How can an alumni program impact your recruiting? Let's take a look.
Today I want to discuss alumni programs and how they can impact your talent acquisition and recruiting. The type of alumni program that I am talking about isn't a university program, but rather one that mature organizations are setting up to help keep track of great employees who have left their company.
Decades ago, employees who left a given company would tend to feel as if they had burned a bridge. Many of these people felt that, as former employees, they had abandoned their chance of being rehired by that company.
Sophisticated, mature global organizations, however, have now realized that not staying in touch with great former employees can lead to missed opportunities.
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By staying in touch with former employees who go out and get experience with other companies, employers are able to potentially bring them back to their organization in the future.
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With today’s exit interviews, companies let employees leave in a professional manner and keep the relationship intact, creating an alumni network of sorts. With the help of group pages on LinkedIn, for example, employers are able to stay in touch with talented employees who are difficult to replace.
By staying in touch with former employees who go out and get experience with other companies, employers are able to potentially bring them back to their organization in the future.
If you're an HR talent acquisition or hiring authority, you can create a loose affiliation to help make the difference in the war on talent we seem to be finding ourselves in. Keeping in touch with your former employees as they evolve in their careers may help bring them back to you with new skills that are worthy of a different role entirely within your organization.
If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to speaking with you soon.
