Tech talents are the top demands for almost every company. While the demand is exponentially growing at a rapid rate, the global job landscape is experiencing a continuously widening shortage in the technically skilled candidate pools.
About 37 percent of European workers lack even the basic technical skills, says the European Commission. Keeping such a worsening scenario in mind, the major problem that the companies face is to retain the top tech talents and make them adhere to work with the same company.
Here are some ways which will help the recruiters and the companies in retaining the tech talents in their workforce.
Acquire the Basic Knowledge
Many of the recruiting managers are not so friendly with the technical knowledge that the candidates are expected to have to fit in the job role. Being completely unknown, the recruiters might feel it difficult to speak in the candidates’ lingo.
Mastering the shallow level, basic knowledge helps the recruiters in routing an interview, initiate a good conversation with the candidates, and digging out the candidates’ expertise and strong points, along with extracting out their weak and negative points.
Provide Benefits
With time, the demands and expectations for the candidates from the companies have shifted. The shifted trend is much more visible among the millennial generation. This generation forms a large fraction of the workforce. Half of the entire workforce in the U.S. constitutes the millennial generation. The millennials are the most sought-after employees as they are known to own an all-time afresh attitude with a keen interest in learning new things, quickly adapt to new environments, hard-working, and determined to keep on achieving greater feats in their lives.
Apart from housing so much potential, and being the most demanded workforce, the millennial generation is the toughest to work with. This generation demands additional benefits over the traditional salary and perks scheme. Their priorities have moved from salary, job security, and other perks to different benefits such as flexible work hours, student loan repayment aid, the company’s inclination to upskill and develop the personality of their workers, and much more.
Rank Experience over College Degrees
Biasing over professional degrees and not paying larger attention towards expertise is a reason why the best tech talents slip out of hand by the companies.
Gone are the days when knowledge-gaining options were limited to professional courses and institutions. Now is the time when alternatives to gaining knowledge via the traditional platforms have been replaced with more flexible online learning materials. With great websites like Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, etc. the professional four-year degrees are no further mandatory or a benchmark which states and validates a candidate’s knowledge and expertise.
The leading tech giants have also realized the strength and begun valuing the candidates who are self-learned and do not belong to the pool of four-year degree holders.
Be Clear with Conveying about the Company Culture
It has been found out that the candidates find it comfortable working with those companies where there is a similarity in values with the candidates.
To make the candidates adhere to remain working, the companies should specify and elaborate on the company culture and values to the candidates. This ensures that no disagreement, disengagement, and poor
retention problems arise later on.