Employers

This page contains information for the employers who might be interested using farmhand.jobs as labour supplier.

General

Farmhand.jobs are proud to serve the UK agriculture sector and be associated with it. It is so because farming matters and food is very important to people. We are pleased to serve a sector that is highly developed and one of the best in the world. In the last five years of our involvement with this sector we have dealt with people who come from abroad to work and stay in the UK farms during the harvesting season and it is in this group of people we specialize and refer to in this document.

Some of the main issues we have grappled with in the last few years have constantly raised some common questions whose answers, we believe, are crucial in how we deal with labour force for the agriculture sector;

  • How we source the workers?
  • How we select them?
  • How we ensure that they have a fulfilling working experience?

Sourcing the Workers

Farmhand.jobs system will enable the applicants to apply directly for farming jobs without the need for too many intermediaries locally or in the UK. The applicants will be able to apply in their own language so the whole process is natural. The most obvious benefit to the applicants using farmhand.jobs will be reduced costs compared to other traditional methods. The recruitment process will be directly controlled by farmhand.jobs without leaving it to the others to ensure proper selection.

Selecting the Workers

The selection process is a fundamental part of recruiting and should be more than just filling in the job application form. Although the tasks performed by the temporary labour are manual and unskilled there are certain characteristics of a good farm worker that not all people have. Hence without a good selection one might end up with workers who do not have the right attitude to work in a farm.

It is important to understand the characteristics of a good farm worker and even more so using the right selection tools to establish the likelihood of the applicant displaying these characteristics.

Ensuring a Fulfilling Working Experience

This falls mostly on the employer and the usage of Good Employment Practices. This means among other offering enough hours of work even overtime so people earn decent money and treating them with respect. Communication plays a major role here because of obvious language barriers.

Farmhand.jobs has a role to play in this as well and it is related to the communication aspect of working with people. It will be part of our services to the applicants to offer an ongoing support until their final day in the farm to make sure they are served well.

The support Includes;

  • dealing with concerns
  • liaising between the worker and farm management
  • offering translation and interpreting services
  • making sure that small problems do not become big ones
  • helping the applicants in emergency situation

Farmhand.jobs for Employers

Coming soon: Our online system will offer a range of facilities for the employers who will be able to log on and get updated information about their placements all the time and advertise their jobs which will be published constantly through many public channels in the EU.

To Advertise with us free of charge or to place a direct order please email at farmhand@farmhand.jobs.