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...
"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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It takes no genius to see that the civil engineering profession is booming. I mean step outside and take a look around, what do you see? New single-family and mulit-family residential developments sprouting up everywhere. Major infrastructure and capitol improvements programs taking place. Airports and universities across the...