Exceptional Talent: How to Attract, Acquire and Retain the Very Best Employees

by Mervyn Dinnen, Matt Alder

Attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the right people is crucial to an organization's success. The stakes have never been a 2015 study by CAP suggests that the average cost of employee attrition is 20% of a mid-level employee's annual salary and up to 213% of a high-level executive's salary. In a business environment changing so rapidly that jobs which will be essential in 2020 don't even exist yet, Exceptional Talent examines how changes in technology, communication, and employee preferences are impacting the talent journey. It gives practical advice for how to build an effective recruitment and talent management strategy to meet the needs of the business today and prepare for the challenges of the future.

Exceptional Talent covers how to build an authentic employer brand, explores new ways of sourcing candidates and explains how to use print, digital, social and mobile platforms to target the right people in the right way. Highlighting the impact of networks, relationships and referrals on talent acquisition, it also provides tools and techniques to create an efficient recruitment process, strategies for effective onboarding of new employees as well as practical advice and best practice case studies for retaining and engaging employees.

192 pages, Paperback

Published May 30, 2017

Reviews

[Karen ⊰✿ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting study into the definition of "talent" and the ways that organisations have started to transform the ways they attract, hire, engage, retain, develop and exit employees.
I call it a study because the authors have taken lots of source material and put it together in this book to build a case around these components and show examples ; rather than a book containing the author's own ideas or hypothesis.
This makes it a useful book for either existing HR practitioners who are looking for a source of lots of material to make a case to their CEO ; or for existing senior Managers and business owners who don't really understand talent/engagement/retention and would like a nice introduction to why it matters and what good Companies are doing. It also means the book will, unfortunately, date rather quickly, so I suggest getting your hands on it this year :)

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a free advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

[Mary Stephany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book especially for the ones who start their career in the recruitment as it gives a detailed overview on what you should take attention on and how to better organize talent engagement.

[ReadingPicks'n'Pics · Rating 1 out of 5]

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