Sometimes the best way to attract good people is to show them how easy it will be for them to leave you. The Royal Air Force in the UK is an employer of choice because they can demonstrate the employability of their “graduates”.
John Konrad is an international researcher in Vocational Education and Training [VET] and a policy advisor to British and European governments He is a national and European Expert on the Transparency and Recognition of Qualifications and Competencies.
Can technology-based solutions improve your efforts to recruit the right employee for your work place?
Increasing access to technology and the associated myriad of applications is speeding up and improving the accuracy of information exchanged across varied business processes.
Can this technology-based communication likewise transform the exchange of information about qualifications and expertise between the job seeker and employer?
Currently WPLAR is conversing with employers to understand the potential and parameters for e-recruitment.
“The work place is one of the best places in the world to learn.” – Alan Poirier, Vice President, Information Technology & Communications, Color Ad
Learning in the work place is an accepted tenet of doing good business. The most successful companies agree - no business can survive without learning.
So if the work place is a classroom, how does understanding what employees already know and can do fit in?
Does understanding and recognizing what an employee knows and can do relate to business profitability? Recently a Winnipeg radio talk show host was doing an interview to help launch the Canadian version of Undercover Boss – a reality TV show that anonymously puts company leaders in the front line of the workplace. His comment was that the "#1 factor of a successful business was whether every employee can clearly can talk about their job description and who they are accountable to."
