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Recruiting for a sustainable future

Martin Keeler, HR Director at the GPA discusses applying a future-focus approach to recruitment practices to attract and retain talent for a sustainable future.

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Recruiting for a sustainable future

, HR Director at the 바카라 사이트 Property Agency (GPA), discusses the importance of applying a future-focus approach to recruitment practices to ensure the GPA attracts and retains the right skills for creating a sustainable future.

Sustainability is key to the GPA바카라 사이트™s customer and client offer. Everything we do is designed around making sure our buildings and workspaces are fit for the future. This means we have to plan and design with the long term in mind, supporting the 바카라 사이트바카라 사이트™s great places to work ambitions and being able to adapt our spaces in years to come. What we deliver now will not meet the needs of future generations 바카라 사이트“ I바카라 사이트™m sure technology will change, for example!

Clients tell us that it바카라 사이트™s increasingly important to them that products and services they get from us are sustainable 바카라 사이트“ so we need to be able to meet their demanding specifications for the quality of our workspaces, the design of our buildings and our use of technology solutions.

Attracting and retaining the right talent

When we recruit and develop, we바카라 사이트™re looking for people who understand the importance of sustainability across our business.

Our retention and succession strategies focus on ensuring that our people understand and have the skills and creativity to develop sustainable solutions in everything we do. As well as choosing the best people available when we recruit, we make sure colleagues have opportunities to develop their skills and apply them at every level in their career with us.

In tune with national needs

Making sure we are up to date with the latest ideas and thinking on good workplaces and sustainability policies allows us to respond to our customers바카라 사이트™ and clients바카라 사이트™ changing needs in an evolving environment. It also makes us more marketable as we build our portfolio.

The 바카라 사이트 has big goals for achieving sustainability and the way the Civil Service works. These include working towards Net Zero by 2050 and the Levelling Up agenda, offering a better future for regions outside the south east of England and moving civil servant roles out of London if they don바카라 사이트™t need to be based there.

The work we do means that we바카라 사이트™ll be heavily involved in making it possible for the public sector to deliver these ambitions which we need to be switched on to, ensuring it achieves its specific objectives. We need to make sure our people understand the scale of the challenges.

Equipped to meet future needs

We are already focused on delivering the benefits of sustainability through our business objectives. We바카라 사이트™re actively using our commitments to sustainability in our employee offering, which is attracting more of the most committed and capable people to the GPA.

I believe that seeing a commitment to sustainability, Net Zero and all the other areas involved with 바카라 사이트śbeing a good citizen바카라 사이트ť is fast becoming a key element of whether people decide they want to work in an organisation. You can expect our recruitment plans to emphasise that we are up for the challenge.

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Published 13 May 2022