1. Strategic Recruitment for PR Excellence Greg Savage International CEO Aquent

2. www.aquent.com 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

3. www.aquent.com Predicted revenue change

4. www.aquent.com Predicted revenue increase %

5. www.aquent.com Percentage salary increases for PR/Communications staff

6. www.aquent.com Predicted permanent staff increases | Shown as a percentage of companies

7. www.aquent.com Average percentage staff turnover

8. www.aquent.com 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

9. www.aquent.com Top 10 staff retention strategies

10. www.aquent.com 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

11. www.aquent.com 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?

12. www.aquent.com 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?

13. www.aquent.com The Aquent Orange book Over 5,658 responses in the Asia Pacific region Printed report is available for free Survey contains report on Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, China and Japan Call your local Aquent office on 1800 672 625 in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth or Sydney Or call our Sydney office on: 02 8288 8288

14. www.aquent.com It will be harder to get quality people to work for you than it will be to get more customers

15. Thank you Greg Savage International CEO, Aquent gsavage@aquent.com