Executive Recruiters, Truck Stops, and Employee Retention

If the turnover of employees at your company makes have you feeling like a cook at a truck-stop diner, it’s time to stop and smell the coffee! Employee turnover has nothing to do with the individuals that are leaving your company to work for someone else. Employee turnover has everything to do with what your serving to your most valuable company assets.

Your compensation and benefits package might look good to you, but how do they really look to your employees? Remember, beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. Guessing what your employee sees when they think about the salary and benefits that you’re serving to them is a guessing game at best. What do your employees really think about their job? What drives them crazy about their job? There is only one person who knows the answer to those questions and it’s not you.

When you want to get the truth, you need to go straight to the source, the employee! Do they enjoy coming to work everyday? Ask them! What would make their jobs more appealing to them? Ask them! Which direction would they like their career to go in within your company? Ask them! Don’t leave their future with your company up to chance. Communication is a key ingredient that many companies forgot to add in to the their employee retention recipe.

If you want to make someone’s job more appealing to them, add some garnish to their plate! I guarantee you that they will will be pleasantly surprised at the little extras you’ve taken time to do for them. Keeping your employees happy is the most effective way to hold on to your company’s best employees and it is a sure fire way to put headhunters and executive recruiters out of business! What kind of garnish can you add to their plate to make their job more appealing to them? Here’s a site that has 12 easy things that you can do to keep your best employees coming back for more!

Why would I tell you how to put an executive recruiter out of business when this blog is sponsored by the executive recruiting firm, The SearchLogix Group? Because, even if you start working on changing your employee retention strategy, there are thousands of other companies who won’t. They’ll be putting the same old stuff on their employees’ plates and their employees will still be contacting us to find out what looks good on our client company menus.