Peak Season Staffing Tips
Building a reliable team of part-time staff members to work during peak periods is a great value to your business so here are some peak season staffing tips. It is important to integrating your seasonal workers into your team smoothly so keep in mind these points.
- Create a job description of the responsibilities you expect of your seasonal counselors. Be sure that it includes more than just cleaning and support duties. To attract and retain good candidates they’ll want to be involved in some aspects of pet care.
- Post that seasonal, part-time jobs are available with the time frame you need filled. Share these openings with your client base as they likely have family and friends that are in college looking for work.
- Develop a seasonal counselor training program that gets them productive right away in your business. This is one of the done-for-you roles included in Pet Guru College.
- Encourage your seasonal counselors to commit to future peak period work sessions. Mutually agree on timing to confirm their availability for your next peak period.
Peak periods are the best opportunity to maximize revenue so having more staff available helps ensure you can meet demand for activities. In our video discussion we offer some tips on how to use seasonal counselors in your pet business for excellent care and higher revenues.
