Why is my labor situation so difficult?

[Jim Goebel]

So, we have been operating out of Des Moines IA for a little while and we seem to be having continual challenges with finding good help.  I realize most businesses have this challenge - however it is very acute right now.  Some of these issues include:

• lack of reliability
• cost of poor quality (workmanship)
• theft and site security

We are currently primarily linking up with individuals off of Craigslist - and I'm getting more and more concerned that a reasonably large % of workers (ie: more than say, 20%) that come along looking for work and are willing to work for $10/hr, are really just casing a job site for tools to steal.  We've talked about cameras, an on-boarding process, a check-in/check-out process, among other things - but ultimately we really need to do something differently.  I'm looking for brainstorming/ideas on this front!