Most Common Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Here’s the list of 10 common hiring mistakes and how to avoid them. Learn the red flags to spot them, and the solutions to avoid making a costly bad hire.
The Foolproof Hiring Process Checklist
To recruit great employees consistently, you must follow a consistent recruitment process. This hiring process checklist delivers the best are taken every time.
4 Foolproof Steps to Hiring
It’s natural to be nervous about hiring. Get it wrong and it will cost your business. With these foolproof steps to hiring an employee, you’ll get it right.
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How to hire a virtual assistant for your business
I clearly remember the moment I decided to hire a virtual assistant (VA). As my business started growing, I realized that more clients meant more work to get done! Pretty soon, I was so busy that I was missing emails and failing to get back to people because I just never had the time. I…
Small Business Hiring Success: Build a house you want to live in
Nothing ruins a business owner’s day more than having one of their key employees quit. Even if they are quitting for a good reason, it feels like a failure. Putting a team together is hard work, and this is a tear in the fabric of that team. As soon as we get over the loss…
How One-Sentence Job Descriptions can help you get back to basics
Business can become very complicated, especially as your business grows. But there’s a need to maintain simplicity amid all of the chaos. At this year’s Chick-fil-A Leadercast, author Andy Stanley talked about simplifying one of the most important tools we have in business — the job description. Usually job descriptions are a page or several pages…
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Business Owner is a Title, Not a Job Description
While many business owners consider well-defined job descriptions crucial to their business, how many have actually taken the time to create a job description for themselves? Not many. But, a business owner needs a job description just as much as the rest of the team. In fact, a business owner may need a job description…
Butts in the Seats
The words “I quit” may signify the end for an employee, but for an employer, the words can mean the beginning of a long, often painful process. When I was General Manager for a 120 person manufacturing company, my right-hand man left for a promotion at a nearby company. Almost immediately after, half the team followed him. I was…