Employee Review Season.
Along with the glorious start of the Major League Baseball season, it's employee review season at Happy Cog. I always perform employee reviews on each employee's yearly anniversary, so I guess I ended up hiring a lot of people in the months of April and May in past years.
There are currently 11 full time employees and 3 contractors in working in our Philly office. Before I started running my own shop, I never really anticipated I'd be knee deep in such things as employee health plans, safe harbor 401(k)s, accidental death & dismemberment coverage, business tax strategies, and so on. To be honest, organizing and maintaining this stuff is as fun as hanging out in a construction site porta-john. On the flip side, I really enjoy the employee review process. I always find it enlightening and I hope my coworkers feel the same way. If they don't, I'll note that on their next review.
I was a management major in college, with a focus in entrepreneurship. I think I had a human resource management class or two, but I'll be damned if I can remember anything from them. Such classes must have been on Friday mornings, because Thursday nights usually involved plenty of Keystone Light followed by solo walks home at 4 AM. As a result, I have learned to rely on real-world experience to inform my process. Sure, I've managed people before running my own firm, but I was never solely responsible for their professional growth, determining their salaries, or making sure they were challenged and happy.
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