If there's one thing in common with most ineffective landscaping job ads right now, it's demanding that everyone has at least three years of experience doing landscaping. But what if you accepted applicants who had no landscaping experience for a paid internship, could it work? In today’s podcast episode, I sat down with Monique Allen, who runs the Garden Continuum, a landscaping company out in Massachusetts, who also wrote the book, Stop Landscaping, Start Life-Scaping. Like many landscapers, Monique found herself facing staffing and supply chain issues and decided to try some new and bold ideas. In today’s podcast episode we talk about this further, including:If paid internships with inexperienced professionals is working What happened when she introduced flex-time and added part-time positionsWhat it means to have the mindset of being a Gardener of PeopleFor the full show notes, visit ramblinjackson.com/recruiting-and-retention-strategies-with-monique-allenMore episodes, videos, show transcripts at http://www.ramblinjackson.com/podcast/