Sessions

Concurrent Session
If You Train Them, They Will Come: Using Career Development as a Recruiting Tool
Bayou CD
Tuesday 04/09/2019 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM   Add to calendar
1.00 SHRM PDCs | Competencies: Business Acumen, HR Expertise, Relationship Management | Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
This session will provide ways to create employee development programs that will attract the best and the brightest candidates. 

Today's candidates expect training and development to be a part of the workplace environment. For your organization to attract and retain the brightest and the best, you need to have training and development programs. Besides helping you get and keep good employees, employee development helps to ensure that the organization is ready rapid and constant change in the business world. But often, training and development are the worst-funded and first-cut expenses. In addition, smaller and not-for-profit organizations have limits on available resources for employee development. This session will use audience participation and the speaker's 30 years of HR and employee development experience to provide you with tips and ideas you can take back to the workplace to create a good and attractive development plan.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about the importance of individualized employee development.
  • Discover how to take advantage of development methods beyond traditional classroom approaches.
  • Measure and balance the value of development for the individual employee and the organization.
Phyllis G.  Hartman, SHRM-SCP, MSHRM Photo