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How Your Company Can Better Retain Employees Who Are Veterans

Harvard Business Review

For their part, they need to figure out how to help the veteran employee connect and work with civilian coworkers, learn new skills and concepts, and adapt to the civilian workplace within a reasonable timeframe. This means that only about two in 10 veterans will hold their first non-military job for more than two years.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

HMSHost will be launching workshops on engagement across the entire company. After a skills training and a 10-week paid internship, 75% of This Way Ahead graduates receive offers for positions at Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic stores. Offer professional-development opportunities. There is also a business case for raising wages.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property. In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories.