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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

According to the 2014 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement survey of the Society for Human Resource Management, 40 percent of employees rated job-specific training as “very important” to their satisfaction, and 36 percent rated professional development the same way. Employers with this mindset have it backwards.

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Associations and the Vision Thing

YourMembership

Member recruitment, new revenue growth, generational shifts, technology demands, and the need to transform their organizations into “On Demand” service providers to meet the growing demands of their members – some or all of these make up the business climate associations must compete and succeed in today. But back to that BHAG.

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You Won’t Believe the ROI on This Member Recruitment Campaign

Associations Now

I’m just going to let the following numbers from an association member-recruitment campaign speak for themselves: Total cost for recruitment campaign: $25,000. Then they adapted existing membership recruitment material to be used in the ads, InMail, and updates, all of which pointed to a dedicated landing page.

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Causes Help Reduce Association Hiring Challenges from Retiring Boomers

SCD Group

million Boomers will turn 65 in 2014. Generational research shows that most of the 80 million millennials coming into the workforce prefer to seek jobs at companies that support causes they care about. They can be your strongest allies in recruiting new talent to replace retiring Boomers. One Boomer turns 65 every 8 seconds.

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The World of Opportunities for AMCs: A YM Perspective

YourMembership

This week YourMembership.com is “on the road” in Tempe, Arizona attending the 2014 AMC Institute Annual Meeting. Younger members, especially millennials, have experienced technology as a key component of their entire education experiences, have expectations that will put pressure on associations not investing in current technology.

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Study: Lack of Work-Life Benefits Hurts Employee Performance

Associations Now

And a new study is showing a direct correlation between the availability of family and lifestyle benefits and employee performance, recruitment, and retention. Overall, among the 500 people surveyed for the report, 35 percent reported a lack of such benefits negatively affected their work performance.

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Make Your Meeting a Jobs Hub

Associations Now

But many attendees are also there to find a new job or to recruit new employees, which is why associations often host onsite job fairs or career centers at their major meetings. Research shows that millennials’ primary reason for joining associations is access to job opportunities. You’ll create new revenue streams.

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