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Originally Posted by johnkeegan
If I had to choose between an applicant with a great attitude but little direct experience or one with alot of experience and a lot of bad attitude, I'd pick the former. Many of the "experienced" applicants come with bad habits that are very hard to break.
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I've had much more success hiring college kids with a good work ethic and less experience. They can be easily trained and they are eager to work; the only setback is that they are usually not available until sometime in May. Each time I hired someone with past experience they did not last longer than two weeks - that is if they showed up at all! My best new hire this past season was a kid whose mom approached us while we were doing a job across the street and asked if we'd hire her son. One thing I like to do is bring in the new crew members to my house for a clean-up on their first day of work. I can check if they are on time, see how they work, if anyone takes initiative, smokes too much, etc etc. Any red flags and they aren't asked back.