Hiring can be one of the most difficult tasks when growing a small business.  Each team member you add brings hope of additional value and expertise to grow your business.  But there is always a concern about hiring a team member that does not fit the culture of your company or winds up on the “outside.”

DefinedLogic started with three people ten years ago.  As a technology services company, we are selling the skills of our resources.  We do not have a product that we can have a potential client touch or try.  Our product is our people, so ensuring we have the best talent for each client is very important to our success.

We are now over 50 people, and have utilized several methods for finding and screening potential candidates.  We use standard recruitment practices, for example, outside recruitment firms.  However, one of the most effective ways of hiring talented people (that fit our culture) is to use our current staff to help recruit.  The larger our staff grew, the more we realized how effective our employees could be at recruiting friends, former co-workers, and even family to continue to grow our DefinedLogic family.

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So you allowed an app access to your Facebook account, but now it’s posting every single thing you do to your Timeline. Your friends are tired of seeing every article you read on The Huffington Post and frankly you are a bit embarrassed of your reading choices. Good news. You can easily manage app settings in Facebook so that your friends are not notified when you catch up on Snooki’s pregnancy or rock out to the Backstreet Boys.

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I had a chance to catch up with David Goldsmith recently and get the latest on Butterfile, a next-gen learning management system he founded for school administrators, teachers, students and parents to easily communicate, collaborate, access and share multimedia content.  In partnership with DefinedLogic, David’s vision for an educational platform in the cloud is now a reality after several months of interface design, software development and testing.  Here’s what David had to say over coffee last week.

So, what’s the latest with Butterfile?

David – “Lots of exciting news so far this year and we are less than 3 months into 2012!  We successfully deployed

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HR Wants To Know

A news report was released recently stating that your Facebook page is a better determinant than an IQ test of what kind of employee you would be.  According to a study to be published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, employers can determine personality traits such as openness to new experiences, emotional stability, and agreeableness, based on the content of your Facebook page.  These personality traits determine job performance, and your Facebook page is more genuine and telling than an answer you may give in an interview.

The study says that sharing a lot of personal information may indicate agreeableness.  Lots of Facebook “friends” can indicate an extroverted personality.  Posting links to varieties of books, activities, and quotations may tip off to a potential employer that you have intellectual curiosity and creativity.

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