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My best maintenance technician didn’t have any industry experience, but he had drive. By
CHRISTIN DANIELS, CAM, Buyer’s Access
Hiring Green in Multifamily Maintenance Hiring green can help your company gain competitive advantage, build loyalty and when it provides your company a downline of quality talent to assume leadership roles when tenured team members retire. It’s also the most rewarding experience you will have as a manager, hands down.
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iring green maintenance talent into entrylevel positions is a sound investment strategy and the apartment industry is equipped with resources to train new hires. Entry-level roles are built for the inexperienced or low-experienced candidate who either has some transferable skills and is trying to break into the apartment industry or has recently earned an industry credential and is embarking into their first position post-completion. Hiring green can help your company gain competitive advantage, build loyalty and when it provides your company a downline of quality talent to assume leadership roles when tenured team members retire. It’s also the most rewarding experience you will have as a manager, hands down. Experience for entry-level is inconsequential in multifamily management. Industries outside of multifamily offer transferrable skills that fit ever so perfectly into apartment positions. When we give people, who are eager work in our industry, a chance it strengthens our companies. A sense of purpose requires little else to motivate someone’s career growth. Untouchable Pride Recruiting green talent to fill all entry-level maintenance roles should be the default if you’re looking to build a solid recruitment and succession pipeline of loyal team members. Hiring entry-level candidates for entry-level positions is the way to build a dynamically rounded, loyal and resilient team. Hiring a new graduate from a local trade or association credential program over the industry veteran who has held three
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