Arnold Electric is very proud of its employees and knows it success is due to them. Every successful business is because of its employees, unfortunately it is usually the owners that get the press and awards. Recruiting and retaining these valuable employees is never as easy an ad in the classifieds and then a paycheck every week.

Recruiting
Finding great employees starts with recruitment. It has been said the best employees are already taken, and those looking could be suspect (why has no else hired you?). The key to finding great employees is to take a long-term approach by finding who is the best in the field. True, they may be happily employed now, but getting in front of them and letting them know you are interested is always pleasing. It is nice to be recruited. But your real objective is to let them know that they have a home should they every become available. This approach takes time but will pay-off in the long run as most every becomes available at some point. It is much better than having a position and filling it with just a body.

Retaining
Keeping your key employees is an art and continual challenge. The best approach is to consider it a battle of the heart- to get employees to stop working for themselves and start working for the company. This is a particular challenge in the trades where most employers get employees for a project and then let them go, which conditions electricians to look out for themselves and get as much as they can while they can. But if an employee can feel that an employer has their back, then the employee will begin to reciprocate. In the trades this has meant that the employee will get a full check even in the slow times, and striving to never layoff anyone. In essence a business is setting themselves apart from any other employer, and those that get the best employees do just that- let the employees that there is no place better to work. That the grass is not greener on the other side.