Making better recruitment decisions and delivering relevant training can significantly bolster staff retention, according to a new white paper by Questionmark, the online assessment provider.
Employers could be about to face a "turnover tsunami." Some 52% of workers across North America report they are looking for a new job, according to a study for the Achievers Workforce Institute.1
Staff turnover is expensive for employers. Lost productivity and knowledge alongside new hiring, training, and onboarding fees add up to around a third of annual salary.2 So, firms that do not understand why their people may want to leave and take action to prevent such departures, could face significant losses.
The new Questionmark white paper, "Five Ways Assessments Can Help Retain Employees", shows that by testing the skills of workers, employers can:
John Kleeman, Founder of Questionmark said: "Now more than ever, employers must ensure they build and retain a winning team. By gaining real and reliable information from staff assessments, leaders can make better decisions on the way they manage their people and bolster retention."
Read the full white paper: "Five Ways Assessments Can Help Retain Employees".
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About Questionmark
Questionmark unlocks performance through reliable and secure online assessments.
Questionmark provides a secure enterprise-grade assessment platform and professional services to leading organizations around the world, delivered with care and unequalled expertise. Its full-service online assessment tool and professional services help customers to improve their performance and meet their compliance requirements. Questionmark enables organizations to unlock their potential by delivering assessments which are valid, reliable, fair and defensible.
Questionmark offers secure powerful integration with other LMS, LRS and proctoring services making it easy to bring everything together in one place. Questionmark's cloud-based assessment management platform offers rapid deployment, scalability for high-volume test delivery, 24/7 support, and the peace-of-mind of secure, audited U.S., Australian and European-based data centers.
1 https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/turnover-tsunami-expected-once-pandemic-ends.aspx
2 https://www.ere.net/getting-ahead-of-the-looming-employee-exodus/
3 https://info.workinstitute.com/hubfs/2020%20Retention%20Report/Work%20Institutes%202020%20Retention%20Report.pdf