If you remember I went to an entrepreneurship seminar where I gathered many good entrepreneurship tips. I first talked about compartmentalization in entrepreneurship tips 1 followed by a post on how to actually compartmentalize. Another important that the speaker discussed was how and who to hire as employees of a newly started and developing business. I did some research on the side myself and here are my advice on how to hire new employees.
1- Hire People Better Than Yourself
It is very important to hire people that can get your tasks done better than you. Most entrepreneurs are multi-taskers. They can get very many tasks done (fairly well). The reason we hire new employees is usually because that we want to find some free time to focus on expanding the business.
2- “Aptitude + Attitude > Experience”
This was a direct quote from the speaker. For a new company, an employee with the right attitude and aptitude can help the company grow faster and better. If the new employees lacks some small experiences, he will learn those in the first couple months or so and therefore is not a huge disadvantage.
3- Get Professionals On Your Advisory Board (Preferably For Free)
Professionals in various fields, especially science are usually interested in being on advisory boards and giving advices. For your online business, get advice of already established entrepreneurs from various website development forums.
I also found this article to be very useful. So instead of summarizing it here, I suggest you read the entire article.
