Interviewing Skills Workshop for Landscape Contractors

The ramp up of the 2022 landscape season is upon us. That excitement, coupled with ongoing staffing shortages and supply chain issues, represent ongoing challenges for the landscape industry.  Confronted with such challenges, landscape owners continually seek the most skilled and most qualified employees to join their companies, providing value-added productivity to their business operations. That search for talent will require a strong selection system, relying heavily on employee interviews.

Given that the employment interview is the most common selection technique used by landscapers, it is essential for them to improve their interview tools, skills, and decision-making to prepare for the ongoing talent search of new employees throughout 2022. Whether it is learning new interview techniques, or simply refreshing existing interview skills, the time to prepare is now; with failure to do so, potentially resulting in missed staffing opportunities, costly litigation, or a demoralized company culture.

As you examine your company’s staffing needs for 2022, this Interviewing Skills Workshop for Landscapers will enable you to:

• Understand the six B’s of staffing
• Gain a detailed knowledge of the interviewing context
• Specify key legal guidelines that impact the interview process
• Identify 24 protected classifications interviewers must be aware of
• Clarify interviewer Do’s and Don’ts
• Expand your professional knowledge of the five parts of the interview
• Review and apply a real-world maintenance foreman interview protocol
• Avoid the common illegal questions that get interviewers in the most trouble

This workshop delivered by Harvester Steve Cesare, Ph.D. focuses on actual interviewing content, questions, and issues drawn directly from staff, managers, and owners in the green industry.