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Recruiting for
Generic Recruitment
Retention
Employment Hires to the old employment Hires to the new
Contract contract. employment contract.
Hiring Model Concentrates mostly on the Uses all hiring models.
classic hiring model.
Based on function, skills,
Employee Profile Based on function and skills.
and “fit.”
Hiring Methods Emphasizes speed and “place- Emphasizes alignment
filling.” Event-related. between employee and
employer. Process-based.
Figure 7-1. The main differences between generic recruiting and
recruiting for retention
tinctions between generic recruiting (what most organizations
do) and recruiting for retention (what organizations with excel-
lent retention do). Don’t worry if some of these phrases seem
unfamiliar to you. In the rest of this chapter, we’ll discuss each
of the main differences in turn.

The Employment Contract
The first major difference between those organizations that
merely recruit and those that recruit for retention is the implicit
employment contract
between the employee and
Employment contract
the employer. The implicit,overall relation-
The Old Employment ship between the employer
and the employee. Although the term
Contract
“employment contract” is also used,
Historically, the “employ- of course,for the legal document that
ment contract” was essen- sometimes defines the terms of
tially a statement of the employment,what we’re considering
status quo. The employer in this chapter is the relationship.
would in effect say to the
employee, “You come work for me, I’ll pay you, and so long as
you do a good job, you can stay.”