Hiring staff

[mfgs]

To all the people who have full time staff working for them. How did you go about finding the right candidate?
For the last 2 years I have always had full time subcontractors working for me. My current one is leaving to go and work for himself. So I am needing to find a replacement, where is the best place to look? I have always taken on people I have known and seen the quality of their work beforehand.

I am also deciding whether to stick to a subcontractor or take the plunge and take someone on properly and provide a van etc. Any advice from people who have been in my position previously?

 

[oz-plumber]

Both work very well if you find the right person.

Both work disastrously when you find the wrong person.

Saying that, it's harder and more expensive to get rid of an employee than a subcontractor.

 

[mfgs]

I am leaning more towards a sub contractor. The difficulty is, I don't really know where to look to find the right person. I have always known the standard of the other guys before I have asked them to come and work for me. I feel like placing an advert on a job site will obviously attract a lot of people, but I get the impression than more of them will be chancers than people actually any good.
Also the danger with a subby that I don't know is that they could easily leave for another job at no notice and could potentially look to poach customers etc. With someone taken on properly on the cards, I feel this would be less likely.

 

[Rickster123]

What area are you in? Maybe there's someone local on here that could help?

 

[mfgs]

Based in Croydon/Purley area, but work all around South London and down to the coast.

 

[Rickster123]

Where's masood? He's looking to become a company man!

 

[mfgs]

Has no one got any advice on where to look to find the right person?

Also any tips would be good on what to put on the advert, need to start the process pretty soon as I have a lot of working coming up.

 

[Destroyer2813]

As Adam said pm Masood see what hes after and what you can offer might then suit both parties

 

[WaterTight]

Has no one got any advice on where to look to find the right person?

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[Masood]

Where's masood? He's looking to become a company man!

Based in Croydon/Purley area, but work all around South London and down to the coast.

Cheers Adam, but a bit far for me I'm afraid...