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From the Desktop
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Sabine Gillert
Senior Brand Consultant
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This month, Sabine discusses the importance of creating a signature employment experience.
As we close out another year, it is not unusual to reflect on the year gone by and to start thinking about new goals to set for the New Year. Late this year, I marked my ten-year anniversary here at TMP Worldwide and this milestone made me reflect on my own work experience. I spend a lot of time asking employees at client organizations what keeps them connected to their employers and I wondered what has kept me engaged and committed to TMP for this length of time.
I believe that my answer to this has changed since I first joined TMP. This prompted me to review a white paper we had published recently based on research that TMP had conducted over the last five years. The paper focused on the importance of understanding attributes but also provided insight into how tenure affects the attributes that people seek out in an employer. I wondered how this related to my personal experience.
The research showed us that benefits and compensation were the most important attributes candidates seek out in an employer and beyond this -- advancement opportunities were the next most important attribute. I could say that is true for me too, but compensation, benefits and even advancement opportunities are things that could be offered by any organization. I believe that what makes an organization unique is much deeper than these three attributes. Over the years, we have identified a total of 30 attributes that are important to employees and most of these vary per job segment and age group but what is interesting to note is that tenure in itself also affects what attributes people seek out in an employer.
When I first started out in my career at TMP ten years ago, things that were important to me were, (in order of importance) compensation, advancement opportunities, work/life balance, benefits...
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Dr. Phil Gardner, the Director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute (CERI) at Michigan State University
TMP Worldwide speaks at CACEE
and the Campus Recruiting Forum
As part of TMP Worldwide’s ongoing efforts to share knowledge, insight, and thought-leadership in the campus recruiting arena, Steven Ehrlich – TMP’s Global VP, Client Development – recently spoke at two events. Steve spoke for the fifth year in a row at the Campus Recruiting Forum in Washington, DC where he delivered a presentation titled “Tribes – The Art & Science of Storytelling” that covered the interconnected nature of employer brands, digital experiences, and social media delivery channels.
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Retention and Engagement
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Knowledge Retention –
You really don’t know what
you have until you lose it. |
Debbie Eberenz
Project Manager
When an employee leaves an organization, a career’s worth of information, experience, relationships and insight will leave with them. With huge numbers of baby boomers nearing retirement, the need for knowledge retention is greater than ever. Research suggests that many critical employees who are near retirement age are in high level management positions. Many of these employees possess specialized skills that can take years to develop. Companies need to set goals that address obtaining and transferring the information held by these employees with critical knowledge.
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TMP Government
Open Government and Employer Branding: Meeting the Recruiting Challenge of 2011
As 2010 ends, President Barack Obama has posed a new challenge to Federal recruiters. Just two years ago, on his first day in office, he promised that the government would "establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration." This commitment aligned with his pledge to make working for government "cool again." A struggling economy then combined with civic generation idealism to generate a surge in Federal applicants.
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Product Profile
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Conversations Are Happening...
…and the topic is you and your organization. How you participate and the degree in which you participate are the burning questions. In today’s media environment, it is more critical than ever to understand the variables in the marketplace and have a clear view of the playing field. If you don’t, your employer reputation could be at
serious risk.
When you are planning your next business initiative, you’d want to know all the market variables that could affect your success wouldn’t you? Well, the same logic holds true for employee engagement, retention or external hiring initiatives. With the Burning Ears Digital Audit, you can have access to the insights you need to plan and execute a comprehensive digital employment marketing campaign – one that is tied directly to organizational objectives, addresses marketplace conversations and allows you to influence the conversation -- enhancing your employer reputation.
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Industry Update
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Women in the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Valerie Drame, Account Director
In October of 2009, the Center for American Progress reported that women made up half of the U.S. workforce for the first time in history. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity reports that around half of employees in the pharmaceutical and medical industry are women. However, men still hold the majority of board level and C-level positions in the pharma industry. In fact, according to the Healthcare Business Women’s Association’s E.D.G.E. (Empowerment, Diversity, Growth, Excellence) in Leadership study, women held just 17% of senior management positions and 34% of middle management positions.
Looking at the biotech/biopharm industry as a whole, there is greater representation of women in senior roles at smaller biotech companies than within big pharma. Women researchers are eight times more...
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This Month in Recruitment
Making Headlines In Employment, Social Media And Advertising:
According to Indeed’s Industry Employment Trends, healthcare has the lowest competition for jobs.
The New York Times reports the latest on the Online Privacy Plan.
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