Retention | How to stop your new starters from being poached

Attracting talent into your business or organisation is not an easy feat. It’s highly competitive for employers to attract the right candidates and challenging to secure those that have the best skills and experience to bring into the role and add value to your organisation.

The time and resource required to recruit, and onboard new starters can be expensive. So, the last thing you want or need, is to lose them to another job offer from a competitor or another business just before the last hurdle – becoming a part of your organisation. But there is something you can do that could help stop your new starters from being poached…

It’s all about having the right approach to onboarding in your organisation

Recent Glassdoor research has shown that having a strong onboarding process can improve new hire retention by 82%. Onboarding can mean different things to different people and different organisations. It is mainly the act of getting a new employee familiar with and integrated into an organisation. Most people think this is something you do with a new starter from their first day of work, when actually it’s something you can do right from the moment they accept their job offer with you.