[Rick Carver]

Was just wondering if anyone use's a mentor system within there operation?
We started one years ago, and I am about to re-enter the industry on the maint. end this spring. So I was looking for any additional cool things to add to our system.
As it is now, any newbie is brought into the operation as an employee candidate for a few weeks. One employee normally volunteers to be the newbies mentor. After spending a few weeks with the rest of the employees and completeing some BASIC assigned job duties correctly the mentor will bring to me his evaluation.
Just about what ever he says regarding bringing the newbie on full time or not will happen.

The mentor will recieve a handsome gift/bonus. The employee gets a position and job title and the company normally has a better then average new guy.

I have had the most luck by following this procedure.

We test drive new cars, so why not employees? ;-)