The Essentials of Hiring Employees

Hiring employees for your small business can be difficult. Not only do you have to deal with advertising the open position and organizing incoming resumés and cover letters, but when you start interviewing job applicants, you have to keep certain legal and discrimination guidelines in mind. These articles can help.

Honing Your Employee Recruitment Process

Recruiting employees is probably the most challenging stage of the hiring process. It's a lot like fishing: Your success at recruiting good employees depends not only on how well you do it, but on where [more…]

Avoiding Illegal Questions in Your Business's Job Applications

Many business-supply companies offer inexpensive, preprinted job application forms. If you decide to create your own job application, however, give yourself some time to think about how much information [more…]

How to Read Job Applicants' Resumés

Anyone who does any research at all into how to find a job knows how to write a resumé that puts him in the best light. Based on resumés alone, you'd think that all job applicants are such outstanding [more…]

How to Evaluate Job Applicants

No set rules exist for evaluating job applicants — other than common sense. But your business needs some kind of applicant-evaluation system or protocol in place before resumés or applications begin to [more…]

Preparing Yourself to Conduct a Job Interview

When you're to the final interviewing stages of hiring an employee, you need to prepare before you conduct the job interview. How well-prepared you are affects what you can take away from those interviews [more…]

How to Conduct a Job Interview

When meeting a job interview candidate face-to-face for the first time, put the applicant at ease. View the first minutes of the interview as an opportunity to build rapport with the candidate before you [more…]

Fifteen Questions to Ask at a Job Interview

What makes a job interview question “good”? A good job interview question gives you the specific information about a job applicant that you need to make a sound hiring decision and helps you gain insight [more…]

Testing Your Business's Job Applicants

Tests measure work-relevant aspects of a job applicant for your business. Choose the appropriate tests to figure out a job applicant's fit with your business and the job you have available. Employment [more…]

How to Select the Right Applicant for the Job

To select the right employee for the job you're filling, you need to take several factors about the applicants and the job itself into consideration. Follow these key principles in order to hire the right [more…]

How to Check a Job Applicant's References

References from a job applicant's past employers help you separate job applicants with good references — meaning good employment records — from others who have a less positive job performance history. [more…]

How to Offer a Job to an Applicant

After you decide which job applicant you want to hire, you need to take care in how you offer the job to that person. If you don't make the actual job offer to the applicant carefully, you can lose the [more…]