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I’m not an employment lawyer, tax accountant, payroll specialist, or recruiter. (Yes, according to my mom I could have been any of these, but I went a different path.) That said, I’ve been involved in enough hiring over the course of my career to know that it involves all manner of issues.
In my latest article for People Managing People, I’ve distilled some of my experiences down to this shortlist of simple steps to help founders and small business owners hire their first employee.
I’d love to hear what you think! What other steps should someone take before hiring their first employee? What parts of the new hire process have you found to be the most challenging or difficult?
Mike Gibbons
Mike is one of the Co-Founders at Culture Assassins, a Vancouver-based media company dedicated to preventing the destruction of healthy, high-performing organizational cultures, and to providing people with the tools necessary to build them.
Mike is a results-driven and people-oriented business leader with more than 20 years of experience in organizational and team development, marketing and product strategy, business growth strategy, and operations. He has led multiple teams and businesses, locally and globally, most recently as a senior executive for a $100M division of a Fortune 500 company.
Mike is guided by his deeply-held beliefs in connection, curiosity, humour, empathy, and honesty. In addition to his passion for workplace culture and growth, he is an avid skier, mountain biker, and sci-fi fan.