Your business depends on talented employees who are well-suited for their roles. When a vacancy opens up, quickly filling it can help to keep your business productive. Creating a job ad is a standard part of running a business, but it can be challenging. This article will guide you through the process of creating a… read more.
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Pay Periods: Everything You Need to Know
Pay periods are a vital part of ensuring your pay process runs smoothly and accurately. While it might seem like a straightforward process at first glance, there’s more to managing pay periods than initially meets the eye. As a business, you want to get a handle on your pay period cycles as soon as you… read more.
How to Create a Hiring Test
Hiring is a strategic decision that carries long-term implications for most businesses. Getting it wrong wastes not only your time and resources but also stumbles your business growth. Creating a hiring test is a proven way to minimize recruitment mistakes and filter out any candidates that do not fit your business requirements. How do you… read more.
How to Conduct a Group Interview
Compared to one-to-one interviews, group interviews have many advantages. You’ll be able to test multiple hires at once, see how the interviewees work in a group, and can reduce your cost per hire, saving resources elsewhere. Our guide will show you how to conduct a group interview step-by-step and discuss the challenges you may face…. read more.
Gusto vs QuickBooks Payroll
Payroll services process your payroll calculations, tax statements, and year-end taxes. Gusto is one such service that made our top picks list for its ease of use. You can check out our complete list here. QuickBooks Payroll, on the other hand, didn’t make our top list. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth considering. In… read more.
Payroll Tax: Everything You Need to Know
Hiring your first employee is exhilarating. It’s also the day you become responsible for payroll tax. Payroll tax is a blanket term used to refer to all taxes paid on employee’s wages. They include Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) and self-employment taxes. Both of these cover Social Security and Medicare taxes. As an employer, you’re… read more.
Human Resources Jobs: Everything You Need to Know
Being connected to every company employee, the HR department is the spine of most organizations. They keep things standing and moving forward toward success. Despite this, business owners don’t do much to improve their HR health. It’s neither human nor a resource for them. While most leaders understand the main functions of HR, they don’t… read more.
Payroll Certification: Everything You Need to Know
Payroll has completely transformed in the past few years. What used to be simple and straightforward has become much more complicated, involving multi-state taxes, payroll compliance, wage garnishments, and whatnot. And let’s not forget the complex environment of company guidelines, IT systems, and privacy regulations in which the employee pay systems are managed. Naturally, expertise… read more.
Form 944: Everything You Need to Know
You have several responsibilities as an employer—filing the IRS Form 944, also known as the Employer’s Annual Federal Tax Return, is one of them. So what is Form 944? Eligible small business owners who withhold income and payroll taxes from their employees’ paychecks can file this form to report federal income tax and FICA tax… read more.
How to Create a Payroll Budget
Budgeting helps determine in advance whether you have enough money to do things you need and want to do. Better yet, it gives you a spending plan to ensure you always have money for the things you need. Payroll budgeting works similarly, but instead, it focuses on manpower. It tells you what staffing you’ll need… read more.