What would you do if you see your staff surfing a recruitment website?

Your staff just gave you the opportunity to do your job, make a manager/entrepreneur decision. Divorce or stay married happily ever after?

Like the body, a company, can accept or not an organ transplant, sometimes it fails after a few months or years, the ADN, blood type, tissues does not fit and the organ is rejected. Say your company is successful because the sales team are professional engineers that inspire trust to clients and gain corporate client 1-by-1 slowly but surely, no unhappy client. You just recruit a young ambitious guy, he work very hard and every means is OK to convince new clients -karaoke, presents, discounts, technical lies...-. You know he is not a fit, his sales figures are great +50% every year. He knows also probably he is not like all the other guys in the team -probably the reason he is surfing-.

Then it is an easy interview to terminate his contract.
If on the contrary, he is the perfect fit but he feels he has been forgotten for pay rise or congratulations etc... or he has a temporary problem, it is time you show the company support...

If you live this situation for real, after 7 months at Ausdoor, you may not know much about the ADN/values of the company and the ADN/values of your staff? Ask your boss for help to check out if it's time for GO/STAY?

Just surfing is not really serious. If you found his/her resume newly updated, it would even not yet serious. However, it is the best if you start an appropriate approach to talk with this employee. First, a personal talk should be done to understand the real situation. Then if the employee is planing somehow to leave the current job, you should set up an official meeting/discussion with him/her to find out what's wrong? From this point you will know what and how to put the matter in place.

Encourage them.

Stop in and ask what job opening they see and if they think those positions are better for them or if the company is better. Talking openly does wonders and you may find out some things that will improve your work environment and retention of good employees.Often times I have found that in open conversations they will realize things that they would not have considered. What you really want is for them to look at other jobs and realize how great it is to work for you and your company.

BTW if they are bad employees ask it you can help them find that other job!

I have experience this case before. To be honest, at that moment, I had very mix feeling of worry, angry, mad, sad... with a lot of question running in my head "why he did that? what if he leave? what should I do, etc..". Then I realized that my bad mood is trigger by me , not by him. The deep down reason is I'm worry for my own comfortable situation having his help and the security of my own job. I like what Pascal said here: This is an opportunity to practice my own leadership . Well, there's already a lot of tips here for you: Talk to him honestly, understand the need, see how you can fit better w that need and after all, support him to go if it's better for him that way. Everything will be alright, 1 go, other comes...