No matter how great your projects are, no matter how many awards you may have won, no matter how fancy dancy your website may be, recruiting candidates is TOUGH. It requires a lot of work. It requires a detailed plan. It's really tough to...
Three reasons why you should not follow your boss from job to job...
When I coach my candidate’s through these life changing decisions, I let them know what they are feeling is normal. It’s human nature. But then I ask them to close their eyes and envision themselves STAYING with their current employer because: 📍They did not want to let...
Despite swimming in the comfort of such recognizable operations, my favorite candidate's are the one's who want more for themselves and their careers. They are the one's who are willing to break free from the ties that bind. They are the ones that...
Consider this. I recently placed a civil engineer who had been with a firm for a little over a year-and-a-half when he unexpectedly received his walking papers. The company was a "spin-off" of a larger company. They were relatively new, but experiencing tremendous growth with...
Did you ever order an entree off a menu that sounded so delicious you just HAD to have it? And then it arrives, and you are fully disappointed. Maybe the ingredients were not fresh. Maybe it was not cooked properly. Maybe the...
Is the "curb appeal" of corporate website hindering your recruitment of talented civil engineering professionals? In the real estate world, "curb appeal" is critically important...
I have been recruiting in the civil engineering profession for over 22 years. Over the course of those two decades, as you can imagine, I have worked with a number of really. bad. clients. I can deal with chasing down invoices, chasing down feedback, and...
Last year, in Texas, it took a civil engineer with 20 years of experience in land development engineering four months to find a job. You read that correctly. Four months. In Texas. For a land development Project Manager to find a job. After working with the candidate for...
Anyone aware of a civil engineering firm who is NOT hiring at this moment? I didn't think so. There is obviously a lot of low hanging fruit when it comes to available opportunities in the marketplace. If you are half decent at your profession, I'm sure you...