You can also use social media channels to reach out to people in your network. Here are a few benefits of incorporating social media as part of your hiring strategy.

Maximise job visibility.

Most people these days are on some form of social media channel. Job-seekers are also generally very active on their prefered social platforms when they are looking for a new job. Using a smart mix of social platforms can help you find the right candidate.

Cost-effective.

Advertising and promotions on social media channels can be an inexpensive way to reach your target market and attract the right candidate.

Provides an opportunity for engagement.

Social media posts allow interested job-seekers to directly communicate and engage with you. Some may also share your job listing with their friends and followers, thereby increasing your chances of filling the role.

How we can help you.

Once you have found the right people for the roles, it is a good idea to offer them training and support so they can hit the ground running from day one.

Food Safe Passport specialises in induction and training programmes for contractors and operators including customised company-wide online induction classrooms. Our induction training is designed and developed for food companies and the services sectors across the global food supply chain.

Before applying for any position, make sure you know the company’s policies regarding pay, benefits, and other aspects of employment. Find out if the company offers continuous professional development opportunities for career advancement.

If you’re unsure about anything, ask questions before submitting an application.

If you are honest with your staff about what you expect from them, they will appreciate it more. They also won’t feel as though they need to meet unrealistic expectations. This will help them stay focused on doing their job well instead of worrying about whether they will be able to meet your expectations.

Make sure you clearly discuss their roles and responsibilities, as well as what your expectations are of them, at the interview stage. Being transparent with your employees from the beginning will build trust and confidence. It will also reduce speculation and assumptions about the job you are hiring them for.

Staff retention is a vital component of running any organisation efficiently.

Food Safe Passport can help with your staff retention goals by providing training, induction and career development programmes.

New and existing employees

A well-run company induction training program is vital for new employees. It allows new recruits to gain a good understanding of the company’s values, work culture, systems and procedures as well as the tasks expected of them.

Induction training is also very useful for existing employees. It serves as a handy refresher and makes staff feel valued and supported.

Poorly run induction and orientation programs can lead to high staff turnover, work disruption, and waste of time and money.

Contractors

A targeted induction training program sets the tone and expectations for contractors when they are working on client sites. It helps contractors understand their clients’ risk management systems and compliance procedures including their own responsibilities and obligations while operating on client factory sites, warehouses and manufacturing facilities.

A contractor who has completed induction training gives clients confidence in their ability to work safely and responsibly while on the client site or premises.

Research material by Dr. John Wittmans (CSU Stanislaus)

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) was a German psychologist who founded the experimental psychology of memory. Ebbinghaus’ research was groundbreaking at the time, and his work (though he was not a proliferate writer) was generally well-received.

In recognition of his work in psychology, the “forgetting curve” – the loss of learned information – is sometimes referred to as the “Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve.”

The process by which forgetting occurs

This graph shows the process by which forgetting occurs. According to this research, people tend to forget rather quickly after learning material then forgetting slowly levels out. The implications of this for students are obvious—a day or two after attending class or reading a chapter or article, students will have forgotten approximately 75% of what was learned. Moreover, most of that forgetting happens within the first hour.

Now take a look at the red line. This line shows a dramatic increase in memory if students review material. It also shows that, without additional intervention, one day after material is learned, content is lost, and one week after, recall is almost as if the review never happened at all.

However, although the forgetting curve is a natural process, the process itself can be disrupted. That is, although it is natural for people to forget much of what they have learned immediately following an experience, simple processes can be used to slow down forgetting and to help us retain much of the information we will need to recall at a later date (such as test time).

The green line in the graph shows the hypothetical place where the forgetting curve would start if we had the ability to “remember everything after a lecture”. The blue line shows where the forgetting curve actually starts – around 75%.

How to retain information learned?

So, is there a way to maintain the initial recall after review? Yes, you simply have to keep at it. While an initial review of material will help you remember in the short term, reviewing material multiple times and at different intervals will help you retain it for much longer.

The graph shows how the review affects memory. You can see that every time you review material you retain much more information, and your forgetting curve steadies out at a much higher level. Each time you review material you take much more away. Research indicates that the minimum amount of reviews is three.

How Food Safe Passport can help you

Our purpose-built induction training helps reduce:

• non-conformances
• product-on-hold, and
• time and money wastage, when operators and temporary staff competency skills cost money and valuable time as a result of re-work, down-grades, and dumping.

Our induction training videos offer the ability for operators and staff to watch and learn several times, thereby increasing the possibility of memory retention from 60% to 90% plus.