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Recruiting the Right Person Is Only Half the Job – Keeping Them Is the Real Challenge
By Consensus HR – Outsourced HR Support for SMEs
Recruitment is expensive.
Advertising, interviewing, onboarding and training all require significant investment.
Yet many businesses lose excellent employees within the first year—not because they recruited the wrong person, but because they failed to support them after they joined.
Successful retention starts on day one
Retention isn’t created through annual pay reviews.
It begins during recruitment and continues throughout onboarding, probation and ongoing management.
Successful employers provide:
- Structured inductions
- Regular feedback
- Clear expectations
- SMART objectives
- Training opportunities
- Open communication
- Recognition
Employees who understand what success looks like are far more likely to remain engaged.
Managers make the biggest difference
Research consistently shows that people often leave managers rather than companies.
Investing in management development often produces a greater return than increasing recruitment budgets.
Comment from Matthew Chilcott – Owner, Consensus HR
“Businesses often spend thousands recruiting the right person but very little ensuring they stay. Great retention comes from excellent management, regular communication and making employees feel valued from their very first day. Prevention has always been far less expensive than replacing good people.”
How Consensus HR helps
We work with SMEs to improve:
- Recruitment
- Contracts of Employment
- Onboarding
- Probation programmes
- Employee Handbooks
- Performance management
- Management training
- Employee engagement
- Retention strategies
Helping businesses reduce recruitment costs whilst building stronger, more productive teams.
If you’d like to improve employee retention, we’d love to help.
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