Recruitment difficulties, organization, social media, recruitment methods, turnover, communication, innovation, diversity, skills, employment, labour market, health care sector, manufacturing sector
The task at hand is:
According to the British Chambers of Commerce, "recruitment difficulties and tougher trading conditions face firms amid sluggish UK growth" (BCC, 2018)
Discuss the various recruitment difficulties that any organization might experience. Then, by narrowing your focus to two sectors, suggest actions that these sectors could take in response to the specific recruitment difficulties they face. Consider a range of solutions in your discussion.
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[...] Solutions to solve the difficulties: health care sector ■ Create some social benefits to attract nurse and doctors to work in the public sector ■ Visit universities and high schools to attract young people ■ Create a more emotional advertisement that makes them want to work in this sector ■ Create a balance in the organization by recruiting experienced and nonexperienced workers ■ Facilitate and attract overseas workers to come. Recruitment difficulties: Manufacturing sector ■ Brexit ■ With the new technologies: hard to find some with the specific knowledge for the higher demand ■ for skilled and unskilled workplace: lack of trade school opportunities for young men and women. Proportion of companies reporting reasons for their recruitment difficulties. Illustration: EEF Skills Survey 2015-16 and 2012 Source: (The guardian), Most UK manufacturers are struggling to recruit skilled workers–report. [...]
[...] Solutions to solve the difficulties: Manufacturing sector. “We still struggle to find a sufficient number of candidates to satisfy the demands of our sector, and too many candidates lack the skills that manufacturers need,” (Scuoler, 2016) ■ Help from the government such as the implementation of training programs and competitive pay packages ■ Implement short internships to form potential people so we can have a big range of people to recruit. ■ To attract young people: Innovative advertisement ■ Use marketing strategies to attract potential people (reports, relevant blogs, case studies, eBooks, infographic) ■ To attract graduate workers: partnership with the start-up Summary ■ Organizations face recruitment difficulties in the external and internal way ■ Good recruitment is vital for the positive image and future of the company ■ Brexit is one of the biggest political recruitment issues in many activity sectors ■ The lack of innovation also affects the recruitment process ■ Innovative advertisements and promotion of the job needed towards young people can help. [...]
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