3 Preparations To Get Right Before Hiring Your First Employee

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Due to how many candidates there are for any one job position, it’s easy to think that businesses hold all the cards in the hiring process. To some extent, that can be true, but it hardly conveys the full reality of the situation.

After all, without any candidates that actually want to work for your firm, with skills enough to do the job correctly, it’s hard to take that next step up.

For this reason, while you’re no doubt thinking up many ways to determine just which candidate will be right for you before you open up your job position, it’s also healthy to ask if you’re the right kind of business for the candidate you’re seeking.

In this post, we’ll discuss three preparations to get right before hiring your first employee. We hope that with a little care and attention, you’ll feel confident in expanding your time and really lay out the full depth of how you hope the person in this role operates.

Define The Full Job Description

It’s important to define the full job description, not just for the eventual listing, but so you know exactly where this role fits in the organization. What will its daily duties be? Where do the responsibilities lie? How are those factors reported to management to ensure that the role, and the person performing within it, are as effective as they could be? Defining the full job description might not seem hard on the surface, but planning it out will also mean considering its connection to other staff members in your wider business. 

Allocate Space & Resources

Of course, it’s also important to consider the full range of resources that will be needed to manage your employee effectively. That might involve a work laptop, phone, access keycard, and space at your office desk. You may have a fund dedicated to help each staff member work from home more effectively. On top of that, you need to provide them a login that will work with various aspects of your office, which can be as simple as helping them connect to the WiFi, creative suite such as the Adobe software package, or the printer in the office. It’s best to think through all that now as opposed to later.

Perfect Your Payroll

Of course, hiring staff and retaining them are very different disciplines, and the quickest way to fail at the latter objective is to fail in paying them correctly. This isn’t just about paying them on time and for the right amount of course (which does help), but it also means perfecting their payslip documentation, making sure the right deductions for tax and other repayments are made (such as student loans), as well as making certain any bonus schemes or share dividends are given at the right times throughout the year. Without good payroll preparations, you shouldn’t bring anyone into your business.

With this advice, you’re certain to perfect all the necessary preparations before hiring your first employee.

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