Tag Archives: Hiring

How to find (and keep) good employees Any organization worth its salt will tell you its greatest asset is its people. As such, the hiring and retaining on quality employees should be a business’s No. 1 concern. The boating industry isn’t unaware of the need to hire quality employees – if anything, the industry is hyper aware. But what is the secret ...

Service, manufacturing positions toughest to fill, survey says As 2016 closes out, one of the biggest challenges facing companies in the industry is a worsening labor crunch. From dealers to boat builders, companies throughout the boating industry are finding it increasingly difficult to find and keep good employees. That’s according to our latest Boating Industry survey, conducted via email in October 2016 ...

Finding good applicants for open positions is never easy. Indeed, 47 percent of small businesses report few or no qualified applicants for the positions they were trying to fill. New research suggests attracting these applicants may require rethinking how we find them. A new study from Pew Research Center reported that among Americans who have looked for work in the ...

Once an employee gives notice they are leaving a job, the process of erasing said employee from our brain space begins. We start working on bringing in a new person and writing off the former employee. Good riddance, right? Wrong, at least if job trends are any indication. In recent years, the rise of “boomerang employees” has become more pronounced. ...

Boat dealers and manufacturers are finding it harder to find good employees as the industry and economy recover. And nowhere is that tougher than in the service department, according to the latest Boating Industry survey. The survey was conducted via email in March, with surveys deployed to readers of Boating Industry magazine and enewsletters, including dealers, manufacturers and others working ...

Now that the New Year’s hangover has worn off and we’re all getting used to writing 2015, it’s high time to get to work on those resolutions. Making a business resolution might seem redundant on top of business goals, budgets and other objectives. But having a resolution in mind can help you rethink routine business duties. If you don’t have ...