How To Recruit Your Team When Valued Employees Leave

Your team members have gotten those emails. The subject line says it all—they know what’s coming before they even open the message. As expected, it’s relaying the sad news that a valued coworker and maybe even a friend has decided to leave the company to pursue another opportunity.

Departure emails often leave employees feeling lost and wondering if there are greener pastures for them outside of your company. Here are some tips on how to recruit your team when valued employees leave the organization.

Recruit Your Existing Team Members

When the news arises that a valued employee is leaving a company, managers often devote the majority of their time to searching for a replacement. While this is a priority, it’s also vital to maintain a balance between finding a quality candidate to take their place and recruiting existing team members, ensuring that they're happy, and motivating them to hold it together for your organization. Don’t take them for granted—leaving existing employees feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated can cause them to depart too. 

Focus on Individual Interactions 

As a manager, start focusing on individual team member interactions by holding one-on-one meetings. Be honest about your cadence, body language, tone of voice, and word choice.

Consider the following behaviors to recruit your existing team successfully:

• Make eye contact
• Don’t project your voice
• Stand up straight 
• Dress in a way that fits the situation 

During these individual interactions, focus on the tasks at hand and uplift and motivate your employees to complete operational actions to the best of their ability.

Create Structure

Create a meeting structure that focuses on operation specifics and team member takeaways during individual interactions with your employees. Use the time wisely to discuss what’s important to the team member and how they’re feeling. If individual employees want to grow at the company, pinpoint some specifics on amplifying their career. Make it clear to them that when a valued team member leaves, it opens the door to growth for existing employees.

Embrace Expansion

When it’s time to add to your team, it’s an opportunity for your existing employees to grow if that’s something they want. When a departing employee closes the door, it opens up endless possibilities for existing team members to reach for the career goals they’ve been waiting for. As a manager, you should embrace this expansion—not out of desperation, but out of evolution—and help the individual grow to their full potential.

Remington—Recruiting Our Existing Employees 

At Remington Medical, we prioritize recruiting our team members when a valued employee pursues a new opportunity. While we wish them the best of luck in the future, our leaders believe that when one door closes, another one opens to give our existing employees a chance to grow. 

We’re always looking for valuable employees in multiple disciplines, such as operations, engineering, quality, regulatory, sales, finance, and customer service. Contact us today to learn more about how you can become a valued employee at a forward-thinking company in the medical device manufacturing industry.