Chamber says Recruitment Of Talent Should Be Taken Up By Council
Friday, October 17, 2014 @ 10:35 AM
Prince George- The Prince George Chamber of Commerce says its members have identified , recruitment, and retention of talent as an important issue in a recent survey of their members.
In September ,the Chamber sent out 1589 surveys, asking its members , what issues they would like to see the City Council address, 51 businesses responded , for a 3.2% response rate.
The respondents said the matter of recruitment, and retention of talent, was an important issue and they would like council to focus on it.
Christie Ray, CEO of the Chamber, says the organization will now focus on the challenges our members have identified, along with secondary issues, such as downtown, red tape, city infrastructure and services identified in the survey.
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I hope council would also look at the people in administration with seemingly no talent and refuse to retain them.
While I am not a statistician by profession, I would suggest that based on a 3.2% survey response rate, the only statistically supported conclusion is that this survey is NOT representative of anything other that the ineffectiveness of the survey mechanism. Try this press release as a submission in a Stats 101 class and I will guarantee a failing grade.
It is NOT up to City Council to recruit for private or public companies. It is up to companies to do that. Furthermore, what role does the city play in helping a company retain its workers – NONE!!! If you are a good place to work for, you will retain a high percentage of your workforce. If you are a crappy place to work, you won’t. Why should City staff compete (using tax payer dollars) with the very tax payers who have private recruiting companies. BTW I am not in the recruitment business. CoC has demonstrated to me how little they know about this whole field.
Have to agree, the City can create an environment for new business or citizens and start to market the city for all we have. When you look at the Million plus dollars for the likes of IPG plus the More for Tourism PG and DBIA they need to focus and stop working in isolation of each other. Business new or old can take on the response ability of retaining and hiring workers. I am sure the majority of business would cringe at the thought of the City taking on this role. Also sent out 1500 and got 53 responses back, think the Chamber has problems of its own, deal with it.
“In September ,the Chamber sent out 1589 surveys, asking its members , what issues they would like to see the City Council address, 51 businesses responded , for a 3.2% response rate.”
I agree with some of the above posters. You can’t draw any meaningful conclusion from this. I would say the survey is a failure.
I may not be very good at art,but with a 3.2% response rate I can draw a meaningful conclusion . The Chamber of Commerce is completely out of touch with it’s members and the city it is in.
Agreed. With return numbers like that this survey should have went in the garbage and the press release should read “Chamber looks at ways to connect with its members”
These chamber surveys are always designed to skew the answers in a certain direction. I don’t even reply to them. The chamber of commerce should stop mouthing off when no one replies to a biased survey.
oneup482 hit the nail on the head! Recruitment and retention of employees for private business has nothing to do with taxpayers.
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