Multifamily leaders continue to face challenges in attracting top talent. The challenge still looms out there. I have 80 resumes that have come through but not one is what I am looking for. In today’s job board and networking environments it makes it easy to be alerted for new jobs. You can place a setting to be alerted for the type job you would like to have. That does not mean you are currently qualified for the job.It takes just a few clicks to apply and upload your resume. Resulting in 80 hits to your job within 24 hours. Applicants do know they do not have all the skills that the posting is requiring but they have “some” and think, “why not, they might be interested and I know I can do the job”. As the hiring manager you are wanting someone who can walk in and have very little learning curve.
Mary E.
3mo
Jonna Smith, there are so many “Seasoned” property managers looking, do they no longer fit the level to be qualified for what you’re looking for? As a hiring manager you should also know each company runs differently, and although someone may have experience and should be very little learning curve, plan to train. If they’re too busy to train, then maybe time to rethink the strategy…. 🤔
Happy and content
3moWhat I've found is a good property manager can adjust to any company. It's just learning their way of doing it. But what I also found is a lot of people don't know how to write their resume or interview to convey their skills. That's where the problem lies... but now there are a lot of platforms to learn but again same thing. A tool is only useful if the person knows how to use it. For instance Maintenance resumes... have a tendency to be viewed critical... your asking someone who purposely didn't choose an office position because they prefer and are skilled with fixing things...I use to interview with my maintenance supervisor or another maintenance supervisor because they were best at asking technical questions on that side of job and would be the one working with them. Leasing I hired to train experience or no experience... it's a entry level position. If they can sale with a smile they can lease. I used to hear other managers say "I only hire experience" and thought "wow when you started you already had leasing experience". But what do I know, staff won tons of leasing awards, maintenance awards, property awards and I won 2020 Lone Star Property Manager award after the most difficult time in our industry (covid).