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Keith Sims, President of Integrity Resource Management – A member of the Sanford Rose Associates® network of offices, Featured in Bizee, When You Need to Start Hiring

Plano, TX  8/4/2025

By: Sarah Brodsky

Being ready to hire is one sign you’ve made it as a startup. People may not celebrate this milestone as much as a funding round or going public, but it’s important nonetheless; it means that you’re growing and you have room for new employees to contribute. So how do you go from here to successfully expanding your team? Follow these steps.

Identify Hiring Needs

Often, startup founders realize they need to hire when the workload becomes too much for their current team to manage. Another sign that it’s time to hire is if everyone in your company hates doing a certain task. Or, you might realize you need to add personnel if one employee is being required to fulfill too many roles and doesn’t have time to see any of them through. And when a particular assignment is starting to take up 20 to 30 hours of somebody’s time, you’re probably ready to bring on a new employee who will focus on just that job. You also might need to hire when you land a big client, launch a product line or enter a new market.

To prioritize roles to hire for, consider which tasks will lead to the worst consequences—like lost revenue or compliance issues—if they’re not done well. Next, you might think about bringing in employees who will directly promote your company’s growth, such as sales and marketing specialists.

An individual job description can’t cover all your startups’ pain points, so keep it focused. Keith Sims, president of Integrity Resource Management, says organizations often make the mistake of stuffing job descriptions with miscellaneous tasks.

“They put everything in the job description that nobody else wants to do. Okay, just because you come up with a list of stuff that nobody else wants to do does not make it a job,” he says.

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