If you want to start setting up a cleaning service business, especially if it involves janitorial service, you definitely need to hire more people since you will be paid to business offices. If you just clean those offices by yourself, then you will just end up accomplishing nothing. Providing a cleaning service involves doing several chores including window cleaning, toilet cleaning and carpet shampooing. A whole day of cleaning and sweeping and dusting will not bring you any closer to finishing your tasks if you are just a single person doing the job. Put simply, you need the help of other people.

How is hiring more people like?
In a nutshell, you are accountable for your staffs, for all of their actions and for all the damages they might incur on your client’s residence. For this reason, your business’ hiring process must be a stringent one.

Provide each applicant for the job with an application form containing all the information that you need such as their job histories and other important data you deem necessary. You may have to give them a form that they just need to fill up so that application forms are all the same. Prepare an evaluation form too where you and your business partners will write on during your interviews with the applicants.

After the applicant’s interview, you may need to ask consent from him so you can get information about him from other informants. This is so you can conduct background checks and character checks about the prospective employee. These are necessary as you have to know the kind of employee you can potentially have in the future. Remember that once they are already your employees, every action they take will represent your company and the mistake they will commit can put your business’ reputation at a big risk.

Once you already have the final list of the people you are sure to hire, think about how you will position them with your service’s system. Make them fill out a form for purposes of keeping records on your employees and their payrolls. W-4 forms as well as INSI-9 forms are also needed. Then, brief your new employee about the job description of his and of his team leader.

A cleaning service business, or any business for that matter, must keep a record of documents like employees’ attendance records, forms if your employees would want to file for a leave, deficiency/delinquency notice, a record of a verbal warning given to employees, forms requesting for a time off, an employee handbook, an agreement of confidentiality between the two parties and a worksheet evaluation everyone’s performance.

All these documents you might not need in case you’re lucky with the employees you hired. Make sure to have them anyway in case a delinquent employee passed your stringent hiring process for some reason.

Train the new employees to worker under your cleaning system. Give them training on all the tasks that your cleaning service performs like cleaning of the bathroom and the pantry/kitchen, as well as dusting, window washing, polishing, and cleaning of other office areas too.

Aside from all the things stated above, make your new employees attend seminars which can teach them about how to use various cleaning tools, equipment as well as cleaning agents.

For more: How to start a cleaning business by StartCleaningService.com