Get the pre-training advantage in hiring qualified people for your openings

It’s one great employers’ job market right now. If you’ve been hiring recently you know exactly what I mean. You can get someone with great qualifications – out of an applicant pool many times larger than typical – because of today’s high unemployment rate.

I hate to hire new people, even though we need them from time to time. It’s time consuming and, frankly, a pain in the you-know-where to review applications and resumes, schedule interviews (I can’t fit everything in my day I’ve got to do now – how am I going to do quality interviews, too?), and check references.

Desperation breeds good ideas, I’m told. Here’s the latest idea that we’ve come up with – in part from my own hiring desperation. It’s also a response to the huge need and demand from unemployed people looking for a way to enter the fields of caregiving, health care and senior care.

It’s a pretty simple concept: Job pre-training. It’s sort of like job re-training, except that we’re not focusing on the transfer of skills from one industry to another.

We’re looking for a way to help the unemployed person get into our field – and at the same time get even more qualified applicants.

With job pre-training, we’re offering you the chance to hire someone who already has the type of training you might otherwise be giving him after hiring. You’ll still need to do the other tasks of interviewing and reference checking (sorry; can’t really shortcut these steps). But if the person passes on those steps, you can hire the individual, complete a competency evaluation (watch him in action, signing off on competency areas for documentation in his file), and put him to work. Put a copy of his pre-training certification in his file, and you’ve documented initial training, as well as the competency check off, in many cases.

We’re getting ready to launch this program of job pre-training within the coming weeks, so keep your eyes and ears open.

In the meantime, click here to see how you can get involved – and get a little publicity for your community, too!

It’s a win for you – you get a job candidate who was demonstrated his initiative, his ability to learn independently and online, and has a certification to prove it.

It’s a win, too, for those folks out there who want to get a good, meaningful job. Maybe it’s a job they wouldn’t have considered even one year ago; but maybe it will end up being the very best job of their lives!