Knowing When You’re Ready to Hire
About this Course:
This course will help news leaders understand how to align their finances, goals, culture and capacity to know when they’re truly ready to make a hire. It will outline the indicators of hiring readiness, the tradeoffs that come with different categories of hires and legal and human resources considerations associated with hiring.
About the Instructor:
Scott Brodbeck is the founder and CEO of Local News Now. Local News Now publishes three digital news outlets in northern Virginia and provides ad sales, client services and technology to other local news businesses. Scott is also a founding board member of LION Publishers. More on Scott.
Course Lessons:
Assessing Hiring Needs
In this lesson, we’ll explore how to identify staffing needs and understand the financial, operational and cultural indicators to hire effectively.
Types of Workers
In this lesson, we’ll consider different categories of workers and how to decide which is right for your organization.
Payroll, Benefits, HR and Regulations
In this lesson, we’ll discuss the technical and legal considerations for hiring.
Hiring and HR Compliance Considerations for Canadian News Businesses
This lesson discusses HR and employment law compliance issues specific to Canada.
Find more resources here:
- https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/manage-your-business/hire-manage-employees
- https://www.indeed.com/hire/how-to-hire
- https://trainual.com/manual/how-to-build-a-wildly-impactful-employee-training-program
- https://hbr.org/2018/07/do-your-employees-feel-respected
- https://venturebeat.com/datadecisionmakers/how-early-stage-founders-can-build-gender-equality-from-day-one/
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