LoneRanger01
New Member
The first thing I look at on a resume is if the new prospect has listed any reasons of how my company can benifit from his services. On the regular application the first thing I check for is can I contact the previous employers. if there are more than two no's then there is a problem with this person. There are only two reasons not to contact their previus employer. one they quit and burned their bridges or two they are still employed with that person. I believe any one person can have a disagreement with a previous employer simply because it impossible for everyone to get a long with each other, giving him the benifit of doubt. If their very last job has a no, this means he is still employied and he doesn't want his boss to know he is looking. But ask the person why can't you contact them.
Some thing I have learned over the years is it never hurts to let an employee know how much you appreciate them and every now and then tell them what a good job they did on such and such a job. Don't do it to often other wise it goes to their head and they think they are worth more money. Making a simple test for them to do is always a good idea, lets face it in the sign business math is everything.
Don't be affraid to train some one. I've trained a lot of people in the auto body business and if a employee tells me they don't know how to do something but if someone would show them how they could learn to do it. This shows me an eggerness to learn. If they just say yeah I could learn that, this tells me that they might learn it but they just really aren't interested in doing it.
The last thing and the biggest pet peeve is will they lie to you to get the job. In my computer business I found it easy to find out if they knew what they were talking about by simply asking them how they would hook up a B drive to an Intel pentium 2 motherboard. You would be surprise all the different answers I got, when in fact you can not hook up a B drive to an Intel motherboard. B drive is a second 3.5 inch flopppy disk drive.
Lastly, look at the person, how do they stand and sit, jf they walk or stand with their hands in their pockets run don't walk away from them. 99.999% of the time they will turn out to be a lazy person. If the sit with their arms folded and look at the floor then they really aren't interested in the job and you are just wasting their time. If they sit up straight or at the edge of the chair and look at the thing on your desk and walls and make good eye contact that is a keeper. this means the are interested in what you do and what you have done and they more likly than not will be a good learner.....good luck
Some thing I have learned over the years is it never hurts to let an employee know how much you appreciate them and every now and then tell them what a good job they did on such and such a job. Don't do it to often other wise it goes to their head and they think they are worth more money. Making a simple test for them to do is always a good idea, lets face it in the sign business math is everything.
Don't be affraid to train some one. I've trained a lot of people in the auto body business and if a employee tells me they don't know how to do something but if someone would show them how they could learn to do it. This shows me an eggerness to learn. If they just say yeah I could learn that, this tells me that they might learn it but they just really aren't interested in doing it.
The last thing and the biggest pet peeve is will they lie to you to get the job. In my computer business I found it easy to find out if they knew what they were talking about by simply asking them how they would hook up a B drive to an Intel pentium 2 motherboard. You would be surprise all the different answers I got, when in fact you can not hook up a B drive to an Intel motherboard. B drive is a second 3.5 inch flopppy disk drive.
Lastly, look at the person, how do they stand and sit, jf they walk or stand with their hands in their pockets run don't walk away from them. 99.999% of the time they will turn out to be a lazy person. If the sit with their arms folded and look at the floor then they really aren't interested in the job and you are just wasting their time. If they sit up straight or at the edge of the chair and look at the thing on your desk and walls and make good eye contact that is a keeper. this means the are interested in what you do and what you have done and they more likly than not will be a good learner.....good luck
