We Hired for Skill & We Got Burnt.

When I first started hiring, I focused on work ethic and skills. We all look for the 3-5 year guy in the field. 

That’s how I saw every other electrician hire. Until we’ve trained side-by-side with leaders from the Ritz Carlton, studied what world-class hiring really looks like, and built our own system to bring it into the trades.

But after years in the field, and now in my own electrical contracting company, I’ve learned that’s not enough.

The trades have a people problem because we skip the part that matters:
Character. Trust. Vision.

And it’s how we filter now. 
What do you all think?