A lecture for organisations · 90 minutes · On site / Online
Hiring and Managing Your First Employees
You have run out of hours, the business cannot take another step on your own, and every version of hiring someone looks financially frightening. Most owners cross this line alone, with no HR function and nobody to ask. What is published is written either for HR professionals or for funded startups, and neither describes a business where a wrong hire is felt the same month. This lecture stays with the owner's version of the problem: whether to hire at all, what the role actually is, what it costs to carry, and how the first weeks are supposed to go.
The content is matched in advance to your audience and goals on a short fitting call.
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Format
- On site · Online
- Built for
- Small business owners, Freelancers
What your audience takes away
- ▸Choose between an employee and a subcontractor on business grounds.
- ▸Work out what an employee costs beyond the salary figure.
- ▸Define the role before writing the advert, so the advert works.
- ▸Plan what the first hire takes over, and in what order.
- ▸Compete for good people on something other than salary.
Who this lecture is for
For owners at the moment they cross from working alone to employing someone. Maof centres and municipal business departments meet them exactly there, payroll bureaus, bookkeeping offices and accounting firms watch it coming in their own client base, and business communities and self employed networks are full of members who have hit their capacity ceiling. Sector associations and franchise networks in food, retail and services use it where turnover is high, alongside family business and second generation owner programmes.
Who delivers the lecture
Alexander Slutsker
Business consultant, entrepreneur and founder of Mobius Business Solutions
- ✓14 years of entrepreneurship and consulting, dozens of businesses and managers accompanied in Israel
- ✓MBA in Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship
- ✓BBA in Marketing and Finance
What organisers say
Alexander's lecture is simply a must for every pre-army programme or youth centre. Our young people received an amazing, practical toolbox for adult life. The content is delivered in a fascinating way, at eye level.
How booking works
- 1
Get in touch
Send a WhatsApp message or use the form, with the date, the audience and the setting.
- 2
A short fitting call
On the call the content and examples are matched to your audience and goals.
- 3
The lecture is delivered
On site or online, 90 minutes, questions from the room included.
Worked with
- Google for Startups
- הבית לעסקים של עיריית שדרות
- Microsoft Reactor
- GameReady
- SderoTech
- IUCEL
- Resilience & Health Innovation Hub
- International Resilience Institute of Sderot
Want this lecture at your organisation?
Send a message with the date and the audience, and a short fitting call matches the content to your organisation.
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Frequently asked questions
Our audience are owners with no HR function. Is this an HR session?
No. HR courses train people who will staff a department. This is for the person who signs the payslip, runs the interview and works beside the new hire the next morning. The decisions stay the owner's, not a process somebody else administers.
Does it give legal advice on employment obligations?
No, and that boundary is stated out loud. Contracts, entitlements and payroll belong with a lawyer or a payroll bureau. What an owner gets here is the management side, plus a clear sense of which questions must never be answered by guesswork.
Does it cover the choice between an employee and a freelancer or subcontractor?
Yes, because it is the first question every owner actually asks and almost nothing published in Hebrew answers it for a small business. The answer turns on what the work is, how continuous it is, and how much control you need over the way it is done.
Many of our members employ relatives. Is that dealt with?
Employing family is ordinary in Israeli small business and rarely discussed honestly. The management questions do not change, a defined role, expectations said out loud and a real conversation when something is not working, but they are far harder to hold when the person is a brother or a spouse.
Is it still useful for owners who already have a small team?
Yes. The trouble that surfaces around early employees is usually what nobody settled at the beginning: an undefined role, expectations that were never voiced, and work that was never properly handed over. Owners with a small team tend to recognise themselves fast.
Part of the audience is experienced and part is new. Will it work?
Yes. The depth is set in advance on the fitting call, examples are matched to the sector, and the base assumes no prior knowledge. Audience questions give the experienced their room too.