Installers Wanted

[Bob La Londe]

How do you hire and screen without wasting all your working time talking to
idiots who want a paycheck without working?

Last time I did a "by appointment only." This allowed me to do some
prescreening on the phone. Then I set appointments to fill out an
application for about a dozen guys. Two actually showed up. One actually
completed the application.

I think a lot of the callers were just looking for a name to put on their
DES unemployment form.

 

[Bob Worthy]

How do you hire and screen without wasting all your working time talking to
idiots who want a paycheck without working?

You don't, at least properly anyway.

Last time I did a "by appointment only." This allowed me to do some
prescreening on the phone.

Yep!

Then I set appointments to fill out an

application for about a dozen guys. Two actually showed up. One actually
completed the application.

Sounds like you were hiring here in S. Florida.

I think a lot of the callers were just looking for a name to put on their
DES unemployment form.

If you don't want to waste your time, tell them in the telephone
prescreening to bring their meter to the interview. Go ahead and make your
regular business appointments for that day because no one will show up for
the job interview. No time wasted waiting for no shows. Problem resolved!
]

 

[Everywhere Man]

Contact a local trade school and hire some graduates. Granted they
don't know their ass from a hole in the ground about real life
applications but you'll never have to deal with bad installing habits.
They will only know your way of doing things, and they are eager to
learn.

 

[mikey]

Ask them about remote car starters?

How do you hire and screen without wasting all your working time talking to
idiots who want a paycheck without working?

Last time I did a "by appointment only." This allowed me to do some
prescreening on the phone. Then I set appointments to fill out an
application for about a dozen guys. Two actually showed up. One actually
completed the application.

I think a lot of the callers were just looking for a name to put on their
DES unemployment form.


--
Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com



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[G. Morgan]

How do you hire and screen without wasting all your working time talking to
idiots who want a paycheck without working?

Last time I did a "by appointment only." This allowed me to do some
prescreening on the phone. Then I set appointments to fill out an
application for about a dozen guys. Two actually showed up. One actually
completed the application.

I think a lot of the callers were just looking for a name to put on their
DES unemployment form.

Spend a little money and get a Monster.com employer account. You can
pre-screen resumes first, then contact the ones that look promising.

-G

 

[Bob La Londe]

Spend a little money and get a Monster.com employer account. You can
pre-screen resumes first, then contact the ones that look promising.

-G

A basic Monster listing is cheaper than a 10 day listing in the local paper.
Now if my lisitng would show up in any of the searches, and if monster
didn't try to divert possible applicants by making them refuse
advertisements that look like applications 1st.

Ah, well. I'll see if my 2 bills at Monster produces any better than the 3
bills I just spent on the local paper.

 

[Crash Gordon]

Never had much success advertising.
Best was to ask the guys working for me if they knew any guys wanting to
jump ship from other alarmcos.



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| | > How do you hire and screen without wasting all your working time talking
| to
| > idiots who want a paycheck without working?
|
| You don't, at least properly anyway.
|
| > Last time I did a "by appointment only." This allowed me to do some
| > prescreening on the phone.
|
| Yep!
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| Then I set appointments to fill out an
| > application for about a dozen guys. Two actually showed up. One
actually
| > completed the application.
|
| Sounds like you were hiring here in S. Florida.
|
|
| > I think a lot of the callers were just looking for a name to put on
their
| > DES unemployment form.
|
| If you don't want to waste your time, tell them in the telephone
| prescreening to bring their meter to the interview. Go ahead and make your
| regular business appointments for that day because no one will show up for
| the job interview. No time wasted waiting for no shows. Problem resolved!
| ]
| >
| >
| > --
| > Bob La Londe
| > Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
| > Fishing Forums & Contests
| > http://www.YumaBassMan.com
| >
| >
| >
| > --
|
| >
|
|

 

[Nick Lawrence]

I concur... this has worked very well for us for many years.

 

[Jim]

This might be to obvious but did you put up a notice at the
distributors in your area?

 

[Everywhere Man]

Nick! You're alive! What's going on buddy? LTNS.
You and those other two California geriatric alarm installers should
come out here for ISC East.

 

[Bob La Londe]

This might be to obvious but did you put up a notice at the
distributors in your area?

There are no distributors in my area. There are a couple electrical
distributors, but no low voltage distributors.

 

[G. Morgan]

A basic Monster listing is cheaper than a 10 day listing in the local paper.
Now if my lisitng would show up in any of the searches, and if monster
didn't try to divert possible applicants by making them refuse
advertisements that look like applications 1st.

Ah, well. I'll see if my 2 bills at Monster produces any better than the 3
bills I just spent on the local paper.

Why don't *you* search for resumes on the Monster board and call the
potential employees? Everytime I update my resume I get a dozen or so
calls from employers looking for help.

Make sure your ad has plenty of good keywords too.

-G

 

[Jim]

There are no distributors in my area. There are a couple electrical
distributors, but no low voltage distributors.


--
Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

Well then you'll just have to move to where there's people. Ya can't
have it both ways..... ya know. You'll just have to work alone if you
want to keep living in the boondocks.

 

[[email protected]]

Everytime I update my resume [on Monster.com]...

Heh, heh, heh... :^)

 

[Matt Ion]

How do you hire and screen without wasting all your working time talking to
idiots who want a paycheck without working?

Last time I did a "by appointment only." This allowed me to do some
prescreening on the phone. Then I set appointments to fill out an
application for about a dozen guys. Two actually showed up. One actually
completed the application.

I think a lot of the callers were just looking for a name to put on their
DES unemployment form.

Not really what you're looking for, but... when a friend worked once managing a
fancier restaurant in Whistler, BC (ski-resort town), he had a simple hiring
process for kitchen workers: he simply asked them, "Skier or snowboarder?"
Skiers got hired - boarders didn't. The latter, he explained, were almost
always the part-timer burnouts just looking to work as little as they could to
get enough money to put a roof over their heads and buy their lift tickets for a
few monhts.

 

[G. Morgan]

Everytime I update my resume [on Monster.com]...

Heh, heh, heh... :^)

What's so funny Fat Ass?

 

[Allan Waghalter]

The distributors here won't put up job postings. If my technician is
getting parts and leaves because of a posting for another company, I would
be pretty pissed. Their policy keeps them from getting in the middle of
these type events.... and I have to agree!

 

[Jim]

The distributors here won't put up job postings. If my technician is
getting parts and leaves because of a posting for another company, I would
be pretty pissed. Their policy keeps them from getting in the middle of
these type events.... and I have to agree!

I guess.

It never bothered me when I've seen it.

I guess some people would be.

 

[BH]

Would you take on an aussie ????

 

[Frank Olson]

That's a long commute mate!

And he'd have to get used to reading manuals right-side-up... ;-)