funeral home employees
Last week Angie and I attended a visitation service for a neighbor at the funeral home I used to own and operate. While there we witnessed first hand the care the family was receiving and we could just tell that the friends and neighbors who stopped by, and the stories they told, were…
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Over the past couple of years many in the Death Care profession have identified that there has been a labor issue in funeral service. Anecdotally, in my opinion, most of that labor issue has simply been in being “short-staffed” on the licensed funeral director/embalmer realm. There seems to be somewhat of a lull…
Read MoreThis topic might seem like a reach in a blog with the title of Funeral Director Daily. However, there are a great many funeral directors working in the field right now whom this decision will probably affect in a negative fashion and owners of funeral homes, who have these young people as…
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Last week we wrote an article that you can read here that highlighted the record number of students currenty enrolled in mortuary schools across the country. That article certainly makes it look like we will have a number of graduates to replace those retiring funeral directors as the years go by. However,…
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Fate determined that this was meant to be an article for Funeral Director Daily. I’m very familiar with the “Journey to Serve” program launched by the Funeral Service Foundation and the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA) Educational Foundation, in part, through the work of my friend Jim Price. The other day I noticed…
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Over the weekend I read some articles pertaining to the secular world of business that I have tried to boil down to how they will affect the death care profession/industry. One article from Yahoo Money is entitled “Making sense of the Twisted Sister labor market“. You can read it here. That article points to what…
Read MoreJack Mitchell’s great-great-great uncle started the Mitchell Wiedefeld Funeral Home in Baltimore in 1837. According to an article and news report from WBAL- TV that you can read and see here, it is one of the oldest funeral homes in Baltimore and has a rich history. Mitchell is quoted in the article when he says,…
Read MoreI came across a couple of news articles in the last couple of days that knock home the fact that you have to know who you are hiring when you hire somebody to work at your facility. What are your hiring practices?? With the shortage of licensed help, do you hire the first licensee that…
Read MoreLast week I wrote an article dealing with the professional staffing shortage in the death care industry. While there is some question, depending on who you talk to, as to whether the funeral service staffing shortage is perceived or real, there is no doubt that the economy keeps humming along in America and Economics 101…
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