🖋📖 DO YOU KEEP A BLACK BOOK? 📖🖋 Okay, I personally don't keep an actual black book, and most recruiters and talent acquisition folks have some sort of ATS, but to the civil engineering leaders out there, do you keep a black book? Maybe it's a folder...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with an EIT who has just over two years of experience under his belt. As many of you can relate, this is what his first two years of experience as a civil engineer looked like: 📅 September 2019-March 2020: Fulltime...
🚫🔌🚫🔌 MAKE SURE TO UNPLUG 🚫🔌🚫🔌 Last week I ran a poll amongst the #civilengineering community as the topic of 🔥🔥#burnout🔥🔥 has been a heated one as of late. Of the nearly 500 poll participants: ⏲15% indicated they worked 50-55 hours per week⏲24% were working 55+ hours per week As a...
This three minute video is a drone tour of the amazing Dallas Cowboys facility in #FriscoTx. The 91 acre campus houses not only the full Dallas Cowboy training facility, but also an indoor stadium that hosts high school football games, a boutique shopping center, and a luxury hotel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-jS5YYqeY This pains...
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A few months ago I reached out to a candidate for a civil engineering role I was looking to fill in Texas. She was young, passionate about her career, but she was in the process of looking to buy her first home, and she was...
In February of 2021 Tom Brady won his 7th Super Bowl title...
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...
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...
Death, taxes, and great candidates have short shelf lives...