Exceptional Talent How to Attract, Acquire and Retain the Very Best Employees [Paperback]

Attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the right people is crucial to an organization's success. The stakes have never been higher: a 2015 study by CAP suggests that the average cost of employee attrition is 20% of a mid-level employee's annual salary and up to 213% of a high-level executive's salary. In a business environment changing so rapidly that jobs which will be essential in 2020 don't even exist yet,Exceptional Talentexamines how changes in technology, communication, and employee preferences are impacting the talent journey. It gives practical advice for how to build an effective recruitment and talent management strategy to meet the needs of the business today and prepare for the challenges of the future.

Exceptional Talentcovers how to build an authentic employer brand, explores new ways of sourcing candidates and explains how to use print, digital, social and mobile platforms to target the right people in the right way. Highlighting the impact of networks, relationships and referrals on talent acquisition, it also provides tools and techniques to create an efficient recruitment process, strategies for effective onboarding of new employees as well as practical advice and best practice case studies for retaining and engaging employees.

Not all HR books are created equal.Exceptional Talentis not just a How To Manual but a Why to Manual for recruitment and talent attraction. It's comprehensive, thoughtful and, above all, practical. The kind of book that won't gather dust on the office shelf but will get daily use by HR and recruitment practitioners alike. In this book, Alder and Dinnen, drag current thinking around Recruitment into the modern age. The authors demystify the contemporary talent landscape and offer practical steps for employers beyond the promises of the vendors panaceas. Much of the current writing on Talent Acquisition is impractical and unworkable. In this book Alder and Dinnen guidl“ó