In-House Apprenticeship Program Helps Employee Recruitment

When trades companies want to grow their workforce, poaching the best employees from the competition is one option, but growing your own talent from within makes more sense. When Dennis Hamon joined his family’s plumbing business in Seattle, Washington, he started developing the company’s own plumbers through an apprenticeship program. Because he had already completed an apprenticeship in another industry, he knew the effects of a successful apprenticeship firsthand. He says he realized that developing apprentices into productive tradespeople could lead to explosive growth for the company.Two years ago, Hamon and his business partner sold the plumbing company, and Hamon now