Re: How does one find employees, including trainees?

["Sue" <sodom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How about benefits?  Does he provide any?

"mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> How does one find employees, including trainees?
>
> I have a friend with a burglar alarm business, installation and
> monitoring, homes and commerical property (no autos).
>
> He needs more installers and repairmen.   Any ideas on where he can
> get them?
>
>
> He can't find them.
> He advertises in the newspaper or on the web, and 4 people will call.
> Only one will show up for the interview, and he won't be qualified.
>
> Most high school grads don't know anything about electricity, and he'd
> like them to at least know Ohm's law.  Trade schools around here won't
> let him, or others like him put up anything on the bulletin board.
> Even nationally advertised companies are turned down.
>
> He pays pretty darn well.  For those with experience, I think it is
> over 50G.  Isn't that still a lot?  (I don't know how much over 50.)
> And he's not so small.  Between 600 and 1000 customers for whom he
> installed the equipment and does the monitoring, and has contracts for
> some national name brand chains to do repair work at any of their
> stores within say 100 miles of here.
>
> Remove NOPSAM to email me.  Please let
> me know if you have posted also.