Employee Retention Tips
A recent study by Randstad U.S. reported that 40 percent of U.S. workers said they’re planning to look for a new job within the next six months. Another 69% of employees admitted they are already passively shopping for other opportunities via social media. As an employer, these numbers should be frightening. You spend countless hours Read more »
RealStreet’s President Wins Baltimore Brava! Award
RealStreet Staffing would like to congratulate our President and CEO, Judy McGovern, as a winner of the Baltimore SmartCEO magazine 2013 Brava! Awards. The Brava! Awards celebrate the distinguished achievements of 25 of Greater Baltimore’s women business leaders. Judy, along with the other 2013 Brava! Winners, will be profiled in the July 2013 issue of Read more »
Building a Culture of Performance
Corporate culture governs the way employees interact and work within the organization. For prospective employees and managers alike, the want to maintain a healthy work-life balance is becoming even more prevalent. Therefore, it is no surprise that people find the satisfaction of working for a company with a great culture as important as the job Read more »
Assessing Your Company Culture
Think about this scenario: Company A has a well thought out business plan. It has defined a gap in the market which can be exploited. It has developed a service that people want. But, for some reason a lot of the workforce still isn’t on board. Company B doesn’t quite know what it wants to Read more »
Continuing Education Opportunities for Engineers
Whether you’re a civil, electrical, mechanical or other type of engineer, you know that continuing education is a necessity for advancing your career and maintaining your license. Continuing education requirements for your license may depend on the state in which you’re practicing as well as the discipline. To help you navigate the requirements for CE Read more »
Tips for Keeping Your Skills Current
Have you ever wondered how some individuals continually end up on top? Is it luck? Were they born with natural skills? Were they blessed with great connections or given a head start? Maybe, but more than likely the people on the top got there through hard work and dedication. If you surveyed 100 of the Read more »
Institutional Memory
Companies work hard to develop what is known as institutional knowledge; ways of doing things, procedures and policies that enable the company to perform effectively. But as hard as the company might work to grow this knowledge, over time, it often decays. Some of it may find its way into company policies and procedures, but Read more »
Recruiting Misconceptions
We all have our opinions and beliefs about how things work, based on our experience and education. But often, these beliefs are not quite accurate. They are based on limited evidence, intuition, or colored by emotional bias. The same is true in business, where managers sometimes have mistaken beliefs about their company. It happens to Read more »
Selling Yourself
If you are looking for work, you know that you have to sell yourself to potential employers, to persuade them that you are the best person for the job. However, the idea that the job search is akin to selling is a bit off-putting to some people. The idea of selling in general is seen Read more »
Bad Job Ads — A Real Turnoff
Companies post job advertisements with the aim of attracting qualified candidates, but all too often, they have just the opposite effect – turning them off. One job ad, for example, listed 22 detailed essential job qualifications. What talented, sought after job candidate is going to bother wading through that thicket? What is even more problematic Read more »