It me. I’m back again 
Have any of you service providers used seek for your hiring needs before? If so, how successful was your ad?
I’m putting out ads on facebook groups and they aren’t getting many hits. Its only for 1 shift a week though which I suspect is the issue. I’ve had success with putting job posts on facebook before, but not this time around.
The issue is more likely that you are advertising to hire someone in a space where most workers are trying to go independent.
Seek can get some hits but I also recommend speaking to your local tafes that run individual support and disability certificate courses. They can let graduating student’s know about the job availability in your area. The teachers can also tell you who they think might be good.
Thanks Lauren. That’s not an answer I was expecting.
I was hoping for more experienced applicants rather than applicants that are only just graduating though.
However, with that being said my best hire ever was someone who had just graduated, but i think i just got lucky.
I’m a bit jaded with some of the “experienced” applicants I have seen.
There are definitely great ones out there but the statistics are showing more and more are switching to independent using word of mouth about their services to get ahead.
There are also bad fresh faces out there too, which is why I like talking to their teachers to get a bit of reference on their personality and work ethic. Although there seems to be a rumour about that this industry is easy money for anyone for bare minimum work so I’m seeing a lot of newbies with no qualifications or experience starting up as independents.
It is hard to find workers who actually want to work for providers now.
Indeed is another option that support workers use to look for employment.
I know right!!
Everyone wants to be hired as a sole trader and is trying to negotiate unreasonable prices. I have one soletrader on the books and I pay SCHADS + their tax + their super.
They tried to negotiate higher and state that they get higher with other providers. I had to put my foot down and say, its just not going to happen.
They stated that they wanted to handle their own super and their tax. We got it in writing. But its not like they’re getting any additional financial benefit. There might be some additional tax write-offs that I might not be aware of, but honestly, its generally the same. I don’t get what the big deal is with being a contractor and working for a provider. Why not just be casual?
I abandoned casual after being ripped off by managers and also after having my roster stuffed around.
Most of it was based on favouritism for a small group of staff despite them being bad workers and manipulative as heck.
After 4 providers it just got very old very fast.
Unfortunately a lot of workers in this industry experience the same.
Then you just have the cohort of newbies who were told its easy money.
Have you considered linkedin as an alternative to seek?
independents may have their business Support worker status listed on there
Hi Adam, would you consider hiring ND individuals for this role? If so, we have a job board inside our community app that you could consider?