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Retaining the best-performing employees is valuable for any company. Those with high employee engagement usually enjoy success and are more profitable. Let’s see how you can plan recruitment strategies and witness a high retention rate.

Orion Talent is happy to announce our latest e-book, Ghosting 101: How to Hire and Retain Talent Despite the New Normal. Paul Davidson of USA TODAY reported in 2018 that “according to many employers, 20 to 50 percent of job applicants and workers” were pulling no-shows. Unfortunately, this phenomenon known as ghosting is more than a trend.

In his most recent article for Recruiting Daily, Mike Starich, CEO of Orion Talent, examines the prospect of a recession within the next year and what that means for the recruiting industry. The article, “Recruiters Preparing for the Recession of 2020,” explores how recruiters can be part of the solution rather part of the problem, by providing four ways to prepare in advance.

Earlier this month, HRO Today Magazine and Orion Novotus released the Global Employment - 1Q 2019 report, designed to provide global labor market intelligence employers can use to inform critical decisions around the best countries and regions in which to grow.

Is high time-to-fill affecting your company? Time-to-fill is the number of days between a requisition's launch date and offer acceptance date. Hiring Manager frustration, current employee workload and productivity, and recruiting costs are all negatively impacted as time-to-fill increases.

Orion Talent has amassed a great deal of knowledge and expertise in our nearly 30 years in business, and we are continually investing our time and resources in thought leadership, striving to become greater subject matter experts in our field.

Thanks to a wide array of online platforms, today’s job seekers have many ways to quickly apply to a variety of positions. This, coupled with a very low unemployment rate, means it is more important than ever to engage newly hired candidates from the very beginning and rethink your onboarding strategy.

A recent blog post on Social Talent titled, “Use Employer Branding to Build Outstanding Talent Pipelines” explores a key aspect of Brand Marketing and Outreach. In his article, author William Ryan writes, “According to a recent poll by Glassdoor – 84% of candidates would leave their current position for a company with a great employer brand.” This is an impressive stat that drives home the importance of a proactive recruiting program that implements Brand Marketing.

Employee development is an increasingly important part of any manager's job. Happy, fulfilled employees contribute more. According to Jack Welch, Executive Chairman for the Jack Welch Management Institute and former CEO of GE, “There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow."

In his guest post, Dave Lehmkuhl, Regional Manager at Orion Talent, explores why companies should reevaluate paying “market average” salaries in order to recruit top talent.

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