2023 Career Goals: How to Define and Conquer Them
As we wind down 2022 and look the year ahead, many of us are setting goals for the New Year, both personal and professional. Setting goals is simply the best…
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5 Trends in the Construction Industry Dallas Companies Should Watch for in 2023
The construction industry changes every year as new technology emerges and economic, environmental, and socioeconomic conditions change. The last few years have been unpredictable, with social distancing regulations necessitating policy…
How to Attract Gen Z in the Workplace
As the Baby Boomers retire and much of Generation Z graduates from high school and college, Gen Z is poised to shape the workforce – in the United States and…
Top 5 Staffing and Recruiting Podcasts to Listen To
Have staffing and recruiting been on your mind lately? Are you a podcast fan? Why not listen to a few of the best staffing and recruiting podcasts the next time…
What Does Finding a Job Look Like Right Now?
If you’ve paid any attention to the news over the past year or so, you know there are a lot of issues surrounding the economy and employment. Ongoing supply chain…
Workplace Safety: Why It Can Impact Your Recruitment and Employee Retention
The main reason to prioritize workplace safety at your facility is obvious: to prevent injuries and keep your employees safe while they’re on the job. But there’s a hidden benefit…
How to Highlight and Showcase Your Company Values to Potential Employees
Your company’s core values are central to everything you do. And they’re just as important for guiding your leadership as they are for attracting and retaining the best people in…
Communication Skills Matter: Here’s How to Use, Improve, and Show Off Yours!
Being a good communicator will help you in multiple ways throughout life, your professional life included. When you think about it, everything you do related to work involves communicating, whether…
Good vs. Great Candidates: Key Differentiators
In your job search, you’re always aiming to set yourself apart from the competition and be different from the sea of candidates a company is likely interviewing. But what really…
Why You Should Make Your Core Values Mean Something
When was the last time you considered your company’s core values? Did you set them many years ago, when your business didn’t look the same as it does now? It…
The Best Ways to Support Your Employees’ Well-Being
Let’s face it: We’ve all had a tough couple of years. From the pandemic to widespread societal changes to a tough employment market, there are a variety of challenges we…
Feeling Unproductive at Work? Here’s How to Change Your Mindset
Have you been feeling unmotivated at work recently? Discouraged, unfocused, disinterested? It happens to the best of us. But letting these feelings fester will only make things worse – you’ll…
Build Your Career: How a Job Recruiter Can Kickstart Your Job Search
Ready to jumpstart your job search and find a new role that lets you thrive? It’s a great time to do it. In today’s candidate-driven market, employees have the leverage.…
4 Tips to Reap the Benefits of Using an Employment Agency
Using an employment agency to help solve your hiring challenges is a smart move – it saves you time, money, and headaches. But partnering with a staffing firm is just…
Is Company Culture Really That Important?
It might seem like “company culture” is nothing more than a buzzword, a common turn of phrase that floats around the working world without really meaning anything. But this could…
Why a Staffing Company Can Save You Time AND Money
Finding and hiring great people is one of the most difficult undertakings for almost any company. Go it alone, and you might find that you are spending more money –…
9 Effective Employee Retention Strategies
Like it or not, we are still amid The Great Resignation. Employees have been leaving their jobs in record numbers for some time, and the trend seems likely to continue.…
Why Offering More Flexibility Can Decrease Employee Turnover
Is employee turnover a problem at your organization? One reason for that might be a lack of flexibility in your scheduling. In order to retain your best employees, rather than…
Improve Your Networking Skills with These 5 Tips
Are you a pro when it comes to networking? Or could your networking skills use a tune-up? Here are five tips for improving your networking skills: #1: Use social media…
Steer Clear of Job Search Stress by Partnering with an Employment Firm
Is your job search stressing you out? We can’t blame you. Hunting for a new position can be anxiety-inducing and time-consuming as you prepare your resume, fill out endless forms,…
Why You Should Work With a Transparent Staffing Partner
How transparent is your staffing partner? How much do you know about their recruitment process and their sourcing methods? Are you familiar with how their recruiters operate on your organization’s…
Is Your Company Culture Contributing to Turnover?
There are countless studies that prove company culture has an effect on your employees’ happiness. To put it simply, organizations that have a positive work culture are more productive, financially…
How You Can Find Your Perfect Match With an Employment Firm
Do you feel like you never find quite the right fit when you’re job hunting? You might even feel like that in the job you’re currently working. Whether you’re just…
Feeling Unmotivated at Work? Here’s How to Love Your Job Again
If you’re feeling unmotivated at work – like you’ve fallen out of love with the job you once enjoyed – it can be quite frustrating. And it’s not as uncommon…
How to Promote and Demonstrate Nobility and Morality in Your Workforce
What kind of core values does your company live by? Or, a better question: How closely do you and your employees follow your company’s core values on a daily basis?…
5 Ways to Improve Your Employee Retention This Summer
Frequent employee turnover isn’t just costly. It has a very real effect on morale, and it can quickly drain your team’s motivation and work ethic. As the summer months approach,…
Why Endurance Is Essential for Guiding Teams Through Challenges and Obstacles
At some point or another, your team is going to face a challenge. Whether it’s a tough project or a key team member leaving, how you guide your team through…
Here’s How You Can Access Multiple Jobs and Employers With an Employment Firm
Let’s be honest: The job hunt is no fun. Spending countless hours fine-tuning your resume and cover letter, tailoring the documents to each specific application, sending follow-up emails… all to…
How to Develop Meaningful Professional and Personal Relationships With Your Coworkers
Like it or not, you will spend a sizeable portion of your life at work. And the people who you spend it with matter – you want to get along…
Tired of the Same Routine? We Can Help You Take Your Career to a New Level
Career fatigue is a very real thing. It’s not uncommon for people to get tired of their jobs after a while, of doing the same thing day in and day…
Happily Employed? It’s Still Worthwhile to Chat With an Employment Firm… Here’s Why
You’re happy in your job. Why would you think of connecting with an employment firm? The truth is, there are many good reasons to chat with a recruiter, even if…
The Value of Having a Loyal, Long-Term Staffing Partner
Let’s face it: hiring is difficult, especially in today’s climate. It’s harder than ever to find qualified candidates that suit your needs. It’s time-consuming, and because a bad hire can…
Time Off Shouldn’t Impact Your Production Capacity… Learn How We Can Help
Depending on the size and scope of a project or venture, time off for your employees can have a real impact. It can be difficult to keep up with production…
How Can Talent Corps Provide You With Opportunities Other Construction Workers Are Missing Out On?
