The Builder Upper Show Ep. 36 feat. Chuck Goodrich from Gaylor Electric

You have

an innovation center and you talk about mentorship.

Do you have some sort of built-in process where a new employee starts and you're helping grow their journey as an employee through Gaylor?

Yeah, no, that's absolutely what I have to do.

You have to be able to grow people.

You know, I was thinking about that question and how that works as an organization.

It works many different ways for us because it depends on what position you start.

But think about this.

215 interns at this company right now.

Wow.

That's high school kids that are 16 years old building America.

Amazing.

It's college kids that are going to, you know, graduate and go off to the industry just like the high school kids.

And so, you know, it's so amazing to watch those kids turn a three-month summer internship into success, whether it's at Gaylor or not.

We provide a great industry for people to be successful in.

So, of course, we have career paths and individual education plans, and we've got those things for people to follow.

But really what kind of, when I think about that, you know, we have these kids back in our own high school.

So we have a high school back here called The Crossing.

And they're just kids that are behind actually in credits or don't do the public school system well or they're not great book learners.

But what they can do is build.

And so they actually are back there in our in our high school.

They do STEM four hours a day and then they work and build an American and applied application.

And when they graduate from high school, they become an electrician.

And there is nothing better than that.

I mean, it is incredible, a career path, you know, and we just continue on educating people from the start to the finish.