SMALL BUSINESS INSIDER

I work for a large insurance company as a recruiter, but I work in a very small office setting. I’d been working hard all week, and I was tired. On the way home I stopped to pick up some wine so my husband and I could sit together and unwind. I dashed off a text [...]

Snagajob eliminates the paperwork and guesswork from your hiring process. The online application begins with filter questions for discovering which candidates will work when and how you need them to and ends with an assessment that identifies which candidates have traits for success in the position. An increased flow of applications won’t tack on any [...]

Hourly job seekers often confuse the socialverse as the place where they are safe to be themselves–yet if they hope to be employed, it’s not. A hugely high number of employers are looking at the social profiles of candidates, along with their applications, answers to filter questions and assessment results. Whether they’re doing it on [...]

Small businesses have many advantages over large corporations. As someone owning or running a small business, it’s quite fulfilling to have the opportunity to make a difference in your hometown and for people in your community. Having the opportunity to focus in on a niche market and supply a product or fill a need isn’t [...]

We found this great infographic on the seven signs your rockstar employee is looking for a new job. You’d be surprised how many people want to make a move. Nearly one in five workers surveyed by Snagajob said they’ll be looking for a new job within the next year, up a bit from last time [...]

Building an hourly workforce, even adding an hourly worker to the mix, can be a time-intensive, frustrating and expensive process. You’ve heard the statistics: one unsuccessful hire can cost a business thousands (the U.S. Department of Labor estimates $7,000). In hourly workforce-intensive industries, turnover rates typically run between 70 and 110 percent. Make the numbers [...]

Hourly job seeker Jayne from Kokomo, Indiana, registered as Snagajob member no. 35 million with much fanfare recently. Jayne promptly applied to Buffalo Wild Wings, Subway and Applebee’s, three brands with a large presence on Snagajob—and most likely a reputation among hourly workers for being “all in” when it comes to employee recognition and flexible [...]

Nationally there are about 4.2 unemployed people per job opening. There are enough job seekers to go around, but small businesses aren’t getting their fair share of applicants. Often we see Snagajob members choose to apply to jobs offered by brand names. Here’s what you need to know, and what you need to do, to [...]

The most important thing we’ve learned about payroll as a business function related to hiring: Don’t try it at home. They say the golden rule of personal finance is pay yourself first. There should be a golden rule of small business finance. Pay a payroll services provider. You probably didn’t hear it here first. But [...]

Mom and Pop were doing just fine selling what people nearby needed. Growth meant serving some things they wanted. Now growth (or should we say survival) often is about selling something remarkable in a remarkable way to people everywhere. This is insanely hard to do. Yet, we’re witnessing the rise of the small business nation. [...]