Staff Retention and Well-Being Starts With Recruitment

With the stigma surrounding mental health, encouraging a positive work culture will help staff retention long term and allow employees to feel supported by their employers and colleagues. Working full time, we spend around 40 hours per week at work, therefore promoting a healthy work-life balance, encourage productivity and rewarding staff are all factors to retaining your workforce.

But how does this impact recruitment? When recruiting new staff, promoting a healthy workplace is key to ensure the right hires are made to fit the company culture and workplace environment. Supporting employees, maintaining good relationships, engaging employees and understanding mental health is important for staff retention, ensuring your staff turnover stays low and reducing the cost of overall recruitment.

Here at Westray Recruitment, we meet our clients in their work environment before sending any candidates forward for a role and we deem it critical to screen every single one of our candidates in order to establish that we match the right person to the right company. We will go above and beyond to ensure we fit the right candidates to the roles and company culture. Essentially, candidates may have all the skills and requirements for a job role, but if they don’t fit the company culture, the candidate is more likely to leave sooner than someone who may not have as much experience and can learn on the job but has the same values and personality fit for the company.

If you’re looking to recruit a new member of staff, it’s important to understand the preferences of your workforce and have a retention strategy in place to make sure you’re recruitment is working and you’re making the perfect hires.

We would love to hear your thoughts on what makes a positive work environment. What actions does your employer take to maintain positive staff well-being for their employees? Does this help retain staff? Get in touch! Or, if you would like to discuss your recruitment processwith us, our Specialist Consultants would be more than happy to organise a call or a meeting. Please call our Team Valley office on 0191 492 6622 or our Stockton office on 01642 612 600. We look forward to hearing from you!