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Browse thoughtful views and opinions about staffing topics from KBW’s perspective.
Quiet Firing: A Wildfire in the Workplace
Quiet Quitting is a social media-powered buzzword that is challenging the business world. The term has proven to represent a variety of employee behaviors which range from the setting of healthy work/life boundaries to the avoidance of ambitious pursuits. While some...
Talent Development is Your Most Critical Product
In today's business world, talent development is more crucial than ever. In the aftermath of COVID-19, businesses must reorient. At the same time, they must adapt to the problems provided by technology's inevitable march. Most businesses will have little choice but to...
6 Musts for Handling Layoffs
Given the rush of the market in the last few years layoffs didn’t seem possible but as speculation of a recession sows fear into the economy, the threat of potential layoffs could become a reality for many organizations. They may be the result of the loss of a large...
Are Your Employees Quiet Quitting?
From LinkedIn to TikTok, “quiet quitting” is a buzzword the business world cannot escape. With over 5 million views on the social media platform Tiktok, this trending topic isn’t describing a style of handing in your resignation but rather a rejection of the “work...
How a Staffing Agency Can Help Your Business
As most business owners will agree, the aggressive hiring market has been making it difficult to find great talent. Finding employees with in-demand skills can be time-consuming and stressful on the best day, and when keeping business on track should be your priority,...
Workplace Committees: Supporting Your Ambitious Employees
Employees crave a workplace that is inclusive, diverse, socially and community committed, and encourages both personal and professional development. For many, having a career is about more than just punching a time-card, and fortunately for these driven employees,...
The Big Spend: Rethinking Hiring Costs
What’s the cost of attracting talent? It’s a common question among employers that seems to have endless answers. In my eighteen years of professional staffing, I have spoken to countless companies who were confident in their expertise on how they attract candidates –...
Contingent Vs. Retained
If you’re considering branching out to a third-party staffing agency to assist your in-house hiring efforts, you’ll likely be tasked with the question of “What type of search to use?”, and “A retained search or a contingent search?” But if you’ve never worked with a...
Job Search Advice for the Recent Graduate
As we celebrate another season of college graduations, employers are preparing for the influx of applications from recent graduates to reach their hiring managers. With the candidate pool saturated by fresh talent, employers are also planning to be more particular...
Economical Staffing
These days it seems like every other news article and LinkedIn post is concerning a possible recession. It’s not our place to comment on whether a recession will happen or not, but regardless of the possibility, it’s the savvy businessperson that acknowledges that the...
Counteroffers: 3 Important Things to Consider
You’ve done it. You’ve hunted, interviewed and now you’re considering accepting a new position with a new employer. Many employees, whether seeking new employment or not, are being contacted by corporate recruiters who are looking to fill open roles with high-quality...
Workforce Retention Simplified
Cultivating a high-performance team is the goal of every hiring manager, and there are a lot of components that factor into workforce retention once a team has been assembled. After spending time, money, and resources on developing and training a winning workforce,...
Helpful Tips on How to Get an Offer Accepted
When I entered the staffing world in 2004, I had no prior experience in specialized recruiting, nor prior experience working through an offer phase. Fortunately, most of my career in recruiting has ended up on the positive side – offer out, offer accepted. However,...
4 Surprising Advantages of Inviting Your Staffing Agency On-Site
Many staffing firms you may be familiar with are large national or even global organizations. In these cases, meeting your staffing agency can be a challenge, if not an impossibility altogether. Locally owned and operated in the southern New Hampshire and Boston area,...
3 Rules for Managing Work-Life Balance
When there are only 168 hours in a week, and 40 of those hours are dedicated to your career, that leaves only 72 waking hours per week, once sleep has been factored, for free time. We often find ourselves left with the question of where to find a balance with it all....