Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Recruitment And Retention Strategies Are A Must


According to industry sources, the number of jobs in the cleaning industry are rising. However, commercial cleaning companies need to be a little more flexible when it comes to recruiting new staff to fill those roles to secure the best talent possible.

Flexibility is the key to finding top people. I have been to many interviews and conducted many interviews as well and one thing I have found no matter if you are interviewing or the one being interviewed is that a lot of companies are just not flexible when it comes to making suitable times with prospective candidates. By not being flexible in this, you will not secure the best candidate possible as someone else who is a little more flexible will. In  the beginning of 2009 there was no shortage of good candidates for office cleaning, industrial cleaning as well as commercial cleaning  but now as the economy is recovering more and more, those good candidates are being snapped up by the commercial cleaning companies that have the foresight to be flexible.

Cleaning companies also need to rethink their retention strategies if they are going to compete in today's market. All this means is rather than thinking about constantly replacing employees or contractors if they are not meeting your requirements, you should be thinking about what you can do to better train them. If they are worth keeping, then implement some sort of training program or an incentive scheme to keep existing employees. training and development should be the key component of any recruitment and retention program. It doesn't need to take the form of formal courses but a one on one mentorship is just as effective if not more so as it provides a personal interest on your part in your employees.

Recruitment and retention strategies need to be implemented as quickly as possible if you haven't already done so as you can rest assured that your competitors are doing just that. Once you have on in place, effective communication of such to your employees and contractors will boost their morale but make sure that communication works both ways. you want to allow your employees to communicate back to you as well for any feedback which they might have to make your plan even more effective.

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