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A Recruitment vs Retention Dilemma?

Liz Tibbut recently joined our group and referred to a "Recruitment vs Retention Dilemma". She elaborated further (see next comment on this thread).

What's your experience in this area? Is it a dilemma? Do companies still have an unhealthy imbalance towards recruitment? What leading edge retention initiatives have you seen recently? Is increased retention a threat to recruitment agencies? Should our group be called Retention 2.0?

Does anyone care ? (that's a mildly snide comment towards the 90% of our members who haven't shared their thoughts on a forum yet!)

Looking forward to each of your thoughts...

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Permalink Reply by Keith Mockett on April 22, 2009 at 20:26
Interesting discussion. And, of course, everyone is right. That's part of the problem, recruiters recognise the problem/issue but really have little influence over the retention thing. Unless being completely honest with candidates about the organisation, as opposed to the marketing/communications spiel, will filter out those candidates who expect employers to actually deliver on promises like "fun place to work". Perhaps the discussion should be around strategies that help recruiters to get companies to focus on retention. Not theory but real stories about how people have got their companies to address the retention issue. Anyone got a good story, success or otherwise, to tell?

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