Kingswood Leasing & Return to Work Initiative

Dover, NH: Kingswood Leasing has taken advantage of the Return to Work Initiative, part of Governor Lynch’s program to help business owners, and has successfully added five employees to our staff.

On Monday, April 17th, we had the chance to share our success with the Seacoast business community on the Seacoast Business Connection radio program (FM WSCA 106.1). Our president, Clifford Metcalfe Jr. was invited to join in a discussion about the state program with Sarah Morrissey from the Somersworth location of the NH Department of Employment Security, Timothy Dabrieo and Janine Parsons of the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, and hosted by Mark Miller.

“The stigma of hiring from the unemployment pool is a thing of the past,” said Metcalfe on air. Each of the nine state unemployment offices has a representative like Morrissey who will work with the employer to pre-screen applicants and find the right candidate for the job. They then go through the interview process, as you normally would. When you decide on a candidate, you get to observe them and start training them for 24 hours a week for up to six weeks.

The Return to Work program takes “The Fear of Hiring” out of bringing on new staff members. This program gives the employee and the employer time to work together and become orientated in advance with the position and its responsibilities.

Kingswood Leasing went through dozens of pre-screened resumes and interviewed 4-5 people per position. “We had a few come through that we tried out who just did not work,” Metcalfe said, on the show, “anyone can act a certain way to impress an employer during the interview, but it is hard to keep up that act for 6 weeks without the truth showing through.”

As businesses approach new hiring today, I cannot stress enough how this takes the “fear” out of making the wrong choice. Info on this state program can be found on the web at www.nh.gov/nhes/nhworking/ReturntoWork.htm.

Kingswood Leasing has been helping small businesses grow for twenty years and is the premier lease broker in New Hampshire and one of the top in the country. Find out more about them at www.KingswoodLeasing.com.