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Hiring for Spring??
Just wondering if some of you would share how you go about hiring employee's for your businesses? I in need of hiring someone, or rather two people to run the lawn care portion of my business because I need to focus my attention on school. My plan is to keep my lawn business and start doing some light landscaping on the side until I can turn that into a business, and then maybe the fallowing year hire several more employee's to run that business, and then tackle yet another venture. Have any of you built your businesses this way? Anyways my main question is where do I find really good empoyee's. I want a couple of those model employee's, you know, the one's who show up every day for work, and on time, the ones who never call off at the last minute, and who don't work for you for a year, and then take all of your business away from you. Any thoughts or methods that any of you have used that have work??
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I'm in the same boat with you because I have a lawn mowing business that I want to hand off to a foreman. Already in school for landscape design so I can get more landscaping knowledge. Hiring has been my biggest challenge this year and just one helper.
I expect that for success in hiring that I'll need to find more hispanic gentleman who are determined to succeed. Learn spanish and get the word out that your hiring and "Se Habla Espanol" (We speak Spanish). Take spanish in school and call temp agencies that employ landscapers because they are bound to have hispanics (mine do). Find an agency that will let you try out guys and take them after a month of service because you can get them at a good hourly rate after a month. May need to pony up around $12-13 an hour at the start but they are insured so you write checks and focus on production. Seems like this is good info for your situation but I'd need to know more about your experience to be sure. -
Lawn Hopper,
Thanks for your prompt reply. I'll definetly try a local agency. You mentioned something about them/ as in the foreman being insured?? Or did you mean the agency?Comment
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