Recruiting and Retaining Talent within the Global Waste Management and Decommissioning Industry - 17192

Conference · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2017

OSTI ID:22794585

Thomas, Callum; Thor, Thomas

Every organisation or project can be defined as the people within it. The difference between having the right people with a culture of loyalty and the wrong people with a culture of high staff turnover is huge. Therefore, the way that the global waste management and decommissioning industry approaches recruitment and retention is a critical success factor. My colleagues and I have been fortunate enough to support organisations in the nuclear industry across more than 30 countries in recruiting and retaining talented professionals with rare skills. This experience has given us a unique first hand insight, and answers for questions including the following: - What attracts graduates and experienced professionals to choose a career in the nuclear industry: in waste management, in operations or in new build? - How can we leverage this knowledge to attract more talented individuals to work in the nuclear industry, and in waste management and decommissioning in particular? - How can organisations access the existing global talent pool within waste management and decommissioning? (including case studies of best practice in global recruiting); - What innovative methods are organisations using to successfully find talent? (methods such as strategic secondments, partnerships and knowledge transfer initiatives); - Why do people typically leave an organization or project in the waste management and decommissioning industry? - What examples of best practice and lessons learned exist that can help us understand and increase staff retention in the waste management and decommissioning industry? This paper will answer the questions above and provide recent and relevant examples to substantiate key observations. The objectives of the presentation are: - To give the audience a summary of best practice and lessons learned related to recruitment and retention in the global waste management and decommissioning industry, and also in the wider nuclear industry; - To show the benefits of taking a global view when looking for talent and explaining how to access the global talent pool; - To provide an insight in to what motivates talented people to join the industry and conversely what de-motivates them and causes them to leave; - To provide information about how organisations in the waste management and decommissioning industry can play to their strengths and better compete with other industries that are recruiting for the same talent; - To provide useful and practical actions that will add value to the audience and their organisations. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22794585
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--19-WM-17192
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
DECOMMISSIONING
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT