Building Your Team for 2011

This should be used as a solid guideline for hiring and having new employees on board and productive by January 3, 2011…    

In a perfect world, you and your company want to start 2011 with strong sales and controlled expenses.  In order to do so, your company and its employees must be positioned to perform at maximum level.   The key is to start off strong in the First Quarter.

If you want a new team member to be productive by January 3rd, a candidate should be on board by December 1st to allow them to get acclimated to the new company.   Don’t use the holidays as an excuse to wait for the first of the year to start someone.

Here would be the time line to hire in an ideal situation:

Sept 10th
    * Fee schedule signed
    * Job profile is set
    * Search officially starts

Sept 20 -Oct 20th
    * Candidates identified
    * Interview process begins

Oct 20-25th
    * Offer is tendered and negotiated

Nov 15 – Dec 1st
    * Offer is accepted
    * 2-3 weeks to resign and start   

Dec 1st
    * Start Date

In closing, follow the steps above and start off strong in 2011!!