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Right People. Right Company

Scaling your company is hard, especially if you're a busy founder. Your business has to grow and you're at the point in time where you know you can't do it alone. The never-ending struggle between doing transactional work vs transformational work...

And your role must ALWAYS be to take care of the transformational. But you need help with HR adminis

tration, payroll services and bookkeeping and finding the right person is like trying to find a needle in a haystack! Hire & Retain Asia helps busy founders, like you, scale your company by providing you with an all-in-one solution for HR administration, payroll services and bookkeeping so you can focus on growing your business instead of worrying about these tasks that are better left to experts in those fields. We can help with everything from payroll, HR administration, bookkeeping and more so you can focus on growing your business instead of keeping track of all the details involved in running a company. You can even hire out our whole team so you'll never have to worry about the transactional stuff ever again! The only thing you'll WANT to worry about after engaging us is how much time you'll have to split between your spouse and your kids! Need to find out more? Click the link to our website or book a call with us today! (It'll only take 20min.

27/06/2023

Hello everyone! We've been quiet but there are new changes coming.

And we're coming up with more useful posts for the modern jobseeker to thrive in this AI-generated world.

From AI skills you can learn, to command prompts that you can use in GPT to make your work more effective.

New posts drop 1 Aug.

See you then!

14/10/2021

Meanwhile…

27/11/2019

Great tips to ask for a raise.

11/10/2019

🔥Skills vs Attitude vs Aptitude🔥

Which do you hire for?🤷🏻‍♀️

Let me put it in another way for you

Fast food🍔 vs keto🥑vs vegan🥦

While I’m not implying that hiring is in any way the same as the kind of food or diet you partake...

There is a similar trend. Or a common theme.

Ready?

Whichever you choose depends on what you want the OUTCOME to be.💯

Here’s my take on each of them with 13 years of experience to back it up.

✅Skills - good for quick wins.
Hiring for skills is the fastest way to get things done in your company.
Have a project and need a designer? Done.
Have a campaign and need a strategist? Done.

Quick wins are a great way to keep your revenue stream going but it usually kills any underlying culture building principle you may have moving towards.

✅Attitude - it’s better when aligned with some sort of employee growth plan that is complemented with a proper training plan

Most small biz fall into this fallacy of hiring for the right attitude. But most don’t know what “that” looks like. Plus when you hire for attitude, you need to train this new hire. Most SMEs aren’t able to cope with training a specific skill set. Usually bcos the CEO of the biz doesn’t have that skill set.

✅Aptitude (or talent) - very much future based planning but need to have a keen eye for someone’s potential with a structured growth and compensation plan

I had a potential customer once who came to me and said that his company was looking to hire someone with good potential. Cos they wanted to groom this person.
The only problem was there was no employee growth plan attached to this person. No clear direction as to his progression in the company and more importantly, there wasn’t any indication of a well-thought out compensation plan.

🧠Finding someone that has 2 or even all 3 of the above characteristics isn’t impossible. But it is an exercise of patience. And lots of planning.

🏆While there are many other considerations to take into account when taking on a new hire, the above guideline will serve you well for years to come.

It’s served me well for the past 13 years.

03/10/2019

💡Hiring made simple💡

I’ve experienced many small businesses who overcomplicate things when they want to hire someone.‼️

Mostly bcos they’ve gotten bad advice from all sorts of ppl!

But the biggest mistake most small biz make is not setting up the right hiring process.

🔥Hiring comes in 3 stages🔥

1. Inflow of candidates / resumes
2. Prescreening and interviewing
3. Having a good offer on the table

“I already know that”🤨

Did you? That’s interesting.

So why is it, you’re still having problems hiring then?🤷🏻‍♀️

In my last post, I touched on the subject of your leadership style and knowing it.

And as the CEO of your own company (and life) it’s crucial to know what your leadership style is.

❓Do you micromanage?
❓Do you need to know what your employees are doing every single hour?
❓Must you see them in the office from 9-5pm everyday?

If you said “yes” to any of the above, chances are that your leadership style is 👎🏼

In addition to knowing your own personal leadership style, managing and setting the right expectations is the next step to finding good ppl to work with.🏆

And setting expectations doesn’t mean the marketing hire needs to be able to

✅Design the collateral
✅Write the copy
✅Build the website
✅Build the funnel
✅Create an email sequence
✅Manage the FB IG social accounts
✅Makes sales online

Of course the above is just an example.... or is it?

Stay tuned next week when I reveal yet another secret to hiring good people.

12/09/2019

❓What is the ROI of Hiring❓
🌐Longevity a.k.a your ability to stay in business
I remember when I was an employee, my manager told me that my main job was to make him look good. Bcos my work will affect his work and his work will affect his managers work and so on.
At the end of the day, everything we did as an organization was to make sure the company makes money.
That’s how we get paid salaries. 💵
That very crucial advice I still remember to this day.
‼️But how do we translate that into our world as CEOs of our own companies?‼️
Can the same principle apply?
The answer is yes it can.
But there’s one more very important element that is a dealbreaker...
✅It’s our leadership style.
You see, when a co-worker leaves the company or department s/he works in, 70% of the time it’s because of the manager above them. 🙋🏻‍♂️
This applies to any organization that has a high attrition rate. You’ll find that, more often than not, they leave bcos of their relationship (or lack thereof) with the manger. 🤦🏻‍♀️
And that can usually be attributed to leadership style.
So what can you do as CEO, to stop your best hires from leaving? ⛔️
Simple answer is you can’t. ❌
I’ll be honest with you - unless you’re taking care of their whole world including their personal lives - you just can’t stop anyone from leaving. Because as this person grows older, their priorities change.
💑The 20something year old you hired who’s now 30 may want to get married and settle down and have kids. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
And if you’re not in any capacity to be able to provide for him/her at 30yo, give them your blessing and let them go. 🙏🏻
Because if you gave them an amazing work experience while they were working with you, who do you think is going to be the first person to recommend your company to the next potential hire?
🔉Especially in this age of social media, your employer brand (what employees say about you) will be a key factor in a potential candidate’s decision making process👀
So learn what your leadership style is and aim to improve that. Your ability to not only find good people to work with but have them stay longer with you will significantly improve.
And that leads to longevity in your business.💰💰

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