How To Hire Your First Employee Without Regretting It

Finally busy enough to hire? Here’s the five step system to bring on your first employee without the six week regret.

Get your first hire right and you stop being the bottleneck, that’s when things finally grow.

The quick rundown

• Write the job down before you write the ad, your own task list becomes the real job description.
• Hire for a genuine three month bottleneck, not one mad week, or you’ll be carrying a wage in the quiet months.
• Do the real money maths including tax, insurance, tools and fuel before you commit to a wage.
• Screen on the phone and trial them on a real site, because watching beats guessing.
• Script their first two weeks before day one, most first hires fail from unclear expectations, not laziness.

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