Southern Trust Home Services
Ted Puzio
Need a better pipeline to skilled workers? Help build one. By Gene Marrano With fewer young people exposed to the trades as a way to make a good living, one local company did something about that. Southern Trust Home Services, based in Roanoke County, has an on-staff recruiter constantly on the lookout for potential candidates to join the company, “doing an amazing job, keeping our trucks filled,” but with skilled laborers, often older and retiring, it can still be a challenge at
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times to find people that want to enter the plumbing-HVAC field says owner Ted Puzio. Several years ago when he was doing the hiring himself, he spoke with administrators from local school systems in Roanoke City, Roanoke County and Franklin County, proposing
