Talent concerns

EMPLOYERS currently focused on their survival are being advised to treat stood-down employees like customers, in the hope that they may be willing to come back once demand returns.

Helene Taylor, well known to the industry as the founder of the Force For Good Hub, has an extensive background in recruitment and is very concerned that the travel sector is headed for a talent shortage crisis when the industry is ready to gear up again.

“We can’t assume that stood down employees will return to the industry,” she said, with many who have been stood down now already having new, secure jobs alongside fears that travel will never be stable again,” she said.

Taylor recommends a strategy of setting up ongoing touch points with past employees keeping your relationship strong, just as with customers and clients.

“Imagine in a year from now if the borders open and the industry takes off with a bang, the industry is going to need that talent to cope with growth” - see her video plea by CLICKING HERE.