How to Hire Your First Employee as a Small Business: A Step-by-Step Guide
Hiring your first employee is one of the biggest steps a small business takes, and getting the basics right from day one saves you money, time and stress later.
Practical guides, evidence-backed answers and ready-to-use tools for people who hire without an HR department behind them. Direct answer first, sources you can open, a checklist you can tick.
Hiring well when you are the whole HR department.
Hiring your first employee is one of the biggest steps a small business takes, and getting the basics right from day one saves you money, time and stress later.
Choosing an applicant tracking system used to mean picking a glorified filing cabinet for resumes, but the best ATS companies now use AI to actually help you hire faster and better.
A slow hiring process costs small businesses their best candidates and their money, so here is a practical, step-by-step way to hire faster without lowering your standards.
Guides in Templates & Scorecards carry an interactive checklist you can tick as you go.
Paste a job post, get must-haves to review and confirm, one apply link.
Upload a pile of resumes and see evidence against your criteria.
The candidate journey, the inbox and the offer, in a public demo.