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Need Help on Hiring Good Employees...
So my family owns a 3 chain musical instrument store here in Las Vegas... as well as shipping over the net (www.kesslermusic.com). Well, locally, we have had a hell of a time hiring decent employees to work our front counters.
I am personally not part of the hiring process right now as I mainly handle all of our internet customers and am the professional sales specialist (for pros coming in, they only deal with me). But I am tired of having to deal with the reeruns that my "General Manager" ends up hiring. I do not pay simply minimum wage either. We usually start HS kids around $8 hr. My main counter people, once properly trained and can demonstrate competency, move to $10-12/hr. Does anyone have any recommendations on tests or hiring practices that can improve the quality of employee hire??? |
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Yeah, do background checks is the first important thing IMHO before going any further.
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I've experienced the same problems. Unfortunately, the quality employees are being retained by other companies. It's hard to find one looking for work. You have to pay for them. $20-24k per year isn't gonna retain your quality employees. Not in 2005.
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You might try advertising in the music department at UNLV. They probably have more knowledgeable students.
Also - is Ed Roman as big as asshole in real life as he seems to be based on his website? THX, BC
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I am mainly talking about sheer stupidity in these employees. Example. I have a girl who works for us that while she tries hard, she cannot retain or understand anything you try to teach her. I gave to my employees recently a "sales guide" manual. 3 weeks later, we performed a test. Since this is a new thing for us, I made the test simple. Now, also keep in mind that I personally have taught her everything that was in this manual because as I would complete a new section, I would give that section to her and go over it with her. So she had the information as well as a personal tuitor weeks before anyone else. She scored a 5 out of 12.... where even the newest girl, who has worked for us for a month, and has not had any chance yet to be trained on this information got a 7 out of 12. The average score from my employees was a 9.5 out of 12.
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The test is a good thing as well to test their intellegence and vice versa.
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Just hire the one with the shortest skirt and no bra. You'll probably get more return business too.
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I personally have never met Ed since I dont mess with guitars beyond student levels but I have heard plenty of stories. Most of those indicate that he is an ass.
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However, I can say that it does work wonders for the return customer aspect. I used to have this front counter girl with jsut about the most awesome rack on the planet. We constantly had guys returning as repeat customers that since she has left, they dont come in as often... she also had this like innocent, I am a nice girl look to her... whether she was or not... no comment.
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I'm sure you've already thought of this, but have you called the band teachers at local high schools and asked them to put up a job posting for you? When I was in high school, there were a lot of very bright kids in band who would've loved a job at a music store.
Second option: keep an eye out for young customers who appear to be knowledgeable and bright when they come in to the store. Let them know that you might be hiring at some point if they're ever interested. (Don't tell them you've got an opening now.) The ones that come back and pester you are good candidates. As another thought independent of the first two, give them a test before you hire them. It'll increase your costs and time to hire people, but it'll sort out the wheat from the chaff. It really appears to be working for me in my company to do this.
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16-19 yr old. How's their school aptitude? Grades,
Interested in music/instraments, do they play? College music majors. Drug test. Pay alittle more once up to speed and show some self starter. Part timers, fulltimers? FT good > 20K year. benefits.
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