With Spring Break now behind us, summer vacation is the next big watershed event for students and many will be looking for summer jobs and internships. The long, slow recovery that has followed our last recession has not been much of a job creator, and it has been especially unkind to youth, ages 16-24. I […]
Small businesses usually start-off as a one-man show. When you are the founder of a business, you do everything from emptying the trash to collecting the cash. As your business grows, however, it can reach a point where the volume of work is overwhelming. That’s not a bad thing in terms of your business success, […]
Almost 30 percent of the small business owners surveyed in the last NFIB Small Business Economic Trends Report said they had at least one job opening they hadn’t been able to fill. That was one of the highest numbers reported in the last 40 years. If you count yourself among those looking to hire, you […]
Several recent surveys are telling us that small business hiring is on the way up. This is great news after a long period of retrenchment. It shows that we’ve moved from guarding the herd to growing the herd. The SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard reflects this. Last year only 19 percent of small business owners said […]
If you said TMI a generation ago, everyone would have known you were talking about Three Mile Island. Use the same acronym today and everyone knows you’re referring to “too much information” – and too much information is what small business owners can get when they turn to social media in the hiring process. There […]