Discover best practice as you start to hire your first freelancers, part-time, or full-time staff to support your business growth. By NX Hub at Goldsmiths.
Posted: 06/02/2021
About this event
Getting through the hiring process, finding great people, and managing them effectively can be challenging! Come along to this workshop to find out what to do (and what not to do) to avoid pitfalls, drama, and disappointment as you start to hire your first freelancers, part-time, or full-time staff to support your business growth.
During the workshop you’ll take steps towards devising the perfect hiring process, and we’ll discuss a range of apps and tools to aid productivity, so you are able to manage both your business, and your team efficiently! In addition to this, we’ll explore a range of places to hire staff, and we’ll discuss the range of different payroll systems available to help you get set up and ready to welcome your new hires.
About the Trainer:
Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL is a software delivery specialist, global tech startup mentor, author, speaker, and lecturer. She has written five books for SMEs and entrepreneurs, including the Amazon international bestsellers, Develop Your Idea! and Don’t Hire a Software Developer
Until You Read this Book. More recently she has been mentoring SME’s with Goldsmiths, University of London as part of the DEK Business Growth Programme.
Kay speaks at conferences, and judges at startup competitions, and has been recognised by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards as one of the 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in the UK Technology Sector. Kay is the founder and CEO of Purposeful Group, and Tech Startup Academy™ – a community and centre for learning which has served entrepreneurs on five continents, providing books, mentoring, workshops, and programmes that support tech startup founders around the world as they build their businesses from scratch.
About the Organisers
This series is brought to you by NX Hub at Goldsmiths, University of London, and EY Foundation, as part of a collaboration to engage SME’s in Lewisham and SE London to support young people into work.
EY Foundation are an organisation devoted to helping young people form low-income backgrounds develop the skills, experiences and support they need to create essential career opportunities. More information about the charity can be found here: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/corporate-responsibility/ey-foundation
