Hiring cleaners but nobody knows how to use a proper vac? Total BS

Been hiring for my cleaning crew and it's a damn nightmare finding folks who can handle basic equipment. Last week I brought on this new guy and he was using the shop vac like it was a toy, sucking up cords and everything. I swear, half the applicants don't even know what a HEPA filter is for or why you need one on a Dyson commercial vac for allergy jobs. We do a lot of deep cleans for offices and homes, and if they can't manage the vac attachments right, the whole job looks half-assed. Someone in the Cleaning Business Owners group mentioned the same issue, said they've started doing tool demos in interviews. Watched a Melissa Maker video on YouTube about pro cleaning tools, and yeah, it's eye-opening how many shortcuts people take. Frustrated as hell, need better ways to screen for this.

god, the number of times I've fired someone for treating my Oreck uprights like dirt. same rage here, it's like they never cleaned a day in their life.

Haha, had a newbie once who vacuumed the fridge shelves thinking it was a joke. Fired him on the spot, now we stick to paper towels only in training.

Start with hands-on tests during the interview. Give them a Bissell pro vac and a dirty carpet square, see if they can edge it without wrecking the baseboards. Works every time for weeding out the clueless.

What kinda vacs are you running in your fleet? Looking to upgrade from the basic Home Depot ones.