The Hiring Process

All about recruitment, hiring and how to find employees.

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How to Write an Offer Letter
Knowing exactly how to write an offer letter when you formally extend a job offer to your top candidate can improve onboarding and prevent legal problems.
Hiring managers, sitting down at a computer, reviewing applications with the help of an applicant tracking system.
Applicant Tracking Systems for Small Businesses: Pros and Cons
Learn more about the pros and cons of using application tracking systems for small businesses and how they might fit into your hiring process.
Tech support professional helping her coworker with a problem.
Hiring Tech Support for Your Small Business
Just because you’re a small business doesn’t mean you don’t face big tech challenges. Learn how to solve them by hiring a capable tech support applicant.
How to Find Good Hourly Employees
It's not easy to find employees. Learn how your business can attract and recruit quality skilled and hourly employees and add value to your bottom line.
A supervisor is reprimanding an employee, but he may be liable for negligent hiring, given the multiple red flags that this person could endanger his coworkers.
How to Avoid Negligent Hiring for Your Business
Learn how to avoid negligent hiring claims, which allege that an employer knew or should have known that a candidate was not a safe hire.
Hiring manager interviewing a job candidate and looking at her hiring checklist.
What Every Hiring Checklist Must Include
The stakes are high for small business hires. Our hiring checklist breaks this crucial task down into simple steps to help you succeed at this crucial task.

All The Hiring Process Guides

7 Small Business Hiring Strategies
Implement these hiring strategies to build a small business team with the skills and professional values to impress your customers and clients.
Hiring Friends and Family
Hiring friends or family members has its own challenges and isn't always advised, but sometimes a family member or close friend is the right choice.
Lessons from the Outfield on How to Run a Business
Ready for some lessons on how to run a business? Here are some key takeaways for drafting your team and scoring on your competition.
Salary Benchmarking: 3 Factors to Consider
Deciding what to pay your new hires can be one of the most difficult parts of the hiring process, which is why salary benchmarking is so important.
Emphasizing Small Business Culture in Recruiting
Highlighting your small business culture, and what sets it apart from that of larger corporations, can help you compete and recruit the best candidates.