Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Mike Andes) about employee training and retention. The speakers compare training timelines — Mike Andes: 'for this company, it takes, like, two months' vs. 'most companies might be like, two weeks' — and describe a churn pattern where trained employees leave for trades (electrician, HVAC).
About two months.
About two weeks.
The timeline to train people takes us so long.
For this company, it takes, like, two months. Most companies might be like, two weeks.
Like, by the time we get one person trained, one person left to become an electrician, we get the next person trained, next person leaves to become an H vac tech.
The reason people leave is because they feel like they're just a tech here for a year, two years, and they're doing the same thing. I'm gonna give them a stage by which they can move up in their career, and then they have the place where they're going. Otherwise, they do just look as like, I'm a technician. And then there's this repair person that I might be years down the road. And they keep putting that in front of me, like, oh, yeah, you'll make a bunch of money. Yes. Well, that's years down the road. Right. You know, it probably could take them four to five years to get there. Right. But you're gonna create 15 stops along the way and a certificate, a certificate that they can frame in their bedroom every single time they pass the next one insurmountable task of, like, I have to wait for you, like, and even more so, they just think you're lying. Yes.
