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Human Resource Planning for Daycare Business Owners
You’ve done your planning and decided that
you’ll need additional help. So how do you ensure that you get the best candidate through your door? All daycare business owners need to understand the importance
of human resource (HR) planning. HR planning is not a fancy term for large organizations to execute. Even daycare centers
and home daycares need to ensure that their HR is in order to function properly. Failing to manage your HR properly could
result in a shortage of daycare staff when you need it or too many daycare staff when you don’t need them and therefore
incurring unnecessary cost. So,
what is HR planning? Marketing has its 4Ps whilst HR has 6Rs. It is ensuring that you have the Right staff in the Right numbers,
doing the Right job, at the Right time and at the Right place and most importantly, do the job right. Finding the right staff
in the right numbers
There are a number of options to manage temporary shortages in daycare staff.
Firstly, you can hire part-time day care staff. They are a good option especially when you have a lot of children under half-day
care. You can also think about engaging temporary employment agencies. This option is more suitable for less critical positions
such as teacher assistants rather than the caregiver. The next option is to have your day care staff work longer hours and
pay them overtime for it. For permanent
manpower shortages, you’ll need to a recruitment campaign to hire. You can do this either via advertisement, referral
or hire an employment agency to help you with it. Doing the right job at the right time and right place
There
are a number of factors to take into consideration to ensure that you hire the right person. You need to look indepth into
a number of factors: - What
will be the candidate’s duties and tasks. Try to be as specific as possible on the job duties that is required of the
candidate. This information will come in useful when drawing up the advertisement.
- Do you need the candidate to be proficient in any tools or equipment such as the computer or
musical instrument?
- What’s
the working environment of the candidate? E.g. What are the working hours? Will the candidate be on shift? Where is the candidate
supposed to be stationed, especially if you have more than one outlet)? How many children does the daycare centre care for?
What are the age groups?
- What
will be his/her working relationship with fellow colleagues. Who will the candidate be reporting to? Will there be any staff
that he/she will be required to supervise?
- What are the job requirements?
- What are the qualities that the candidate should possess? Do you
want the candidate to be able to handle children and be patient with children?
- Do you need the candidate to possess
prior experience in childcare?
- What are the qualifications you would like them to possess? Do they need to possess
a Diploma or Certificate in Early Childhood? Do you need the candidate to have first aid training?
Doing the job right
Finally,
you need to sort out what you’ll need to do to attract daycare candidates of the above qualities to apply for the position
and perform their job well. - You
need to decide what are the benefits you will be offering to the candidate; e.g. annual leave, insurance, subsidy (if they
put their child at your daycare centre), etc.
- Most importantly, you need to decide how you intend to remunerate the candidate.
After you have it all planned out, you need to work out a
plan to hire the right daycare staff. For ways on how you can hire the right daycare staff, click here.
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The complete business package to help you easily and quickly start your own profitable day
care business
Whether
you are thinking of making an income while staying home and caring for your own children or considering running a day care
at a church or other outside facility, the Starting a Day Care Center Start-Up Guide Kit™ is a step-by-step guide which
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It offers many pointers that even experienced day care providers will find useful. You
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