Build a hiring system before you build a team
Hiring your first employees should not feel like guesswork. I help small business owners build a clear, practical hiring strategy so they can grow with confidence, without wasting time on the wrong process or the wrong hire.
Hiring Strategy Session
A focused strategy session for founders who are getting ready to hire and want expert guidance before they start.
What we’ll cover
- Who your first hire should actually be
- How to define the role and responsibilities
- What compensation range may make sense
- Where to find strong candidates
- How to structure a simple interview process
Hiring Sprint
Hands-on advisory support for founders who are actively hiring and want help getting their first hire across the finish line.
What we’ll focus on
- Finalizing the role and ideal candidate profile
- Reviewing resumes and candidate pipelines together
- Structuring interviews and evaluation criteria
- Debriefing finalists and selecting the right candidate
- Offer strategy and next-step decision support
Hiring System Buildout
A multi-session engagement to help you build a repeatable hiring system before you scale, so you are not reinventing the wheel every time you need to hire.
What you’ll walk away with
- Role scorecards and job description templates
- Interview questions and evaluation rubrics
- A candidate tracking workflow that fits your business
- Recommendations for simple recruiting software and tools
- Light setup guidance so your process is easier to run
The Real Cost of a Bad Hire
Hiring your first employee is a big milestone for any business. But when the process is rushed or unclear, the wrong hire can quietly set your business back months.
You spend time recruiting, interviewing, onboarding and training. You trust someone with important work in your business.
Then you realize it’s not working and now you’re back at square one.
The problem usually isn’t the candidate.
It’s the lack of a clear hiring system.
- You spend weeks reviewing resumes with no clear criteria
- Interviews feel conversational but not evaluative
- Great candidates slip through the cracks
- You make decisions based on gut instinct alone
- You find yourself restarting the hiring process
What Hiring Looks Like
After Working Together
Instead of figuring hiring out as you go, you’ll have a clearer process, stronger decision-making, and a system you can actually reuse as your business grows.
Define the role based on the real needs of your business so you are not hiring too early, too broadly, or for the wrong kind of support.
Clarify the role and expectations so your job post and outreach bring in stronger, more aligned candidates from the start.
Move beyond casual conversations and ask questions that help you assess real capability, fit, and readiness for the role.
Evaluate candidates against clear criteria, compare finalists more effectively, and feel less dependent on gut instinct alone.
Create a hiring foundation with templates, workflows, and tools that make future hiring easier and far less chaotic.
What You’ll Walk Away With
Depending on the offer you choose, you’ll leave with:
- ✓A clearer understanding of who you should hire next
- ✓A stronger role definition and clearer expectations
- ✓A more structured interview process and evaluation criteria
- ✓Better decision-making when comparing candidates
- ✓Templates, tools, and workflows that make hiring easier to run
- ✓More confidence in how you hire as your business grows
- ✓A hiring foundation you can reuse instead of rebuilding from scratch
You stop guessing your way through hiring.
You start building a team with intention.
This work is designed to help you make smarter hiring decisions, reduce costly missteps, and create a process that supports growth instead of slowing it down.
Less chaos.
More clarity.
You don’t have to figure it out on your own.
If you’re unclear on what your business needs, that’s completely normal, and we're here to help you figure that out.