Comments on: How Do Your Employment Products Compare? http://www.ere.net/2007/03/26/how-do-your-employment-products-compare/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:35:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Stone http://www.ere.net/2007/03/26/how-do-your-employment-products-compare/comment-page-1/#comment-2649 Michael Stone Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:59:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/03/26/how-do-your-employment-products-compare/#comment-2649 This is an extension of the Employer of Choice mentality. This is a paradigm shift for today's leading organizations. The company that is able to 'sell' a vision to their employees, bench mark top performers, and then get out of the way will go further faster. The top performers always find a way. Top performers are top performers, not because they 'bought' the 'product.' They are top performers because they 'match' the job. They think, behave, and are interested in the acivities that are neccessary to peform at top levels. The goal is to find more people like them, and keep them happy, while constantly connecting activities toward company vision, and mission. This becomes a 'win-win' for everyone. As an employer of choice turnover is reduced; recruiting costs go down; productivity and morale improve; and the customer has a better experience. Today more than 50% of the American workforce is not satisfied with their job and/or employer. Clearly, the companies that make this shift will blow away the competition. This is an extension of the Employer of Choice mentality. This is a paradigm shift for today’s leading organizations. The company that is able to ’sell’ a vision to their employees, bench mark top performers, and then get out of the way will go further faster. The top performers always find a way.

Top performers are top performers, not because they ‘bought’ the ‘product.’ They are top performers because they ‘match’ the job. They think, behave, and are interested in the acivities that are neccessary to peform at top levels.

The goal is to find more people like them, and keep them happy, while constantly connecting activities toward company vision, and mission.

This becomes a ‘win-win’ for everyone. As an employer of choice turnover is reduced; recruiting costs go down; productivity and morale improve; and the customer has a better experience.

Today more than 50% of the American workforce is not satisfied with their job and/or employer. Clearly, the companies that make this shift will blow away the competition.

]]> By: Maureen Sharib http://www.ere.net/2007/03/26/how-do-your-employment-products-compare/comment-page-1/#comment-2644 Maureen Sharib Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:55:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/03/26/how-do-your-employment-products-compare/#comment-2644 It?s a really interesting and forward concept ? actually, when someone ?buys a business? what they?re really buying is a job, isn?t it? Businesses get marketed with their best feet forward. But here?s the rub, and I may not have thought this out enough; so few people actually have ?what it takes? in this country to respond to an employment ?opportunity?. Until the masses stop the ?soup to nuts? expectations they have of employers and begin to think entrepreneurially I don?t know they will respond to the ?product? marketing you are suggesting nor do I know if they will view a job as an ?opportunity?. In my estimation, less than ? of 1% (maybe less!) are of the entrepreneur mindset in this country. You may be expecting more of the talented workforce than they?re willing (or able) to deliver. I?m afraid for most people it?s still ?about the money? and will remain so for some time to come. Hope lies, though, in the ?educated, connected, discerning, and [those who have] access to information that can either validate or refute a company?s employment value proposition in a heart beat?. The time may come and I think your suggestion is an excellent step in the process! Here?s an interesting question: Do you think the time will come when employees will ever be willing to ?pay? for the opportunity to work for a specific company? Or are they doing ?that? already? ;) It?s a really interesting and forward concept ? actually, when someone ?buys a business? what they?re really buying is a job, isn?t it? Businesses get marketed with their best feet forward. But here?s the rub, and I may not have thought this out enough; so few people actually have ?what it takes? in this country to respond to an employment ?opportunity?. Until the masses stop the ?soup to nuts? expectations they have of employers and begin to think entrepreneurially I don?t know they will respond to the ?product? marketing you are suggesting nor do I know if they will view a job as an ?opportunity?. In my estimation, less than ? of 1% (maybe less!) are of the entrepreneur mindset in this country. You may be expecting more of the talented workforce than they?re willing (or able) to deliver. I?m afraid for most people it?s still ?about the money? and will remain so for some time to come.

Hope lies, though, in the ?educated, connected, discerning, and [those who have] access to information that can either validate or refute a company?s employment value proposition in a heart beat?. The time may come and I think your suggestion is an excellent step in the process! Here?s an interesting question: Do you think the time will come when employees will ever be willing to ?pay? for the opportunity to work for a specific company? Or are they doing ?that? already?

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