New business with old colleagues

Open your own business in retirement - a decision which requires a lot of courage and desire, which, anyway, will bring new cares. One of such issues is to find staff. Recruiting - is stressful for any leader, and even professional "personnel officer", not to mention start-ups. If yesterday's pensioner had no experience of the interview, the search personnel can be extended, or adopted by employees is disappointing businessman. What to do? - The solution lies, it would seem on the surface: "Why waste time and money on finding new people, explore, choose, get used to the fire when you can invite his old colleagues in the shop!". Let's try to understand the pros and cons of the old cadres. Unquestionable advantages: 1. Harmonious team who does not need to explain several times a day, a very simple task, everyone knows the strengths and weaknesses of each other, do not pay attention to the bad mood, and understand each other perfectly. This saves time and do this work, and not confrontation and lengthy explanations. 2. Your former co-workers already receive a pension, so consider work as an extra income, so their wages may be lower than the employee working age, feeding the family. That's pensioners can work at first for the idea, because before them is not the task sverhzarabotka, and they work great for the soul. 3. Experience is experience, namely it is useful at first, when you can not take the time to take risks and avoid strategic mistakes. Employees with more experience are preferred, precisely because they avoid dangerous situations on almost visceral level. Careful attention to the issue and attention to detail are guaranteed! 4. And lastly, one way or another, but retired executives and retired-worker "look in one direction - it is very important, especially in the private small business, when necessary to work with peers in the same direction, to win its market niche," not " hack at the root of "bold business plans of young people, to carry out plans that do not have neither the strength nor the desire. What are the disadvantages, and whether they? - Alas, there is, though not so obvious: 1. The first of the disadvantages is the new status of former colleagues, if previously you were on an equal footing, and now a businessman and his employee would have to build a new relationship on the principle of the chief-subordinate, but this may not be so easy. Even if you had been head of the department, which worked for the current competitor, it is still appraising glance at you as the entrepreneur, can not be avoided, and often, this estimate may be very critical. Talk and talk "and I would have been able, if only" is inevitable if the situation does not subside with time, it is better to say goodbye to the past and to hire new unfamiliar to you, by the previous professional people. If the relationship with your former colleagues of the road, and you value them not only as employees, try contacting a psychologist for advice, a couple of collective activities - and it should get better. 2. Technological progress does not stand still, there's no getting around it, if you had asked Lyuba send a fax or scan a document, and a good sysadmin is not only mending the phone and changed the cartridge, and patiently explained how to send e-mail, will now have to rely on their strength, so it is best if the former colleagues of technically savvy and do not recoil from the computer terms. 3. The problem of searching for "messenger" gets an edge: who will carry a declaration to the tax, who runs away to the post office to send a certified letter, who will go to the bank with card payments? Of course, today 99% of cases can be resolved without leaving a working chair with Internet banking, e-mail and other achievements of civilization, but the "exit operations can not be avoided," somebody has to attend exhibitions, business talks, and visit the various state agencies . Keep in mind that even the youngest retiree may be difficult even to get to your destination with the driver in the car, not to mention the move to public transport. 4. I'll be late and maternity leave, you can forget once and for all. But do not rejoice! Pre-employment, clarify who will sit in the hospital with his grandchildren during the SARS epidemics, please note that age affects the health of your employees: changes in weather, magnetic storms, summer heat and spring slush, - all these factors are not in benefit of retired employees. 5. Lack of ability and most importantly the desire to learn and improve themselves - perhaps the main problem which will face businessman who takes a job pensioner. Categorical rejection of all new: from new suppliers to new ways of working can inhibit business growth. In today's rapidly transforming the world is extremely important to be open to everything new, quickly change course, it is easy to assimilate new information and keep learning - that the requirements for successful modern business, whether retirees to meet them? Of course, to take or not take in the business of the former employee or opt for a young and active, it's up to the entrepreneur, but I'm sure that after weighing all pros and all cons you can find an optimal balance between the familiar way of working before and a new way of life in an environment old, good and trusted colleagues.