Overwhelmingly, media coverage of team building, hiring, training, etc. is often geared towards the issues faced by HR at Fortune 500 sized companies. Even when it’s positioned as advice for small business owners it is often coming from an executive or consultant working primarily with giant corporations. We think it’s far more relevant to hear from small and medium business owners who have successfully grown their businesses – and so we asked some very talented folks to tell us the stories of their initial hires and the struggles and lessons they can share.

Jalynn Craig

Most of my business profits are generated from direct sales so the process of hiring has to be focused on personality types who are business oriented. I also knew that with proper team-building it would be imperative to have the correct people in place so that our team will be the most successful. The process of recruiting a team would be to search for people who were already in the beauty industry. Read more>>

Laurel & Victoria Walles & Rodriguez

Our business started with just Laurel and I (Victoria). The first few artists that we brought onto our team were friends from the beauty industry and previous collaborations. We were humbled that they wanted to join our team. However, the recruiting process felt like forever! Sifting through different applicants and having multiple calls and meetings just felt a little overwhelming. Read more>>

Brad Stephenson

Heres the story. I came to New Castle Lawn and Landscape 17 years ago. When I started I was hired as a supervisor but we really did not have anyone to supervise so I pretty much supervised myself. We had 8 employees and we were around 800,000 in revenue. When I came to New Castle I knew there was going to be an opportunity for ownership. I worked my ass off and steadily move into higher management then minority ownership around 8 years ago. Read more>>