{"id":96846,"date":"2022-04-20t16:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-20t20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=96846"},"modified":"2024-08-14t11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14t15:25:46","slug":"when-an-employees-growth-has-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2022\/04\/20\/when-an-employees-growth-has-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"when an employee\u2019s growth has gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>where did all that experience go?<\/strong><\/p>\n by ed mendlowitz<\/i> we hired sam out of school and he worked for us for two and a half years and then we split up our firm. this was ages ago and sy and i left our third partner to form our new firm on jan. 1.<\/p>\n more:<\/b> my first trainee<\/a> | the growing pains of a small firm<\/a> | giving clients the best you\u2019ve got<\/a> | why map programs are essential<\/a> | how to become a specialist<\/a> | secrets in specialties<\/a> | making sure the son got proper credit<\/a> | yes, shirt logos can matter<\/a> | 10 more reasons cpas quit public accounting<\/a> | family trees of clients<\/a> | preparing for the worst (thanks to my wife)<\/a> however, there is a valuable lesson here and i think it is worth sharing. it changed the way we hired staff. about seven years later i met sam at a bus stop in manhattan, chatted a short while and found out he was looking for a job. i asked him what he wanted in salary and hired him then and there. we were growing rapidly and could not hire enough of the right type of staff, and sam fit the bill. he was at a manager level and i \u201cknew\u201d he was good.<\/p>\n well, it turns out he wasn\u2019t so good. he was still very pleasant but not as experienced as we thought he should be. he had almost 10 years of experience but his performance was at about a four-year level. we could not understand it but eventually figured it out.<\/p>\n while sam chronologically worked nine and a half years, the training he got was inconsistent and had gaps. also, he worked for five firms, with the longest being the two and half years with my prior firm. here is what happened.<\/p>\n during his first two and half years, he was trained in everything he needed to know and do for us. he listened, followed instructions, did good work and met his time commitments. he was great. when he left us, he interviewed very well and got a job at a higher level and higher salary than his level of experience warranted. the firm that hired him, as with any firm that adds staff, was shorthanded and needed him right away to clean up past due work and reduce the work in progress inventory. they put him right to work performing cleanup work at a higher level than he could achieve.<\/p>\n the jobs got done, but the partners did more fixing up than expected. disappointment set in and while this went on for a few months, sam was already going to some clients, which made it awkward to let him go. he was a \u201cbody\u201d who took the partners’ pressure while adding to their workload and fixing up what he did. there was absolutely no training, and sam was left to learn on his own while he was constantly pressured to move the work forward and out. poor raises resulted and sam left for more money, each time getting a job with his new boss\u2019s expectations of him being at a higher level.<\/p>\n we hired sam at a manager level, but his cumulative experience was at the level, on our development scale, of someone with about four to four and a half years. not near his salary level. he did not perform well, and he and we were disappointed.<\/p>\n the lesson learned was that hiring someone with \u201cexperience\u201d doesn\u2019t work for me. sam wasn\u2019t our only disappointment, but we detected a pattern with other people we hired. they had the appropriate years of working, but their experience was grossly inappropriate for their salary level because of bouncing around, sometimes not by their choice. my partners and i came to the conclusion that we needed to pass on these people and concentrate on hiring out of school and doing our own training. the simple result was that we were richer by doing this than by hiring so-called \u201cexperienced\u201d people.<\/p>\n this is the result of my and my partners\u2019 many years of experience hiring and running a practice. think about your experiences. i know that many small firms shy away from hiring out of school because they do not want to deal with the training process. i was like that but \u201clearned\u201d a better way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nsam was really very good and a nice guy and clients liked him. when our firm split up, sy and i did not know if we would make a living and certainly could not take any staff. the partner we left also did not need as much staff and sam was let go.<\/p>\n