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Intellectual property and freelance contractors
How to manage intellectual property rights if you commission work from freelancers or through work-for-hire agreements
Prevent intellectual property infringement
How to safeguard intellectual property rights by ensuring hard-copy information is kept securely and by protecting computer data
Protecting your business name and domain name
Your business name can be your most important intellectual property asset - learn how to protect it and how to register web addresses
Writing a person specification and job description
Information about job descriptions and person specification
Using employment agencies to find staff
What information to provide employment agencies with to help them find staff for you
Job application process: CVs and application forms
Employers can weigh up the options for recruiting new staff either by requesting CVs or using job application forms
Shortlisting and inviting candidates to interview
How to draw up a shortlist of candidates for interview
Preparing for the job interview
Plan questions, study CVs carefully and make arrangements for the interview
Practical tests, psychometric tests and assessment centres
Tests you can do alongside the interview to help you choose the right candidate
Support for developing your ideas
Where to get help to develop new product ideas if you're looking to manufacture, market, sell or license your inventions
Defining share-option and share-award schemes
Share-option schemes, share-award schemes and share purchase schemes
Science parks
Support and benefits of science parks, including technology transfer and business incubation
Advantages of mentoring
How a successful mentoring programme can benefit the business, mentor, and the individual being mentored
Set up a mentoring programme
How to establish an effective mentoring programme in your business
Mentoring: formal and informal programmes
How formal or informal mentoring programmes work and an example structure for a mentoring programme
Developing effective mentoring relationships
How to get the best from the mentoring relationship
Trade union membership rights
Understand the rights of union members, non-union members and union officials in your business
Intellectual property crime and your business
IP crime is widespread and growing, and has serious economic, quality and safety impacts
Protecting intellectual property
How to conduct an audit of your business' intellectual property rights and take steps to protect and secure your IP
Identify finance options for your business (video)
In this video, business advisers explain how to identify finance options for your business.