How times have changed in the recruitment landscape over the past couple of years! One minute, you were overwhelmed with literally thousands of applications for run-of-the-mill roles. The next minute, you’re left feeling like the best talent on the market has done an Elvis and left the building!
Recruitment in 2022 is calling for more that ‘£££s negotiable commensurate with experience”. Candidates want love besides money.
Regina Ihrke is Senior Director of Health & Benefits at consultancy firm WTW. She told Stephen Miller at the SHRM (Society of Human Resources Management), “As we move into 2022, employers struggling with recruitment and retention will look to make their wellbeing programs a differentiator to attract and engage top talent.”
So, stop struggling to attract the cream of the crop to your job vacancies. It’s less challenging with a robust workplace wellbeing strategy that highlights you as a highly desirable place to work.
How Does a Workplace Wellbeing Strategy Show Candidates You Care?
Having a wellbeing strategy sends a clear message to candidates you care about people besides profit. It’s a massive tick in your employer branding box that speaks volumes to candidates who want to hear about more than sales bonuses.
Besides getting paid a decent salary, they’re looking for additional wellbeing benefits, such as –
- Flexitime – The ability to bend and flex working hours alongside personal commitments is a massive contributor to increasing employee autonomy and reducing stress levels.
- A Safe Environment – Everybody wants to work somewhere that’s happy, positive and productive. At the tail end of the pandemic, it’s become equally important for businesses to be mental health aware, too.
- Wellbeing Benefits – Offering on-site yoga classes, meditation sessions, local gym membership, discussion groups, and having a MHFA (Mental Health First Aider) indicate to candidates that you care about the holistic wellbeing of your staff, not just their physical health.
At Stress Matters, we specialise in working with HR teams at multiple levels to ensure complete workplace wellbeing for the business as a whole, each team and every team member.
Take a look at how we can help you implement a recruitment boosting wellbeing programme here.
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