the challenges are getting and keeping a qualityemployee. it's finding somebody that wants to work. my experience with finding and recruitinggood employees has not been great. i need individuals who are experienced, talented,hard workers. vocational rehab would have the representativecome out and talk to us about what our needs were, what we kind of wanted to see in anemployee to start with, and that really, right there, sets the foundation of a good relationship.[music] the flexibility of being able to get an employeepretty quickly, hire someone, interview someone very quickly, and it being really a good match.
they could help us with an applicant who hadtraining and would fit into a slot that we had and work with our employees and with ourcommunity. you've got some guys here that vr referredthat they show up before anybody else does. they're on time, they help open up the place.they kind of think out of the box, looking for a greater opportunity for us. and so theybecome part of our team, and we enjoy that. i think i had a meeting with roxanne. justin talking to her, just explaining to her what we needed and all that, and she had apretty good understanding of what we needed as an employee. i have to wear every hat here. we don't havethe luxury of a human resource office, so
we have to do it ourselves. vr has helpedus, come along side of us, take some of the responsibility off of us so that saves ustime.they're bringing us the candidates that they think will fit in a particular position. david came with a lot of skill set with operatingheavy equipment, which fit right in. vocational rehab is pretty complete on screening theirindividuals, and i do believe they're plenty willing to work with the employer. i met peggy through a networking event. withina couple of weeks, i contacted her and got the process started, because i was actuallyneeding individuals. time savings, cost savings, and efficiencyis huge for me, because as a business owner,
i'm very, very busy. i'm growing sales. i'mmanaging employees. i fit a personal life in there every now and again. with vr, alli have to do is pick up the phone and call one individual, and i can have people thati'm interviewing in a couple of days. the company's cash flow at the time was verylow and to take on a risk of hiring employees and them not working out was not thrillingto me. so to have someone come to me with this opportunity was almost like we didn'thave to take any risks. i first spoke with frances from vocationalrehab. she was just saying that she had worked with some applicants, and she had one thatshe thought may fit. we were looking for people who had some hands-on experience with it support,that had enough knowledge from the educational
end that could back up that ability to helpthe staff and to provide that support. vocational rehab was able to do that for us.especially in dewayne's case, that was also just right in the middle of where we werelooking. he has a very good attitude. he has a servant attitude, like we request all ofour employees to have. and as far as his disability, it really hasn'tbeen an obstacle at all in his day to day work. i've had this hearing impairment all of mylife. i pretty much know how to function; this is "normal" hearing to me. i fit in here,and i know what things i need to do to be sure that i'm accommodating my hearing loss.if i'm in a meeting, i make sure i'm sitting
where i can see everybody in the room andthings like that. graystone has not had to make any special accommodations for me.i enjoy the fact this position also let's me go interact with people, fix whatever needsto be done on their pc. i do spend a lot of what they call face time with them. we hadone of our employee evaluations just recently, and i think the highest evaluation they gaveme was in the interpersonal relationship area: my getting along with people, being positive,smiling, helping them out, being first in line to take care of things. that's what ienjoy. i'm here to serve people. we have four satellite offices and the mainoffice, and he does go to these other satellite offices on occasion to help with it supportthere. he's very important to us.
oh, i would recommend vocational rehab toother businesses in the community. they do a pre-screening, and they do a little bitof our job for us, and then they're always there if we need them, if we have questions. this support from vr is important as we continuethe communication on potential employees. oh, we're going to continue to work with vr.i mean, the people that are employed by vr are good people and they are sincere in theirefforts to try to find somebody. there are going to be spots opening, and i'mgoing to need experienced individuals. our relationship continues as the business continues.they will be and always will be the first individuals that i would contact when needingto hire employees for my company.
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