"Staffing your daycare business with high-care, high-quality staff will ensure children under the care of your business will remain safe, healthy, and happy."
Hiring Staff for Your Daycare Business
Copyright 2008, Teena Rose. Written by Teena Rose, author of Starting a Home- or Office-based Resume Business. Learn why starting a resume writing business is one of the smartest and most profitable businesses to start today. She'll teach you how to start, operate, and profit! Download her book today at http://www.resumebiz.com.
Keywords: staffing needs, background checks online, staff management, jobseeker credentials, reference checking, workforce allocation
Hiring staff for any business can be a difficult task. You want someone honest, responsible and hard working, as well as someone who matches your work style and personality.
These qualities become even more of a concern when you are working in a business where you are responsible for other people’s children.
Your clients are trusting you with their kids and they are trusting you to make good choices with your staff.
Be sure that you can afford to pay someone what they are worth if you are going to require extensive experience and references.
Without regard to cost, always conduct thorough background checks on people you plan to employ. Select *only* the highest quality background company to help you select the right staff and might the right employee selections.
While interviewing daycare candidates, ask a series of situational interview questions. Know how he/she would handle temper tantrums, jealousy, and unfavorable behavior from children. Would this person consider themselves a patient person? Ask them questions that will require thought before a response. Making the right staff selections will not only be beneficial to your business, but more importantly, will ensure those in your care remain safe, healthy, and happy.
Make your ad very specific about your requirements regarding experience, licensing, certifications, duties and references. If you are advertising for an admin or bookkeeper that will never be in charge of the children, you can afford to be more lenient. However, a caregiver that will be left with the children apart from your supervision will need to be rigorously checked.
There are options available, even to small business owners, for background checks. This can get expensive fast so be sure to do your own investigation before paying for this service. Require references and take the time to follow up on them. Call past employers and find out if your prospective employee left on good terms. Research the person’s name on Google as well as publicly available sex offender lists. If you are unable to afford the cost of a background check you may still consider saying that employees will be subjected to a check in the body of your ad. People who know they cannot pass a background check may be scared away from even applying. If an applicant believes you will be doing a check, they are also more likely to be honest about any police record they may have. Ultimately, you are better safe then sorry and doing a background check is well worth the cost when you are working in a childcare business.
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If your business is growing slowly, you may want to start by adding staff to areas that do not involve childcare. Office staff will not need to be as rigorously screened. There are also companies available that can handle a great deal of your general office work remotely, allowing you to delegate portions of your business without hiring anyone onto your staff directly. Another alternative in advertising for a childcare professional is to advertise specifically for a retired nurse or part time CNA. People in these professions are likely to have been screened already and with a few phone calls to previous employers, you can be confident of their integrity.
Suggested topics to research: daycare staff handbook, background checks online, background checks for employment
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