Employee Engagement: An Important Facet in Retention
Polls and studies over the last several years have put employee engagement between 33 and 50%. This means that even at best, only half your workforce has a positive view of the work they do, or feels they make a valuable contribution. Employee engagement is an important facet in retention because it builds a partnership […]
Read More
Is Job Growth Affecting Your Employee Retention Rates?
The unemployment rate continues to hover around 4%, with wages continuing to rise. Is job growth affecting your employee retention rates? Yes. Your initial offer affects your ability to hire the best candidates, but your internal wage increases must keep pace with the market to retain valuable talent. Greater competition between potential employers means that […]
Read More
Grow Your Candidate Pool
In today’s economy with shrinking unemployment numbers, many companies are looking at ways to ensure they have a good source of new-hires. Is your organization looking to grow your candidate pool to ensure you don’t get caught short when you need qualified, experienced employees? Here are some avenues to grow your candidate pool, encourage the […]
Read More
Step Up Recruiting is a Certified WBE
Step Up Recruiting is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the US. For some clients, this certification means that doing business with Step Up Recruiting not only includes receiving exceptional recruiting, technical […]
Read More
5 Ways Companies Lose Candidates
Finding a candidate who is a great fit for your automation, engineering, or sales jobs is like hooking the perfect trout on the fishing trip of a lifetime. When you have great candidates, who have been thoroughly vetted and hit all the right notes in the interview process, the last thing you want to hear […]
Read More
Revisit Your Pay Structure, Before It’s Too Late
When you search for the perfect candidate for an open position, you look for someone with all the right skills, enough experience, the right education, and someone who will grow into the job and become a valuable member of your team and organization. In return, you know the right candidate is looking to do a […]
Read More
Onboarding Best Practices
Recently, LinkedIn surveyed 14,000 professionals about their onboarding experiences, asking what actions were the most helpful and the most meaningful to them. Since onboarding experience can affect a new employee’s longevity and productivity, it’s important to get this process right. The top four practices for effective onboarding were universally chosen by respondents, regardless of age, […]
Read More
Why Consider a Recruiter?
Both employers and job candidates sometimes ponder why they should consider using the services of a recruiter, instead of searching on their own. The answers are pretty much the same for both parties: An experienced, skilled recruiter can save you time, money, and disappointment. Candidate searches and job searches can get expensive, quickly. The better […]
Read More
Conflict Resolution Strategies to Improve Retention
Step Up Recruiting improves your employee retention by finding candidates who are the best possible fit for your corporate culture and the open position, and we are experts at onboarding and initial support for our candidates after they become new hires. However, we recognize that you also want to retain the great employees you have […]
Read More