If you’re an entrepreneur, then maybe you’ve come up with a business model you feel sure will make you millions. Perhaps you’ve started your company, and you’re getting it off the ground. Maybe you got a bank loan, or perhaps you got an angel investor or a venture capital firm that believes you have a winning formula.

You should know, though, that your business can only succeed if you attract some excellent workers. Your employees can take your company from a startup to the next level. At that point, you might go national or even international.

Let’s discuss how you can ensure you’re hiring the best workers for your business.

Make Sure They Can Follow Your Rules

You probably have some workplace rules in place. Those rules keep everyone safe. You don’t just make up and institute arbitrary policies.

Preventing accidents from occurring in the workplace means hiring workers who take the job seriously. Before you hire someone, ask them whether they can do that. No careless person will likely admit that quality, but you can still emphasize that you take these things seriously before you hire this individual.

You can observe this person once you hire them. You can take them through an onboarding process and see how they act during the first couple of weeks you have them on the job.

If you can see that they take the work seriously and they don’t disobey any rules, you’ll know you’ve found a good worker. If they seem like they play around a lot, you might dismiss them for that reason.

You Can Give Them a Trial Period

You may also hire someone and tell them you’ll give them a trial period. You may give them a couple of weeks or a month.

You can let them know that you’ll evaluate their performance during the period you stipulate. If they can impress you during that time, you should keep them on. If they don’t seem like the right fit, you can thank them and tell them that you’re going in a different direction.

You Can Look Into their Background

You may also check up on someone by contacting their references. They should have some personal character references like family members or friends. However, if they have some professional references, you can trust those much more.

Someone who worked with this person in the past can tell you about them. Presumably, they won’t have a reason why they’d lie for this individual. If they feel this person helped their company and made it better, they will tell you so. If they think the opposite, they will tell you that as well.

The person might also give you the names and contact information of a former college professor or someone similar. This individual might know that person in a different context, but they can still let you know about their temperament and personality. You can learn a lot if you question these former contacts.

You Can Look into Their Education and Work Experience

You should look into each candidate’s education and work background. If they’re a college graduate, you can consider what university they attended. If that institution of higher learning has a great reputation and they’re academically rigorous, that can tell you this person has tenacity, and they’re studious as well.

If you see that they passed with flying colors, that might impress you. You should make sure they graduated from that college, though. Some people may fabricate their educational background, and if they did, you can quickly find that out.

You can look into their work background as well. Maybe they worked for a company in your niche or industry that you know makes great products or offers excellent services. If this person worked at that company and did something useful there, they can probably do the same for you.

You Can Do a Background Check

You can also do a thorough background check on each candidate. You might look into someone’s past and find out that they’re an ex-convict.

That might not necessarily disqualify them. However, you should see what crime or crimes they committed. If they have a couple of minor drug arrests, maybe you won’t think that’s very bad. If they killed someone or did something equally heinous, you might feel you shouldn’t hire them for that reason.

You can also look at any social media profiles this person has set to public. Many times, you can learn about a candidate this way.

If they’ve posted any offensive memes or said anything overtly racist, sexist, or otherwise distasteful, you can find out about them that way. Often, someone will post something that tells you all about them, and they won’t realize they’ve made a mistake till you call them out on it.

If you can vet every person who works for you very carefully, you should quickly learn which ones can help your business succeed and which ones can’t. You should have a particular culture at your workplace that you cultivate and maintain.

All your workers should know about it. They should know your company’s goals and how they should behave when they’re on the clock. You need enthusiastic workers who prioritize your company’s success, just like yourself.

If you can create an atmosphere where everyone enjoys working, then you can probably retain your employees. You can also offer competitive salaries. You can offer job perks like excellent healthcare, 401K plans, paid time off, paid vacation, maternity and paternity leave, etc.

Since not all businesses have all of that, you can encourage company loyalty and probably keep your best workers. You won’t have as much employee turnover, and you can lead within your niche or industry.

You can continue growing exponentially and open more brick-and-mortar store locations. If you have a strictly eCommerce business model, you can grow your website and get more visitors and sales. It starts when you hire the best available workers.