Staffing Myths Busted: No, We’re Not Just Sending You Random People Off the Street

Let’s address the elephant in the room: staffing agencies get a bad rap. Some people think we just grab the first person we see at Starbucks and send them to your office. Others assume we’re just middlemen taking a cut while doing absolutely nothing. And then there’s my personal favorite, “I can just hire people…

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Blogging and Social Media: A Reluctant Leader’s Descent into the Digital Abyss

If there were a support group for socially awkward introverts who’d rather endure a Survivor immunity challenge than write a blog post, I’d be the founding member. Seriously, I’ve avoided blogging, and social media like Dwight Schrute avoids frivolous office parties. (Though if social media involved more beets and battle strategy, I might have signed…

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Managing Staff and Preparing for Maryland’s Return to School

Will the kids go back to school, or won’t they? It has been an important topic of conversation recently. I am not here with an opinion on which one of those is the right decision. I am, however, going to say that we need to learn from the lessons of the original stay-at-home order. It…

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Staffing and Recruiting is All in the Details

We recently had a behind the scenes look into a state of the art facility that when up and running will bring an abundance of employment opportunities to Baltimore City. As their trusted staffing and recruiting partner, it was important for us to tour the facility. The attention to detail and quality has far exceeded…

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The Parenting Skills I Gained from My Staffing and Recruiting Family

We interrupt your weekly dose of staffing and recruiting knowledge to give you this: BABY! Everyone loves a baby. Four weeks ago, my wife and I welcomed our third child to the world, Kennedy Layne Sarant. They say that you should separate business with pleasure, but that is difficult when you love what you do,…

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When to Work with Staffing and Recruiting Agencies, and Why?

Assume that you are the manager of a company that experiences a 50% increase in market demand for its product during the summer months. How would you manage the workforce to accommodate the increased production needs? I came across this question in an economics class. Of course, my solution was to utilize a staffing agency’s…

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Staffing the Election for Our MBE Partners

Tuesday was Election Day in Maryland. Did you rock the vote? Yes, I am old enough to remember when MTV played music videos and encouraged kids to vote. Elections always make me nostalgic because it makes me think of when we were awarded the contract to staff the 2014 Maryland elections. It was the first…

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Recruiting and Hiring Maryland Grads

Oh, the places you’ll go. It is a classic Dr. Seuss book that walks us through the trials and tribulations of decision making. It is commonly used as the basis we instill in our children to dream and plan for the future. It is also widely associated with graduation. We all know someone that is…

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The Future of the Business Card in Maryland Staffing

We are into Phase One of Governor Hogan’s “Maryland Strong: Roadmap to Recovery,” and we are beginning to see how the world will look post-COVID. The topic of the country reopening brought me into the middle of an interesting discussion about the health of the business card.

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