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- Is There Value in Psychometric Testing?
In recent years, the use of psychometric testing has become a more common tool to assess prospective employees. In today's marketplace - with difficult economic conditions, changing regulations and unpredictable cash flow - companies are doing all they can to mitigate risk when hiring new employees. Further, it should come as no surprise that the number of testing options to choose from has grown many fold as well.
- Favorites List: Builders Recall their Favorite Projects
Our enjoyment of lists made the Construction Industry Newsletter wonder if professional builders compile lists in their heads. For example, after a Project Manager has been in the field for a few decades, does he have a list in his head of his favorite projects? Can a Vice President of Operations, who has overseen hundreds of projects, select a few that distinguished themselves as notable achievements in some way?
- Learning to Do Things the Right Way: The Construction Mentor
It is a fortunate son or daughter who can recall a childhood guided by the loving hand of a mother and father; Dad teaching his son how to swing a baseball bat or wear in his glove or Mom running alongside her daughter’s bike when the training wheels first come off. Everyone feels great nostalgia for those days when our parents were also our first and best teachers.
- Education Forum: Modern Instruction Keeps Pace with Modern Construction
Dr. William R. Burkett, the Construction Option Coordinator, teaches Steel Structures, Concrete Structures, Masonry Structures, and other support classes at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He sees evidence of important changes in the manner in which students are educated today.
- Kimmel Research Turns Its Focus to Green Builders:
Continuing our response to help our clients through a struggling economy and paralleling the Obama Administration's decision to invest money in Infrastructure construction through the Federal Stimulus initiative and in Green Building, Kimmel & Associates presents the results of our research into Green Building. this online Guide to Green Building Information aims to provide you with concrete means to find construction projects which adhere to Green Building principles and practices.
- Kimmel Research Concentrates on Infrastructure Projects
In response to a struggling economy and paralleling the Obama Administration�s decision to invest money in Infrastructure construction through the Federal Stimulus initiative, and in Green Building, Kimmel & Associates established a team of researchers whose task was to determine how we could best serve our clients in a volatile time.
- GRAY POWER can give you an EDGE
There is a pervasive and malignant myth in the
construction industry that companies should not hire older employees
simply because they are older. Life in the 21st Century has changed,
and firms cost themselves money and valuable resources by dismissing
out-of-hand a pool of smart and dedicated older workers.
- Are you Ready for a Strategic
Career Move?
On average, a professional will change jobs 5.5 times in a career.
Changing companies can be a traumatic experience and shouldn't
be done lightly.
- The Bottom Line: Money and Other
Drivers of Change
Would you expect to make substantially more money at a new company?
- Be the Author of Change
If you decide that a Strategic Career Move is something that you
want to pursue, the next step involves judicious progress toward
a smart change.
- How Recruiters Work
"When I tell people I'm a headhunter, some check my
belt for shrunken heads," says Calvin Allen with Kimmel
& Associates. But headhunters, AKA recruiters or search
executives,
don't run through the jungle. They help companies solve
business problems quickly and efficiently.
- Selecting the Right Executive Recruiter
Whether you are a corporation seeking key employees or a professional
exploring the job market, selecting the right search firm will
impact the success of your mission.
- Collected Wisdom:
- What to do to "ace" the interview.
- What not to do on the interview.
- 6 things to remember on the interview
- Negotiating your Salary
When you negotiate compensation, the best advice is to let a
professional recruiter make a deal that is fair to everybody.
If, however,
you are on your own, here are some points to keep in mind.
- Resigning with Style
The resignation process can be the most stressful part of changing
jobs. But you can take steps to make the transition smooth and
painless. Here are several tips that will help.
- The Counter Offer
One of the most dangerous pitfalls in the employment process
is the allure of a counter offer from your current employer.
- Implications of a Counter
Offer
Studies conducted by management consulting firms have identified
that acceptance of a counter offer is often damaging to one's
career.
- Good for the Goose - Good for the Gander
You know that "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" means that what was good for one party was also good for the other party. But in construction in 2007, it means that the contract all parties sign must be applied equally in all directions and hold all parties to certain standards. It is not written just so that one contractor can beat up on another (although it certainly feels that way sometimes!).
