Part of our step-by-step series to help with hiring, we're looking at how you write a good job description. After all, getting the right person means making sure you know exactly what skills and knowledge they need.

Our step-by-step series on how to hire takes you through the process of bringing new employees into your business. In this article, we offer some ideas on who to hire first, and explain how they'll help grow your business even more.

Next in our step-by-step series, we ask whether your business is financially ready to take on a new employee. With a few simple steps, you’ll work out how you can afford a new employee. And we give some useful tips in case the numbers don’t add up yet.

When it comes to the cost of hiring, there's a lot more to think about than wages. Tax, National Insurance and pensions add costs of their own. Before all that, you have to think about finding the person in the first place.

Wondering whether it’s time to think about hiring? As the first step in our series about hiring, we’ve put together a few questions to help you answer this. Spoiler: if you answer yes to all of them, it’s definitely time to start hiring.