A phone interview is a valuable recruitment tool, especially when you need to whittle down a large candidate pool or connect with candidates located out of state. Unfortunately, the traditional phone interview is often used more as an information-gathering tool than a real candidate evaluation. If you’re looking to intensify your phone interview to give… Read more »
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Building Team Morale by Exhibiting Thankfulness
The Thanksgiving holiday is right around the corner, and that got us thinking about the important but under-appreciated role that thankfulness plays in the workplace. In all sorts of meaningful ways, exhibiting thankfulness helps to boost team morale and motivate your team. If you are trying to develop the kind of cohesive, inspired, and committed… Read more »
The Benefits of Working at a Dog-Friendly Company
There are a lot of things you can do to motivate employees: offer better compensation, more opportunities for advancement, a fun company culture, the list continues. But one other strategy worth keeping in mind is making your office dog friendly. Working for an employer that welcomes dogs in the office has a number of unexpected… Read more »
Take Your Job Description and Throw it in the Trash
In your recruiting efforts, have you ever struggled to put together a list of interview candidates? Have you ever made a hiring decision feeling less than enthused about your choice? Have you given someone a job only to have them fizzle out in under a year? You might be able to blame all these common… Read more »
Salary Negotiation – From the Recruiter's Perspective
Neither candidates nor clients enjoy the salary negotiation process, but it is ultimately the recruiter that has the largest burden of the bunch. They are beholden to both parties and have to remain objective even when the process becomes contentious. But it’s for these exact same reasons that recruiters are so often brought into the… Read more »
Salary Negotiation – From the Hiring Manager’s Perspective
As an employer, you are often considered the “bad guy” in the salary negotiation process – the person that will drive the price as low as possible. But as almost all hiring managers know, you can’t expect to recruit top talent without offering them fair compensation, and it rarely benefits the company to try and… Read more »
Hackers Use Google to Steal Corporate Data and What it Means for Your Organization
Sophisticated hackers recently used a previously unknown strategy to cover their tracks in an elaborate scheme to steal data from corporate and government computers. If you deal with sensitive digital information of any type, you need to be aware of this attack and the ever-evolving threat that hackers like this create. The issue was first… Read more »
Salary Negotiation – From the Candidate's Perspective
A salary negotiation can be both a golden opportunity and a major source of anxiety. As a new hire, you don’t want to hold out for too much, or make your employment entirely incumbent on compensation. But at the same time, you want your skills and experience to be appropriately valued by your employer. You… Read more »
The Squires Group, Inc. makes BBJ’s Top 50 Woman-Owned Business List
Annapolis, MD, September 12, 2014 – The Squires Group, Inc. (TSGi) announced that it has been named in Baltimore Business Journal’s (BBJ) 50 Largest Woman-Owned Business list. BBJ publishes this list on an annual basis and the ranking is based on prior year revenue. TSGi was ranked #9 on this list published on September 5,… Read more »
ServiceNow – What is It and What are the Latest Trends?
If you have been involved with IT in any capacity over the last 10 years, you have probably heard the name ServiceNow. That is because in just a short period of time, this platform-as-a-service provider has become one of the major players in the world of IT management. And with the company increasingly servicing the… Read more »