Startups hold a definable recruitment edge over their larger counterparts in several key areas. By exploiting these advantages, a small but savvy business can scoop up promising talent that is sitting right under a bigger competitor’s nose. These tips can help your startup recruit the best and brightest workers
Often small business owners hire workers on contract and classify those workers as “independent contractors” not employees. This distinction between “independent contractor” and “employee” is crucial to the establishment of an employer’s liability for payroll taxes during the relationship and severance pay when ending the relationship with a worker. Our courts, and Revenue Canada, often find employers have wrongfully classified employees as contractors.
Is the candidate you are considering the right person for your job? Due to haphazard hiring procedures many small businesses have a 20% chance of hiring the best person. Considering how expensive and time consuming it is to hire employees, those are not good odds.
Expanding your business to include outside employees can be a daunting task for business owners. When you hire someone you take on added responsibility. Yet you are also taking an important step in moving beyond being self-employed.
When people think of internships, they generally focus on all the benefits that the intern gains. Leadership skills, industry knowledge, and a base network are all great benefits for the intern. But what about all the great things that an intern can offer your company in return? Here are some tips on how to best utilize internships for your company.
The Ministry of Education announced funding to support a wage enhancement grant/home child care enhancement grant in the licensed child care sector. The wage enhancement funding is intended to help close the wage gap between program staff in licensed centre based and home based child care and Registered Early Childhood Educators working full time in full day kindergarten programs.
This funding is available by application only. Applications will be available starting on May 1, 2015. Completed applications must be submitted by June 30, 2015.
Beginnings are the most exciting and energizing times in life. If things have been in a slump for you, make some changes. Lasting success comes from making pointed shifts in your behavior on a daily basis. Success is rarely the result of the major decisions you have to make due to the long and short term consequences that ensue. Success results from committing to making each day count and seeing each challenge as providing your business a new start.
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