TradesCarpentersHiring and team
Carpenter Business HiringYou need a second chippy, but the last one you put on cost you more than he ever made you.
Hiring for carpentry businesses: putting on an apprentice or a qualified carpenter, paying them right under MA000020, working out whether a subbie is really a contractor, and keeping good people once you have finally got them.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Carpentry Business?
You cannot work out what a chippy really costs
The award rate is one number, then there is the industry allowance, the tool allowance, super, workers compensation, leave and the days it rains. You have never added it up properly, so you do not know whether the next hire pays for himself.
You hope the ABN makes them a contractor
Three blokes turn up in your ute, use your tools and work the hours you set, and they invoice you weekly on an ABN. Under the whole of relationship test that arrangement may not be contracting at all, and the super and the penalties land on you.
You train them and they leave
You take an apprentice from first year to fourth, teach him to set out, frame and fix out, and six months after he gets his ticket he goes subbying for the builder you work for. Nothing about the job gave him a reason to stay.
Without a crew you can rely on, the business never grows past what your own hands can build, and every holiday costs you a month of income.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
TSA's hiring, team and leadership training covers what a carpenter actually costs, how to recruit, how to induct and how to keep people. Tradie Teams puts you with other trade owners who have built crews already, and Freedom Fighter 1:1 gives you a dedicated expert for the bigger structural calls.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Hire before you are desperate
Every bad hire in this industry happens in the same week: the week you were already too busy. The training covers hiring on a plan instead of on a panic.
Give them a system to follow
People do not fail because they are lazy. They fail because nobody wrote down what good looks like. That is why systems and hiring are the same problem.
Lead them, then get off the tools
The coaching goes into the bit that is genuinely hard: running a team when you were trained as a tradesperson, and letting go of work you can do faster yourself.
What changes
What Carpentry Business Hiring Actually Changes.
Three things carpentry business owners walk away able to do.
Work out the true weekly cost of a carpenter or apprentice before you hire
Classify your crew correctly so super and penalties do not land later
Hand a job to a leading hand and have it finish without you on site
Questions
Carpenter Business Hiring, Answered.
What does an apprentice carpenter actually cost me each week?
Is my regular subbie actually an employee?
How do I keep a good carpenter once he has his ticket?
Carpenters
The Other Ways We Help Carpenters.
Carpenter Business Training
Structured training that turns what carpenters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingCarpenter Business Coaching
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding carpenters to the plan.
SystemsCarpenter Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when carpenters are not standing there.
The free appCarpenter Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for carpenters with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsCarpenter Business Marketing
How carpenters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitCarpenter Business Pricing
The number carpenters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Talk It Through First.
The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.
Turning over $20k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one with a trade business coach, on what is capping the business and what to fix first.