In September 2022 John Boote from Drover Ag spoke to Mark Ferguson for the Head Shepherd Podcast with NextGen Agri and spoke about building successful farm teams.
“Putting the right people in the right jobs is what keeps us going”
“Personality matching is the most important thing” John says. Sometimes it’s not always about their qualifications or experience “We’ll promote exceptional characters to roles where they may not have the desired skill set” Skills can be taught, a personality is hard to change.”
The message conveyed in the podcast is a common theme and a strong belief of John regarding supporting career progression in agriculture.
“It’s about inclusion, support and furthering skills” Not necessarily offering an extra $30k
John also says “It’s your challenge as a business owner to accommodate an employee as they progress in their career… if the ladder stops within your operation you can’t blame them if they want to keep climbing”
Listen to the Head Shepherd Postcast on Apple , Spotify or from NextGen Agri
In line with the changing landscape in the agriculture sector, Drover Ag is looking at recruitment differently. Drover Ag find exceptional people for exceptional agricultural businesses.
Drover Ag was founded in 2019 by John Boote, who after years of working in Agriculture, managing farms and cattle stations across Australia, turned his hand to providing a recruitment service to other farmers and agricultural businesses. He now heads a team of specialist agri-recruiters who all have experience on the land are located in regional and rural areas across Australia.
Working with some of Australia’s best farming operations on roles from general and area managers to 2IC’s and farmhands. Drover Ag offer a fixed price full recruitment service which includes a placement guarantee, advice on HR and salary benchmarking relevant to the specific industry and location of each job they take on.