Recruiting and Retaining in Roofing:
We want everybody to make 200 K a year with all the stress and 24 7 hustle, not many people. what’s your one best tip to help roofing companies attract and retain the best talent. I think in the roofing industry, we’re actually, we’ve been talking a lot on the last few weeks about it is. Really start putting employees first. I feel like a lot of roofing business owners, we have this idea, this dream that we’re trying to sell them, that opportunities are endless. You can do anything you want. I don’t believe that. Not everybody wants to run a business. Not everybody wants to take risk and take liability. Your employees should not be thinking about risk. They should have guaranteed stated. Yes. Think about them put, think about you being as a corporate and like why people take low paying jobs said, McDonald’s and stuff for 15 bucks stated, yeah, it’s low paying job. There’s no risk, but people, you will be amazed how many people will take little jobs like that. Because. They know the stability is their paycheck there every Friday. Of course, it’s not for everyone, but at least there’s some kind of benefits. There’s, it’s eight to five that we declared in the roofing industry. On eight to five jobs. And I don’t agree with it. I think a lot of people need it. I think many people would rather work eight to five. Plugged their phones away and their brains away for the weekend. And maybe it comes with a pay cut. What we want to do instead. We want everybody to make 200 K a year with all the stress and 24 7 hustle. Not many people want it. You’ll be amazed. How many. Are willing to work for $70,000 a year, eight to five. So if you can create a job, show it to people and say, Hey, this is not bad, yeah. You’re not gonna make a lawyers money, but you’ll make, way above average. What’s medium income in the United States and most serious, like 50, 60 grand, you give someone $75,000 in a roofing industry, by the way it’s still a lot of money. And that, that’s what I would be focused on thinking about what’s there for employee less risk Reward, and just create a job that ordinary their person can do without, doing something super crazy. We’re so crazy about this idea. It’s no, they have to possibly have, they don’t have to their employees, they come to you to work. That would be my advice. Like the number one thing. Is can do to retain guys in 2021, but me being a salesman. So I, I would say great back end support. Cause when you on the front line and you’re going out there, you’re knocking on doors, you’re dealing with homeowners. And then you’re the person that got to put the fire out. You’re the person that got us scheduled gutters. You’re the person that gotta schedule siding clean up like you, the person that got to schedule everything. And you’re the only person that a homeowner is talking to after a while that starts to weigh on, certain salesman. I had a guy to actually quit because he had to do too much. Having great backend support your company, being compartmentalized to where you’ve got somebody to deal with. If it’s an issue with the roofing, they go to the production guy. And if there’s an issue with the money to go to the accountant people, if the issue with this, they go to these people to where your sales guy can actually focus and know if this is a fire. He got a great team of people behind him that could support him and vacuum up because then you could sell that at a high level. Cause I’ve seen sales guys not want to go out there and close deals. I talked to a sales guys all around the nation. I’ve heard guys leaving their company due to the production, not being up to par, I’ve had. guys leave cause they got to go run and get materials. So I think having great backend support with the company being compartmentalized and compartmentalizing, having your sales guys focus on sales, being the face and maybe collecting a check or two or, smoothing out a situation, but having somebody on the back end to really support these guys. So they don’t feel like they by themselves. I think that right there will, retain a lot of guys, even if they got to do a little bit more leg work, but just knowing that they got a lot of support. ♬ HookAgency.com ♬
