Keep jobs secure
Having effective employee programs is just one part of keeping employees happy at a company long term. If you are a large company with offices all over the world, your employees need to have assurance that their jobs are secure and won’t be outsourced to nonlocal employees to save the company money later. That is why Eulen almost exclusively hires people who are local to the areas where it operates.
“We are trying to hire people and to transmit to them that, within this company, what they can be sure of is that there is going to be stability and permanence in the company — that they have a future project with us as long as we are over here to grow,” Rodriguez says.
“At the end of the day, this is a company (that) is going to be built with local people as we have been doing.”
While Eulen America started out only providing services for the aviation industry, under Rodriguez’s leadership, it has added janitorial, security, landscaping, maintenance and auxiliary divisions, as well. In the last two years, Eulen’s opportunities to get new contracts has continued to increase, opening up even more avenues for new business.
Taking into account the worldwide lack of stability in employment, it’s very important to communicate with employees about new opportunities and growth at your company. For one, seeing the growth potential of their company builds their confidence in the organization’s success, but you also want to show employees where there are opportunities to succeed as individuals and stay with the company throughout their careers.
“Whenever we hire people, we talk and we speak with them about our company and that we have a presence in over 11 countries together with Spain,” Rodriguez. “We can always have a plan for people to not only remain on the place where they are hired at the beginning, but they can relocate from one place to another whenever they improve their skills within our company, and then move to another place where we need them.”
By showing people your vision for their personal growth within a company, you give them more reason to stick around. As the company grows, Rodriguez makes sure to keeps all management and employees in the know about the company’s strategies for and plans in adding new services, clients, jobs or offices. In doing so, he continues to build loyalty among employees who want to be part of that vision.
“In all the places that we work, you can go and you can feel that the people are proud of wearing a uniform from Eulen,” Rodriguez says.
“You just try to get people who are really going to feel like part of the team so that they have faith on the projects and are willing to remain in the company a long time.”
How to reach: Eulen America, (305) 269-2714 or www.eulenamerica.us
