Is Your Employer Trying to Retain You?

This is an interesting article about employers retaining employees:

http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au/articles/35/0C066735.asp?Type=59&Category=917

It’s true that it’s cheaper for companies to retain than recruit new people.  If you’re considered high value, your employer is likely to try to retain you.  There’s a lot of talk right now within organisations about retaining ‘talent’.  But what if that ‘talent’ (that’s you) is in the wrong job?  What if you could be much better placed elsewhere?  Don’t let your employer retain you if you’re not totally satisfied with your work, happy with the lifestyle it brings and able to maximise your value in your role. I write this to benefit both employer and employee. Some employers are blowing resources retaining people who aren’t a perfect (or even a suitable) fit, even though they’re skilled to do the job. In this day and age, it’s unlikely to be sustainable.

Towards the end of the linked article are some bullet suggestions for organisations to retain people.  They’re good points, for employers.  You might notice them doing similar things in your organisation.  May they retain well suited ‘talent’.

My advice to you for each of these points; don’t try to fit your employer’s plans if it violates your own plans.  Your goal is to align you own plans with your employer’s plans, and if you can’t then change role or career so that you do.  That’s the most important part of your job.  Most people haven’t even made their own plans.  They just live each day working on their employer’s plans (and believe me, employers are planning).

You do have your own plans don’t you?

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