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  Hiring a new employee can be one of the most important tasks you’ll do. Not only is it costly to hire and onboard a new team member, but if you make a bad hire, it can set your business back. The last thing anyone wants is employees that don’t perform well or just aren’t right for the position. Here are our top hiring tips for making a successful hire. Finding candidates with the right skills Using basic principles is a great first step that can be applied during the interview process. Some of these include things like staying away from the standard interview and prioritizing the candidate experience. For both employers and prospective employees, the standard interview is a predictable exchange with little opportunity to forge a real connection. Instead, consider a better way to begin the process. Be creative and identify ways to better understand how people truly think and feel. Make it challenging. Allow for situations where candidates can be their true selves and observe...

Managing your organization's Human Resources department is no easy feat, especially when you’re running a small business. HR isn’t just simply hiring new people and creating job descriptions, it’s multifaceted and complex. Invariably, there will be challenges you’ll need to overcome to improve your business, including common HR issues and challenges including those related to time management, stress levels, learning new skills, managing people effectively, and so on. But navigating these issues doesn’t have to seem overwhelming, let’s explore 3 key ways to help you overcome all of these challenges. 1. The Biggest Challenge in HR: Hiring the Right People HR professionals are tasked with big responsibilities. Among them is finding the right people to create a strong team. Recruiting top talent is critical to an organization’s success, especially in competitive fields. Beyond performance, companies also look to attract individuals to create a culture of diversity including gender, ag...

Check out these stats from NAPEO on companies that use a PEO!  PEOs provide services to 175,000 small and mid-sized businesses, employing 3.7 million people. There are 907 PEOs in the United States. The total employment represented by the PEO industry is roughly the same as the combined number of employees for Walmart (United States only), Amazon, IBM, FedEx, Starbucks, AT&T, Wells Fargo, Apple, and Google.  The PEO industry’s 175,000 clients represent 15 percent of all employers with 10 to 99 employees. Between 2008 and 2017, the number of WSEs employed in the PEO industry grew at a compounded annual rate of 8.3 percent. This is roughly 14 times higher than the compounded annual growth rate of employment in the economy overall during the same period. What do you love most about your PEO? To get more information from NAPEO  click here .