Have you ever been to a conference or workshop where an experienced HR professional answers the questions of startup founders? I’ve been to a few and it was shocking how every time 90% of the questions revolved around one thing: how do you get rid of an employee that doesn’t perform? People weren’t interested to find out how to screen candidates or put together a good offer. They wanted to know how to protect their company from a bad hire.
Many business owners are scared that their first hire won’t be a successful one and they will get stuck with a deadbeat employee. And I can totally understand why they are scared. When you’re starting up, you can’t afford to pay people that aren’t productive or that prove to have a toxic attitude. Just one or a few rotten apples in your team can do so much damage that it could get you out of business.
Business owners usually find two solutions to protecting their company from bad hires but those rarely prove to work in their favour:
Hiring past co-workers
That way there aren’t any surprises. Business owners know what to expect and what type of incentive would motivate their past co-worker to deliver great work. On the other hand, the transition from co-workers to employer-employee might be difficult to manage. Another possible issue could be the salary a past co-worker would expect. They might be at a time in their career when they want to earn more than what a small business owner could afford.
Hiring friends
This is something every small business owner thinks about at one point and the story can have a happy ending or it can become a horror show, depending on how close or distant the friend is and what type of relationship was built over time. All discussions about money will be awkward and firing a friend will be more difficult than anything else.
Luckily there is another option, and this 100% safe solution will do a lot more than protect a company from a bad hire.
If you need to hire someone to handle content marketing for you, web design or web development, bookkeeping or accounting, copywriting, online marketing, customer support or administrative tasks, you can look for a remote employee. If you hire one through a recruiting agency you’ll get more benefits than hiring on your own.
Why hire a Philippine-based remote assistant
The Philippines represents the 3rd largest English speaking country in the World and a top destination for small businesses and big corporations that want to cut costs by outsourcing time-consuming tasks.
Your budget isn’t an obstacle any more. A monthly salary in the Philippines represents 20-30% of an American or Australian monthly salary. If you can afford to hire a local inexperienced worker, for the same money or less you can add a Philippine-based worker to your team, who has a lot of experience in your field and that could actually train your other employees.
Terminate and hire as you need. If the first remote worker you hired isn’t a good match as you thought during the interview, you can swap him for free with a new employee. This is easy to do because of the type of agreements signed between workers and the recruitment agency.
No paperwork hassle or payroll management. The recruitment agency takes care of everything. All you have to do is to pay one monthly invoice that covers the employee’s salary and other additional services. You’ll get access to online tools that will allow you to track the work done by your new employee and make sure he’s productive and happy.
The economy is difficult as it is, and small business owners struggle every day to make ends meet. Outsourcing is a great way to support the building phase of your company and achieve the financial stability that will allow you to hire locally and expand your business further.
