Don't Waste the Chaos
Don't Waste the Chaos is a weekly podcast for small business owners and HR professionals who want practical, no-nonsense people strategy.
Host Kerri M. Roberts is an HR strategist, consultant, and founder of Salt & Light Advisors with 20+ years of experience turning reactive HR into proactive systems.
Each Tuesday, she breaks down hiring, onboarding, compliance, culture, and leadership - the kind of strategy that typically costs thousands in consulting, delivered in under 40 minutes.
If you're managing people and want to do it better, this show is for you.
New episode every Tuesday.
Learn more about the show and Kerri at www.kerrimroberts.com.
Don't Waste the Chaos
How to Build a Hiring Process for Your Small Business (5 Components That Actually Work) | HR Systems Series Ep. 2
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Think back to the last person who didn't work out in your business. Was it a people problem - or a process problem? Nine times out of ten, it's the process.
In this episode, Kerri Roberts walks through the 5 components of a real small business hiring system - so you can stop winging it and start building a process that protects your business and brings in the right people. [This is Episode 2 of the 13 HR Systems Series.]
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What you'll learn in this episode:
→ Why most small business hiring is a reaction, not a process — and what that costs you
→ The 5 most common hiring mistakes (and how to stop making them)
→ Component 1: How to write a job description that works as an interview rubric, onboarding guide, AND performance baseline
→ Component 2: Why "post and hope" isn't a sourcing strategy →
Component 3: Why your most charming candidate isn't always your best hire — and how structured interview questions fix this →
Component 4: What you legally cannot ask in an interview (ever — not even as small talk)
→ Component 5: How to score candidates so gut bias stays out of your hiring decisions
→ The pre-boarding window: what to do between offer accepted and day one
→ I-9 verification: the legal requirement most small businesses get wrong
→ What a hiring system actually looks like for a business that only hires 1–2 people a year
YOUR ONE ACTION FROM TODAY: Pull up whatever you're currently using as your interview questions. If you don't have any written down, open a doc right now and write 10. Same questions, every candidate, every time. That's where the system starts.
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ABOUT KERRI ROBERTS Kerri M. Roberts is an HR strategist, consultant, and founder of Salt & Light Advisors with 20+ years of experience helping small and midsize businesses build the HR systems that protect their business and empower their people. She is the author of The HR Easy Button and host of Don't Waste the Chaos, releasing every Tuesday.
