Attraction and retention strategies for the accountancy job market
The shortage of accountants in Malta is no secret. Over the past years, the country had to recruit over one hundred foreign accountants in order to meet the market demand.
The shortage of accountants in Malta is no secret. Over the past years, the country had to recruit over one hundred foreign accountants in order to meet the market demand.
Another way of attracting new employees and retaining your top, experienced talent is by providing an attractive employee benefit package.
SurgeAdvisory Managing Director and HR Advisor, Maria Bartolo Zahra, together with Nicole Caruana, Founding Partner and Neuroscientist at Massivemind, delivered a workshop at the Annual FHRD HR conference.
In today’s job market organisations are facing the reality of an increasingly mobile workforce. The promise of a stable income is no longer attractive enough to keep employees from moving from one employer to the next.
Your people are influencing your strategy; through their competence and their behaviour. If these are out of line with business then you are at risk of failing to deliver what you intend and plan.
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.” Indeed, well said by Steve Jobs.
A few weeks back I wrote about the millennials and the Gen Z, and how businesses and employers need to change to attract and retain them.
The very basic reward philosophy deals with how reward can help in achieving performance goals whilst underpinning the company’s core values.
Every business has its own reward strategy, even if not written. It aims at linking reward strategy with the company brand and organisational performance.
The perception of exit interviews is that they are a great opportunity for employees who left the company to dish and complain about their ex-employer. It is the time for the employee to give one-way feedback about their work experience.
Employee engagement is all about the emotional connection an employee feels towards their job and their workplace. You can easily differentiate an emotionally charged culture from an unemotionally charged one.