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Glasgow Business . 43 www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com RECRUITMENT


THE SPECIAL SKILLS OF Finding the right people is a demanding job


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t may be something of a cliché, but people really do make a business. Yes, competitive edge means you need to get the pricing of your product or service right, but the skills,


experience and enthusiasm of your staff are critically important too. Having the right team on board is a major


driver for success. However, it has to be built over time. Staff come and they go. Te skill is to retain the good people and ensure that new employees come with the ability to really add value to the company as a whole. Tat’s a harder task than it sounds. We live


in a hugely competitive business marketplace. Highly qualified individuals with the right skills, especially in speciality sectors of the economy, are in real demand. A good employer will be meticulous in


creating an environment which encourages the very best to stay and develop their careers, while at the same time being careful to ensure that the most appropriate


and highest quality people are recruited. A lot of managers don’t have the skills to


do this themselves, which is why it oſten makes sense to use a recruitment consultancy. Yes, it will be an extra overhead, but when set against the huge potential cost of employing the wrong person, it can be a very sensible investment. “When it comes to recruitment, geting it


right has never been more important,” said Brian Cameron, Regional Director for Scotland for the talent solutions business Hudson. “Organisations are going through significant


change and for the first time ever, there will be several generations in the same workforce.


Managing that real mix of different ages and with it, expectations, will be hugely important.” It used to be the case, he adds, that people


worked their way up through a company via natural progression, but they are now increasingly taking more risks and viewing their careers on what he terms a portfolio basis. “Millennials may have 20 or 30 jobs during


their lifetimes. A lot of companies still have traditional mindsets but they need to realise that they have to be more adaptive and open to change to deal with issues such as the opportunities and problems the digital world is bringing up.


”A lot of companies still don’t properly consider issues such as culture, fit and a person’s ability to change within an ever-growing environment”


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