Shawn Day Are you gearing up for the spring season and working toward being fully staffed? You might be behind the ball already. Shawn Day is the Managing Director of BlueSkies Services. He founded, managed, and sold his own cleaning business; Shawn knows the service business industry inside and out. His motto: "always be recruiting". He’s here to answer all the questions you need to know to be prepared and ready to hire your ideal employee. You won’t want to miss his responses to: What are our ideal employees doing right now? What do our ideal employees really want? Where do you find them? What’s a solid process on getting them hired? Shawn flips the script on the normal hiring process and he brings the receipts on how to compete with major corporations for your biggest sale: the employee.

“The most important customer that we have is the employee.”

In this episode we discuss:

• 6:53 The biggest game changer in the job market in the last 5 years


• 9:47 Wage wars are over; sell the job to the employee like you would a customer


• 14:40 The mindset required to hire 40 employees, at a single location, during a pandemic!


• 31:27 This change in the process leads to 97% hire rate

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