The Tim Faller Show Ep.01: Hiring Out of Trade Schools with David Keebler
We’re excited to bring you the first episode of The Tim Faller Show. Our podcast dedicated entirely to the production side of the remodeling industry.
Tim and his co-host Steve Wheeler, will be bringing you weekly interviews with elite production managers, lead carpenters and industry experts.
Tim and Steve jump right into a great first topic, finding talent and hiring team members right out of local or regional trade schools. Hiring is a challenge for so many remodelers out there and with our industry booming right now, it remains tough to find great talent.
Tim and Steve welcome David Keebler to the show for this episode and dive deeper on his experience in working with a local trade school to find talent for his firm. David is the Production Manager for Harth Builders in Spring House, PA and is a member of our Production Manager Roundtables groups here at R/A.
As Tim, Steve and David talk more about the benefits and challenges of using this local resource to find talent, they also welcome Harth Carpenter, Al Chieffo to gain his perspective as well. Al was a student at a local trade school and was hired after meeting David and learning more about the industry and what Harth Builders had to offer.
Other topics include:
- Overcoming assumptions, stereotypes and “head trash” when looking at trade schools as a resource
- How to work directly with a trade school, maximizing your return on time invested
- How to on-board new team members brought in from a trade school environment
- How to prepare your team to work with new hires
- What types of students to look for, characteristics, etc.
- Other challenges and benefits discovered in working with trade schools and students
It’s a great first episode and we are just getting started! If you have some experiences in using trade schools as a hiring resource, we would love to hear from you in the comments below.
We will see you next week with another great topic and guest.
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