As we ramp up for the holiday season, hourly hiring is beginning to increase to meet seasonal demands. But with 65% of hourly employees only giving their temporary employers one week’s notice or less – how do you find qualified candidates that want to stay for the full holiday season or beyond?

In HRchat episode 226, we consider this seasonal dilemma.  Our guest to help us do that, and spread a bit of seasonal cheer, is Jim Buchanan, CEO of Cadient Talent, the North Carolina based hiring technology for distributed workforces.

Decreasing employee turnover can improve a team’s morale by nearly 40%. “One way this can be accomplished”, explains Jim, “is by creating a user-friendly and intuitive recruiting system to find qualified candidates, seasonally or not. For instance, using analytics and assessments to help find employee applications that match qualities and characteristics from the company’s best performing employees.

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About Cadient Talent

An end-to-end hiring solution for distributed workforces. Built specifically for the field, the platform meets the complex needs of high-volume, hourly hiring and provides managers with a constant pipeline of quality candidates. The tech can help your HR team manage policy standards and reinforce compliance across multiple locations while enabling decentralized managers to act and succeed locally. By streamlining hiring workflows, it reduces variation and human error, resulting in faster, better hiring and a more productive workforce.

 

 


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