Ep 166: Talent Acquisition and Retention: Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs - Featuring Steve McArthur, Managing Director/Resident CHRO at Insights & Solutions Asia

In this episode of our podcast series, we draw from the insights of our recent business sentiment survey, spotlighting two of the top challenges businesses reflected they were facing – attraction of talent and retention of talent. Putting a lens on small businesses, we explore the challenges they are facing within these realms, providing thoughtful discussions around the options and opportunities available for them to navigate through these obstacles. Steve McArthur, Managing Director/Resident CHRO at Insights & Solutions Asia and member of our Start Up, Entrepreneur & Small Business Committee, speaks with our Executive Director, David Kelly – taking listeners through some of the current challenges SMEs are facing with talent attraction and talent retention. Through the conversation, he lends his own experiences and successes consulting with SMEs to curate employee benefit packages tailored to the demographics of their organisation. Delving into the changing needs of today’s multi-generational employee workforce, he highlights the wide range of resources and possible solutions available for small business owners and other leaders within smaller organisations to build strong employee welfare and development programmes. Subscribe to the BritCham Singapore Podcast on your favourite player, and if you're listening on Spotify or Apple, please take a second to give us a 5* rating if you enjoy the show. ⁠⁠ Signup to our newsletter⁠⁠ for more information and the opportunity to request topics and guests in future episodes, or head to our ⁠⁠website⁠⁠. Thank you for tuning in!