Practical Guide to Recruiting: Tips for Retaining Your Employees amid The Great Resignation

by Michael Schuster

As we are emerging from the depth of the global Covid-19 pandemic into a post-pandemic economy, our work landscape is undoubtedly changing, nearly 4 million Americans resigned from their jobs in April of this year alone. And this wave of mass resignations is happening across all sectors and across all corporate hierarchies, from seasoned executives to early career professionals to the frontline workforce leaving their employment for a variety of reasons.

The statistics are

A record-setting 10.1 million job openings in the U.S. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sept. 8. 2021).
11.5 million workers quit just in Q2 of this year. 
41% of the global workforce would consider leaving their current employer within the next year. 
54% of Gen Z are considering quitting

The Great Resignation is a mass, voluntary exodus from the workforce. It is here, and it is quite real. Turnover is nothing new, and neither are corporate retention strategies. But The Great Resignation and extreme turnover happening today across so many industries are different and require a different approach. The Great Resignation caught many business leaders flat-footed.

Thus, the question begs, what is causing this ‘Great Resignation’, as economists have dubbed it, and what can employers do to retain the talent they invested in and rely on for their day-to-day operations?

For the purpose of this book, I am going to focus on how to retain your employees. I would explore ideas for keeping your people dedicated and happy amid The Great Resignation.

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29 pages, Paperback

Published October 23, 2021

About the author

Michael Schuster is acknowledged internationally as an expert wine taster, wine writer and wine teacher with over 25 years experience. He studied tasting in Bordeaux, where he gained the University Tasting Diploma, and in the early eighties he was instrumental in creating an award-winning wine retail business. Since 1986 he has worked independently as a writer and lecturer, and has run his own wine school in north London.

He is a regular contributor to The World of Fine Wine, writing their annual Bordeaux en primeur report, an occasional contributor to Decanter Magazine, and his highly praised book, Essential Winetasting (Mitchell Beazley), won all three major wine book prizes in the UK in 2001. It was described by Bill Nesto MW (Beverage Business USA) as “The most effective winetasting manual ever written.”, and as “explaining the mechanics of taste and tasting better than any book I’ve seen.” (Richard Ehrlich, The Independent on Sunday).

As well as sitting on the board of The Wine Society, Michael is a member of the regular panel of speakers on Sotheby's wine courses, he judges at international wine competitions, chairs the Burgundy panel at Decanter’s World Wine Awards, and lectures to amateurs and professionals in the UK and abroad. His own wine courses range from a widely acclaimed “Beginners Course”, via “The Fine Wines of France”, to a much sought after three day “Blind Tasting” event for trainee Masters of Wine, which takes place each May.

For several years now Michael has been working as a consultant for Bordeaux Index, one of the UK’s leading wine merchants.