SME HR Issues

Screening and assessing job candidates can be a complicated and confusing process, particularly for smaller businesses that don’t have a dedicated HR specialist on staff to manage hiring activities (or it can be overly simple and ineffective, for that matter, if you’re only using resume reviews and unstructured interviews).
With that in mind, I thought it [...]

Certainly, small and medium-sized businesses like yours are incredibly sensitive to poor hiring decisions. This is primarily because, with a smaller team in place, each of your employees has much greater power and responsibility than they would at a larger company and, as a result, their actions have a much greater impact. In other words, [...]

I recently watched a few excellent presentations from Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner, a couple of which had an interesting take on employee selection and the qualities of a great hire. In case you haven’t seen the site, here are a couple of excepts, with my take on the “highlights”.
One CEO’s Take on Talent – Jeff [...]

As you may or may not know, my firm, Hire Insight, has recently merged with a company called Legacy Human Capital Group, which provides a range of HR consultation and services to small and medium-sized enterprises. One of our first initiatives as a group is to better understand the issues that are high priority to [...]

This is a response to a blog post on Small Business Trends, written by Zane Saffrit, which speaks to employee motivation and retention.
Hi Zane,
As always, a very interesting and well-written post. I’ll certainly look forward to reading more about employee selection and retention issues in future. And certainly feel free to get in touch if [...]

Four Steps to Creating a Practical Description of the Job and Ideal Candidate

Do you have job descriptions for each position within your company?
Do they accurately describe the qualities of the ideal job candidate?
Are they clear, helpful and practical for use in making hiring decisions?

Many small and medium-sized business owners admit that they’re [...]

White paper outlines a practical approach to describing a job and ideal employee.
Before any good hiring decision can be made, it is critical that employers understand the target role and know what to look for in an ideal job candidate. Unfortunately, most small and mid-sized businesses make their hiring decisions without such information, or depend [...]