The small business hiring playbook.
The whole process end to end, sized for a company where the person doing the hiring is also doing something else all day.
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Six chapters, and every one ends with something to copy.
Written from what actually works at companies between ten and a hundred people. No case studies about enterprises with a talent acquisition team.
Before you post anything
What the role actually needs, and the two must-haves worth screening on.
Writing a post people finish
Structure, plus a before and after from a real dispatcher role.
Where to post, and what to pay for
Free and paid boards compared honestly, including the ones we would skip.
Screening forty people in an hour
Knockout questions by role and a one-page scorecard.
Making the offer stick
Why good candidates go quiet after the offer, and how to cut it.
The first ninety days
The week-one habits that decide whether somebody is still there in March.
The shop that calls first usually wins. Almost everything else in this book is a way of making that easier.
From chapter three5,000+ growing businesses hire on AvaHR without a recruiting team.
Written for the person doing this on top of their real job.
Owners
You are hiring between service calls and there was never time to build a process.
Office managers
Hiring landed on your desk with payroll and the phones, and nobody handed you a playbook.
First-time HR
You are the first HR hire at a growing company, building the function from nothing.
“I printed it and gave it to my office manager. Half of it we were already doing badly, and the other half we had never thought of. The scorecard on page 32 is on our wall.”