Episode Details

How To Hire The Best Talent For Your Contracting Business with Danny Kerr

Episode 186 Published 5 years, 10 months ago

Description

The number one problem we entrepreneurs face in the contracting industry is how to find the best talent for our businesses. Danny Kerr from Breakthrough Academy joins me in this conversation about how to find the best people to recruit and retain. Listen in for your own takeaways as Danny and I cover hiring issues, how to build great teams, and industry trends.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

Danny relates the prior experiences that led him to his current-day consulting, training, and coaching for contractors.
Continuing to run your contracting business without some business acumen is dysfunctional.
Breakthrough Academy is built for action-oriented people who need to apply what they learn right away.
Dreamers that know what they want but don’t know how to fully implement their plans are often attracted to Breakthrough Academy.
Danny discusses how coronavirus has affected the contracting industry.
Danny shares the kind of effort and focus that should go into recruiting.
Tips and strategies for attracting the right people.
“Once you start to master recruitment and can bring in good people, you have to keep those people. And you can’t do that if you promise the world in the interview but don’t follow through.” - Danny Kerr
Danny addresses leadership and its role in keeping the right people.
You can apply the same principles of sales and marketing to your recruiting effort.
Dave and Danny share their favorite hacks.