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Caitlin Clineff, recruiting specialist and company ambassador for Myatt Landscaping in Raleigh, North Carolina, says these days, everyone is facing a labor shortage in the landscape industry. Thatās why we can all benefit from how the industry is approaching employee recruiting strategies. āWe have to do something about this ourselves,ā Clineff says. The key time […]
Labor is a pain for most professional landscape companies. Where are good people when you need them? The economy is boomingābut finding quality employees to capture the market opportunity has never been so difficult. āOur game plan now is to get people to see this is an industry where you can have a career and […]
Like so many others, Joshua Malik, owner of Joshua Tree in Stockertown, Pennsylvania, says recruiting new hires has posed an ongoing challenge. Malik, whose business is 55 percent general tree care, says finding experienced tree workers has been the most difficult hiring experience. He can remember a time when he was getting several calls with […]
Sometimes you learn more from mistakes than you do from successes, says H. Jaclyn Ishimaru-Gachina, president and co-founder of Gachina Landscape Management headquartered in Menlo Park, California. That was the case when one of the companyās branches secured a difficult client. While the company was initially quite proud to announce they landed this very large […]
In the past three years, NALP member Ben Carruthers, owner of Carruthers Landscape Management Inc., in Dallas, says the company has become more āHR-focusedā than ever before. Heās been working with Human Resources āHarvesterā Steve Cesare, of The Harvest Group, on a number of ways in which the company can improve their employee onboarding processāamong […]
When it comes to hiring more labor, NALP member Lisa L. Kuperus, vice president of Farmside Landscape & Design in Wantage, New Jersey, says it must be a multi-faceted and ongoing effort. In this tight labor marketāand with the industryās struggle to receive H-2B workersāthere is no time to become complacent. āWe absolutely must have […]
Motivating employees and making them feel like valued members of the team has always been at the core of how Jason Musch, owner and president of Dutch Valley Landscape Contractors, has run his business. He says āwithout our employees, we are nothing.ā Even so, in the past, the Chicago-area landscape maintenance company has experienced problems […]
Employee retention has never been much of an issue at McHale Landscape Design, a $20-million full-service landscape and maintenance company based in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. In fact, the company has many long-term employees who have been with the business for two decades or moreāincluding McHaleās 50 foremen. But Kevin McHale, president, says he was getting […]
Though his son has grown up around the businessāand the industryāCody Whelchel, owner of Texas-based Cody Landscape, says the process of transitioning business ownership to his son has been more complicated than he anticipated. Currently in the midst of that process, Whelchel, who founded the landscape design, installation and maintenance business in 1986 along with […]
Letās face it: As a result of the lack of knowledge available to people about the landscape industry and the career potential within, its image is tainted. This is particularly true with younger generations. āStudents and parents think itās a dirty job and that you donāt make any money in landscaping; we just have this […]
