Recruitment, retention and talent management strategies for your firm
As the level of fee-earner movement between firms grows and as graduates become more discriminating about their choice of firm, recruitment and retention have become business critical.
Your recruitment success depends on your management of key dimensions of the process: articulating your firm’s approach to talent. From lateral to graduate hire, you should be clear about why you are recruiting and what you want from the candidate.
Equally high on your agenda should be retention – creating a structured programme of integration and understanding key motivators. Aligning an effective talent management programme with the right reward strategies to support the business ensures your talent will flourish.
Firms who have worked with JSB now demonstrate a sound recruitment strategy that has improved recruitment practices and promotes the importance of employee development and engagement.
Individual benefits:
- Leave the training with the skills and know-how to make a real difference to their firm
- Understand and identify key qualities and competencies that will make a candidate fit your firm and practice area
- Develop your ability to ask the right questions to make the right decision
Organisational benefits:
- Learn how to design a recruitment approach that reflects the culture and values of your firm
- Make your recruitment process strategic – and link this to your diversity aims and aspirations
- Find out how to retain your best people through an examination of motivation, personal development and communication
- Design and align an effective talent management programme to keep your talent engaged
What the training covers:
- How to attract the best talent – accessing key talent pools and the role of brand and reputation
- How to recruit the best talent for your firm: maintaining competitive advantage
- Recruiting the best trainees: setting real talent apart from the crowd
- Ensuring a successful and comprehensive interview process
- Training and developing your top talent: coaching, mentoring and key training
- Talent retention: considering the factors at play in professional services firms
- Using the relationship between motivation and retention to your advantage
- Introducing methods to manage ambition and motivation successfully
- Reviewing compensation and benefits