3 Basics You Need to Know About Hiring

Hiring new team members has many parts. There are many details that need attention in the hiring process to protect you as the business owner and the new hire. It is paramount that you have a process to collect and store documentation.

Every state has different requirements and laws that pertain to the hiring process and some requirements are federal. I would highly recommend consulting with an HR professional about these specific requirements for your small business.

Here are 3 things I have learned along the way that we key in an interview process.

1. Resumes

When you are asking for resumes, it is usually required legally that you keep these documents for at least one year from the time of submission (some types of businesses may be required to keep these documents for 2 years). Ideally the resume is dated and even initialed by the person who accepted it before it is filed. This is true for candidates you hire and candidates you do not hire. Keep these resumes on file in case you need them for an audit of any sort.

2. Applications

When you are interested in starting the interview process with a candidate, you must have an application process in place. This gives you the proper clearance to contact references and it also gives you the opportunity to gain crucial information you will need for the interview process. Once we have received a resume, we send an application to the candidate with a deadline to return it to us. This helps us gauge the seriousness of the candidate’s inquiry into our business. We will not commence with the interview process without this document for our protection and the protection of the candidate.

3. Official Offer Of Position

Once you have gone through the interview process (more about that in a future blog), and you are ready to offer the position to a candidate, an official offer letter is the best next step. We keep an email template of this on hand and we send it when offering any position. The offer letter is sent via email and it includes what the position is that is being offered, starting pay, hours of work and instructions for the next step. Candidates must sign and return this to us in order to begin the on-boarding process.

These are just a few of the key pieces that you want to have in place. I will go in depth on these things in the Salon Snacks Subscription Service if you are interested in a deeper understanding of the foundations of business in the salon world.

As always, thank you for reading :) 

So much love,

Melanie 

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