King & Bishop, founded in 1983 is an established leader in the staffing industry, where we match opportunity with talent. In our 30 plus years we’ve built successful relationships with our clients and in the lives of the talent we work with. We are community committed and believe strongly in giving back through underwriting causes along with participation and action.
Our flexible and d...
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Webinar-Using Social Media for Recruiting and Hiring
Join King & Bishop's Brendan King and Amy Crocker along with SBANE for this informative webinar.
While the cornerstones of the recruiting process remain the same (identify, source, evaluate, present), it is the sourcing that has been revolutionized through social media. The accelerated growth of social media sites is now providing unprecedented access to the largest number of individuals who ...
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Finding Great Candidates In 2016- Video
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2016 and what could be another great year for job growth. Last year was a busy time for the talent acquisition industry and we saw this firsthand. Our team was working closely with growing organizations just like yours all year long, securing quality people to move your company forward.
Our experts met with many candidates and introduced the ones we felt were a great ...
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Skill Marketplace-HR
Aside from helping your organization find just the right talent, we also offer a wide range of HR Consulting services including Contract HR Experts. Our skilled professionals can come into your growing company and hit the ground running, helping to ease the workload of your HR department.
Today we introduce you to a handful of these specialists we have here at King & Bishop. As al...
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Are your employees brand ambassadors?
For many organizations, it seems like a risky endeavor but if you handle it correctly, allowing your staff to be brand ambassadors on social media can pay off tremendously.
While you can’t really force any of your staff to promote your products or services online, many actually want to. It helps them get more involved in the growth of your company and can give them an added role that could crea...
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How To Keep Employee Retention Up
One thing we know to be true as recruiters in Boston. Making a bad hire can be a costly experience for an organization. From the talent acquisition phase to getting that new staff member up and running, there are a number of resources that you need to make a new hire.
If that new staff member is not a good fit, you may have to start the recruiting process all over again. And that takes time and...
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Drive for the finish line with these career changers!
By Kathy Provost:
I am always impressed when working with a candidate who is actively "managing" his or her career. The majority of us take advantage of opportunities that just happen to come our way, but the smart folks actively create these opportunities, by following some or all of these career management principles:
Set a goal, with a timeline: where do you want to be in 2, 3,...
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Great Employees From Day One
We’ve talked about the importance of onboarding in past blogs and videos. When you have a well-planned out method for onboarding new staff, everyone wins. The new staff member feels like they made a great choice in accepting your position and your organization wins because you have a happy and soon to be productive employee.
As a recruiter in Boston with decades of experience, we’ve made some o...
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Paid Leave In Massachusetts- Is Your Company Ready?
On July 1, 2015, the Massachusetts Sick Leave Law will go into effect. In short, a Massachusetts employer must provide employees with one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked. All employees start accruing sick time starting on July 1, 2015.
Here are a few important details of the new law:
Full and part time employees of companies that have 11 or more on staff are eligible for sick lea...
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You Made a Great Hire…Now What?
Any hire you make is an investment in the future growth of your organization. Make the right hire and get them up to speed and you’ll hopefully see great things from that new addition.
Bringing them on board and not having a clear plan to make them part of the team quickly can result in a great hire gone bad. And that only costs your company time, money and other valuable resources.
In the v...
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