03 May What Tom Brady Teaches us About Age Discrimination
In February of 2021 Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl title...
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01 Feb Is Your Hiring Process Crippling Your Ability To Acquire Top Talent?
A Sr. Project Manager (Highway Design-Build) we recently placed emailed me the following message last week: "Thank you Matt.Definitely keep in touch.You got me an amazing job in 5-days.First interview was last Friday 1/15 and second interview was Monday 1/18.Two days later (1/20), my offer...
02 Nov 7 Myths That May Be Holding Back Your Civil Engineering Career
I'm of the philosophy that you can't time the stock market. If you sit on the sideline waiting for the perfect time to get in, you will undoubtedly lose that fight, and opportunity after opportunity will pass you by. This same reasoning, I believe, applies to...
29 Sep Death, Taxes, and Great Candidates Have Short Shelf Lives
Death, taxes, and great candidates have short shelf lives...
22 Sep Understanding The Role You Are Interviewing For
Last week one of my client shared with me a story of a recent candidate who they had interviewed. The candidate had experienced some tremendous success in his five year career thus far that he was very proud of, and rightfully so. His goal was to...
08 Sep The Trickle Down Effect of Employer Ghosting
Earlier this year I had a client interview a candidate. I immediately received feedback from the candidate and proceeded to follow up with my client to swap notes. This was phone interview between an engineer with five years of experience and the hiring manager…not overly...
17 Aug PERSEVERE
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." ~Newt Gingrich 📌To my fellow #recruiters with much smaller work loads than normal: be laser focused in your recruiting efforts and be grateful for the searches you do have,...
07 Jul Offer: $2000.00 Referral Fee
Have you ever: 📌 Referred someone to a great restaurant and they loved it?📌 Referred someone to a great hair stylist who they now go to every time?📌 Referred someone to your mechanic who they now know they can depend on to do a top notch...
03 May What Will the “New Normal” Look Like for Consulting Engineering?
As I speak to civil engineers across the country on a daily basis, I have been trying to understand what the "new normal" will look like when it comes to the physical work environment within the consulting engineering community. Of course a lot of...
30 Mar Video Interview? No Problem!
Let's just start with this, shall we? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY I'm not sure how long Zoom and SKYPE job interviews will be the new norm, but until we beat this pandemic, or at least until #socialdistancing policies relax, get used to it. 6 TIPS TO HELP YOU MASTER...