36% of Sign Pros Hire Part-Time Help for the Summer

QUESTION:

Does your company hire part-time help for the summer?

Yes: 36%

Extra hands when folks take vacation, and helping known youngsters get experience over the off summer months. — Cindy Ballard-Guminski, AlphaGraphics Oceanside, Oceanside, CA
Internships. — Nick Prentice, Blue River Digital, Columbia City, IN
During the summer months we like to bring students in to learn about the sign industry while they are on summer break. We hire for fabrication, installation and design. — Stephen Russ, Ortwein Sign Co., Chattanooga, TN
We work with our local government to hire youth for their summer work program. — Earl Walker, Image360 Tucker, Tucker, GA

No: 64%

It is too hard to find anyone who is already trained to do what we do, and part-time summer help would have to leave as soon as they are good enough to be considered fully trained. — Heather Jack, Fastsigns Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK
Our team serves multiple roles and a part-time seasonal employee would likely be a disruption to the flow. The time to train them for PT hours for 2-3 months wouldn’t add enough value to be worth it. — Jonathan Elam, Creative Sign Solutions Inc., Statesville, NC
We tend to slow down in the summer. — Keith Myers, Sign-On Enterprises, Burkburnett, TX
Typically do not hire part-time help at all. — Rochelle Letourneau, Security Signs, Portland, OR
Prefer full-time personnel. — Michael Johnson, Henry Graphics Inc., Buford, GA
Can’t find any help — full time or part time. — Ben Phillips, Phillips Signs Inc., Seaford, DE

QUESTION:

How much of your company’s total annual revenue is earned/invoiced during May, June, July and August?

ONE QUICK QUESTION:

What is your favorite summer daytime leisure activity?

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