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Where to Advertise for skilled Landscaping Staff?

Hi All,

We are a small company based in Cornwall who are currently looking to recruite new skilled and experienced landscaping staff. I would love to hear your reccomendations for the best place to advertise for staff in our industry? Who have you used? What has worked/ not worked? How did you find reliable and experienced staff for you business? 

Many thanks

 

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    I'm sure you can advertise on here.

    • Hi Dave, Thank you for  your  response, we hope to  do that once  the payment  page  is secure.

      I was hoping that people may have  some  other recommendations as well.  Interested to  hear others experiences of recruitment. 

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    I used Indeed. Free and anyone looking for a job  uses it. I got loads of enquiries really quickly. Admittedly a lot of dross as they are just jumping through hoops for benefits but I did get the odd one that looked good. 

    Have to say that advertising on ljn didn't work for me. Not one response. Think that it's mainly constactors, suppliers, business owners etc on here and not the general operatives that we require. I know plenty guys in the industry who have not even heard of ljn.

    • Hi Ed, thanks for your response.  We  use Indeed too but find it very hit and miss often with applicants who aren't  at all suitable for the  role. 

      Also tried Hort jobs which had a better quality  of applications but very expensive if you don't  find the right person.  It would  be nice to find a specialist Landscaping/ Horticulture job site that is affordable  for  small  businesses to advertise  regularly.  

       

      • I've used Fresh Hort Careers for temps. pretty good on the whole. They cater for a range of skills requirements, permanent and temporary I believe. Good when youre in a tight spot.

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        Yes you are spot on there. Most of the applicants are of a poor standard. You do have to persevere as there are some good ones out there but i know its a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. It took me a season and a half to get one good guy out of it. Trialed several that were not suitable but got there in the end. Best if you can ask other landscapers. I know a chap who reckons the best leads on labour come from guys in the trade already. My second guy came to me this way as a recomendation from the guy i found on indeed.

         

        • Thanks A. Latta, i'll have a look at Fresh Hort Careers.

          I think you are right Ed, alot of perserverance is required, as you say, i'm sure we'll get there. It seems perhaps there is a lack of people entering our industry and has been for some time.

  • Try grow.co.uk, it has a whole list of horticultural recruitment sites. I believe horticruitment.com  is meant to be good.

     

    https://www.grow.co.uk/horticulture/recruitment.htm

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  • Thanks Sarah, we have tried Horticruitment in the past and paid a fair sum for advertising and unfortunatelly had zero applications so it did feel rather like alot of money wasted. I will have a look at the site you recommend, thank you for that

     

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    Just for fun i posed as an employee looking for work in landscaping on gooogle. Looked under terms "landscaping jobs"  "landscaping vacancies" and "horticulture jobs"

    All the sites mentioned in this thread and then some pop up on the first page or two but LJN is no where to be seen.

    Searching "landscaping industry jobs" LJN finally popped up on page 4.

    For this site to be useful for employers looking to recruit surely this situation needs to be addressed as otherwise i don't really see the point of the vacancy section.

    At the moment LJN seems to me to be frequented mainly by business owners but i think it would be great if it had more operative types on here and for the recruitment section to work i would consider this a necessity. It already has a community feel but does seem to exclude most of the landscape community. By accident/circumstance rather than by design i might add.

    So many people in landscape and horticulture are not even aware that LJN exists so making the vacancy section more visible on he internet i think could be a good start on the road to bringing in a whole new group landscapers.

    The benefits of it being more visible as i see it would be huge. Firstly we would have greater access to a pool of potential employees. Secondly those potential employees would discover a place to have ready access to a huge array of information that would be of benefit to themselves in their work which in turn would benefit us as business owners.

    Added to the above a general point about visibility on the internet is that LJN isn't really that visible at all. I found it completely by accident a number of years ago buried somewhere down the listings. Thank goodness i did but even today if i search google for it under basic search terms i can't find it. Perhaps LJN likes to be hidden so to be a part of it you have to search for it and find it. Personally i like how it is but i am forever berating the level of ability in our industry and feel sites like this, if more prominent could help the industry as a whole.

     

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