Employee recognition is more than just a feel-good gesture—it’s a powerful tool for fostering a positive workplace culture, boosting morale, and increasing employee retention. Salopek & Associates can help develop your retention strategy to reduce turn-over and ensure you are keeping top talent engaged, and staff morale high. In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of employee …
Category: Recruitment & Retention
Talent Acquisition Trends for 2024
Jumping into 2024, we have already started to see several trends emerging that will reshape the approach organizations take to attract and retain key talent. Here are 10 key trends shaping the landscape of talent acquisition in 2024, encompassing both recruitment strategies and evolving workplace dynamics: Predictive Analytics and Data-Driven HR: The use of people analytics …
Employer Branding & Why It’s Important
The current job market continues to be a candidate’s market and Salopek is seeing an increasing number of our clients inquiring about recruitment support and how to position themselves to stand out from competitors. A competitive job market presents an opportunity for organizations to revisit their recruitment strategies and ensure they are positioned to attract …
Targeted Search: Recruitment’s Secret Sauce
You develop a job posting that perfectly promotes the opportunity within your organization; your culture, the position profile and a summary of the ideal candidate who will be as passionate about the role as you are! It’s perfect – so you post it. And you wait… This summarizes the start of many companies’ current recruitment …
Beginners Guide to Making a Wrong Hire
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the price of a bad hire is at least 30 percent of the employee’s first-year earnings. A wrong hire costs a company financially and can also impact organizational culture and have a disastrous ripple effect on other employees’ productivity and effectiveness. What constitutes a wrong hire? 1. Lack …
Canada’s 2018 Top 100 Employers
Being an employer of choice is a corporate objective for companies of all sizes across Canada, and it is a goal that Salopek & Associates assists clients in achieving every day. Now entering its 19th year, Canada’s Top 100 Employers is an annual competition featured in The Globe & Mail that recognizes the nation’s best …
Reference Checks: Will they lead to a happy ending?
I have recently been involved in an unorthodox recruitment, where the employer decided that proceeding with reference checks was an unnecessary step in the process. This experience made me re-examine my thoughts on the value and timing of reference checks for employment purposes. Typically, reference checks are one of the last steps performed before proceeding …
Hiring for Values and Culture Fit
A company is only as good as it’s employees. Therefore, it’s important to ensure you hire great people. Goes without saying, right? Of course you want to hire people who are qualified to do the job, but more importantly, you want to hire employees whose beliefs and behaviours are aligned with the company’s core values …
The Cost of the Lost
I am fascinated with organizations like law firms and medical practices where lawyers, doctors and nurses are placed in senior management positions. ‘Managing Partner’ and ‘Nurse Manager’ are well known positions that you will find in the majority of legal and medical practices. I am often left to wonder what skills or training these professionals, …
Delivering a Positive Employee Experience
This morning I learned that one of my previous employers has recently suffered some rather devastating financial set backs as a result of the economic downturn. While the news is unfortunate for many reasons, it has caused me to reflect on my time at that company. I wasn’t actually there for very long in the …