Unemployed Homebuilders Should Consider Their Options Professional Builder columnist Rodney Hall has a list of suggestions for recently unemployed homebuilder employees – and it doesn’t include taking some time off.
Analyze Your Interviews Here are this month's tips to help you gauge your home-building industry candidates.
Is Your Homebuilding Management Team Working at its Best? Get your management team fully engaged and arm them with a consistent level of knowledge and skills to sell, build and deliver higher quality homes. By putting knowledge in the right hands, you can keep critical issues with construction quality from occurring in the first place.
Professional Builder Best Workplaces 2007 A great workplace offers more than good pay, a safe job site and an occasional pat on the back. Read about homebuilders — like those on Professional Builder’s Top Five Best Workplaces — who go the extra mile for their employees and stay competitive by attracting good workers who are productive, hardworking and loyal.
Homebuilder HR Risks to Avoid Home building industry experts offer a look at some of the road hazards on the HR expressway and ideas on how to maneuver them.
Keeping Peace in the Custom Homebuilding Family Business How do you treat family members with whom you’re in business? With fidelity, honesty, and fairness. Custom builders share what has kept them successful and sane while juggling the intricacies of family business operations to help them be both successful and profitable.
Home Builder Company Culture Defined Culture is as culture does. Rodney Hall looks at how your company’s actions and behaviors today become the culture you’re known for tomorrow.
Home Builder HR: Assessing Testing An assessment can quickly provide information not obtainable other ways and allows home building employers to compare applicants against industry and peer benchmarks.
Executive Movement in the Housing Industry Activity at Standard Pacific Homes, Kimball Hill Homes, WCI Communities, Park Square Homes, Centex, Jim Walter Homes and Wall Homes is covered this month.
Promoting Good Attributes to Prospective Employees Unique selling propositions are the golden nuggets that sets your home building company apart from the competition. Here are a few examples that can make your company shine in the eyes of prospective employees.
Job Seeker Strategies This month's column focuses on the job seeker because the fraternity of unemployed in our industry is growing rapidly as the housing market declines.
The Great Talent Search Hiring the right people takes thought, patience and skill. Are you holding the right auditions?
Remember the Basics My partners and I are in a fascinating line of work. Every day we get to talk to interesting people from across the country about what's going on in our industry. Here're some things we've run across lately that may help you on the HR side.