How to hire right!

Why Can’t You Let Go?

• Dan owns a civil and concrete company. He spends an extra 20 hours per week paying bills, writing checks, doing payroll, balancing the checkbook and going to the bank. His best skill is selling and finding new customers, but he doesn’t have enough time to get out of the office. As a result, he is losing money and his field operations are not producing what he needs to make a profit.
• Bill owns an electrical contracting company. To save money he eliminated the office manager/contract administrator and project manager a few years ago. Now he’s stuck doing all the secretarial and administrative duties required to keep his company going, plus manage his foreman, crews and jobs. His customers, suppliers and employees call him directly on his cell phone, which adds to working more than 80 hours per week. As a result, his sales and profits are dwindling and he doesn’t know what to do next.
• Jered is part owner of a steel erection company and does all the take-offs and calls subcontractors and suppliers for bids and estimates. These demands have depleted the time he needs to spend out in the field to keep jobs moving. As a result, they are not winning enough new contracts and the field is not meeting the job budgets.

Mr. Do = Company Doesn’t!

• Dan should hire a part-time professional full-charge bookkeeper (or construction bookkeeping service) to come into his office two days per week. The cost for this service will be around $1,500 per month. With an extra 20 hours per week free, Dan can go out and sell an additional $50,000—75,000 of work every month.
• Bill needs to hire a full-time construction project administrator and move one of his foremen into the office. He could delegate many everyday tasks so he can focus on customers and productivity. The investment of $100,000 per year will allow his company to grow by at least $1,500,000 in profitable sales if he spends his time networking and seeking new customers who need the value-added design-build services they perform.
• Jered committed to hire a recent college construction management graduate to help him with take-offs, obtaining quotations, estimating and acting as an assistant project manager. This small investment of $50,000 will allow him to take his company to the next level.

What Position Do You Need Filled?

Construction Administrator/Office Manager
Growing construction company seeks full-charge, responsible, energetic construction administrator and office manager to organize and handle multiple tasks, including: phones, submittals, contracts, correspondence, customer service, paperwork, graphic design, jobsite meetings, and billing. Construction knowledge, Microsoft Office and blueprint reading experience required. Email resume, references and salary history to xxxxx.