EP194: Erin Longmoon – What You Need To Know When Hiring An Employee

Erin Longmoon: This, of course, is where getting support, using outside resources like a company like ours or a coach or somebody to help you really think through who is the right fit so you're not reacting, you're really proactively trying to find the right person rather than just like you said, you know, the first person who says all the right things is clearly the right person to hire. And that's often not the case. That almost always backfires. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Welcome to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a good one. Our guest is the owner of a recruiting business called Zephyr Recruiting that serves the small business community. Erin Longmoon, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here. It's great to have you. And, you know, I think in these times that we are going through, it is never a bad time to talk about how to attract and retain team members and staff, but certainly in a time like now with everything that's happening with COVID-19, taking care of your staff, making sure you have the right people in place, even though you may not be hiring at this particular time or thinking about it, I'm sure some people are. So, Erin, it's great to have you on the show. And please tell us a little bit about you and your career journey leading up to this point.

Ad Read: Yeah, well, that's a long story, so I'll try to be short. But, um, so I'm Erin Longman. As you said, I own Zephyr Recruiting. Um, I am somewhat of a serial entrepreneur. I was born to be an entrepreneur. And so I have owned a number of kind of my own version of small businesses throughout my life. I was able to put myself through college by owning a house cleaning company. I, you know, certain economic downturns where there weren't a lot of job options, I would just kind of create work for myself. And then in 2017, just that journey of entrepreneurship just really lit a fire under me that I wanted to create something more than just a job for myself. I wanted to— I discovered sort of my mission and my passion and wanted to turn