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help with this. Let’s discuss the four tools that truly make a difference in business.
1) APPLICANT TRACKING SOFTWARE
Hiring in the golf industry? Create a job using this online tool. It will allow you to distribute your job to the top job boards in one click. With this tool, you can ask optional pre- interview questions and use written, phone, and video resources to identify the top candidates. Application tracking software will
real learned skill set of leadership, no experience running a business, I was in OVER MY HEAD. That’s what I thought anyway. One breath, one step, one moment at a time. I quickly started to figure things out.
First up, hiring staff then scheduling staff, no problem, right? 30 people with their own worlds and I have to arrange their lives. Wait...I was the GM, why was I doing this? Then the reality started to sink in, GM means doing everything. I treated this role as the owner, it meant that much to me. Next up, daily checking of the printer stamped time sheets and calculatingthem.NO,it’sastatutory holiday, more work! Now, onto payroll (WAIT, WHAT??) ...
Operating a business is doing all the fun things: running tournaments, marketing to get new clients, leagues, lessons, food and beverage! Making money! That’s what I thought, I’ll nail this, easy... I didn’t realize that what consumes most of your time when running a business is Labour Relations (Oops, Labour Management). Thankfully, there are tools that exist now to
help to screen your applicants and provide you with the best in one concise list. If you have more than one business, you can share the applications.
This tool allows you to hire employees in a fraction of the time and cost, allowing you time to focus on growth opportunities of your business. It will also allow the candidates to create their own profile and provide all the necessary HR information required on payroll day!
2) TIME AND ATTENDANCE SOFTWARE
How do you schedule your staff, track their sick/vacation time and track their actual hours worked? This is a big one, I mean really big and is likely your largest expense! There are many options for you to use, and it can seriously save you time and money.
I can recall the agony of sitting in the clubhouse with what seemed like 1000 sticky notes of time off requests building a monthly schedule for my employees. It would take me hours. I prided myself on giving my employees the time off they
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