BelRed’s innovative hiring and training processes for technicians are featured in this story from “the NEWS”, a leading industry trade magazine.
Excerpts are below:
Even though the worst recession in recent memory officially ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate has remained above 9 percent, and jobs have not bounced back as quickly as anticipated. One of the reasons for that, noted the not-for-profit organization, ACT (www.act.org), is that a significant segment of today’s labor force does not have the requisite skills that employers demand…
…Gloss has found his most successful new hires have turned out to be those who may not have all the technical training or experience needed, but they do have the character and attitude he wants. “We’ve found that if we hire based on who we need, we can train for what we need. We send these new technicians to several local technical schools and provide them with tuition assistance so they can obtain the core knowledge they will need.”
In addition, these new hires are provided with in-house classroom and field training to give them the practical experience to apply that knowledge, said Philp. “We provide them with clear procedures to follow, along with the tools and training they need to be successful. While this process isn’t perfect, and we still have technicians who go through this process and are not successful here, we have found our greatest percentage of success using this model.”…
Read the full article here: http://www.achrnews.com/articles/117999-critical-skills-gap-still-widening
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