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Recruitment & Retention Strategies (Nationalisation)

Recruiting and keeping national talent — structured selection, an honest read of local expectations, and retention strategies that survive contact with turnover data.

Format

Classroom · Virtual

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DubaiSeptember 2026LondonOctober 2026JohannesburgNovember 2026Live VirtualDates on request
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The programme

Nationalisation programmes fail quietly: locals are hired to satisfy the mandate, then leave, and the turnover never reaches the board in terms it understands. Employers need to know how to recruit and select talented locals from the labour market, and to hold an honest view of labour turnover — how it affects performance and the organisation’s ability to reach its strategic goals. This workshop equips participants to draw up and implement recruitment and retention strategies targeting the local workforce: the challenges Nationalisation poses for private firms, structured interviews carried out well, selection techniques that match candidates to jobs, and the needs and expectations of national employees, men and women alike.

What you will do

Recruit talented locals from the labour market, with structured interviews prepared and carried out effectively.
Confront the challenges the Nationalisation programme poses for private firms instead of working around them.
Apply a range of selection techniques to identify the right candidates for the jobs that need filling.
Read national employees’ needs and expectations, and turn them into effective work outputs.
Attract nationals — men and women — into the private sector with a proposition that holds.
Define and measure national turnover and retention, and connect both to the organisation’s strategic goals.

Who attends

  • HR professionals improving recruitment, retention and local talent management
  • Decision-makers at operational, tactical and strategic level in HR
  • Managers who need labour-turnover insight to inform their role

Cohorts bring together board members, executives and the rising leaders behind them — kept deliberately small, so every seat is a peer’s.

Programme agenda

Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for

I.The Nationalisation mandate
  • What the programme asks of private firms
  • Labour turnover and its effect on strategic goals
  • The case for recruiting locals effectively
II.Recruiting local talent
  • Structured interviews — preparation and execution
  • Selection techniques matched to the job
  • Encouraging nationals, men and women, into the private sector
III.Retention
  • Local needs and expectations for effective work outputs
  • Defining national turnover and retention
  • Retention strategies that hold the talent you recruit

Frequently asked

Why do nationalisation programmes fail, and how does this workshop address it?

They fail quietly: locals are hired to satisfy the mandate, then leave, and the turnover never reaches the board in terms it understands. The workshop equips employers to hold an honest view of labour turnover — how it affects performance and strategic goals — and to draw up recruitment and retention strategies targeting the local workforce that survive contact with the data.

What recruitment and retention skills does the workshop build?

Participants practise structured interviews prepared and carried out effectively, apply selection techniques that match candidates to jobs, and learn to read the needs and expectations of national employees — men and women alike — and turn them into effective work outputs. They also learn to define and measure national turnover and retention against the organisation’s strategic goals.

Can the workshop be tailored to our country’s nationalisation programme?

Yes — an in-house edition can be tailored to the specific nationalisation mandate and labour market your organisation operates in. BIZENIUS delivers the workshop in English and French; sessions run on a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request, and fees and quotations are provided on enquiry.

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