When you go about the job search yourself, you’re finding the same construction jobs that everyone else is – you’re searching online and getting the same results as your competition.…
How Might an Employment Firm Help You Get in Front of The RIGHT Hiring Manager?
Any staffing agency can fill open roles with warm bodies. At Talent Corps, we take a different approach. We want to put our qualified candidates in front of the right…
Why All Teams Need to Function With a Passion for Adaptability
Here at Talent Corps, everything we do is done adhering to our core values. One of those is adaptability, and we believe that every team needs to be passionate about…
Navigating Time-Off Requests This Summer? We Can Help!
Summertime is quickly approaching. And with the warm weather and long sunny days comes more time-off requests as employees take their summer vacations. Of course, you can’t have everyone taking…
The Importance of Teamwork Among EVERY Workforce
Teamwork. It’s something that we too often take for granted. Teams, whether in the construction industry or another field entirely, need to work together to make things happen the right…
Ready to Get Back to Work After Some Limited Time Off? Consider These Reasons to Partner With Talent Corps
Many people have been off work recently, whether it’s because of COVID-19 shutdowns, family reasons, or career changes. With more opportunities out there than ever, it’s a great time to…
Everyone’s Hiring. Why Should YOU Partner With an Employment Firm?
Plenty of employers are hiring right now. And that’s a good thing for job seekers—opportunities are plentiful and hiring managers are looking for qualified, motivated talent. So, why should you…
Can a Staffing Partner Help Augment Your Workforce This Spring to Support Increased Production?
Springtime tends to equal increased production needs in industries like construction and manufacturing. And with turnover remaining relatively high in these sectors, companies often need to turn to augmented workforce…
How To Create and Use Safety Inspection Checklists
Safety Inspection Checklists are a paper or digitized document utilized by safety officers to aid in inspecting and highlighting workplace hazards that may cause detrimental harm to individuals, employees, processes,…
What is the Career Path for an Electrician?
Becoming an electrician is a great opportunity for someone looking to make money in the trades. It’s a well-paid field that’s in high demand, given the level of training required.…
Preventing Heat-Related Conditions on a Construction Site
Heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heat cramps, and heat rash are all major concerns on a construction site. Given the fact that the human body experiences strain once it’s 1.8 degrees…
PPE: The Basics for Construction Work
Safety is a major issue for construction workers in all trades. Each year, accidents happen frequently in the construction industry, and often times it is due to the absence of…
It Will Only Take A Minute: Safety & End-of-day Tasks
“IT WILL ONLY TAKE A MINUTE.” How often do we hear that phrase when we are speaking to others, or ourselves, about getting that one extra part of our task…
Don’t Mistake Kindness for Weakness: Women in Construction
5 Tips for Breaking the Concrete Ceiling Construction is a male-dominated industry. Women are in the minority on the job site, in professional roles, and in the office. According to…
6 Ways to Build a High-Performance Culture
By Bob Brandon, Talent Corps Vice President | Sales & Marketing At Talent Corps, we are continuously looking for ways to cultivate “the perfect company culture” so no employee ever…
The Other Fatal 4: Less-Considered Major Construction Health Hazards
By: Kim Slowey This post originally appeared in Construction Dive’s Safety Trendline – March 1, 2021 — Ask anyone familiar with construction hazards, and you’ll likely hear about those on…
The Best Paying Jobs in Construction
Changing careers after time away or post-COVID? Re-tooling after a layoff? Maybe you’re a new high school or college graduate exploring your options or chasing a dream you’ve had since…
Is It A Career or a Job?
Originally published by Maria Fuster, IEC-Chesapeake, October 2020 Defining the words career and job can lead to interesting conversations – and not just among younger people. You could be in…
3 Interview Tips to Get the Job: Transitioning from Active Duty to Civilian Life
The Job Search: A Predictable Process Finding and landing a job you love is hard work, but all job searches follow a fairly predictable path. You’ll think about the kind…
AMA: What’s It Like to Work for Construction Talent?
Electrician Jaime Lopez has been a Construction Talent employee for more than two years and an electrician for six. In 2019, he won the Talent Corps Mike Lyles Award which…