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How 8 Weeks of Jury Duty Made Me a Better Manager
There was a time when I’d run to the mailbox as a kid, anxious to see what the mailman would deliver. Might be a card with a check inside from my grandparents or my weekly copy of Sports Illustrated or … Continue reading
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Help ME, help YOU!
How many times does a client or prospect come to us and give us a one-sentence description of their job opening or a boring bullet list of requirements that seemed to be created by Will Robinson’s Class M-3 Model B9 … Continue reading
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Is Customer Service Dead?
Doesn’t this seem like a strange question to have to ask in this day and time? One would think that companies are working to train their customer service personnel and enhance the experience any existing customer or potentially new one … Continue reading
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You are here X!
We are all familiar with maps. Old treasure maps, shopping mall directories, Google Maps, each with the big “X” proclaiming: “YOU ARE HERE.” Maps help orient us when we encounter unfamiliar territories, show us where we want to go and … Continue reading
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Building it Right
In my previous career as Chief Information Officer, I used to compare the process of building an application (such as Inventory Tracking or Document Management) to building a house. Both TrueBridge Resources and North Highland play an important role in … Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! How many times have you said those words in the past week? On December 31st, I gathered with friends to reflect with gratitude on the past year and to share intentions for the coming year. We assign … Continue reading
Situational Awareness: Delivering the best “pitch” during an interview
Throughout my former career as a pitcher in high school, college and professional baseball, one of the most important factors to my success was a focus on “situational awareness.” This involved being aware of what was happening in the game … Continue reading
How athletics and business come together
Over half my life was spent playing a game that taught me lessons school just could not. I started playing football when I was four years old; who would have thought 29 years later, a game that I was pushed … Continue reading
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Importance of volunteering
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Volunteering is one of the most important things we do as a society. … Continue reading
“Eighty percent of success is showing up” – Woody Allen
I’ve always said: “It’s amazing what happens when I just show up.” I can attribute Mr. Allen’s quote and my own statement to almost every aspect of my life. We all have days that we think, “Ugh, it’s raining/cold/snowing/too hot, … Continue reading
Differentiate: What’s your mindset, not just your skillset
When what you do is also being done by many others, and there is little or no value difference between the providers of that service—you are a commodity. The professional labor market is being commoditized, yet many of us are … Continue reading
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Tagged career advice, Differentiation, Staffing, Sustainability
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The New Age of Networking: TBR’s True Talk Event Becomes a Reality
Anyone who has ever planned a large event knows how exciting—and nerve-wracking—the days leading up to it can be. That’s exactly where I am now with only one week until our inaugural True Talk event in Santa Monica. Everything is … Continue reading
Jobs from Jobs
The staffing industry in many ways was dealt a huge blow recently with the passing of Steve Jobs. You might ask how; after all, how many contractors did he actually hire in his lifetime? To that point, probably not many. … Continue reading
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Throughout our history, it’s innovation that has created jobs
While I recognize the need and desire for the political dialogue on jobs and the economy, it is doing very little to infuse the one missing element that will get us on the right track—confidence. Three years into the housing … Continue reading
What I Learned – 10 Days in India
What I learned during 10 days in India, by Jill McKay, Account Manager, TrueBridge Resources, Washington, DC … Continue reading
Personal & Corporate Branding
Here at TrueBridge Resources, Quality and Customer Service are key corporate values we hold dear as critical ingredients to the success of our clients, candidates and to our own success. Continue reading
The IT talent pool is shrinking
During this long recession, we’ve often been asked for our analysis of the job market and to provide an outlook for 2011. Our recruiters and account managers have seen a steady increase in the hiring of IT, Accounting & Finance professionals over the past 6-9 months. Right … Continue reading
What is the Team at Truebridge Resources reading?
Every member of the TrueBridge team reads a selected Book-of-the-Quarter and we discuss it Continue reading
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Tagged Accounting books, career advice, CEO reading list, google, IT, IT books, Leadership books, Staffing
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