Published: November 24, 2009 03:42 pm      

Senture starts drive for employees

Senture has announced that it will hire an additional 1,000 employees in its London facility and 700 in its Monticello office during the first quarter of 2010. The jobs will last from about March through July.

Those workers will follow up on the forms Americans complete and return as part of the decennial head count.

Base pay will be more than $9 per hour plus $3 that can be applied for benefits or added to the base pay. Those who apply must go through suitability classes.

Senture wants to generate excitement and keep employees coming to work each and every day — as well as attract more candidates.

In an unprecedented effort to increase employee morale and attendance, Senture recently announced a new program that will allow employees with outstanding attendance to qualify for over $63,000 in cash and prizes over a four month period.

Each of the next four months employees will be eligible for as much as $8,500 in cash and prizes. The grand prize will be awarded in February 2010 — a 2009 Chevy HHR vehicle from local London dealer Tincher-Williams Chevrolet. The rules to qualify are simple — employees need to show up for work on time.

“A challenge in call center operations is keeping attendance high and turnover low. We wanted to step out and do something truly unique that would demonstrate to our existing and prospective employees that Senture is serious about providing them a great job with rewards and bonuses included. We feel this program would certainly accomplish that mission,” Senture President and CEO Christopher Deaton explained. “Poor attendance can cripple if not destroy our opportunity to keep the work as well as to obtain additional work. Any successful company must have a dedicated, motivated work force.”

“Senture is committed to our people and we are committed to this community,” Deaton added.

Senture recently hired over 300 employees in their Vaughn Ridge Industrial Park location. “We feel blessed that we can give people in our communities the opportunity to improve their situation in this economic time,” explained Vicki Blair, Human Resources Manager. “It’s not as easy a feat as it once was. Our workforce has changed and we have to change with it; one of those changes is the need to be creative attracting and keeping our staff.”

The company’s approach must be working. Josh Evans, a new hire in training explained it this way: “It’s very exciting. I’ve never worked at a place that they gave these types of prizes just for coming to work. The people that I work with are wonderful and this is motivation enough, but knowing that I could win a new car is just icing on the cake.”

For more information, contact Blair at 878-4227.