Finding, Hiring Drill Crews with Jessica Alexander
Finding, hiring and retaining skilled-trades talent tops the minds of plenty of employers in drilling, from environmental to water to geotech. For Drilling In-Site, episode 39, hosts Jeremy Verdusco and Brock Yordy explore some of these issues with Jessica Alexander, director of talent acquisition for Cascade Environmental. Alexander, a veteran human resources professional, writes the All Crewed Up column for The Driller.
“We do kind of have the revolving door mentality,” Alexander says of the drilling industry — environmental in particular. “What I notice a lot is employees that will leave the organization to work for a competitor, or even a company in another industry, because they get — let’s just say — $1 more an hour. It’s frustrating, because what happens is, I think a lot of times, as organizations we fail to communicate total rewards to our employees. It’s not about just that bottom-line pay rate.”