Hiring staff the right way

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Hi folks,
I'd like to get some opinions on adding staff. The first person I'd like to hire is someone to act as an assistant on steroids. Pretty much a processor who I could eventually make an office manager. I'd like this person to handle incoming calls. We're talking 150+ calls per month. They'd hand the filled out info sheet over to the acquisitions dept(me for now) and I'd take over. We get the contract, they handle paperwork for every deal between title co and attorneys, etc. would also do bookkeeping and organizing of all our buyers and sellers.

I would also like to bring in someone for acquisitions eventually although I think this will be an easier position to fill as I'm pretty clear on what I'd be looking for. Question is can on person do this job or should it be broken into 2? Taking calls, doing books and imputing data for our buyers and sellers. Aside from that faxing and/or delivering paperwork. Eventually when theyre fulltime theyll oversee some marketing but that will be the bulk of it. This person will make my life so much easier and being I already have a project manager working as an independant contractor, this will probably be my first full time employee. Any feedback is valued greatly. God bless.

[J Scott]

Originally posted by Deshone Drummond:

I'm also sitting here considering if I should have a 9-5 business model or not. It's doesn't seem practical considering what we do and when a lot of sellers might be home. If someone is in charge of acquisitions should they just be on call, such as an outside sales type job even though they're going to be dealing with the sellers. Maybe we could do a 12-7 routine.

I thought you mentioned in a previous post that you wanted to use an independent contractor for this position, as opposed to a full-time employee. If you use an IC, you can't really expect the person to be "on call" or to work set hours every day. The IRS would classify someone in that capacity as an employee.

Just something to consider when you're creating the job description...