Strategic Recruitment for PR Excellence Greg Savage International CEO Aquent
The hiring environment What's happening now? What's going to happen in the coming year? What should you be doing to ensure an advantage? The Aquent Orange Book
Predicted revenue change
Predicted revenue increase %
Percentage salary increases for PR/Communications staff
Predicted permanent staff increases | Shown as a percentage of companies
Average percentage staff turnover
The changing role of the business communicator — (with a nod to Phil Burgess) “PR guy” as publicist “PR guy” as flak or fall guy “Pr guy”as “Spin Meister” Corporate, environmental, social and regulatory change The CEO gets interested! “Pr guy” as trusted advisor New communications channels complicate things further The PR guy now sits on the main table! Talent is increasingly the coin of the realm
Top 10 staff retention strategies
The road forward Focus on retention Flexible hiring criteria Responsive recruitment process and ethos Develop partnership relationship with recruiter To raise “talent acquisition and retention” to a strategic priority
Some questions for you to ponder How much did your organisation spend on recruitment last year? What is your annual percentage staff turnover? Does your organisation have a system in place that ensures that, at every hiring decision, you hire the best available candidate available in the market place at that time? What qualifications to source, screen, interview and hire do the people who do the hiring in your organisation actually have? Would you spend as much time on the decision to hire a $55,000 PR Account Co-ordinator as you would on a capital expenditure decision, such as a $70,000 computer system?
Some questions for you to ponder continued… What is the true cost of a failed recruitment decision? What were the “real” reasons for the last ten resignations from your organisation? Does your organisation have a structured, written, universally followed selection strategy? Is the net mean employee skill score higher now in your company than it was twelve months ago? What percentage of your time is spent on strategic staffing strategies? (and then ask yourself what percentage of your time you spend on people problems and issues?) How many of your current staff would you re-hire?
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It will be harder to get quality people to work for you than it will be to get more customers
Thank you Greg Savage International CEO, Aquent