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View Poll Results: How do you hire?
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Newspaper
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16.67% |
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Advertisment
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Website
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Others
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11-21-2003, 09:02 AM
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5 Gallon Tree
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Join Date: Oct 2003
USDA
Posts: 655
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How do you hire?
How do you hire. Do you post ads, newspaper,website, job meetings, other
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11-21-2003, 09:14 AM
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Administrator
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin
USDA Zone 4
Posts: 7,564
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I voted for newspaper, but we also use word of mouth sometimes.
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11-21-2003, 10:40 AM
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Gold Oak Member
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Join Date: Nov 2003
USDA
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We have no less than 75 guys standing at Home depot, or Spinal Fart every day. 50% of them have green cardsm driveres licenses, and documentation. All of our guys come from Guatamala, and have superior work ethics over the local yokals. they are the reason we have been as successful as we have been....
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In the year 1491, if the Naturescape Landscape Company did the site work in Pisa, Italy, they would not be calling it the "leaning" tower.
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11-21-2003, 08:14 PM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Southwest ct
USDA Zone 6
Posts: 1,743
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I got sick of the rif raf calling from my newspaper ads so I made some handbills and posted them in the neighborhoods of the people I was looking for including a starting wage. I was amazed at the number of phone calls I got!
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As a father I was always aware that I was raising my sons to leave home, marry, establish families, and be men who could stand on their own two feet. We must fulfill our own destiny. I really wasn't concerned about what they might 'do' but I wanted them to 'be' good men.
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11-21-2003, 11:20 PM
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5 Gallon Tree
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Join Date: Oct 2003
USDA
Posts: 655
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That's one of the best ways because people have to read it. In the paper they can just read right past it.
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11-22-2003, 11:01 PM
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B&B Tree
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: LaGrangeville, N.Y.
USDA Zone 5
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I try to do my hiring by reference. I often have people I know tell me of someone looking for work, I prefer to get that type over a cold interview.
I've done the newspaper route and always end up with people unqualified applying. Either that or they feel they should get premium wages from the first day.
I't's my policy to start someone at a respectable wage and give them a 2 week evaluation period, after which we discuss where they are vs. where they need to be and how they will be compensated accordingly.
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11-22-2003, 11:23 PM
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Administrator
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin
USDA Zone 4
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I think Site still does this - does anyone give candidates a physical test?
I make them push a wheelbarrow filled with 400# of retaining wall block (5 std unit Versa-Lok)
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11-23-2003, 12:50 AM
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5 Gallon Tree
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Join Date: Oct 2003
USDA
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That's brutal !!! but a good idea.
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11-23-2003, 11:21 AM
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Ranger
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Join Date: Feb 2003
USDA Zone 4
Posts: 1,015
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That will weed them out real quick! Who picks up when they tip it?
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