{"id":188,"date":"2014-04-01T05:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T21:38:53","slug":"molding-your-first-employee-keeping-techs-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/2014\/04\/molding-your-first-employee-keeping-techs-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Molding Your First Employee &#038; Keeping Techs Motivated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/josh-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-189 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/josh-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Peterson\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/josh-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/josh-2-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jo-sh.com\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Peterson<\/a>, Co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beringmckinley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bering McKinley<\/a> and a keynote at this year\u2019s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbonlineconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SMB Online Conference<\/a>, joins Karl to discuss tech hiring tips. Josh advises MSP business owners to learn how to \u201cright size\u201d your <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smallbizthoughts.com\/search?q=employees\" target=\"_blank\">personnel<\/a> \u2013 a concept involving not targeting MCSCs or the top-level techs for your business, but rather aiming for entry-level techs that you craft into great engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Josh says that even with your first hire, it is better to have an entry-level guy who shadows you and learns your good habits in order to mold a great employee. He says this will save you a great deal of money on high priced engineers and also avoids the situation where you hire a high-priced, experienced tech that may have bad habits and not be as open to learning your processes. Josh also talks about the importance of having a 90-day training plan and a strong career path emphasis for your entry level techs. He notes that the 90-day plan is so crucial in fact, that it is better to wait and hire that new tech, despite how busy workflow may be, until you have such a training plan ready.<\/p>\n<p>Josh concludes his interview with Karl by extending a special offer for Odd Tuesdays listeners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/amy_reg_pic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-82 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/amy_reg_pic-150x300.png\" alt=\"amy_reg_pic\" width=\"135\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/amy_reg_pic-150x300.png 150w, https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/amy_reg_pic.png 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a>Amy Babinchack, owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harborcomputerservices.net\" target=\"_blank\">Harbor Computer Services<\/a>, returns in our <span style=\"color: #10b511;\">Oddballs<\/span> segment. She made her Oddballs debut in our <a href=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/2014\/02\/results-crm-integrating-outlook-quickbooks-and-constant-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feb 4<sup>th<\/sup> episode<\/a> where she highlighted banking fraud issues and how MSPs can put their clients into a position that limits their clients\u2019 liability. Today Amy talks about how to create job satisfaction with your techs in some creative &amp; non-traditional ways. Amy says her practices help keep her techs fresh and creative, while maintaining efficiency and revenue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/OT_2014_04_01.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Listen_here_button.jpg\" alt=\"Odd Tuesdays\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Listen_here_button.jpg 250w, https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Listen_here_button-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Listen_here_button-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Listen_here_button-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Peterson, Co-founder of Bering McKinley and a keynote at this year\u2019s annual SMB Online Conference, joins Karl to discuss tech hiring tips. Josh advises MSP business owners to learn how to \u201cright size\u201d your personnel \u2013 a concept involving not targeting MCSCs or the top-level techs for your business, but rather aiming for entry-level&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[180,7],"tags":[55,53,51,50,52,54,5,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddtuesdays.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}