Staffing Strategies - Recruit and Select Wisely

This presentation covers staffing strategies from the start to the finish of an employee’s engagement with your company.

Areas that will be reviewed include why it is important to invest time and effort from the very beginning of the recruitment process, and how to do that. We will also review compliance practices during the whole life of the process in order to decrease perceptions of discrimination and potential litigation results. Items covered will span the time from recruiting, selection, onboarding, training, employee development, retention efforts, and finally to resignation or termination.

• Cost of Employee Turn-Over
• Recruiting Practices
• Selecting the Best Applicant
• Use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
• Retention Strategy I.C.E.

Employees are the backbone of the organization. Keeping that backbone strong and straight requires assuring quality applicants are recruited, hired, and retained. The first step is to fully understand the actual cost of turnover and how that affects the company. Next, recruiting practices should attract targeted groups that bring desirable knowledge, skills, and abilities to the table. Assuring a selected applicant’s interest and acceptance of an employment offer requires marketing and finesse. And finally, retaining valuable employees is the clinching goal. Understanding what employees really want and then making efforts to provide appropriate benefits is essential. Initially, you may think money is the motivating factor; however, high-performing employees search for something more than just a high salary. Today’s workforce desires flexibility in their job and balance in their life. Employees want a challenging job where they are motivated, engaged with incentives and rewards that make sense, and show respect and appreciation. Developing a staffing strategy that is effective and compliant will produce cost savings and profitable results.

• Hiring Managers
• Business Owners
• Human Resource Professionals
• Leadership Teams

Deborah Jenkins is a workforce and leadership trainer, keynote speaker, business management consultant, executive coach, and writer, who helps entrepreneurial organizations of any size or industry to leverage their corporate culture advancement through development of their leadership and human capital assets.

In addition to having a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management and Professional Certifications from renowned organizations including a SHRM-CP from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a PHR from the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), she has over 25 years of real world experience in human resource management, business consulting, and training and development in a variety of industries including higher education, manufacturing, construction, accounting, telecommunications, retail, health care, fitness, government, union, and nonprofits. She serves her clients by using her expertise in leadership growth and development, teamwork and collaboration, change management, emotional intelligence and agility philosophies utilizing neuroscience principles, employee engagement, motivation and innovation, problem-solving using critical thinking skills, and most passionately, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Deborah is also an Authorized Everything DiSC® Partner, offering her clients the valuable personality assessments and solutions that address personal tendencies, preferences, and approach agility.  Further, she has been a active member and board member for SHRM local and state chapters as well as Toastmaster’s International local chapter. Deborah is a life-long Montanan and when she isn’t busy with her business, HR Solutions, LLC, she enjoys roaming the mountains with camping, hiking, and 4-wheeler adventures, tooling the lakes on her SeaDoo’s, tending to her yard and garden, entertaining family and friends, and indulging in meditative pi-yoga.