Recovery puts focus on talent strategies

Employers that have maintained investment in learning and talent development will be best placed to take advantage of the coming upturn, HR directors have told PM.With the CIPD’s latest Labour Market Outlook survey suggesting that private-sector recruitment is turning the corner, retention will once again become a challenge as talented individuals find it easier to move roles, they say. But firms that have kept up spending on learning and talent will be able to keep their best performers as well as attracting new ones.