What Do You Look For?

Mach

I was wondering what your thoughts are on what a company looks for in an employee or what a client looks for in a company. What does an employee look for in a company?

I asked a multi millionaire what he looks for. He laughed and told me a guy like my uncle. Loyalty, honest, and dedication. My uncle has been with this guy for 30+ years, When he sold the company he cut my uncle a check, not sure of the amount but I am sure it was nice.

How do you motivate people? I do know everyone wants to be great. Having a personal goal is a motivator.

Thoughts?

JBBS

I like to start with a valid drivers license and work my way up from there. What makes an ideal employee and what you get are usually two different things.

As far as an employer goes, how about one that doesn't mysteriously go missing every payday and when you do find him he says "don't cash that until Monday". Been there, done that.

Heritage

No employer can meet my criteria so I'll skip to the employee question.

On-time
Professional attitude
Clean (this one is a real pet peeve for me)

Skills? I'm flexible.

People come in many different variations (that's an understatement).

It's very very...very difficult to find loyalty in this business. The guy making $25/hr is only thinking of making $50/hr. You could keep that guy busy 7-365...always pay him on time. Forgive his many mistakes...he's only seeing dollar signs. It gets pretty complicated, but for the sake of brevity...the three things I mentioned.

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john elliott

The first thing a good employee has to do is to be there. If they are not there, because they are at home seeing to the kids, drunk, having fun with their friends, any of a multitude of reasons then it doesn't matter how good a worker they are, they ain't working.

Apart from that, then attitude followed by learning ability followed by acceptable appearance pretty much covers it

John

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