Workshop: Practical Hiring Strategies for Small Business Owners

Finding and keeping great people is one of the hardest parts of running a small business - and one of the most expensive to get wrong. This fast-paced, 60-minute workshop cuts through the noise to give you a research-backed hiring framework you can put to work immediately, whether you're hiring your third employee or your thirtieth.

You'll walk away knowing what actually predicts job performance, how to run a fair and consistent interview process that protects your business legally and how to make confident hiring decisions as a team.

What you'll learn:

• How to write job postings that attract the right people and filter out the wrong ones 

• The research-backed predictors of job success

• A simple structured interview framework that's both legally defensible and surprisingly fast to implement

• Assessment best practices to take some of the guesswork - as well as bias- out of your final decision

Whether you're struggling to find qualified candidates, losing good hires to competitors, or just tired of making expensive hiring mistakes, this workshop gives you the tools to do it better.

About Sarah Noyes

Sarah Noyes is a recruiter, HR strategist, and founder of NoyesWorks, a San Francisco-based consultancy that helps growing organizations build the people systems they need to thrive. With nearly two decades of hands-on experience spanning fast-moving startups, tech companies, and mission-driven enterprises, Sarah brings a practical, no-nonsense approach to hiring - one that's grounded in research and designed for real-world constraints.

Sarah also teaches best practices in recruitment and talent strategy, and is known for making evidence-based hiring accessible to leaders who'd rather spend their time running their business than reading HR research. She holds an MA in Organization Development and certifications in Career Coaching and Change Management.