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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.
- Employee Retention
The retention of key employees is critical to the success, growth and profitability of your company. There is much value in retaining employees who have demonstrated consistency, productivity, and the ability to satisfy customers.
The failure of a company to retain key employees results in high turnover, general insecurity, and costly replacement searches.
- Contingent or Retained
All searches, whether performed as a Retained or a Contingent Search, require that Kimmel & Associates has a thorough understanding of the scope of work to be performed by the ideal candidate. All successful searches require an understanding of our client's methods, organizational structure, and company culture. The ideal candidate not only has the technical and interpersonal skills to do the job as required, but also enjoys the methods, structure and culture of our client.
- Construction Companies Can Become World-Class
It's not remarkable for me to say that during the eleven years I have served as an executive recruiter in construction in the Southeast, this economy is the weakest and most troubling my clients have faced. In fact, consultants who have been here at Kimmel & Associates for 25 years readily say the same.
- 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.
- Attracting Top Construction Talent in the 21st Century
Two Construction Industry Veterans Discuss Tactics and Solutions to a Personnel Crisis - By Gary B. Warner and Frank Bruckner
- 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.
- Keeping What's Yours: Retaining New Employees
It's a Monday morning. Your new employee, an eager young project manager named Pete, arrives at 7:00 AM. All the necessities are out of the way: his paper work – done! Drug test and criminal check – done! He's early, he's happy, and he strides with purpose to the receptionist's desk and introduces himself.
- 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.
- 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.
The result of that work produced a list of ten websites and resources which, when mined properly, can educate search consultants and construction professionals alike as we respond to the markets that are emerging as 2009 moves forward, making us aware of coming projects and leading us to recruit the strongest professionals to build them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Counter Offers: Avoiding the
Temptation to Keep your Own
The unexpected resignation of an employee is never welcome or
well-timed. When an employee decides to move closer to an infirm
mother five states away, that's one thing. But when an employee
resigns with the announcement that he's moving cross-town
to a similar position with your fiercest competitor, that's
something else altogether.
- 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!).
