A/E Recruitment & Retention Cookbook will show you how your firm can gain a competitive advantage in the A/E talent war. You’ll learn where to find the best people, how to screen and interview them, how to craft an offer letter that gets accepted, and how to keep the best people you’ve fought hard to win. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at what some firms are doing to motivate and reward their best performers in a series of A/E firm case studies that feature firms of all types and sizes at work in the industry today.
Summary of What's Inside:
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Learn the new rules of recruiting in today's A/E marketplace
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Attract and retain the best people in the industry
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Effectively screen and interview candidates and sell your firm
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Learn how to craft offer letters that can't be refused
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Hear about common recruitment challenges firms face and what pitfalls to avoid
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Read case studies and see examples of how firms just like yours are positioning themselves to win today's talent war
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Learn the new rules of recruiting in today's A/E marketplace
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Attract and retain the best people in the industry
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Effectively screen and interview candidates and sell your firm
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Learn how to craft offer letters that can't be refused
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Hear about common recruitment challenges firms face and what pitfalls to avoid
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Read case studies and see examples of how firms just like yours are positioning themselves to win today's talent war
Once upon a time, finding and hiring great people who would stay with the firm long-term wasn’t all that difficult. Talented people would walk in and ask for a job, and it was a relatively simple matter to keep them for the duration of their careers. Times have changed.
A/E firm leaders cite recruitment and retention as the number one challenge they are facing, and there doesn’t appear to be any relief in sight. A dearth of engineering and science graduates and the lure of big money in the IT sector are just two reasons the A/E labor market is so tight. But it’s not a hopeless situation; smart firms are still attracting and retaining the best and brightest. You can, too.
There’s a new talent war out there today, and smart firms know how to win it. They’ve figured out what compels people to take positions with their firms and they’ve set aside the necessary resources to not only attract the best, but keep them long-term as well.
A/E Recruitment & Retention Cookbook will show you how these firms have gained a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining the right people. You’ll learn where to find the best people, how to screen and interview them, how to craft an offer letter that gets accepted, and how to keep the best people you’ve fought hard to win. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at what some firms are doing to motivate and reward their best performers in a series of A/E firm case studies that feature firms of all types and sizes at work in the industry today. Find out what works in other firms just like yours and model your recruitment and retention program off ones that have proven successful.
Finding and keeping the best people who will make a real contribution to your firm isn’t just a fairy tale. A/E Recruitment & Retention Cookbook will show you how to make the fantasy of the ideal staff a reality!
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Foreword
Chapter 1: The New Talent War
Chapter 2: Creating a Recruiting Machine
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Continuous recruiting
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“Supply-side” human resources management
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Recruiting is marketing
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Build a database
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Appoint a central hiring contact
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Finding the right holistic fit
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Organizational upgrade
Chapter 3: What’s Your Immediate Hiring Need?
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Alternatives to hiring
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Authorization to hire
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Position descriptions
Chapter 4: Where are the Candidates?
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In-house resources
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Employee referrals
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Professional & client organizations
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College recruiting
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Advertising
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Internet searching
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Reading resumes
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Responding to applicants and general inquiries
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International hiring
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Direct recruiting
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Connecting with candidates
Chapter 5: The Art of Interviewing
Chapter 6: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
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Comparing the candidates
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Check references
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Education and other credentials
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Psychological tests
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Making the offer
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Compensation surveys
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Signing bonuses
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Title, perks, and other benefits
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Relocation
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The offer letter
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Extending the offer
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Waiting for an answer
Chapter 7: New Employee Orientation
Chapter 8: Now That They’re Here, How do we Keep Them?
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Why people leave
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Why people stay
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Developing an ongoing retention strategy
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Connecting workspace and culture
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A word about burnout
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Recruit-proofing the firm
Chapter 9: A/E Recruitment & Retention Case Studies
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Appledore Engineering, Inc.
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Atwell-Hicks
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Clough Harbour & Associates LLP
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Crafton Tull Sparks
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Environmental Services, Inc.
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The Forrester Group
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Hinman Consulting Engineers
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JCJ Architecture
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The John R. McAdams Company, Inc.
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Sasaki Associates, Inc. |
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