Ready to grow your business but overwhelmed by the hiring process? Whether you’re bringing on your first employee or building a full team, this guide gives you the practical strategies you need to hire smarter and scale sustainably.
In this series, Danielle Hayden, reformed corporate CFO and CEO of Kickstart Accounting, Inc., teams up with guest experts and her in-house team to guide you through every step of the hiring process—from deciding when you’re ready to hire and protecting your business to setting expectations, tracking performance, and building an empowered team.
You’ll learn:
- How to know if your business is financially ready to hire
- What KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to track after hiring
- When to convert contractors into W2 employees
- How to protect your business legally and operationally when expanding your team
- What roles to hire first and how to budget for them
- Smart hiring strategies for every season
Be it hiring outside help like contractors, a few part-time workers, or scaling to multiple full-time employees, this series will help you grow a thriving team.
Let's start making confident, strategic hiring decisions and create a team that supports you and your business vision!
How To Overcome Hiring Fears To Grow Your Business – Ep 165
Next up in our hiring series is the dos and don’ts of hiring. With almost a decade of experience as a CEO, host Danielle Hayden is the perfect person to guide business owners through the hiring process, from the first step of understanding their numbers to evaluating the impact of new hires. In this episode, she shares personal experience and client stories to highlight the importance of embracing a CEO mindset, overcoming limiting beliefs, and taking charge of your business. Tune in to learn what you can do to avoid common hiring pitfalls and hire effectively for your business!
How to Protect Your Business When Hiring Employees – Ep 164
It’s time for your business to start hiring, but what do you actually do next? In this episode, CEO Danielle Hayden presents The Ultimate Hiring Checklist to help business owners prepare for hiring employees. From drafting contracts to creating operational procedures and company insurance, she walks through the specific steps business owners should take in order to ensure that employees succeed and their business is protected. Plus, Danielle doesn’t gatekeep information — she shares her favorite tools and best advice on payroll management, HR handbooks, and building a company culture.
The 4 KPIs You Need to Track After Hiring – Ep 163
So you took the leap and started hiring in order to grow your business or lighten your workload. But now’s not the time to sit back and relax; it’s vital to your business’s success to monitor how hiring impacts financial performance. As we continue this hiring series, host Danielle Hayden outlines the four KPIs business owners need to consider when assessing the efficacy of their hiring decisions: revenue per employee, percent of sales, net profit and overhead rate. She details how to track these key indicators and then analyze them, ensuring your business continues to thrive with the addition of new hires.
Can You Afford Your Next Big Hire? – Ep 162
Is hiring the best growth strategy for your business? In this episode, Danielle Hayden explores this critical question to provide business owners practical methods to evaluate if their business is ready to expand and strategies to grow their team effectively. She shares the Kickstart Accounting Inc. framework to help business owners assess whether they can afford to hire, how to budget for new hires, and take into account the often overlooked costs of hiring. Danielle also goes over the steps to take if your business is not profitable, and therefore, not ready to make new hires.
How Much Revenue Do You Need to Hire? – Ep 161
Hiring can be intimidating for business owners, but it’s a crucial step in the business growth journey. In fact, not hiring could be holding you back — both in business and your personal life. During this episode, CEO Danielle Hayden answers the following questions: How can business owners determine when to start hiring? What are the 3 types of people they should hire? What is the business owner’s role in their business as they expand their team?
Everything You Need To Know About Hiring in 2024 with Jamie Van Cuyk – Ep 146
Are you planning to expand your business by hiring new team members in 2024? Then this episode is for you! Today, Jamie Van Cuyk, owner and lead consultant of Growing Your Team, joins Danielle for the second time on this show to talk about hiring and onboarding teams as small business owners. Tune in to learn Jamie’s unique perspective on hiring!
The Employee Expansion Blueprint: When It’s Time to Convert 1099 Contractors – Ep 120
When should a contractor become an employee? What is a W9 or 1099 contract? How should you collect them? In this episode of Entrepreneur Money Stories, Danielle is joined by Kelsey to answer those questions and explain their complete blueprint for business owners on how to expand their teams.
Hiring and Building your Team with Jamie Van Cuyk – EP 58
Jamie Van Cuyk is a small business consultant who helps high-performing business owners learn how to grow and lead their teams. Jamie’s passion is teaching her clients how to hire, onboard and manage their perfect contractors or employees.
In this episode, Jamie goes into detail about hiring as a small business owner and everything you need to know as you go through the hiring process to bring on your perfect candidate.
What you need to know before hiring – EP 13
Whether you’re preparing to bring on your first team member or your 10th, we know that hiring can feel overwhelming. That’s why today, Kelsey, Lead Account Manager here at Kickstart Accounting joins Danielle on the show to dive deep into the nitty-gritty of hiring. At Kickstart, Kelsey works closely with entrepreneurs just like you so she knows exactly what you need to prepare for when it comes to hiring.