4 Ways to Make 2015 Your Breakout Year

If you want to make 2015 the year when you find a great new job or get the promotion you have been hoping for, follow these 4 strategies. Set Personal Goals You know you want something different, but do you know exactly what that looks like? At the start of the year, write down specific… Read more »


In The Perfect Space – iPad Winner Announced

Congratulations to Lisa Cesnick who is the first winner of our In The Perfect SpaceSM iPad drawing. Congratulations Lisa! Lisa visited our new website and was interested in knowing more about how we help people find great jobs. So, she clicked the link to our mini-site – which showcases our In The Perfect Space methodology. “I… Read more »


Why Hiring in December is a Gift

As part of your broader strategic staffing initiative, consider making bold hiring decisions at the end of the year. Refining your workforce before the start of 2015 has a number of benefits you simply can’t take advantage of once the new year comes. Here are a few you might not be aware of: Draw from… Read more »


Unique Strategies for Intensifying Your Phone Interview

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 »


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 »