Is the hiring your first employee checklist free?

Yes. Copy it as a checklist or print it, with no sign-up. Using it inside ActivityTracker, with the dates filled in, needs an account.

How do the dates work?

Each task has a day counted from the start: Day 1, Day 3 and so on. In ActivityTracker you pick a start date or a finish date, and every task lands on a real day. Tasks that repeat keep repeating.

Can I change it after I add it?

Yes. It's your project: rename it, add tasks, delete the ones you don't need. Save your version with Save as template and it's there next time.

What if the project I need isn't here?

Describe it in a sentence and the AI in Tasks writes a template for it, with sections and dates you can change before you use it.

Project template for founders

Hiring your first employee checklist with every task dated from the day you start

Role, sourcing, interviews, offer, the government setup, the first week: hiring employee number one.

5 sections
17 tasks
Opens as a list
Dated from day 1

First hire: [role]

Days count from the day you start. In the app, pick a start or a finish date and each task lands on a real day.

Define

What will this person have done in six months?Day 1High
Salary range and the budget it comes fromDay 2
Write the job description in plain wordsDay 3
Employment contract draftedDay 5

Source

Post the roleDay 6
Ask ten people you trust for one name eachDay 6High
Screen applicationsEvery Monday

Interview

Screening calls with the top eightDay 15
Working session with the top threeDay 22An hour on a real problem. It tells you more than any question.
References for the top oneDay 25High

Offer and setup

Offer with a deadlineDay 27Urgent
Contract signedDay 31
Payroll, CPF and the leave record set upDay 36High
Laptop, accounts and access ready before day oneDay 41

First week

Day one: the plan for the first month, written downDay 43High
Daily fifteen-minute check-inEvery workday 17:30
End-of-week: what surprised you?Day 47

About this template

The first hire changes the company more than any later one. This project is the whole thing: what the role is for, where to find people, an interview loop you can run alone, the offer, the payroll and CPF setup, and a first week that does not waste them.

Tips from the template

Write what the person will have done in six months before you write the job ad.
Interview at least five people even if the first is good.
Set up payroll and CPF before the start date, never after.

How to use it in ActivityTracker

1Open Tasks and choose Templates.
2Find Your first hire and open it. You see every section and task before anything is added.
3Pick the day you start, or the day it has to be done by. Every date moves with it.
4Press Use template. Rename the project, then work down the list.

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