#Winning: How Not To Screw Up Your Hiring Strategy

One of the most difficult challenges that small-business owners face today is finding, recruiting and retaining new talent, yet few have a formal plan for doing exactly that. In a survey conducted by management consulting firm Watson Wyatt, 50 percent of company respondents indicated they didn’t have a formal strategy for retaining employees once they had been successfully recruited. Yikes!High employee turnover costs you time and productivity. If talent is hard to find and costly to train, shouldn’t you do all you can to retain and develop current employees?In fact, having a strategy for both recruiting new workers and for