Last fall, the chapter hired a full-time Web designer to build its new Internet site. The BBB chapter has since recovered, but your business could be next. And you have to realize we're in Fresno. Underqualified and wholly unqualified workers are pouring into a widening supply gap in the labor market. For large companies, separating the labor wheat from the chaff is easy enough.
Managers know what skills to look for, and intense work environments soon thrash out incompetence.
That task isn't as easy for your small company, however. You may not know what questions to ask. Or you may not have the money to hire the cream of the crop. Most small businesses don't. I can't compete with Intel.