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HR Basics for Small Businesses: Tips for setting up payroll and benefits
Setting up payroll and benefits for your company can be a daunting process. If you only have a few employees it’s likely that you as the founder are managing all of these tasks by yourself. This week I’ll be sharing some helpful tips for setting up payroll and...
HR Basics for Small Businesses: What Needs to Be in an Employee File?
Over the next few blog posts, I will be covering HR topics that are tailored toward the needs of small businesses. This first post focuses on the employee file. As a small business, you will need to set up an employee file for each employee that you hire. There are...
Recruiting Science: Why Warmth Matters
It may sound unintuitive, but interviews are a form of marketing, especially for higher-level positions. Whether or not the candidate walks away with a job offer, they do walk away with an opinion about your organization, and that opinion matters. If they leave...
Introducing HR Services
For over a year we’ve been partnering with companies to help them hire the best talent in the business. We are excited to announce that we have expanded our services to include HR. This will allow us to partner with companies on a deeper level and help them create...
Interviewing 101: What Not to Ask
In our last posts, we talked about how implicit bias impacts hiring and what steps you can take to start minimizing those biases. Now, it’s time to get specific and tackle one area where bias really comes out to play: the interview. Even successful recruiters and...
How to Overcome Implicit Bias
In our last post, we talked about just how insidious and harmful implicit bias is in the world of recruiting. Now that we know what the problem is, it’s time to figure out what to do about it. Step 1: Humility Before moving forward, give yourself fifteen minutes to...
Implicit Bias Impacts Hiring, and Science Proves it
Recent data shows that bias is still taking a heavy toll on equality in the workforce. In this post, we’re diving into some frustrating statistics about hiring discrimination and the force that drives it - implicit bias. 1989 - 2015: Less Progress than we Thought...
Should I require candidates to do a presentation?
Should I require candidates to do a presentation? Presentations have long been one of the steps included in Sales, Business Development and even leadership interview processes. But how effective are they in determining if a candidate is a good fit? In this blog post,...
How Important is Your Glassdoor Rating?
Are you looking to grow your team and unclear what’s important on your Glassdoor page? In this post, we’ll make sure you know exactly what Glassdoor is and why it matters. What is Glassdoor? Glassdoor is a social platform with job listings, company reviews, CEO...