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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29 Sep Death, Taxes, and Great Candidates Have Short Shelf Lives
Death, taxes, and great candidates have short shelf lives...
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...
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...
02 Mar The Art of Candidate Care
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...
03 Feb What can you learn from these three elite college QB’s?
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...
03 Jan If You Have Ever Questioned the Value of a Recruiter…
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...
27 Aug “Curb Appeal” & Recruiting
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...
03 Jun Establishing a New Corporate Identity
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...
03 Apr Open to a New Job? 4 Reasons to Work with a Search Consultant
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...