Hiring

Hiring: To obtain the best available qualified workers, just-in-time, cost-effectively, which are adequate to meet the cooperative members' workforce needs.

Advantages of Cooperative Hiring:

Shared marketing effort and screening expenses:

• Less cost for advertising (group rate)
• Shared base costs for testing/date (members share a pre-tested pool)
• Shared cost/effort for pre-employment training (members share pre-trained pool)
• Less time for company staff to process hiring (pool provides just-in-time hiring)
• Better communication and cooperation with job seeker support agencies (One-Stops, schools, private placement, economic development, etc.)

Higher quality employee in areas such as:

• productivity
• retention
• trainability
• attendance

Data needed to make future hiring/training/promotion decisions

Better chance for outside funding/grants