Employment Trends

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Employment Trends

• Oregon Executives Association

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Overview

• Overall Employment Trends
• Local Employment Trends
• How to maintain Current Employees
• Staffing challenges to expect in the future

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County Growth
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Job Growth Areas 05
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Job Growth Areas 07
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Retail Employment Growth
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Job Growth vs. Population
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Worker Shortage Coming

• By 2010
• Jobs Available 167,754,000
• Workers 157,721,000
• Shortage Of Workers
• 10,033,000

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Retaining EmployeesWhat To Do?

• Quality of Management Improve!
• Examine your Systems/methods become more
  Efficient!
• Determine how many people, what type of work and
  establish standards of performance
• Focus efforts on Employee Retention
• Plan at least three years ahead
• Determine your team of the future, how many what
  kind of education, training etc.
• Develop phased implementation strategy

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Turnover Costs

www.blissassociates.com

• Costs resulting from person leaving
• Hiring Costs
• Training Costs
• Lost Productivity Costs
• Lower workplace morale

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Top 4 Reasons People Stay

• 89 Type of work
• 69 Respectful treatment
• 65 Coaching and feedback from boss
• 61 Opportunity
• The Hay Group

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5 Things You Can DO to keep the ones you have!!

• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible schedules
• Regular meetings
• Exit Interviews
• What can we do to make this an even better place
  to work?

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Gain the Competitive Edge

• Boss Friendly?
• Many surveys indicate people do not leave the
  company, they leave their boss
• Statistics about the Boss
• 31 of persons surveyed indicated boss gave
  silent treatment in the past year
• 37 indicated supervisor failed to give credit
  where credit was due
• 39 indicated supervisor failed to keep promises
• 27 supervisor made negative comments about them
  to other employees
• The bigger unspoken, issue Who is looking out
  for me?
• Train your management to maximize trust and
  balance in their respective organizations. The
  dividend will be higher productivity

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Flexible Work Environment

• Family Friendly Work / Life Balance
• Train managers to be sensitive to dads as well
  as, moms needs
• Developing HR programs and policies
• Developing a positive image- great place for dads
  to work
• Helping fathers establish strategies that allow
  them to be connected while away from the office
• Wellness Oriented
• Reduce Costs / Lengths of illness
• Retain workers longer
• Improve work performance
• Improve the external Company Image

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Notable Changes _at_ Some Companies

• Naps for Fatigued Workers
• Emergency room Doctors are more alert
• Less accidents
• Increase workers to access to employer sponsored
  work/life programs
• Chronic Fatigue gets additional help
• Other benefits
• Valet Service
• Catered Dinners
• At Work Massages
• Is this extreme?

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Other Staffing Strategies

• Expect more temp positions, particularly
  professionals
• Consider recruitment outsourcing
• Look For More Employment Branding
• More Specialized Job Sites
• Online Contests
• Look Globally for candidates

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Sources

• Pridestaff Innovations
• Send email to portland_at_pridestaff.com to
  subscribe.
• U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor
  Statistics
• www.bls.gov
• Bliss andAssociates, Inc.
• www.blissassociates.com
• Society for Human Resource Management
• www.shrm.org
• Hays group
• www.hayscompanies.com
• Oregon Labor Trends
• www.qualityinfo.org