Training Day for My Backup

Yesterday was the first day of coming back into the office after a couple of months.  Early in the morning I spent with my trainee, teaching her how I take care of the phone calls and the applicant tracking system.

There will be three parts for training, recruiting, and hiring.  The first part I told her is the phone calling and inviting for interviews and job sessions.  The second part will be about the actual job session and hiring sessions with interviews.  The last part is going to be the training and orientation.

Most of the day today, I spent looking for people who fill the requirements that we need.  My goal was to get for hiring sessions for Thursday and Friday, two each day.  Originally, it was for Wednesday but I wasn't able to get my phone calls done yesterday because there were too many people in the office and it just gets too loud.  It gave me a chance to teach my trainee about all the websites they use and all the tools I use to do my job.  I also gave her a chance to look at what I do in the office to maintain files and the office itself.

One of the things I told my trainee is that if you spend the day making phone calls and cold calls, that it's better to get into the office when no one is in there.  But you also don't want to call too early when one's home.  I usually have pretty good luck between 10 and 2 o'clock in the daytime.

It looks like I will be doing a lot more hiring next week if people know that where hiring.  Because I haven't hired in about two months, the amount of interested parties is very low.  I did notice that it seemed that people were talking about hiring and I saw more names showing up in our system.

My goal is to do most of my hiring starting this week but with the holidays coming around, people have holiday jobs that they're trying to get through.  I may have to push again some more.  I left a lot of messages and I called back every person called for the job whether they were able to work in the area or not.

We'll see how it goes tomorrow.  I'm going to let my trainee do some of the phone calls and check the phone messages in the morning.

So that's one part of my day in the office.