Hiring during the slow months, to some contractors, is terrifying, however, there is significant benefits to this procedure.

1. First and foremost, all contractors who have employee’s should be advertising regularly for a steady supply of perspective employee’s. There are ways to do this without hurting anyone’s feelings (such as current employees). A steady stream of applicants is a necessity for any small business owner.
2. I recommend to all of my contractors to have at least four “Classified Advertisements” budgeted into their chart of accounts. These four are run during the change of the seasons. This should allow you more than enough potential employees resumes to skim through.
3. Classified Advertising is not the only means of acquiring a perspective employee. Referrals from existing employees with REWARDS! This has always been one of my best ways of getting some of the best employees. Many mechanics, sales people, and office personnel have friends who are in the same industry. “Birds of a feather, flock together!” That being said, there is a good resource for help. Don’t forget to not be stingy when it comes to the REWARD. 
4. One of the best methods of obtaining installers, service technicians or sales people is to have a good relationship with your suppliers. They have a good feel for what is going on in everyone of their customers business’s. They know who is happy and who is not. They know who is looking for a change. Setting up an individual REWARD program for those individuals can be as helpful as the employee reward program. Be careful not to portray yourself as a headhunter when applying this procedure, but like all of your companies operating procedures, there are ways to do this.
5. With the use of some of the procedures I listed, you should be able to have success acquiring perspective employees or at least a data base of prospects to pull from. Keep in mind, in trying to put together a “Turn Key Operation”, these systems should become standard operating procedures. They should be in line with your interviewing and new employee processing procedures. It should all be a fairly simplified system that produces success.
   

If you should have any questions about hiring new employees or anything about running your small business, contact me at 732-616-4617 or drop me an email at joe@contractorbusinessprofits.com.

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