EMPLOYER OF CHOICE

To attract and retain resourceful employees a business should strive to be an employer of choice. Being an employer of choice is simply establishing an organization that is a great place to work and in turn has satisfied employees.

Here are a number of strategies to help in achieving this:

Know Your Ideal Employee Profile

Before recruiting, understanding and defining your kind of employee is important for instance, a travel company will need an outgoing kind of person and hence benefits that can be provided by the company include but are not limited to slashed travel prices can be offered for the employee. This will also come in handy with knowing kind of employees benefit packages one can offer.

Internal Culture

Create and maintain an internal culture which values the employees as a key to success and treats them as an asset rather than a liability. It is also important to note that for a good organization culture it should be legitimate and authentic to suit best employees of the organization.

Hiring Managers That Are Engaged

C.E.Os’ and Directors hardly come into contact with the staff on the ground hence departmental heads, line managers and team leaders hold a key to the company culture hence the employees will tend to assess how they are managed by the head of department. Departmental heads who lead by example are more likely to enhance a positive internal culture. They should be able to have and work one on one with employees and be actively engaged. Being involved also helps management in understanding individual employee’s character, abilities and other factors that may affect their output at work.

 Open Channels Of Communications

Employees need to be heard as much as they are also directed, this said management should ensure that there is an open channel of communication where employees can easily air out their views, in turn open relationships with the management are formed.

Learning And Development

Employers can create and give employees challenging work but not that which wears them off to encourage and widen learning, also provision of training programs for the career growth of employees.

Know Your Competitor

Know why your employees are leaving and where they opt to work and why.

These are just but a few strategies that can help in making you an employer of choice need not forget that as an employer one should not overlook small things like working conditions, office space and the kind of employees he has.