25th March, 2008: Long Term Relationships Make Great Tea!
As a company we have very little turnover of employees, recently we looked and over 70% of our employees have 7 plus years with the company. Just last week we celebrated a person’s 30th anniversary with Bigelow Tea. In June we do have a plant manager who is retiring and so we are going through the process of interviewing for their replacement. Hiring is critical at all times and this position is even more so because of the impact they will have on the plant employees and culture.
To try and make the best possible selection the VP of Human Resources, the current Plant Manager and the VP of Manufacturing will go ahead and conduct the first round of interviews. Narrowing down the field we will bring the candidates back and have the plant management and a cross section from the hourly employees do a second round of interviews. After that the final group will go to corporate for another round of interviews with people from a variety of departments. Now this process is by no means perfect but hopefully by the end of that process we know the candidate inside and out and the candidate knows the company and our culture.
In the end hiring is always a gamble but we take the hiring process very seriously because for us it is a long term relationship!
Dean
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