Recruiting & Hiring Employees


Recent Recruiting & Hiring Employees Articles

How to Hire a CIO

When you need to put your IT house in order, is a chief information officer the right hire?  Read more

How to Hire a CTO

When it's time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow?  Read more

How to Improve Your Hiring Practices

Think you know what works when hiring a new employee? Experts say: think again. Most managers skimp on time and energy needed to find the best candidates for...  Read more

Not Yet Ready to Call It a Recovery

March ended on a positive note with a year-to-date increase in small business hiring of 3.1 percent and a year-to-date increase in pay of 0.4 percent, acc...  Read more

How to Build Your Management Team

A growing company needs more expertise than even the most skilled founder can provide. Here's how to assemble an executive team to run your business.  Read more

How to Write a Job Description

A guide to the crucial first step in the hiring process: getting job requirements and qualifications down on paper.  Read more

How to Work with an Executive Search Firm

Finding top-level talent can be tough, and sometimes requires hiring an executive search firm. Here's our guide to working with a professional headhunter.  Read more

Four Tips for Hiring a CEO

If you're looking to bring on a new boss, here's what you need to think about.  Read more

How to Hire a CEO

Method co-founder Eric Ryan on finding the right CEO  Read more

Bizarre Hiring Rituals

How companies like Gentle Giant use odd hiring practices to induct new recruits  Read more

An Inc. 500 Hiring Survey

Signs of an improving economy are prompting Inc. 500 CEOs to hire now.  Read more

States Propose Limiting Credit Checks by Employers

At least 16 states are considering legislation to ban or limit an employer's ability to run background credit checks on potential hires.  Read more

How to Hire a Marketing Director

Looking for a manager to develop and execute effective marketing solutions to cultivate growth? Here are some tips for incorporating the best hiring practice...  Read more

How to Hire a Web Developer

Have you reached the point that you need a professional working on staff to build and maintain your web presence? Here's your guide to the best practices for...  Read more

How to Manage an Independent Contractor

Due to the independent nature of contract work, it can be a tricky thing to manage, even for experienced CEOs. Here's a look at the best practices for when t...  Read more

Color Me CEO? Test Shows How Bosses Are Wired

An analysis of some 900 CEOs' results shows they like magenta -- and are less dominant and confident than the rest of the population.  Read more

The MVP of Super Bowl Product Placement

Officials at the Indianapolis company that makes the head set worn by Drew Brees' baby son had no idea they were on the verge of amazing product placement.  Read more

How to Write an Offer Letter

An offer letter communicates to a potential employee the terms of employment and can head off arguments—or even losing that employee who you spent so much ...  Read more

A New Website Connects Small Businesses to Temporary Help

Urban Interns taps into a growing sector among new hires.  Read more

The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak

Kayak.com co-founder Paul English is obsessed with customer service. That's why he bought the most annoying phone he could find.  Read more

How to Hire an HR Director

Growing companies add employees at a rapid clip. They also tend to handle human resources in an ad hoc function for too long. Here's a look at the best pract...  Read more

How to Hire a Sales Manager

Adding a sales manager is a pivotal moment in the life of a growing company. It's also expensive. Here is a step-by-step guide for incorporating the best hir...  Read more

How to Hire an Executive Assistant

If scheduling and clerical work is slipping between the cracks, it might be time for an assistant. Here's your guide to a smooth hiring process.  Read more

How to Hire an Office Manager

Looking for someone to keep your office in order, do clerical tasks and fill-in elsewhere? Here's your guide to the best practices for hiring an office manager.  Read more

Economies of Scale: Ideas vs. Attention

The development of social tools and technologies has led us into an idea-driven or knowledge economy. But as it's become easier to share our ideas in blogs, ...  Read more

Hiring Tips from the Inc. 5000 Conference 

Tips on how to recruit great workers from BET founder Robert L. Johnson, Method co-founder Eric Ryan, and other successful CEOs.   Watch video

Law Bars Employers From Genetic Discrimination

A recently finalized law will make it illegal for employers to take their employees' genetic information into account in hiring and firing decisions.  Read more

Visibility: The Strongest Link in the Supply Chain

How strong is your supply chain? You won’t know until it fails. Reducing your risk of failure depends on visibility -- your ability to see any aspect of th...  Read more

Customer Service for IT Departments

A big complaint in business is that IT staff say they will help and then don't show up until hours later -- or the next day -- without explanation. But you c...  Read more

Making It Work: Student Interns

Tips for attracting young talent and making the most of your internship program  Read more

Want Great Interns? Hold a Contest

How the clothing line O'Neill found talented teens for its internship program  Read more

Will Tax Incentives Get You To Hire?

Existing proposals of hiring tax credits to create new jobs have mixed political support and experts disagree over their efficacy.  Read more

The Era of the Electronic Medical Record

The implications of the EMR are enormous. It touches every component of the healthcare delivery spectrum -- from physician to nurse, even to the person trans...  Read more

Managing IT Costs during a Recession Part II: Improve Asset Utilization

Still waiting for economic recovery? Think you’ve done all you can to reign in IT costs? It’s probably time to get even more innovative by assessing the...  Read more

Tech Talk: Music Firm Distributes Digitally

A San Francisco-based music industry marketing company representing hundreds of independent record labels found a better alternative to e-mail for sending ou...  Read more