Hire Your First Employee

by Rhonda Abrams

Overview

If you want to grow your business, you need help. Hire Your First Employee: The entrepreneur’s guide to finding, choosing and leading great people guides you step by step through everything you need to make the decision to hire, find the right people and lead & manage your team.It’s all here—the hard facts like taxes and laws and the inspiring guidance that helps make you, your employees and your business successful. Whether you’re just launching your company or have been in business for years, if it’s time to hire, you’ll want this book to guide your growth.

 

Whether you’re making your first hire, need to hire several employees for a new business, or already have employees, Hire Your First Employee: The entrepreneur’s guide to finding, choosing and leading great people includes all the nitty-gritty details about employment laws and taxes, figuring out how much to pay, conducting interviews and background checks, developing benefits and personnel policies, becoming a leader and manager and much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933895598
Publisher:	Planning Shop, The
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	193
File size:	20 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Author, entrepreneur, and USA Today small business columnist, Rhonda Abrams is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost experts on entrepreneurship and business planning. Rhonda is the author of 19 books which have sold nearly two million copies, been translated into over 30 languages, and adopted by more than 1000 business schools. Her books include the best-selling business plan guide in the United States: Successful Business Plan: Secrets&Strategies. Other books from Rhonda that have made best-seller lists include Six-Week Start-Up, Business Plan in a Day, and Entrepreneurship: A Real World Approach. Rhonda not only writes about entrepreneurship; she lives it. She has founded four companies – from a one-person consulting firm to an angel investor-backed Internet company. Currently, she’s President and Chief Entrepreneur of PlanningShop, a content creation company based in Silicon Valley. Rhonda was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley and every year is named one of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers in the US. She was educated at UCLA (where she was named Outstanding Senior) and Harvard University. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

Table of Contents

Section One: Making the Decision to Hire
Chapter 1 The Time is Right to Hire!
Chapter 2 Scope Out Your Specific Needs

Section Two: The Nitty-Gritty--Employee Status, Labor Laws, Payroll and Taxes
Chapter 3 Understanding Emplyee Status
Chapter 4 Employment and Labor Law--The Basics
Chapter 5 Managing Payroll and Payroll Taxes

Section Three: Your Policies, Benefits and Company Culture
Chapter 6 What Should I Pay My New Employee?
Chapter 7 Design Your Benefits Plan
Chapter 8 Paid Time Off, Personnel Policies and Your Company Culture

Section Four: Finding and Hiring the Right People
Chapter 9 The Search is On--Finding Applicants
Chapter 10 Interviewing
Chapter 11 Making the Offer and Negotiating

Section Five: The First Day and Beyond
Chapter 12 Day One: Start off Strong
Chapter 13 Becoming the Boss