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Fuel your business growth: through effective recruitment and on-boarding
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Are you ready to grow your business? Hiring the best team is important to ensure you can grow and succeed together - come along to hear top tips on how to recruit the best people to your business.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the key components of a recruitment strategy
- Explore how to attract the best talent and how to incorporate this into your recruitment adverts
- Understand the principles of diversity and inclusion in recruitment, including the benefits of diverse recruitment
Description
Did you know that employee retention is improved by 82% following a solid on-boarding process?
Hiring and on-boarding employees can be challenging, especially in today's recruitment landscape. In this session, we will teach you practical tips and best practice to help you plan your recruitment; how to create a robust on-boarding strategy, and avoid common pitfalls. We will also touch upon the topics of employee retention and understanding what the recruitment journey looks like from the candidate's perspective.
We'll also cover what an effective and inclusive recruitment process looks like, along with what is important to include in your recruitment strategy and how to ensure that the on-boarding of employees covers diversity/inclusion. We'll also be looking at what unconscious bias means in the recruitment process.
In this session, we will equip you with practical tools, insights and actionable solutions to take back and implement in your organisation, so that you can achieving on-boarding success and get the best team in place to help you grow your business.
Speakers
Samantha Thorpe
Workforce Development Specialist, Greater Manchester Growth Hub
Sam is a Workforce Development Specialist, playing a key part in assisting organisations to cultivate a vibrant and inclusive culture. This involves implementing innovative and diverse approaches to recruiting and on-boarding. Beyond the initial phase, her focus shifts to retaining these talented individuals by establishing effective tools for learning and development. Sam also emphasises the importance of a structured framework that encourages positive communication and feedback between management and employees. The goal is to foster an environment that promotes excellent performance and job satisfaction across the board.
Sam has previously worked for colleges and training providers, helping individuals and businesses to upskill, grow and nurture talent to enhance the workforce.