A Majority of Employees Seek New Jobs: Job Search IS About the Money

Seventy-five percent of all employees are looking for new jobs, according to the 2004 U.S. Job Recovery and Retention Survey released by the Society for Human Resource Management and CareerJournal.com. Thirty-eight percent of the human resource (HR) professionals surveyed said they have noticed an increase in turnover since the beginning of 2004.

Employee turnover creates the need for aggressive employee retention programs. You don't want your best employees seeking new jobs. A client company had five people give notice in the past couple of weeks. We are aggressively recruiting in sales and accounting. Exit interviews are providing a lot of information, but the turnover is sad. Find out more about retention.