By Kathy Provost:
I am always impressed when working with a candidate who is actively "managing" his or her career. The majority of us take advantage of opportunities that just happen to come our way, but the smart folks actively create these opportunities, by following some or all of these career management principles:
Set a goal, with a timeline: where do you want to be in 2, 3,...
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Great Employees From Day One
We’ve talked about the importance of onboarding in past blogs and videos. When you have a well-planned out method for onboarding new staff, everyone wins. The new staff member feels like they made a great choice in accepting your position and your organization wins because you have a happy and soon to be productive employee.
As a recruiter in Boston with decades of experience, we’ve made some o...
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Closed Searches In Our Biomedical Search Division
The Biomedical Search Division of King & Bishop provides executive recruiting and search services within the Medical Device industry. The team has been busy supporting the needs of our clients with great success in 2015. Our search assignments are typically from clients headquartered in New England that support openings regionally and nationwide.
The volume and scope of demands from our cl...
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Paid Leave In Massachusetts- Is Your Company Ready?
On July 1, 2015, the Massachusetts Sick Leave Law will go into effect. In short, a Massachusetts employer must provide employees with one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked. All employees start accruing sick time starting on July 1, 2015.
Here are a few important details of the new law:
Full and part time employees of companies that have 11 or more on staff are eligible for sick lea...
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You Made a Great Hire…Now What?
Any hire you make is an investment in the future growth of your organization. Make the right hire and get them up to speed and you’ll hopefully see great things from that new addition.
Bringing them on board and not having a clear plan to make them part of the team quickly can result in a great hire gone bad. And that only costs your company time, money and other valuable resources.
In the v...
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More tips on making a great hire
Making a great hire can do wonderful things for your organization. It can move your company in the right direction, help with growth and improve performance in that given department or area. Making a bad hire can do just the opposite; and have far more lasting effects than if you made a great hire.
Hiring is a big step for some companies. While a great hire is an investment in your future growt...
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Why should my company use a recruiter?
There are many cases in business when outsourcing certain critical tasks makes perfect sense. Many companies outsource their accounting and collections, others outsource marketing and PR tasks. What also makes a lot of sense for many reasons is hiring a recruiter to help you build your team. Especially if you are a small business and don’t have a full time HR department in your organization.
He...
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How to have a great job interview
We could write a book on this topic and maybe we should but for now, our expert recruiters thought they would offer those hitting the job market with a few tips on how to ace a job interview. If your resume was written well enough to get you in the door, then you’ll want to take the next step in ensuring you keep that forward momentum going.
Here are a few things you should do that you might no...
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A Few Takeaways From Last Week’s Jobs Report
Last week’s Jobs Report was a good one in terms of jobs created. As you may have seen, 223,000 jobs were created for the month of April, a much better number than the previous month of March in which just 85,000 jobs were added, a number revised in this Jobs Report.
So what industries are doing well in this report? Professional and business services led the way with 62,000 jobs added. Behind th...
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The SBANE Innovation Awards
The SBANE Innovation Awards were held on May 6 and it was a great night for both business and non-profits. Many organizations were recognized for their forward thinking. The program started in 1986 and we have seen many companies get the recognition they deserve for bringing such valuable ideas forward.
A special congratulations to our friends at New England Center for Children and Comark.
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