Employee Recruitment and Retention Resource Center

Amid record-setting employee turnover and disengagement, higher ed leadership teams have little choice but to rethink how they recruit and retain talent. Increased competition with out-of-sector employers has elevated this priority across leadership teams. Prioritizing recruitment and retention strategies will only become more critical as the workforce diversifies and shrinks, with a predicted six million person deficit between labor supply and demand by 2028.

Yet, most institutions have already fallen behind on today’s table stakes to compete. EAB survey data show that many effective tactics used in other industries to support recruitment and retention efforts are still “progressive” in higher ed. Unsurprisingly, then, most institutions are still struggling to build competitive applicant pools and hold on to top performers.

Below are five key areas campus leadership teams must invest in to bolster employee recruitment and retention―and the top EAB tools and resources to expedite progress and ease implementation.