8 strategies to attract key talent
Professor Nick Kemsley, Director of the Henley Centre for HR & Organisational Capability, explains how your organisation can become a magnet for the right people with the right skills.
Attracting key talent to your organisation is getting harder. By that I mean finding people with the skills, knowledge, behaviours and attitudes it needs to thrive. As business strategy has become talent-critical, having the ability to attract the right people should be considered a risk at board-level.
As the world changes, so do talent markets. Changes in career thinking have turned the tables on who’s the supplier and who’s the customer. Talent consumerism means people with the right attributes hold all the cards. And shifts in the way people interact with work have globalised elements of the talent market and tested our assumptions of employment and the workplace. These changes have exposed the fact that many of our approaches to talent are based on out-moded assumptions. That’s why organisations need to move with the times and re-evaluate their approach to sourcing the talent they need.