Since opening her Indian tea shop in Jersey City 10 months ago, Amy Dubin has interviewed more than 40 people to be her assistant manager. She offered the job to two of them, and each lasted two days. The first balked at cleaning the bathroom, the second at doing the dishes and at actually making tea.Fern Reiss, in her home office with her daughter, Ariel, hired five assistants for her company but none lasted.
“Neither understood that in a small business, you have to do everything,” Ms. Dubin said.
And therein lies a conundrum for owners of very small businesses everywhere: recruiting employees who are smart, energetic and willing to tackle almost any task, even though the hours might be long and the paycheck paltry.
Photo by Viewoftheworld.
John MacKenzie on February 15th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
A conundrum is a puzzle that you need to reflect upon in order to be solved. Many small business owners are so used to doing things their way that it makes them terrbile employers. Small business owners also need to do a better job of stressing the benefits of working for their business. Human Resources is often an area that get overlooked by many small business, but often is the difference between a struggling small business and a thriving one.
Dmitry Linkov on February 20th, 2006 at 2:43 am
How true it is!
10 days ago I poster something similar http://www.dmitrylinkov.com/2006/02/10/be-ready-for-the-routine/
Great blog!
Good luck.
Dmitry.
viewoftheworld on August 13th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Thanks for using my picture and the credit!