Avoid Hiring a Bad Candidate Because They Are a Good Interviewer

Avoiding a bad hire is a solution that managers have been trying to find since the beginning of industry. When a candidate says all of the right things during an interview, identifying bad employees can be nearly impossible. It may require restructuring your company’s application process entirely. However, the cost of a bad hire far… Read More »

6 Reasons to Kick Your Procrastination Habit Now!

We’ve all been there. You have a deadline creeping up, but instead of finishing it over the weekend, you clean your entire house and organize your sock drawer. What we think we’re doing is taking back our freedom from work, when in reality we’re chaining ourselves to an even tighter deadline under even more pressure.… Read More »

3 Things To Expect At Your Next Warehouse Interview

Warehouse workers play a critical role in ensuring that things in an industrial facility are running smoothly. They are often tasked to help oversee product shipments, unload supplies, organize inventory, store merchandise and prepare items for delivery. Workers that are promoted to management roles oversee these operations, making sure that staff members are productive and… Read More »

5 Tired Myths About Millennials to Make You Say ‘I Can’t Even!’

Millennials are the generation to talk about in 2016. Surely, you have seen articles that defend millennials and articles that rip them apart. In either case, many of these articles are asserting major assumptions. When discussing a group of people who currently range from nonworking 14 year old kids to mid-career 30-somethings, generalizations are far… Read More »

Freshen Up Your Recruitment Strategy in Four Steps

Having a modern recruitment strategy vs. a traditional recruiting process is often the difference between hiring decent reliable employees and hiring rockstars who are going to propel your company further. There is a new wave of talented professionals who have a different standard for what they look for in an employer. If you want to… Read More »

How the Gig Economy is Favoring Employees

As companies shift to on demand work, construction workers and other light industrial laborers have the opportunity to really capitalize on this new gig economy. Flexibility and control are two words that are rarely, if ever, associated with physical labor jobs. However, workers can now have both in their career, if they take advantage of… Read More »

Our 8 Step Plan to Get Prepared For New Overtime Laws

The Department of Labor has made amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act that will take effect December 1st of this year. The amendment increases the minimum threshold salary to receive overtime pay of full-time salaried employees from $23,660 to $47,476. This was a necessary shift to adjust for inflation as only seven percent of… Read More »

Why Should I Look for “Soft Skills” in My Next Manufacturing Hire?

Technical skills have always been the focus when hiring manufacturing clients. Interpret that as you will, but the fact is – manufacturing is dangerous, intricate work and unskilled hands are hazards. Innovations in manufacturing are likewise made by keen, observatory brains and an ability to enlist technical and physical awareness as an ally to equations,… Read More »

Navigating the Grey Area of Employee Absences

Employee absence is usually pretty black and white. You show up or you use one of your vacation or sick days. It’s that simple right? Not quite. Let’s say one of your employees has a disability and said disability requires frequent visits to the doctor’s office, as well as an above average time away from… Read More »

5 Types of Questions That Will Knock the Socks Off Your Interviewer

You’re coursing through question after question in your interview feeling like you’re nailing each one and then the ball drops: “Do you have any questions for me?” The “me” is always emphatic and the silence is always palpable. “Nope, I’m good!” is a standard response and only a one-off from incomprehensible stammering. You never feel… Read More »