Hiring Your First Employee: The Complete Legal and HR Checklist

Everything a founder needs to do before, during, and after making their first hire, from EIN to offer letter to I-9 compliance.

Making your first hire is exciting and genuinely complex. This checklist covers every legal and HR step you need to take so you get it right the first time.

Before you make an offer

On or before the first day

New hire reporting

The employee handbook

What comes next