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Novelty, Ohio’s Exscape Designs built a reputation in the area for providing high-quality design/build work. Owner Bill Dysert says it became apparent to his sales team that the company was being overlooked for smaller enhancements. Dysert says many homeowners in the area just saw the companyāwhich performs residential design/build and maintenance workāas beyond their budgets. […]
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 […]
As one of eight kidsāhis mom a nurse and his dad an architectāCraig Ruppert, CEO of Ruppert Landscape, says money was often tight. As a teenager in the early 1970s, Ruppert started mowing neighborsā lawns with his brother, Chris, to earn extra income. āWe were motivated and enjoyed working hard,ā Ruppert says. āPeople began to […]
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 […]
Although he grew up around landscaping, Dean DeSantis, owner of DeSantis Landscapes in Portland, didnāt initially imagine heād follow the same career path as his father, who started the business in 1974. At the time, DeSantis was just eight years old and says he spent most of his summers helping out. Even so, he just […]
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 […]
