Monday, December 21, 2009

Hays Retail Survey Reveals Lack of Communication is in Danger of Increasing Staff Churn

Hays Retail appear the after-effects of a new analysis agitated out by the application specialists Hays Retail and Barclays Commercial Bank absolute that a abridgement of career opportunities is the capital motivator for alteration roles in the retail sector.

The report, which aims to acknowledge the accuracy abaft alluring aptitude in the retail bazaar is the aftereffect of a programme of all-encompassing analysis involving retail administration and employees.

Almost bisected (47%) of advisers alive in a retail job feel that they aren’t offered the ambit to advance aural their organisation and therefore, accept to attending abroad to move up the career ladder.

However, according to the address from the recruitment specialists, it seems administration accept a actual altered perception. 80% of those surveyed feel they accord their agents allowance to advance and two thirds accept that their agents accept the abilities required. Yet they still accompaniment in the analysis a abridgement of acceptable candidates as their greatest application challenge.

According to Clare Kemsley, Managing Director of Hays Retail, for administration to allure – and accumulate – the best employees, “employers charge to acquaint and accord added abundant advice of what training and career development opportunities are accessible aural their casting and set bright career paths from the outset, afore their agents attending elsewhere.”

Jane Galvin, a administrator in Barclays Commercial Bank’s Retail and Wholesale team, commented on the findings: “The address identifies a acumen gap amid what agents and administration anticipate about opportunities for career progression. At a time if retailers charge a motivated workforce to cross arduous trading conditions, recruiting and application acceptable agents charcoal key. The a lot of acknowledged companies will abide to be those who accumulate agents blessed and tap into their chump ability which can advice retailers bound analyze trends that will access sales and chump retention.”

Retailers abide to attending to e-commerce for opportunities, with 93% of respondents assertive this area still has ambit for connected advance over the advancing years.

“This new Guide gives a added than anytime acumen into the retail profession and the challenges adverse administration as they go about alluring aptitude into their organisation,” assured Clare Kemsley.

About Hays Retail:
Hays Retail is a subdivision of Hays Plc, the FTSE 250 Company which employs 7,753 agents operating from 376 offices in 25 countries above 17 specialisms including marketing jobs, finance jobs and legal jobs. Hays Plc placed about 68,000 candidates into abiding jobs and paid about 46,000 acting workers account during the year catastrophe June 07.

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