TradesElectriciansHiring and team
Electrician Business HiringThe right apprentice pays for himself. The wrong one costs you a year and a customer.
Hiring for electrical businesses: when to put on your first sparkie, what an apprentice really costs under the Electrical Award, how to run supervision so quality holds, and how to keep good people once the market comes for them.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Electrical Business?
You cannot tell if you can afford the next hire
The work is there, but so is the wage, the super, the workers compensation, the allowances and a second van. You have run the numbers on the back of a docket three times and got a different answer each time, so you keep working Saturdays.
Every hire so far has come back on you
One did not turn up on Mondays, one could not be left on a board unsupervised, and one took your best domestic clients when he got his own licence. So now you do the hard jobs yourself and the business stays exactly the size of you.
Nobody knows what good looks like but you
There is no induction, no standard for how a job gets left, no review beyond a comment in the ute. So quality depends on which sparkie got the job, and you are the one going back to fix the callback on a Saturday morning.
Stay a business the size of one person and you carry every job, every callback and every quiet week yourself, until the body or the family runs out of patience.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
Hiring, team and leadership training in the Learning Hub covers what to pay under the Electrical Award, how to induct and supervise, and how to hold a standard. Greg works through the big hiring calls with you directly. And the hires have changed: agents can now do the quoting, invoicing and chasing your way, so the people you add are the ones facing your customers and leading your crew.
The Academy waitlist
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.
Learning Hub
The full lesson library inside the Tradies App, self paced, $199/month.
Business Foundations
Weekly live sessions hosted by Greg Allan, where you bring your own numbers.
Free tool, no sign-up
Apprentice cost calculator
Wages and on-costs are the easy part. This adds the weeks they are at trade school, the on-site hours that never reach an invoice, and the supervision time that pulls a qualified tradesperson off their own work, then gives you what one billable apprentice hour actually costs. It runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Work out the real costHow 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
Greg works 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.
Why Greg
You speak to the owner who has already done it.
Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.
He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.
Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.
What changes for you
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.
The old way
More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.
Most trade businesses grow the same way.
More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.
None of it gets paid for.
So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.
Or hires an office person to do it.
The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.
And the owner is still the one everything waits on.
Where we take you
More work. More profit. More of you left.
The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.
You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.
Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.
The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.
The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.
The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.
Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.
What changes
What Electrical Business Hiring Actually Changes.
Three things electrical business owners walk away able to do.
Work out the true hourly cost of a sparkie or apprentice before you hire
Run an induction and a job standard so quality does not depend on you
Build a pay and progression plan that keeps your best sparkie from leaving
Questions
Electrician Business Hiring, Answered.
When should I hire my first employee?
What do I have to pay under the Electrical Award?
How do I stop training sparkies who then leave and compete?
Electricians
The Other Ways We Help Electricians.
Electrician Business Training
Structured training that turns what electricians know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingElectrician Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding electricians to the plan. By application.
SystemsElectrician Business Systems
Systems electricians build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwareElectrician Business Software
Software electricians build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
Business appsElectrician Business Apps
The simple screens electricians build for their crew and customers, on their own data.
AIAI for Electrical Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for electricians, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsElectrician Business Marketing
How electricians get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitElectrician Business Pricing
The number electricians should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.
The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.