{"id":383,"date":"2006-10-20T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=383"},"modified":"2006-10-20T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T17:26:48","slug":"how-to-retain-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/how-to-retain-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Retain Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=367\" target=\"_blank\">Earlier this week we posted on employee turnover<\/a> via a survey that found 75% of jobseekers believe they will find greater career success elsewhere. As jobs become more plentiful and workers more scarce, employee retention is going to be a top 3 topic for most companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegerecruiter.com\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/10\/best_practices_8.php\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Rothberg posts on the CollegeRecruiter.com blog<\/a> a handful of tips to increase your company&#8217;s employee retention rate. Please read them &#8211; he is spot on.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion that stood out to me in terms of the younger generations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keep it fresh. Create new ways to ensure your employees continue to learn and grow within their related field and your company. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we posted on employee turnover via a survey that found 75% of jobseekers believe they will find greater career success elsewhere. As jobs become more plentiful and workers more scarce, employee retention is going to be a top 3 topic for most companies. Steve Rothberg posts on the CollegeRecruiter.com blog a handful of tips to increase your company&#8217;s employee retention rate. Please read them &#8211; he is spot on. The suggestion that stood out to me in terms of the younger generations: Keep it fresh. Create new ways to ensure your employees continue to learn and grow within their related field and your company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-management","category-team-management","category-turnover"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2445,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/chipotle-rewards-and-retention\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":0},"title":"Chipotle Rewards And Retention","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Retention does not seem to be a topic of great concern in this present economy.\u00a0 However, the economy will turn and hiring will accelerate.\u00a0 When this happens (hopefully sooner rather than later), retention will become a key topic for many companies. 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I just recently\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1454,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/owning-the-job\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":3},"title":"Owning The Job","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The principle of owning vs. renting is powerful especially when it comes to an employee's job.\u00a0 Ownership of a job is a fickle thing.\u00a0 Yet, I have worked for managers who assigned responsibility and provided enough autonomy to allow me to excel in my role.\u00a0 The younger generations seem to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/what-workers-want\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":4},"title":"What Workers Want?","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"July 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"An envelope caught my eye this past week as I was rifling through my junk mail. Printed on the envelope was \"Employee Recruitment & Retention.\" Since that is my field, I decided to open it up. Inside, I found a complimentary copy of a monthly newsletter from Lawrence Ragan Communications\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":752,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/the-day-your-new-employee-will-leave\/","url_meta":{"origin":383,"position":5},"title":"The Day Your New Employee Will Leave","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"March 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In a recent article from Workforce Management on new employee retention, 7 months seems to be the magic number when it comes to retaining newly hired employees. Office Angels interviewed 1,400 new recruits on this subject. Here are some of their findings. 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