Job Descriptions 101

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When should you write job descriptions? When: Tasks keep falling through the crack or being duplicated. You hear “It’s not my job” more than you like. You are hiring and need to explain the job to candidates. Hand-offs between employees make tasks more complicated than they need to be. Before … Read More

Employee Manuals 101

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When should you develop an employee manual? When: You keep making the same decision about maternity leave or how to handle complaints. Employees keep asking the same questions. High turnover makes consistent training hard. Employees respond with “I didn’t know” when disciplined. The goal is to create a handbook so … Read More

Guard and Reserve Employees

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If you live in a community that hosts a National Guard or Reserves post, you may end up with a service member as an employee. You may not know about it when you hire them (among other things, it is a bad idea to ask candidates if they are a … Read More

Dealing with Tattoos

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If you hire younger people (and you will probably have to sooner or later), you have to deal with tattoos. A decade ago you could usually ignore them because very few good candidates or employees had one, but they are increasingly found on very bright and motivated young people who … Read More

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