Alternative non-financial strategies
To promote the attraction and retention of staff, the manager should consider:
- improving the outward image of the council. Show it as a great place to work and Lincolnshire as an excellent place to live. Liaise with the talent and resourcing team on specific wording for adverts
- the benefits of joining an excellent organisation
- the benefits of working with a local government organisation
- financial and non-financial staff benefits including final salary pension schemes
- other methods of recruitment, such as:
- TU sources
- overseas recruitment
- internal redeployment
- training and development opportunities
- improving the working environment
- using flexible working schemes, home or remote working.
- targeting similar or new occupational groups doing similar work
- trying non-traditional elements of working people, such as older or younger people, ex-prisoners and socially disadvantaged people
- succession planning to foresee vacancies
- training schemes
- university graduates
Appointment of agency workers or graduate placement students
Where there is an agency worker or a graduate student placement filling a hard to recruit or retain position and you wish to appoint them permanently a reduced appointment process can be followed. This can be found in the recruitment policy.