- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Worker Center Background and Vision -
2 Surveying Your Community -
3 Recruiting a Leadership Planning Team -
4 Holding Initial Planning Meetings -
5 Raising Start-up Funds and Donations -
6 Hosting Workers’ Rights Training Sessions -
7 Creating Early Programs and Actions -
8 Hiring Great Staff -
9 Doing the Legal Stuff -
10 Reaching Workers, Building Leadership -
11 Mastering Direct Action -
12 Organizing a Wage Theft Campaign -
13 Focusing on a Sector -
14 Organizing around Health and Safety Issues -
15 Working with Faith Communities -
16 Partnering with Unions -
17 Building Multiracial Organizations -
18 Being Mindful of Opposing Forces -
19 Taking Fund-raising Seriously -
20 Managing Money Well -
21 Using Data for Growth -
22 Nurturing an Awesome Board -
23 Fostering a Strong Staff Team -
24 Developing a Communications Program -
25 Buying Your Own Property -
26 Combining Services and Organizing -
27 Building Membership Structures -
28 Helping Workers Organize Work-site Committees or Unions -
29 Partnering with Lawyers -
30 Engaging and Honoring Ethical Employers -
31 Integrating Civic Engagement -
Appendix A Books and Articles -
Appendix B Worker Center Networks -
Appendix C Worker Centers -
Appendix D How Worker Centers Can Keep 501c3 Tax Exempt Status -
Appendix E Popular Education Training Resources
Hiring Great Staff
Hiring Great Staff
- Chapter:
- (p.61) 8 Hiring Great Staff
- Source:
- The Worker Center Handbook
- Author(s):
Kim Bobo
Marién Casillas Pabellón
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter presents guidelines for hiring great staff for your worker center. A worker center’s first hire is usually the director, who then should be authorized to recruit other staff. Sometimes a new center is in the position of being able to hire a couple of new staff members initially. If this is the case, it is best to hire the director first and give him or her the authority to hire the others. The leadership team should seek staff with a set of relevant core values and skills, and then support the person in learning other skills. This chapter offers suggestions for staff recruitment, including the development of staff structure, key values and skills to seek in a candidate, how to help the person get off to a right start, and providing support and keeping your great staff.
Keywords: staff hiring, staff recruitment, worker center, director, recruitment, staff structure, values, skills
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Worker Center Background and Vision -
2 Surveying Your Community -
3 Recruiting a Leadership Planning Team -
4 Holding Initial Planning Meetings -
5 Raising Start-up Funds and Donations -
6 Hosting Workers’ Rights Training Sessions -
7 Creating Early Programs and Actions -
8 Hiring Great Staff -
9 Doing the Legal Stuff -
10 Reaching Workers, Building Leadership -
11 Mastering Direct Action -
12 Organizing a Wage Theft Campaign -
13 Focusing on a Sector -
14 Organizing around Health and Safety Issues -
15 Working with Faith Communities -
16 Partnering with Unions -
17 Building Multiracial Organizations -
18 Being Mindful of Opposing Forces -
19 Taking Fund-raising Seriously -
20 Managing Money Well -
21 Using Data for Growth -
22 Nurturing an Awesome Board -
23 Fostering a Strong Staff Team -
24 Developing a Communications Program -
25 Buying Your Own Property -
26 Combining Services and Organizing -
27 Building Membership Structures -
28 Helping Workers Organize Work-site Committees or Unions -
29 Partnering with Lawyers -
30 Engaging and Honoring Ethical Employers -
31 Integrating Civic Engagement -
Appendix A Books and Articles -
Appendix B Worker Center Networks -
Appendix C Worker Centers -
Appendix D How Worker Centers Can Keep 501c3 Tax Exempt Status -
Appendix E Popular Education Training Resources
