiting. See the full article here.

Some highlights:

• Spend some time reaching out to your employees and continue to challenge them.

• Bosses should assume that their best people are getting job offers from their competitors.

• Loyalty is a word that exists less and less in the business world.

• Periodically ask your employees some questions like the following to get a feel for whether or not they will stay with your company. Here are a few question examples from Michael Jalbert.

If you could make any changes to your job, what would they be?

In the morning, does your job make you jump out of bed or hit the snooze button?

What makes for a great day?

What can we do to support your career goals?

What can we do to keep you with us?

The key thing to remember is that your employees joined your team for a reason at the beginning of their employment. Keep finding ways to extend that relationship and never stop re-recruiting them.