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Effective Hiring Strategies

This workshop, tailored specifically for small business owners, will focus on strategies to overcome common challenges to recruitment, hiring, and retention in the horticulture industry. The session will cover how to:
  • Write job descriptions that reflect the essential skills needed for the role
  • Create and use interview rubrics
  • Develop onboarding and training sessions
  • Plan regular check-ins and performance reviews
Pre-work will be sent out two weeks prior.

Registration is required for this workshop. We have space for only 20 participants.

🚨 This workshop is FREE for Metro Hort members. If you are a member, click here to login to your account and register for this event.

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Featured speakers

Erin Eck
Director of Continuing Education, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Erin Eck is the director of Continuing Education at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and has been teaching at the Garden since 2018.

Erin has a background in public horticulture and was a gardener at the High Line for nearly six years. She began her career in urban gardening as a research assistant studying soil health in NYC’s community gardens. Erin is a co-lead of the Forest for All NYC coalition’s workforce development action team. In this capacity, she has planned and co-facilitated workshops on best hiring practices.

Erin holds a Master of Environmental Science degree from the Yale School of the Environment.

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Michael Franco
Principal, Blue Plant NYC

Michael Franco is the Founder and Principal of BluePlant LLC a landscape design build firm based out of Red Hook Brooklyn.

Michael’s professional training is in Landscape Architecture and Community Design Research from SUNY-ESF at Syracuse University. He began his career with the New York Restoration project, facilitating the re-design of public community garden spaces. From there he focused his efforts on landscape design, developing urban gardens for private and commercial clients via the design build model. A brief professional & family adventure took him to Istanbul, Turkey to work on a Marina landscape project and the development of a Tree Nursery. Invigorated by the experience abroad Michael returned to NY in 2018 to start BluePlan.

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Effective Hiring Strategies

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