The old ones retire and nothing comes after that. How business can win the fight for good personnel in times of fight.<\/p>\n
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The baby boomer generation will retire soon and in various businesses a gap will be created. However, there are small to medium sized businesses who nearly all fill their open positions in a timely manner. What are they doing differently compared to the competition?<\/p>\n
Favoured employers place emphasis on communication. Many small to medium sized businesses do not want to be in the press and are surprised afterwards to have a small number of applicants\u2019 despite of attractive job offers. \u201cNo matter how trivial it sounds, in order to have an applicant have interest into a business, he needs to know about it. Only one, who works actively on their image and on their publicity as a company as well as working as an attractive employer, will get sufficient applicants for open positions\u201d, advises your personnel consultant Hans Ulrich Gruber.<\/p>\n
Meeting applicants face-to-face <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAre we taking trade fairs for apprenticeships as serious as industry trade fairs? \u2013 Businesses should ask themselves this question, if they are missing secondary growth. The experience is that businesses who regularly take part in trade fairs for apprenticeships have no problem with secondary growth. As long as the company as a whole carries weight\u201d, tells the personnel consultant. Positive examples from Upper Frankonia are Metalution GmbH or Federnfabrik Dietz GmbH. Both businesses recruit a large number of future staff at working and apprenticeship fairs.<\/p>\n The Critical success factor: working atmosphere<\/p>\n For current applications the working atmosphere is the most important factor. This statement can be supported by a recent study of the university of Bamberg Otto-Friedrich (see Bewerbungspraxis 2015, Centre of Human Resources Information Systems (CHRIS), Otto-Friedrich-Universit\u00e4t Bamberg). Even before \u201cflexible working hours\u201d and a reasonable remuneration is the working atmosphere placed as the first criteria for the attractiveness of an employer. \u201cTo work on this is not only wise to overcome the lack of skilled workers. Pleased employees are key to more innovation, growth and customer satisfaction\u201d, so Gruber.<\/p>\n \u201eSimplified one can bring the topic down to the following formula: working atmosphere plus communication plus apprenticeship trade fairs are fields of work for sufficient secondary growth!\u201d
\nHans Ulrich Gruber, ihrPersonalberater<\/p><\/blockquote>\n