Using the Great Resignation to Your Organization's Advantage: Attracting the Best Talent

Author: Jennifer Kowal

Thanks to the “Great Resignation” of 2020 and 2021, many employers are scrambling to retain talent while trying unconventional ways to attract new employees. Many employees and job candidates seem to have concluded that “life is too short to work at a job you don’t like.” Workers have gotten used to flexibility and spending more time with their families, and many are quitting jobs that do not offer the work-life balances they seek. Savvy organizations that take the time to learn what employees are looking for in the workplace, and figure out how to make changes to be able to offer it, are likely to outperform their competitors in the fight for top talent in a tough job market. This webinar discusses some of the concrete, yet attainable, changes that employers can make to improve the desirability of working at their organizations.

Publication Date: August 2022

Topics Covered

• Changes that employers can make to improve the desirability of working at their organizations
• Workplace features that often cause employees to leave a company, and those likely to attract talent
• Key management challenges to offering the work-life balance environment that many employees seek
• Changes that employers can make to attract and retain workers

Learning Objectives

• Describe the workplace features that often cause employees to leave a company, and those likely to attract talent
• Recognize how to explain the key management challenges to offering the work-life balance environment that many employees seek
• Identify specific changes that employers can make to attract and retain workers
• Identify the approximate percentage of workers planning to leave their jobs in 2022
• Recognize a good way for an employer to show they value work-life balance
• Recognize an effective way to reduce the need to hire from the outside
• Describe one of the major reasons people leave their jobs
• Identify a positive of The Great Resignation for employers

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Personnel/HR (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None