How to Attract Top Talents to Join your Organization?
- hongminglau8
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min read

Recruiting talent is always a long and tedious process, which involves a ton of time, money and luck. Over the past few years, especially under pandemic, people’s live, work and view on work have drastically changed. Technology has bought us closer and changed the way on how people work. So, how to attract and retain talents to join your organization?
Understanding the new normal is the key.
Flexibility
Since the pandemic, work from home has become the new norm. Working remotely from home and having the freedom and autonomy to manage their own schedules is becoming expected by talents in most countries in most sectors. This sort of working mode is very much contrary to the 9 to 5 office mode, but a lot of studies showed that remote work/ flexible hours benefit both employers and employees and increased the productivity of the companies.
Offering occasional work from home days is considered as a huge benefit and it could encourage your potential talents and current employees to stay with you rather than with your competitors. It can also improve the employee retention, keeping employees happy and productive and they are more likely to stay on. In fact, they’re more likely to develop an appreciation and affinity for their job, and lend positivity to the company culture. Being flexible can lower the turnover rate.
Broaden the Talent Pool
With the flexibility to work from home or work remotely, it would tremendously broaden your talent pool. With remote work, you are not limited to search your talents limited to the location, you can search for the best talents anywhere in the world.
Over the past 2 years, technology plays an important part in doing business, it also forces businesses to adapt and grow their strategies in a responsible way. Remote workers help a company adapt quicker and find smarter solutions out of necessity. It helps in further developing the company into a more diversify and flexible structure that enhances expansion and lower operation cost. Remote staff helps a company adapt quicker and find smarter solutions out of necessity.
Employee Benefit
Apart from salary, talents these days look into fringe benefits that the company could offer, it plays an important role these days as people’s view on work has changed a lot in past few years. Providing a happy environment could benefit your company’s retention rate. 75% of employees are more likely to stay with their employer due to the benefits package with study finding that 69% of those surveyed would choose one job over another on the basis of benefits offered. Regularly reviewing the benefits to stand out from your competitors can bring huge advantage to your company, annual leave, wellness allowances, insurance package, flexible working hour, competitive commission scheme, retention bonus, education allowances could be some of the examples that a lot of companies are working on to gain their competitive edge over their competitors.
Company Culture
Candidates select company culture as one of the top reasons why they would select one job over another. Good company culture helps in increasing your employee engagement. Engaged employees perform at a higher level and for most employees, especially the younger generations entering the workforce, the job has to be about much more than a paycheck. They want to work for an organization that matches their values and personality. When the people who work for your company share its values, they are energized about achieving the company’s objectives. And it’s no secret that having a good company culture can help you retain your best employees. Cultivating a positive and good company culture benefits both employers and employees.
Summary
In this fast changing environment with a lot of uncertainties ahead. Understanding the need of your talents is important, it helps organization to win the fight of the talent war. Be flexible and open-minded are 2 keys for organization to adapt quicker and faster in attracting top talents.
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