Staffing Your Business
There are many steps to hiring your next employee or even your next consultant and it seems like the bigger your business gets, the more complicated it is. SmallBizWorthy provides articles about the hiring process, how to interview and how to get the most out of your employee interview, screening job candidates and the basics of background checks.
SBW can help you to decide if you need an in-house human resource function or whether your current team has the knowledge and skill to hire your next employee. And don’t forget to consider a recruiting firm’s help in the process – they are professionals and a good recruiting firm can bring a lot to your table!
Fire & Hire - 5 Reasons Why Small Businesses Do It Better
Alan Hamor - 2009-10-10
You have heard it before: small businesses are the engine of employment. More jobs are created in a single year by small businesses than any other sector of the economy over a combined five year period. More than half of the business establishments in the USA have five or fewer employees. But what enables the smaller business to create jobs when the large corporations cannot?
Why Should An Employer Conduct Background Checks
Lisa Dolan - 2009-10-10
Pre-employment screening is an effective risk management tool that has been proven to significantly reduce the risk of a bad hire. Here are some of the important benefits to implementing this as part of your corporate procedures.
Setting The Stage For A Successful Interview
Alan Hamor - 2009-10-10
Like many other business tasks, there is both an art and a science to the interviewing process. If the science is the procedure and process, then the art is how well you execute the interview to filter, entice and hire the best candidate. Here is an overview of the science of interviewing.
Basic Steps of Hiring
Alan Hamor - 2009-10-10
From planning the candidate selection criteria to deciding where to look for them. From filtering the resumes to interviewing the targeted candidates to making an employment offer. Hiring your next employee can be quite a process - and it pays to do it right.
Basics of Background Checks
Lisa Dolan - 2009-10-10
Whether you actually follow through on your job offer may depend on the background information you gather on that prospective employee. But be careful about how you use background checks, because they may cause you problems!
Getting the Most Out of A Recruiting Firm
Alan Hamor - 2009-10-10
The online job sites have a purpose, but the next time you really need HR assistance and lots more besides, look no further than a good recruiting firm.
Job Candidates - From Beginning to End, What To Do To Narrow The List
Alan Hamor - 2009-10-10
You have decided your company can use the full "do-it-yourself" hiring experience. You have run the ads in the regional paper and posted the job listing online. Hundreds of candidates have responded and you are looking at a serious time commitment for senior managers and yourself. What are the next steps in narrowing down the list of candidates?