Intervention Suggestions for Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Strategies for Recruitment include:
Strategies for Retention include:
- Employee Orientation and Onboarding
- Career development
- Employee Recognition and Reward
- Training
- Supervision
Examples of common interventions related to each strategy are listed below. This list is not comprehensive, but rather is meant to offer suggestions.
Information and resources that are available through this Web portal’s recruitment and retention resources can be located through a word search. New resources and information will be added on a regular basis.
Interventions for a Recruitment strategy can include:
- Realistic Job Previews (information available on this web portal)
- Expanded recruitment sources
- Referrals from existing staff
- Developing an “early pipeline” of persons interested in receiving the education, experience or credentialing required for the profession
- Attracting different generations
- Expanding the recruitment pool or recruiting from specific populations (e.g., people with disabilities, consumers, veterans, or older employees)
- Building a comprehensive web site that includes marketing and recruitment sections
Interventions for a Selection strategy can include:
- Experiential hiring or job tryouts
- Structured interviews
- Worker registry or referral center
Interventions for Employee Orientation and Onboarding strategy can include:
- Reviewing and implementing employee orientation and onboarding strategies (information available on this web portal)
- Using the buddy system to assist new hires (information available on this web portal)
- Addressing new employee’s generational differences (information available on this web portal)
- Job shadowing
- Training newly hired to competencies
- Engaging employees through retention practices
Interventions for a Career Development strategy can include:
- Using competencies in developing career ladders, hiring, and supervision (information available on this web portal)
- Mentoring (information available on this web portal)
- Succession planning/leadership development
- Retention strategies for different generations
- Developing career pathways
- Job sculpting/flex time
- Intern to employee
Interventions for a Recognition and Reward strategy can include:
- Informal recognition strategies (information available on this web portal)
- Formal recognition strategies (information available on this web portal)
- Rewards through motivation (information available on this web portal)
- Employee suggestion programs (information available on this web portal)
Interventions for a Training strategy can include:
- Training associated with credentials and standards (information available on this web portal)
- Training based on feedback (information available on this web portal))
- Vendor-developed or existing training (information available on this web portal)
- Designing and developing customized training (information available on this web portal)
- Competency-based training
- Competency training to upgrade
Interventions for a Supervision strategy can include:
- Making supervision effective (information available on this web portal)
- Choosing an effective supervision style (information available on this web portal)
- Turning supervisors into coaches (information available on this web portal)
- Encouraging Emotional Intelligence in the workplace (information available on this web portal)
- Developing effective communication (information available on this web portal)
- Incorporating tactics to motivate employees (information available on this web portal)
- Using effective conflict negotiation (information available on this web portal)
- Team building (information available on this web portal)
- Managing for generational differences (information available on this web portal)
- Encouraging culturally competent supervision (information available on this web portal)
- Developing participatory management
- Behavioral health specific training
- Holding high performance practices
Additional information that can support the recruitment and/or retention of employees are located the Support for Staff Retention Chapter. This chapter does not describe an intervention within a strategy, but can be used in combination with any retention strategy. Some of the information in the Support chapter include:
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