The Role of Engineering in Architectural Firms is Growing
The future of architectural and design firms in the United States looks bright. According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the architectural market is expected to grow 7% by 2024. Thanks to progress in Congress on federal infrastructure initiatives and a healthy overall marketplace, architectural firms are in a good frame of […]
5 Advantages of Hiring Through a Recruiting Firm
As anyone who has ever had to hire for a position knows, there’s a big difference between finding someone to do the job, and finding the right person for the job. For those who want to maximize their likelihood of doing the latter rather than the former—especially for highly skilled or specialized fields—the answer is […]
How to Attract Talented Workers to Your Company from Other Cities
If you live in Kansas City, you know it’s one of the best-kept secrets in the country. And if you’ve tried to attract talent from outside the metro area to KC, you might have found that it’s a little too well-kept! All that is changing, however, as more and more people are discovering Kansas City—Travel […]
Kansas City Earns a Top Ranking Among Other Metro Areas for Jobs
When it comes to metro areas rich in employment opportunities, Kansas City has long been one of the best-kept secrets in the country. That’s about to change, however: a national contract recruiting firm for the engineering industry just named Kansas City the fourth best metro area in which to find a job in 2017. There […]
The War for Top Talent in the U.S. is Heating Up
As of August 2016 the unemployment rate in the United States was 4.9 percent, and in Kansas and Missouri the rates are currently 4.4 and 5.1 percent, respectively. Where household debt, taxation, and overall economic growth are concerned, these numbers, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are great news for denizens of the nation. […]
The Percentage of Women in the Engineering Workforce is Steadily Growing
Women’s participation in engineering and other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields has been historically low, a reality that has been widely attributed to the influence of gender stereotyping in the educational and workforce domains. That being said, recent years have witnessed a substantial uptick in the number of women studying and working in […]
A Brief Look at the State of Engineering Jobs and Candidates in America
In the United States, engineering demands are steadily growing as sectors such as renewable energy, oil, and aerospace continues to rapidly expand. Forbes reports that job growth in each of the engineering sectors has been in the double digits since 2010, with engineering jobs as a whole having grown by 7%. According to the United […]
Don’t Leave References to Chance
The final outcome of the recent March Madness season can go a long way in illustrating why preparation is critical, but in the end there’s no way of really knowing what might happen. This was illustrated time after time as brackets fell apart, favored teams headed home early, and others made an exciting and unexpected […]
Top Things a Hiring Manager Looks For
A surprising number of things can happen in six seconds. In this amount of time, one could make a Vine video, scan the highlights of a website, make a first impression, or ride a bucking bronco in a competitive rodeo. It’s also the amount of time a hiring manager spends looking at a resume. With […]