ANNAPOLIS, Md. (June 17, 2015) – The Squires Group, Inc. (TSGi) today announced the hiring of five new team members – Berry Sprague as an Account Manager, DelVenus Sanders as an Accounting Specialist, Jessica Point-du-Jour as a Resource Management Assistant, Julie Kreidel as a Resource Manager and Rachel Miller as a Contracts Assistant. Berry Sprague… Read more »
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Venture Capitalists Remain Committed to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley has long been a funnel for astounding amounts of venture capital financing. In the year 2000, upstart investors poured $9 million into the region’s tech companies in a single quarter. That was in the halycon days before the dot com bubble burst, but venture capitalists remain just as committed to Silicon Valley as… Read more »
In The Perfect Space – iPad Winner Announced
Congratulations to Jim Bauman who is the second winner of our In The Perfect SpaceSM iPad drawing. Jim visited our website and was interested in knowing more about how we help people find great jobs. So, he clicked the link to our mini-site – which showcases our In The Perfect Space methodology. This mini-site is designed… Read more »
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 »