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Jobs Campaign: Just One More Job!

last update: 9/30/2004

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Sole Proprietors:

Hire One Person Per Year

In today's world, there are diverse ways to hire somebody without the constant burden of keeping them motivated, on time, and productive.

Today there are plenty of groups who will handle the management and all that paper work for you.

It is easier today than it has ever been before to lighten your load, stop doing tedious things, and focus on your big picture.

If you will work with the local Workforce Initiative and Economic Development people of your neighborhood, there is an easy five-step development that should occur:

1. You create a job. Just write up that job description, be very specific, but do not post it on Monsters.com yet. That is not quite focused enough. Your preference should be clear -- interns are internal, virtuals are web based, and the outsourced is a combination of the two. This effort is for your community development. Specify what type of employee you would like to try to have work within your corporate culture.

2. Workforce-Economic Development (WED): Introductions to local employment specialists to help -- there are many groups.

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Get on your path and focus on the next step.

Step 8. Exit at the top	$$$$
Step 7. Sustainability	$$$$
Step 6. Growth	$$$
Step 5. Employer	$$
The next four steps you run / grow your business.

Step 4. Sole proprietor	$$$
Step 3. Incubate	$$$
Step 2. Start-up	$$
Step 1. Initial idea	$
The first four steps you start / run your business.

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3. Employment specialists. Administaff and Manpower, but inclusive of local employment agencies as well, will find the candidates and even hire on a 30-day trial for you. Some of these groups will manage that person if you so desire.

4. Payments and paperwork. ADP and other payroll services groups will make the weekly payments and keep all the records for the local, state and federal taxes.

5. Reports. Again, groups like ADP and other local accounting/CPA groups will take care of all the compliance work.

These are very small step to take a huge leap from being a sole proprietor -- at least you are creating work for yourself -- to being an employer. Please examine the stories and references within Step 5 (above right box).

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