Posts Tagged ‘Hiring’
4 Affordable Hiring Ideas for Bootstrappers
The conundrum of many small business entrepreneurs is knowing how and when to engage new staff. When it comes to startups, human capital is one of your most valuable assets. Running a lean, efficient team means every single head count is critical to the current and future success of your business. There’s plenty of ways…
Read MoreBest Value: In-House IT Training vs. Hiring New Staff
The time has come—a significant software update is in the works or you’re taking the first steps toward a truly cloud-based environment. Great planning lets you identify key areas of concern; perhaps extra bandwidth is needed or an upgrade to physical storage devices. However, there’s also a critical decision yet to come: Hire new staff…
Read MoreWhen It’s Time to Expand Your Business
If your company has seen consistent success for years, and the space you have just isn’t cutting it for all the customers lining up at your door, it may be time to expand your business. Perhaps it is time to take over an adjoining space or possibly open up an entirely new location or factory.…
Read More10 Ways an Entrepreneur Can Build a Winning Culture
If an entrepreneur can’t build a culture of excitement and commitment at a startup, the chances of long-term success are negligible. It simply doesn’t matter how great your solution is. Every investor knows this. That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. A winning culture…
Read MoreHow Much Should You Pay Your Creative or Tech Professional?
Digital Creative Marketing Professionals are in a class of careers that didn’t really exist a decade ago. Sure, the internet was around, but there wasn’t really much in the way of social media and most businesses hadn’t yet realized the value of existing in the digital space. Now it seems as though there are more…
Read More5 Top Ways to Use Social Media for Recruitment
We use social media for everything from sharing what we have eaten for dinner to organising special events, but did you know that many companies also use it during the recruitment process? Here are some of the ways it can assist you in hiring the right candidates to fill your vacancies. Advertise job vacancies In…
Read MoreWhy Startups Fail, and How You Can Avoid the Same Fate
Founding a startup can be risky, and even some of the most successful entrepreneurs have a few failures under their belt. Let’s learn from their mistakes. The figure that’s often bandied about the web is that nine out of ten startups fail. Although there’s some contention on the accuracy of that statistic (some have placed…
Read MoreSurviving a Bad Work Marriage
Sometimes Love Just Isn’t Enough “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Sometimes—maybe often—they deliver great work. But almost always it comes with a price. They yell, they scream, they manipulate, they brood, they threaten, they bully…and then when people ask what all the drama…
Read MoreWhat’s More Important: Experience or Experiences?
The other day I was speaking to a large group of sales people. Many were very new to sales; they had been selling for only a few years. During the conversation, one person asked how she should progress in her career. She and several others related they were looking for new jobs. They saw opportunities…
Read More5 Ways to Detect a New Hire’s Lies Before You Make an Offer
Finding good people to work for you becomes exceedingly problematic when a candidate lies about qualifications, skills, or their personality types, leading to a bad hire. So, how do we know when a candidate is lying during the hiring process? Here are some clues that give it away. Don’t Discount Background Screening There are many…
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