Test Management Summit 2008 Keys to successfully hiring and retaining your testing team Jane Muller
Jan 18, 2016
Test Management Summit2008
Keys to successfully hiring and retaining your testing team
Jane Muller
Introduction
Jane Muller
20 + years HR & Recruitment experience
9 years experience within QA & Testing
Recruited over 300 QA & Testing Professionals to date
Implemented a talent management system for QA & Testing Professionals
NLP Master Practitioner and Certified Coach
Getting the most value from your time this afternoon
Introduce yourself
Ask each other the following questions:
“Why are you here today?”“What do you want to get out of this session?”
Spend 5 minutes discussing
What I aim to cover
Marketplace Intel – Movers, Shakers, Drivers & Motivations
Attracting the best candidates – what’s your Utopia?
Top 10 Recruitment Tips to ensure that you get a 1:3 success ratio
Retaining your valuable team in a competitive marketplace – headhunting is not just for executives!
The cost of recruitment
UK companies are wasting more than £15b a year on recruitment mistakes
This figure is the equivalent of 1.7% of UK GDP
The average recruitment cost of filling a vacancy per employee is £4,200
This rises to £8,500 when the associated labour turnover costs are also taken into account
Marketplace Intelligence
Movers, Shakers, Drivers and Motivations
Who are the Movers and Shakers in this area? What Drives this market place?
Available Skills –vs- Required Skills How many candidates are looking now? How many opportunities are advertised?
What are the motivations behind these drivers?
Marketplace Intelligence
Networking plays an important role
Gerrard Consulting Tester Forums
Attracting the best candidates
What’s your recruitment Utopia?
What would it be like? What would you and your candidates experience?
Attracting the best candidates
Take one step nearer to your recruitment utopia…. What would you change? What would be the ‘costs’ of these changes? What are the benefits of utopia? What are the costs? Do the benefits out-way the costs? What’s your first step towards it? Who else can help you move nearer to your utopia?
Making an Impact
This is a competitive candidate driven marketplace…
What is unique about your company and the opportunity? What is you and your team famous for? What reputation do you enjoy What do you and your team stand for? What’s important?
Take 5 minutes to discuss with your neighbour..
What do most candidates look for in a new role
Top 10 Tips
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.10.
Needs and Motivation
Mallow's concept of self-actualisation relates directly to the present day challenges and opportunities for employers and organisations - to provide real meaning, purpose and true personal development for their employees
Sustainable success is built on a serious and compassionate commitment to helping people identify, pursue and reach their own personal unique potential.
Virtually all personal growth, whether in a hobby, a special talent or interest, or a new experience, produces new skills, attributes, behaviours and wisdom that is directly transferable to any sort of job role
Retaining your Team – the individual choice
To understand retention – you start with yourself
Why do you work for your employer? What’s important to you – what are your priorities? How often do these change and under what circumstances? How often do you check that your employment is delivering what’s
important? How do you decide when the move on?
The last slide!
Did we achieve our outcomes?
Any questions?