The US Small Business Administration revealed that there are 30.7 million small businesses in the country as of 2019. These businesses hired 47.3 percent of the nation’s total private workforce. If you have your own small business and plans to start hiring employees to expand your company, there are several things you need to do first before starting your hiring process. These … [Read more...] about Essential Steps Needed When Hiring Your Company’s First Employees
Managing Employees
What Do Background Checks Show?
In today’s information era, background checks are commonly performed by employers that yearn to know about the people they’re investing in. By executing background checks, you can secure higher employee retention, hiring high-quality staff who fit with your company culture. Adding employees to your presently constructed team presents business risks, which you can overcome … [Read more...] about What Do Background Checks Show?
How to Perform Employee Background Checks: What You Need to Know
Whether you’ve recently launched your own business, or you have many years of experience under your belt, it’s only natural that you will want to have the best employees working for you. When hiring people for your business, the process can be long and tiring, but it’s always better to be safe than sorry, and ensure that no employees have any skeletons in the closet! Even if … [Read more...] about How to Perform Employee Background Checks: What You Need to Know
How to Hire and Retain Good Employees
Hiring good employees is not only important to business, it is essential. Employees are the heart and soul of a business; they are the mechanism that makes a business run; they are the breath of life that enables a business to be something more than an idea. A business cannot run unless someone (employees, in this case) is doing the work. Any intelligent business owner should … [Read more...] about How to Hire and Retain Good Employees
Millennials in the Workplace: What Do They Need in the Office?
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash The different generations, from Baby Boomers to Gen Y have been in the news a lot lately, especially when it comes to getting along in the workplace. The tension can cause quite a few problems for business owners and managers alike. While you can find tons of articles on the internet aimed towards dealing with millennials in the … [Read more...] about Millennials in the Workplace: What Do They Need in the Office?
Can You Continue to Work After Receiving a Cancer Diagnosis?
Working can already be physically and mentally draining, but when you've just received a cancer diagnosis it can make you wonder if you can even continue working at all. In reality, whether you can work or not depends on a few factors. The type of treatment you are receiving. For example, an alternative treatment for ovarian cancer could leave you able to work better than … [Read more...] about Can You Continue to Work After Receiving a Cancer Diagnosis?
5 Unique Venue Locations for Team Meetings in the UK
The Witchery by the Castle in Edinburgh Thinking about your next team meeting? If you truly want to get the most out of your next catch-up with the team, it’s a good idea to plan something that’s outside of the office building. Employees will often feel more comfortable and open when they’re in different surroundings. So, why not looking into booking a location that’s … [Read more...] about 5 Unique Venue Locations for Team Meetings in the UK
3 Foolproof Steps to Make Your Business More Attractive to High-level Freelancers
https://pixabay.com/illustrations/productivity-work-businessman-1995786/ If earlier freelance was considered something unreliable and foggy, today more and more companies prefer to work with trusted freelancers remotely than to hire full-time specialists. Even when it comes to long-term cooperation. The reason for this trend is very simple - qualified freelancers have very … [Read more...] about 3 Foolproof Steps to Make Your Business More Attractive to High-level Freelancers
Top Tips on How to Plan Your Work Christmas Party This Year
Photo by Eugene Zhyvchik on Unsplash When it comes to Christmas and planning a Christmas party this year, there are many things that you will have to take into consideration. As a result, it can turn into a more difficult task and you will keep putting it off, but the longer you put it off, the harder it will be to plan something great. In this article, we will discuss … [Read more...] about Top Tips on How to Plan Your Work Christmas Party This Year
How to Hire for Rapid Growth
So your business has taken off, while that’s exciting, it also presents new challenges. With the sudden boom in business, you likely need to hire a lot of people quickly to make sure you don’t fall behind. While you may have hired a few employees here and there over the course of operation, recruiting a group of people or sustaining ongoing hiring can be time-consuming … [Read more...] about How to Hire for Rapid Growth
