One of the biggest problems that most companies face is getting talented employees and more importantly, to retain them for keeps.
The common and mistaken belief is that luring and pampering them with money and heavy bonuses as the prime bait for retaining them.
Authors Jim Harris and Joan Brannick underline the need to go beyond the material into finding the source of employee aspirations and goals and forging them with the company's strategic visions and goals.
The book urges emphatically on the need to first develop the appropriate organizational culture that is strongly rooted in customer service, innovation, operational excellence and team spirit.
Successful recruitment and retention would then involve aligning organizational culture with the employees' needs and desires and helping employees to realize and optimize their fullest potential.
The book outlines the eight recruitment and retention strategies in detail that organizations can observe in enlisting right candidates for the right job.
The book equally stresses on the need for gaining employees' inputs on various staffing practices and to maintain new initiatives so the company can incorporate and fine tune them effectively within the overall corporate philosophy.
The authors also reiterate the absolute necessity to ensure proper alignment by reviewing company core culture and employment practices and connect them with the employees' basic needs.
The book thus underscores the need for getting quality employees, and ensuring their long term retention by securing their trust and commitment.
Not just HR professionals and head hunters, even entrepreneurs and business professionals, will find the book of immense benefit.
Equally, even the work force can read this book to know some of the recruitment strategies and be aware of what to look for in a job.