The Real Reason Contractors Can’t Scale (And How the Best Ones Fix It)

In this episode of American Builders, we sit down with Paul Sanneman, CEO of Contractor Staffing Source, who has spent 40+ years coaching and consulting 400+ construction companies on one thing: building teams that actually work.

Paul breaks down why most contractors think they have a labor shortage, when in reality they have a broken hiring system. We talk about what’s changed in the workforce, what hasn’t, and why the contractors who win aren’t just better operators — they’re better at attracting, training, and retaining people.

You’ll learn:

- Why “nobody wants to work anymore” is the wrong diagnosis - The biggest hiring mistakes contractors make as they scale - What the best residential contractors do differently when building teams - How the right staffing systems lead to more profit, more time, and less chaos

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