aprentice tiler

[charlie1]

Ok - you want to expand your business and take on an apprentice, what 3 questions would you ask them?

Only 3 mind... but nothing daft!



1: Where have you seen examples of good and bad tiling
2: ....?

 

[pete f]

2 once they know what they are doing theyre off

 

[Diggy]

3. Wheres my Tea?

 

[charlie1]

2 once they know what they are doing theyre off

Interesting point you make but keep to the subject, what would you ask them?, or i take it in your case you wouldnt go there again?

 

[Peter]

Would just take them out on a trial for the day. You'll know by lunchtime if they're cut out for it.

 

[White Room]

Question 1 seems irrelevant, as an apprentice may not have the experiance to know the difference between good or bad tiling....

Question 1 maybe better put as..Why do you want to go into tiling as a career....

 

[charlie1]

Question 1 seems irrelevant, as an apprentice may not have the experiance to know the difference between good or bad tiling....

Question 1 maybe better put as..Why do you want to go into tiling as a career....

no the reason i worded like that is because i'm trying to find out if they have an appreciation for good tiling work. i think this is important.

 

[beanz]

I wouldn't bother with interview questions. Better off trialing them for a day or two. Most important thing is their work ethic. You want to know that they aren't lazy, and you want to know they take pride in their work.. They don't have to pick it up instantly, but they have to want to do the job well. If the words "that'll do" pass their lips, get rid!

 

[Diggy]

I wouldn't bother with interview questions. Better off trialing them for a day or two. Most important thing is their work ethic. You want to know that they aren't lazy, and you want to know they take pride in their work.. They don't have to pick it up instantly, but they have to want to do the job well. If the words "that'll do" pass their lips, get rid!

On the money.

Diggy

 

[Peter]

If a wee lad has a spare minute, if he's asking what you need then he's a keeper, if he's on his phone he's not.

 

[beanz]

If a wee lad has a spare minute, if he's asking what you need then he's a keeper, if he's on his phone he's not.

nowadays you cant get em off the damn phone! :mad2:

 

[widler]

2 once they know what they are doing theyre off

One of mine has been with me for 8 years, 4y apprenticship(plastering) he is a pretty decent tiler as well although he would rather plaster
I dont ask em owt, ive always rang collage asked them for a lad who has been on a coarse for a year or 2, take them for a week if they are useless i sack em off if they are ok i start em at the beginning, they teach them absolutely nowt on the full time coases

 

[Rookery]

Question. Who do you support?
Answer. Man Utd

Close the door on your way out :smilewinkgrin:

 

[afright]

Had a young lad straight from school once showed him how to knock up sand & cement 3 buckets of sand 1 bucket cement mix left him to do it he was gone ages went out to see what he was doing,he said he has only got one bucket and he was looking for more buckets,I think he went back to school.I know we need up and coming tilers but just have not got the time to teach.

 

[Andy Allen]

when we did site work we took on many young lads to try and train them up, because good tilers were in such short supplie...

just getting them out of bed in the mornings was a joke, i even had one of the mothers come out to the van asking us to take it easy on him today as his backs a bit sore from yesterday...:mad2:

out of all the lads we took on only 2 cut the mustered, ones working in germany and i catch up with him now and then on face book, and the other i see in the tile shops, and hes still doing well for himself working on the sites..