Regional employment studies conducted on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts project a 20% increase in job growth between 2012 and 2022 for positions that make up part of the Medical Device and Biomedical Industry.
At King & Bishop, our Biomedical Search Team of Talent Acquisition Specialists and Executive Recruiters have developed productive relationships with both candidates and...
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January Jobs Report- The Good and The Bad
The downside of the report indicates fewer jobs created for the month, coming in at 151,000. This is against steady growth over the past few months coming in at above 200,000 per month.
And now let’s look at the upside:
First the winning growth categories for the month include; retail with 58,000 jobs, food services with 47,000 jobs and healthcare with 37,000 jobs. Manufacturing added 29,000...
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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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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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Closed Searches In Our Biomedical Search Division
The Biomedical Search Division of King & Bishop provides executive recruiting and search services within the Medical Device industry. The team has been busy supporting the needs of our clients with great success in 2015. Our search assignments are typically from clients headquartered in New England that support openings regionally and nationwide.
The volume and scope of demands from our cl...
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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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More tips on making a great hire
Making a great hire can do wonderful things for your organization. It can move your company in the right direction, help with growth and improve performance in that given department or area. Making a bad hire can do just the opposite; and have far more lasting effects than if you made a great hire.
Hiring is a big step for some companies. While a great hire is an investment in your future growt...
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Why should my company use a recruiter?
There are many cases in business when outsourcing certain critical tasks makes perfect sense. Many companies outsource their accounting and collections, others outsource marketing and PR tasks. What also makes a lot of sense for many reasons is hiring a recruiter to help you build your team. Especially if you are a small business and don’t have a full time HR department in your organization.
He...
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Job Growth Continues Steady Pace
As the graph (JOLTs Report) (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) indicates, job growth is continuing to strengthen, with over one million new and unique jobs posted online this past year (the top line of the graph). Another DOL report indicates that 3 million jobs were filled in 2014. Expect these trends to continue for the next 6-12 months. As a result,...
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