In Africa there have been reports of shortage of skilled construction workers in Africa to spearhead various construction projects that have been ongoing and now doubt managers have been having sleepless nights to ensure that they counter the problem.
The recent recession saw many construction workers leaving the industry, and now with the retirement of the baby boomers, finding quality, skilled workers is an up-hill battle for many human resources professionals in our industry.
Social Media Support
Social media being one the strongest tool that is growing communication around the worls having passion and using it will see you get of the hook of worker shortage.
Get to know the kind of person you want and describe him in a tweet, facebook post and what we can all see is a positive response.
Even if you employ a staffing firm to help recruit contractors and employees, there are ways social media can support those efforts by differentiating your company from others who are bidding for the same skilled workers you are.
Strategic Considerations
When considering replacing some of your workers in the construction industry you should highly ensure you get a better replacement than the current one you have.
As an industry, best practices we say if you are hiring 50 people or more per year then the recruiting process truly becomes a marketing process
Start Solving Your Skilled Worker Shortage
If your company if you always consider hiring likes 50 employees per project you should keep them so that they work in your next project.
So now, you must shift your focus to how to work with your marketing team on this joint recruiting effort that will solve your skilled worker shortage. This pretty much encompasses three things:
Getting Tactical
As a manager you should ensure that you get tactical by utilizing the knowledge of the existing workers in improving the working force.
I know many times there’s a hesitancy to be fully transparent because there’s a fear that the sheer number of candidates will drop. That may very well be true, but the quality of those candidates should increase, and the churn in the first three months should decrease, saving your organization thousands.
Teaching existing workers
Now that we all know the construction industry has the shortage of man power the best solution is trying to teach the existing workers to know what to do.
