Got Blog?

As we mentioned in our previous Gazette, we have started building a compilation of articles to help with a variety of career tips and to also provide talent solutions advice for our clients. Here are some recent blog posts that others have found interesting: Be Careful What You Tweet | Monitoring Your Social Footprint The… Read more »


Recipe Corner – Chicken Orzo Salad

Ingredients: 1 (16 oz.) pkg. orzo pasta, cooked 2 whole chicken breasts, cooked and cubed 1 cup chopped celery 1 cup chopped cucumber, optional 2 cups halved grapes, red or green seedless ½ cup sliced almonds, toasting the almonds is optional Salt and pepper to taste Combine all of the above and toss with dressing.… Read more »


The “Human Factor” of Cyber Security – Part 2

You understand the paramount importance of cyber security. You also understand that the weakest link in your security efforts is often your own employees. Through negligence, oversight, and simple misunderstanding, the people using your IT are the ones exposing it to the greatest amount of risk. Luckily, there are ways you can improve user behavior… Read more »


The “Human Factor” of Cyber Security – Part 1

In the knock down drag out battle between cyber security experts and the hackers tying to get around them, there remains one persistent weakness – the end user. Despite rapidly improving technologies, large scale automation capabilities, and an ever greater investment in cyber security, simple human error continues to be one of the most common… Read more »


Accounting Departments Expected to Grow in 2015

A recent survey from the company TaxTalent indicates that accounting departments will grow rapidly in 2015, particularly as they search for talent with tax expertise. The survey polled 365 respondents, and of those a full 69% said that they would be looking for more tax professionals. Perhaps even more significantly, this represents a 28% increase… Read more »


Is it Time for Your Company to Embrace Open Source?

Open source software has proved incredibly popular in the personal computing space with programs like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apache’s OpenOffice offering realistic competition to their proprietary counterparts. But in corporate settings it is much harder to find open source adoption. The reasons for that are complicated, but in almost all cases they boil down to… Read more »


New Additions to Our Team

We are excited to share that we have added five new members to our infrastructure team. Please welcome Berry Sprague, DelVenus Sanders, Jessica Point-du-Jour, Julie Kreidel and Rachel Miller!   Berry Sprague Account Manager Berry Sprague joins The Squires Group with over 10 years of Account Management, Sales, and Resource Management experience in Finance &… Read more »


Google Sends Phone Numbers to the Cloud

For as much as telephones and calling have advanced over the last 20 years, the technology still remains frustratingly limited. Businesses have to contend with labyrinth-like phone systems just to handle basic calling and routing. Individuals still face dropped calls, poor reception, and restrictive phone plans. Despite the ubiquity of phones and the continued popularity… Read more »


Moving Towards a Software Driven Infrastructure

Ask any CIO what their most looming problem is and a number of them will tell you aging legacy infrastructures. The expansion of new data center environments is only placing an additional stress on these infrastructures, and at the same time many emerging markets are building up from a brand new foundation. For those reasons,… Read more »


Accounting Fraud Remains a Persistent Problem

For several years now, instances of accounting fraud have been low and relatively stable. In 2013, for instance, only 47 were reported, and in 2012 there were just 45. Many pointed to these numbers as evidence that new policing measures combined with tracking technologies had created an effective deterrent to the practice. However, a recent… Read more »