Contribute to our next TALKabout series
Over the past 12 months we’ve been asking retailers what their greatest recruitment challenge is and in our next TALKabout series our panel of experts will be giving their advice on how best to tackle some of those challenges.
Recruitment challenges facing Retailers
The perception of the retail industry
Have you found it difficult to compete with other industries for graduates and other talent? What initiatives have you tried that were successful? Do you think Retail is seen as a poor choice to develop a career within? What have you tried to change perceptions of the industry? Have you seen talent being lost to other industries?
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The perception of the company
Have you worked with a company that suffered with bad publicity? How did you overcome this to attract talent? Has your company’s financial performance taken a dip? What is the best strategy to protect the employer brand?
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The size of the company
Is your company small or new? Are you finding it tough to attract the right talent? What’s the best recruitment strategy for small businesses? How can the smaller retailers compete with the big boys?
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The location
Are your offices a distance from the customary retail metropolis of London?
What advice do you have for businesses struggling to attract talent due to location?
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Do you have experience of one or more of these challenges? If so, we’d love to hear from you. Maybe you have a suggestion to tackling these or similar issues, or maybe you would like advice on how to tackle a current problem?
Our panel of experts are HR professionals from within the industry who have had first hand experience of exactly these kinds of problems.
To make a comment, please contact me, Steven Murdoch, direct on 0114 279 2620 or email me at s.murdoch@lann.co.uk