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Branching Out:  Staffing Issues to Consider When Opening a Second Location
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Apr 19, 2012

By Iris Dorbian. Imagine this scenario: After some early struggles, your small business is starting to make money.  Your customers are loyal and steady and you are at a point where you can easily pay your overhead and vendors (while taking a healthy salary for yourself). More so than ever, you are ready to open a second location. Such a proposition presents exciting opportunities for a growing business but it also offers considerable challenges. The biggest hurdle—aside from finding a...
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Overturn Turnover: How to Keep Employees from Leaving for Greener Pastures
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Apr 2, 2012

By Sherron Lumley. Small businesses want the same top talent that large businesses do, but holding on to good employees is challenging when jobs are plentiful. As a result, small business owners have to be especially creative when it comes to attracting—and retaining—the best workers. The numbers help tell the story. Since the official end of the recession in July of 2009, job openings are up 45 percent, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover...
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HR Headaches: When Should You Get Some Help?
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Posted by: SBOC Team, Sep 8, 2011

by Christopher Freeburn. As any small business owner knows, dealing with people is a crucial element of your business’s success. This applies not only to customers or business partners, but to your employees as well. Creating a productive and well-functioning workforce should be a top priority for every small business. Unfortunately, the more employees you hire, the more complicated things get. Even for very small companies, managing personnel can be a very demanding task. Managing...
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Tell Me About Yourself
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Feb 19, 2009

Great interview questions that get to the heart of a job candidate's capabilities By Reed Richardson Be prepared You would never run right from a conference call into a job interview if you were trying to get hired, so you shouldn't engage in the same, careless behavior if you're going to be the one doing the hiring. Instead, spend at least 15 to 30 minutes before an interview going over a job candidate's resume so you can prepare some intelligent questions specific to their background and...
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Get Out of the Office
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Feb 10, 2009

Providing your employees with a reliable social support system is a key way to ensuring they stay happy and productive By Max Berry The link between work stress and serious depression should be a concern for every small business owner, but the way to keep your employees happy and productive may be simpler than you think. A 2007 study conducted by researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center-and subsequently published in the American Journal of Public Health-found that,...
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How Many Current Employees are in Your Departure Lounge?
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Jan 29, 2009

By HRExpert Nobody likes to talk about it, even though it is happening in workplaces all across America - employees who have decided it is time to fly the coop. Departure lounges are overflowing with these types of employees - all waiting for their final boarding call. Employees rarely start a job thinking they will tour around the company for a while and then seek greener pastures, and yet it happens all the time. Here are five things you can do to prevent employees from taking flight:...
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Campus Candidates
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Jan 20, 2009

Hiring recent college grads makes great business sense. Plus, given the chance, they could even teach you a thing or two By Max Berry Despite what some recent figures from America's job market would have you believe, companies of all sizes are hiring new college graduates at a higher rate than in years past. A recent survey conducted by CollegeGrad.com found that 60% of American companies surveyed plan to recruit more grads in 2008 than they did last year. The reasons for the upswing are...
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Firing the Right Way
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Oct 28, 2008

How To Make a Difficult Task a Little Bit Easier By Christopher Freeburn There are few tasks less pleasant than firing an employee. There are bound to be hurt feelings and often emotions can run high. As difficult as losing a job is for the soon-to-be-former employee, however, informing him or her of that fact can be profoundly upsetting for the employer as well, particularly in a small business setting. Worse, terminating employment can produce more than simple emotional risks. Wrongful...
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Engaging From Afar
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Oct 8, 2008

Keeping remote employees engaged can be a difficult task for a small business owner. But when managed well, your off-site employees can be just as productive as the ones you see every day. by Max Berry Sometime during the 20th century, the water cooler assumed a crucial position in the American office-it became a trading post not only for gossip and recaps of last night's television shows, but also for ideas and advice. With a growing number of 21st-century employees working remotely, the...
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Farm It Out
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Posted by: SBOCTeam-KhWmv, Jun 19, 2008

How outsourcing payroll can save your business time and money By Chris Freeburn As an employer, you are probably more than happy to pay your employees well for their work, but handling all the paperwork that comes with each paycheck is probably not something any small business owner anticipates with pleasure. Keeping payroll records in order, keeping track of the correct taxes and dispensing checks or managing direct deposits for your employees is a time consuming and sometimes frustrating...
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