TradesPlasterersHiring and team
Plasterer Business HiringGood setters are hard to find, harder to keep, and you have never had time to train one properly.
Hiring for plastering business owners: what the award actually requires you to pay, how to bring on an apprentice without it costing you a season, and how to build a crew that hangs and sets to your standard when you are not there.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Plastering Business?
You are not sure what you are legally meant to pay
Plasterers sit at CW/ECW 3 under the Building and Construction General On-site Award, with allowances, apprentice year rates and a separate adult apprentice floor. You have been paying a flat cash figure and hoping nobody ever checks it.
The good ones leave and go out on their own
You train someone up for two years, get them setting to your standard, and then they buy a set of stilts and start quoting the same builders you work for. Nothing in your business ever gave them a reason to stay.
Hiring only happens when you are already drowning
You put someone on the week you cannot cope, so you take the first person who answers, teach them nothing, and put them on a job you have not checked. Six weeks later you are fixing their joints and wondering why you bothered.
A crew you cannot trust to set a job without you means you can never leave site, so the business stays the size of one pair of hands no matter how much work is on.
Hiring and team
Here Is What We Do About It.
The Learning Hub carries the hiring, team and leadership training: what to pay, how to induct, how to set a standard and how to hold it. Tradie Teams puts you with other owners solving the same crew problems, and Freedom Fighter 1:1 builds the structure around your business specifically.
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 Plastering Business Hiring Actually Changes.
Three things plastering business owners walk away able to do.
Pay your crew and apprentices correctly under the award, every week
Induct a new hand so they set to your standard inside a month
Hire before you are desperate instead of during the worst week
Questions
Plasterer Business Hiring, Answered.
What award covers plasterers, and what classification do they sit at?
Is taking on a plastering apprentice worth the cost?
How do I stop trained setters leaving to start their own thing?
Plasterers
The Other Ways We Help Plasterers.
Plasterer Business Training
Structured training that turns what plasterers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingPlasterer Business Coaching
A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding plasterers to the plan.
SystemsPlasterer Business Systems
The documented process that lets the work happen properly when plasterers are not standing there.
The free appPlasterer Business App
Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for plasterers with an active ABN.
Marketing and leadsPlasterer Business Marketing
How plasterers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitPlasterer Business Pricing
The number plasterers 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.