If you’re bringing on seasonal employees to get your business through a temporary busy season like the Christmas holiday shopping rush, don’t forget about the training that these employees will need to not only do their jobs successfully but to work well within your business culture. It can be so easy to just give these temporary employees the bare bones of job related training that will make them functional for the short period of time that they will be on your payroll. But overlooking other aspects of employee training and not providing them will a well thought out and complete training program can be a source of frustration throughout their employment.
So while you may not need to invest the time to put a seasonal employee through your entire training program, it is a smart idea to have a modified, shorter and more targeted training just for seasonal employees. Ideally this training program would include the skills training needed for them to perform the job at a basic level and give them enough organizational knowledge to play well in the sandbox during their employment. While the components of any training program will depend on your business and the expectations you have for employees, incorporating these five topics will serve as a great place to start.
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Anyone who tells you that finding good employees is a piece cake, either isn’t telling you the truth or has never tried to find employees. (You can tell them I said that friend.) Recruiting is hard. Even large businesses with large budgets and teams of recruiters have a difficult time finding qualified candidates. So it can be even more challenging for a small business with limited budget, time and resources. Not to mention, you’re probably not a recruiter by trade, unless you are which means you may not have all the insider savvy that a professional recruiter or human resources professional would have. And I don’t have mention the fact that you have, oh just a few hundred other things to do other than figure out the best places to advertise your job openings.
All of these challenges may lead you to what seems the easiest and perhaps even the most familiar source of finding employees- online job boards. There is nothing wrong with online job boards. Online job boards certainly have a place in your recruiting strategy. But the competition is fierce on the big online job boards. Monster alone boasts on its home page that it has over 5 million jobs posted. That’s 5 million other positions your job posting will be competing against to get the eyeballs and attention of the best job seekers. Indeed, a free-ish online job board claims to have over 50 million active job postings each year. Even more competition, like 10 times more. Unless you have a really strong and effective strategy to make your job ad and position stand out online, it’s a smart move to incorporate some offline activity into your recruiting efforts.
{Day 3} Develop a Payroll Budget
How much will hiring an employee actually cost your business? Developing a payroll budget before hiring an employee is a vital step to take. Even though it's important, so often the reoccurring cost of having staff is not considered until its too late. In this audio lesson, I walk you through how to create a simple payroll budget. In Today's Pop-Up Training You'll Learn:
{Day Two} Create Job Descriptions
One mistake I see small business owners do very frequently is not create job descriptions. But really this is a vital step in becoming an employer. Writing job descriptions may seem intimidating and hard but it really isn't. In this audio lesson you'll learn how simple it can be to write your own descriptions. If you need help getting started there is also a special coupon code that I share for either a strategy session or a done for you service. Whether you go it alone , have it done for you or get some one-on-one help through the process, don't delay this important task of creating job descriptions before you hire your first employee. In Today's Pop-Up Training You'll Learn:
What a job description is exactly.
*Why you need a job description BEFORE you hire anyone. *Mistakes to avoid when creating job descriptions. *The steps involved in creating a solid job description.
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